Inoue fans or otherwise...
caught this on the ambient list
but hoped it'd be of interest here...
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comes out 10-20
TETSU INOUE: WATERLOO TERMINAL
ARCHITETTURA SERIES VOLUME 2
The Channel Tunnel Railway Terminal at Waterloo
is the gateway to the high speed rail tunnel
beneath the English Channel that connects
England with Paris. The terminal serves the same
function as an airport, housing immigration,
customs, arrival and departure lounges serving 15
million passengers per year at a rate of 3,000
people traveling in each direction per hour every
day. With an average travel time of three hours
from start to finish, the Eurostar rail service based
in the Waterloo Terminal provides an attractive
alternative to the prospect of journeying out to
distant Heathrow Airport only to encounter all the
attendant delays that seem inescapable in the
operation of air traffic.
Tetsu Inoue has responded to the challenge of
composing for the Waterloo Terminal with a
vocabulary specifically suited to a marvel of
technology. Unlike the timeless dreamscapes of
his previous work, here the foremost element is
the crackle of electrons in motion. Here, the
ambiance of a large enclosure; there, the roar of
the crowd echoing into random background noise;
everywhere the dance of electrons pulsing through
the circuitry of a vast and complex structure.
And remarkably &emdash; even startlingly
&emdash; the music was not merely inspired by
the Waterloo Station, but in a very real sense it
was composed by Tetsu in collaboration with the
station Tetsu scanned over 1000 real and digitally
altered photographs of the station into his
computer and dumped them into his music
software, which mathematically translated the
arches and surfaces of the structure into
electronic sound. It is as if the station itself were
given voice, which Tetsu then shaped by altering
pitch, timbre, resonance and rhythm, creating a
linear collage born from his artistic interpretation
of the architecture itself.
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