In 1989 The Deep Listening Band (Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis with guests Fritz Hauser and Julie Lyon Balliett) explored the sound properties of the Tarpaper Cave in Rosendale, New York. Rain Delay is from the 1990 CD Troglodyte’s Delight (¿What next?).
Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
As Brian Eno made music for environments rather than from them (Music For Airports) these CDs are best listened to within the strange damp world of the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool. The ceilings of these caverns are thin and the sound of dripping water can frequently be heard, but not necessarily seen. It is a sound that has intrigued artists for nigh on a century and this collection brings together historical pieces alongside new compositions from artists who have expanded that first single drip: Link
From Etsuko’s Water Bell installation (2006) in which the frequency of dripping water was controlled by a PC recording the price of oil and the ocean's temperature.
Jeff Young and Alan Dunn - Chapter II (baptism)
Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
Vincent Ramos and Diego J. Garza - BAR SCORE
In September 2007, PawnShop Gallery in Los Angeles staged a series of events curated by Natilee Harren entitled DRIP EVENT (for George Brecht). The evening gathered together ‘performers offering his or her unique interpretation as part of a collective exploration of the infinite potential of the score’, including Vincent and Diego’s score: Please pour beer, into cup, under microphone. We are recording. Thank you.
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Hugh Le Caine - Dripsody: An Étude For Variable Speed Recorder (stereo version, 1957) A prolific inventor of sound-emitting devices, Canadian artist and technician Le Caine (1914-1977) composed his Dripsodies in one night using only the sound of a single drop of water falling into a bucket, re-recorded at different speeds. This Inventor's Notebook is a useful introduction to Le Caine's life and work.
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
Drips is a new composition exclusively for Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
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A founding member of The Pogues, it is Jem's more recent works that resonate here, specifically Score for a hole in the ground (2006). Located in a Kent forest, it is a simple structure, inspired by the suikinkutsu water chimes of Kyoto, that amplifies water dripping down a well. It is also conceptually a trilogy of approaches to the sound of dripping water - as natural environmental sound, as rhythm and as ritualistic performance prop. Water and Birds #1 comes from 2005.
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
Created as a 29-minute piece for broadcast during Isea 98, this edit was composed using amateur actors and found sounds. Aside from the street recordings, Two-Step, Gotham City sample and spoken word, all sounds were constructed from the single ‘drip’ sample. McKinley is author of the award-winning Jackson Pollock the musical published by Michael Butterworth in 2007.
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
An update of a soundpiece I made on Slater St. in an office that is no longer there.
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The impotent ranting of a frustrated sound designer who is perpetually at odds with the demands of society.
Dan Wilson
Jeff Young and Alan Dunn - Chapter I (absinthe)
Jeff Young and Alan Dunn compiled from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water - Link
The Italian fluxus composer has contributed his version of this Fluxus score by Ken Friedman: Glasses: one filled with ice water, one with boiling tea, one or more empty glasses. Liquids are transferred from glass to glass, until the tea is cooled to drinking temperature. Link
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
As original translator of Apollinaire's Calligrammes, Oliver kindly recorded this new reading of Il pleut (It's raining) for the Collection. Link
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water