VERNACULAR [EN]

- Title : VERNACULAR
- Artist : V.A
- Release Year : 2013
- All Produced by Yui Onodera
- Artwork by Masanori Diefor(ARK TYP)
- Manufactured by Whereabouts Records
■ DISC.1

1.HIOR CHRONIK / SKETCHES OF YOU

2.STEVE RODEN / IF HERE, NOT THERE, IF NOT THERE, THEN HERE

3.YUI ONODERA / BLUE PLANET SKY (for 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)

4.JANEK SCHAEFER / REST IN PEACE KNOWING THE SOUND OF ANGELS

5.KENNETH KIRSCHNER / JULY 10, 2012

6.SIMON SCOTT / ADVENTURERS FEN

7.TU M' / TENEBRAE

■ DISC.2

1.FEDERICO DURAND / MAGNOLIA

2.DALE LLOYD / EXTRA ORDINARY, EXTRA REGULAR

3.JOS SMOLDERS / VANGSAA: REVISITED, REDUCED

4.YVES DE MEY / LOCAL FRACS

5.KIM CASCONE / A SPECTACLE OF MALLEABLE
GLASS - ALCHEMISPHERE THREE

6.TROUM / WELCEN

7.JOHN GRZINICH / ANIMATE STRUCTURES #2 (wires, wind, snow)

8.LAWRENCE ENGLISH / BREAKING CLOUDS APART
In producing this compilation album, I conveyed a theme to all of the artists who participated. It was the single word "VERNACULAR". As the development of technology has enabled better cross-border communication, now it is easy to collaborate with artists all around the world, or listen to their music online. In the mean time, I felt that it includes many negative effects that cause cultural standardization.

Originally, music existed in each region's inherent culture, in accordance with the character of the location. It was as if the architects placed importance on the characters of region (environment, geography, and cultural background) when they designed the architecture.

I thought this might be the time to reconsider "VERNACULAR", which has been cut by the "universal design that transcends locality and ethnicity" of modernism.

The meaning of a sound and the way it is used is different in each country, and I think it should naturally be apparent in the sound of their work, if artists work on it consciously. It's not simply about environmental sound in certain places. For example, a sustainable tone of Japanese Gagaku best expresses the Japanese aesthetic towards the process where things melt in nature and fall into decay to rebirth. This kind of aesthetic is what "VERNACULAR" is, and this is influenced a lot by each country's and region's inherent culture, by the lives and the historical view.

VERNACULAR is a history accumulated by each place's inherent environment and culture. It is like a cocoon, intricately weaved, by relating to and having influences on each other over the years.

As the concept of this project, the supervisor, Yui Onodera, describes something that keeps people connected to their own environment. This relationship can be like a cocoon, allowing people connect to each other even if their countries and languages are different.

When I started working on the artwork of this project, I thought of using this cocoon as an architecture model for the design.

While respective countries and places are different and distant of each other, there still is a single "connection" that can't separate or divide them. This connection is just like the light of a single Polaris that leads numerous ships, illuminating them equally when they sail bravely in the vast field of night sea.

As far west as Argentina and as far east as Australia. I set the paths of each ship from 11 countries as proportions to the origin coordinate Polaris, and I attempted to make a model of a cocoon by developing the proportion in line with the coordinate axis. The surface that appears amid the continuous weaving of the cocoon reflects the truth of what creativity is, expressing VERNACULAR, something that "keeps you connected" even inside the convergent relationships.

When you listen to this work, your ears trace their sea route, and disentangle the cocoon to a single string. As someone who participated in this miraculous work, I sincerely hope that the sound of the string will brighten up your own Polaris.
- - LAWRENCE ENGLISH
- - YUI ONODERA
- - JOHN GRZINICH
- - HIOR CHRONIK
- - TU M'
- - TROUM
- - JOS SMOLDERS
- - YVES DE MEY
- - JANEK SCHAEFER
  - SIMON SCOTT
- - DALE LLOYD
  - KENNETH KIRSCHNER
  - KIM CASCONE
  - STEVE RODEN
- - FEDERICO DURAND
Lawrence English is composer, media artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including live performance and installation to create works that ponder subtle transformations of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception.

- www.lawrenceenglish.com

Yui Onodera (b.1982) is a composer, sound artist and sound space designer based in Tokyo, Japan. After learning music and architecture, he started working as an architectural acoustics designer focusing on relationship between sound and space. In terms of environmental functions and spacial relationships of sound, he employs materials from various sources ranging from field recordings, electronics, and voices, to various musical instruments, for process-based restrained electroacoustic pieces. Onodera's recordings have been released from labels in different countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, the US, and Japan. The venues of his past concerts include NTT Inter Communication Center, Iwate Museum of Art, Kawagoe City Museum amongst others.

- www.critical-path.info

John Grzinich has worked since the early 1990s as an artist and cultural coordinator with various practices combining sound, image, site, and collaborative social structures. His interest and work with sound combines such divergent methods as field recording, kinetic sculpture, electro-acoustic composition, performance, spatial perception and acoustics, filmmaking, group workshops and exercises in listening. His compositions have been published on international labels such as: SIRR, Staalplaat, Erewhon, Intransitive, Cut, Elevator Bath, CMR, Orogenetics, Mystery Sea, Invisible Birds,and/OAR and others.

