Jacob Kirkegaard - 4 R O O M S
For those unfamiliar with the release:
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This work is a sonic portrait of four abandoned rooms inside the 'Zone of Exclusion' in Chernobyl, Ukraine
Recorded in October 2005, the sound of each room was evoked by an elaborate method: Kirkegaard made a recording of 10 minutes and then played the recording back into the room, recording it again. This process was repeated up to ten times. As the layers got denser, each room slowly unfolded its own unique drone of various resonant frequencies
Jacob Kirkegaard's method is inspired by Alvin Lucier's work "I am sitting in a room" [1970], who recorded his voice in a space and repeatedly played this recording back into that same space. In Kirkegaard's work, however, no human voice is being projected into the rooms: during the recordings he left the four spaces, to wait for whatever might evolve from these seemingly silent spaces themselves
4 ROOMS was released 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, 26th of April 1986/2006
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