- maaheli.ee/main/

Hior Chronik was born in Athens in 1974. His relationship with music started working as a radio producer for Jazz fm in the early '90s and as a columnist for various music magazines. He began creating music about 7 years ago and today his focus is on minimal ambient based mainly on piano, characterized by cinematography, melancholy, scattered notes and long melodies that form expressive engagements. His music is featured in various films, documentaries and art performances as well. Hior Chronik has another one project called Pill-Oh and last October released from Kitchen Label “Vanishing Mirror” album.

- www.mu-nest.com/artist-info.php?f=hior

TU M' was a multimedia duo from Città Sant'Angelo (Pescara, Italy); formed by Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli in 1998; they worked until 2011 in the fields of electronic music, video art, photography and graphic design. Through a personal use of digital and analog instruments, the TU M' revealed a complex universe made up of present and past.

- www.tu-m.com

TROUM is a duo located in Bremen, Germany, established in early 1997. The two members were active before in the in fluential ambient industrial group MAEROR TRI. TROUM is the old German word for "DREAM". The dream seen as a central manifestation of the UNconscious symbolizes the aim of TROUM to lead the listener into a hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere. TROUM uses music as the direct path to the Unconscious, pointing to the archaic "essence" of the humans inner psyche. TROUM tries to create music that works like a direct transformation of unconscious matter.

- www.troum.com

Jos Smolders started as a composer of electronic and electroacoustic music in the early 1980's. Next to publishing music he published reviews and articles on underground electronic music. Since 1987 he runs EARLabs, a sound research laboratory and currently predominantly a mastering studio. EARLabs produced and mastered the music of Scanner, Jozef van Wissem, Tobacconists, Beequeen, Stilluppsteypa, Vincent Bergeron, Nils Rostad, Merzbow, and many others.

- www.earlabs.org

Yves De Mey (°72) started out as a drum’n’bass – breakbeat producer and quickly moved to the field of the more experimental side of things, with music for theater, performances, contemporary dance and movies. At the same time he made a few larger scale sound installations. Over the years, his work was released on his own low profile label Knobsounds, Line, Time to Express, Modal Analysis, Sandwell District, Morse,... He also works together with Peter Van Hoesen as Sendai.

- www.knobsounds.com

Sound Artist, Musician & Composer Janek Schaefer was born in England to Polish and Canadian parents in 1970. While studying architecture at the Royal College of Art [RCA annual prize], he recorded the fragmented noises of a sound activated dictaphone travelling overnight through the Post Office. That work, titled ‘Recorded Delivery’ [1995] was made for the ‘Self Storage’ exhibition [Time Out critics choice] with one time postman Brian Eno and Artangel. The ‘Tri-phonic Turntable’ [1997] is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the ‘World’s Most Versatile Record Player’. In 2008 he won the Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers Prize, and The British Composer of the Year Award in Sonic Art.

- www.audioh.com

Simon Scott is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer from Cambridge, UK. His third album ‘Below Sea Level’ was released on 12k in 2012 and is based on field recordings composed from areas of the Fens in East Anglia and processed in MaxMSP. This was followed by the 12k collaborative album 'BETWEEN' featuring Scott with Taylor Deupree, Illuha and Marcus Fisher released on 12.12.12. Respected German record label Kompakt included Scott's track 'For Martha' on the prestigious compilation 'Pop Ambient 2012' and Scott also runs the label KESH. He has produced Finnish artist Hannu, drummed for UK shoegaze band Slowdive (between 1990-1994).

- www.simonscott.org

Over the course of 25+ years, Dale Lloyd has been a sound artist, publisher, graphic designer, producer, musician, and visual artist. In 2001, Dale founded and/OAR in order to support and publish artists involved with environmental  recording documents, sound art, avant-garde and electronic music.

- www.and-oar.org/dalelloyd.html

Composer Kenneth Kirschner was born in 1970 and lives in New York City. An advocate of open source music, he releases his work freely online through his website, which offers a complete, freely accessible archive of all of his published recordings. His music has also been released by labels such as Sub Rosa, 12k, Line, Sirr, Leerraum, and/OAR and Room40, as well as online through a wide variety of netlabels and other sources.

- kennethkirschner.com

music: he received his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970's, and in 1976 continued his studies with Dana McCurdy at the New School in New York City. After moving to San Francisco in the 1980's, and gaining experience as an electronic technician in the audio industry, Cascone worked with David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both “Twin Peaks” and “Wild at Heart.” Cascone left the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on his company Silent Records, a label that he founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.'s premier ambient electronic music label. Kim has released more than 40 albums of electronic music since 1984 and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury, and Pauline Oliveros among others. Cascone is the founder of the .microsound list which focuses on post-digital music and laptop performance.

- anechoicmedia.com

steve roden is a visual and sound artist living in Pasadena, California. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, text and performance. roden began his musical life in 1978 as the lead singer of the los angeles punk band "seditionaries". in the mid-1980's, after leaving the punk scene and entering art school, he began to work with instruments, objects, field recordings and contact microphones towards quiet abstract soundscapes. in 1993 he released his first CD under the name "in be tween noise", and in 1994 he began to work with sound installation, exploring various conversations between sound, site and architecture. over the past 20 years, roden's visual and sound works have been exhibited in numerous international arts spaces, and he has released nearly 50 solo recordings on his own "new plastic music" label, as well as various other labels.

- www.inbetweennoise.com

Federico Durand’s music is a weave of sound searching introspection and delight through simple melodies and field-recordings, made in the heart of Argentina.

- www.federicodurand.blogspot.com
- - - Artist : V.A
    - Release Date : June.05.2013
    - Media : 2CD(with 16-page booklet)
    - Catalog No. : WHACD-13
    - Price : 2,700 yen (tax incl)
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