“From the Bridge is an audio-montage of sounds recorded from the same location over an 18 hour period. Opening with the singular, sparse sounds of early morning traffic, the composition builds in layers of increasingly dense texture and intensity as the midway point - of midday, and then rush-hour - is approached. After the climax is reached, the level of sound abates, and concludes with the distant, mellow hum of the evening. To create the work, over 6 hours of footage was recorded at different times of day from a footbridge above a motorway on the outskirts of London, and then edited together in layers on a sequencer to form a single 15 minute long piece. As a whole, the piece is intended to represent an ‘audio time-lapse’ of sound from a single day, in a single place. The audio material was recorded on 4 separate mono channels and mixed in surround sound for optimum spatial representation.”
Thom Carter (Son Clair), London,14th July 2009.
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REVIEWS:
"traffic - a great sound posture for a cultural symbol, Son Clair (aka Thom Carter) offers us a possible reflexion from JG Ballard, Luigi Comencini's "L'Ingorgo - Una storia impossibile", the Kraftwerkian autobahn (merci Marc) and all those thousand stories, modern typologies associates to that fantasy of our collective conscience - Yet, Son Clair adds an interesting and not so quiet new dimension through the very special "passivity" inherent to the "recording fields" practice and for that special reason, that bridge deserves certainly we lean over with attention and delicacy - a remarkable piece of work." (Review @ 'noCo...mment' -
massard3.blogspot.com/2009/08/son-clair-from-bridge.html)
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'Field Notes + From The Bridge
A inglesa Earth Monkey Productions e a alemã Konkretourist têm novas edições tendo por base gravações de campo. No caso da 1ª, Field Notes viu a luz a alguns dias atrás e é uma dupla colectânea de temas e artistas around the world. Dividido em 2 volumes, este trabalho discográfico parte de várias gravações de campo, ora manipuladas, ora apresentadas na sua forma + pura, num todo coeso e dinâmico, muito bom para os ouvidos...
No segundo caso, depois do EP Braye Harbour, de Dallas Simpson, saiu recentemente From The Bridge, do projecto Son Clair (Thom Carter), uma montagem áudio a partir de 18 horas de gravações num mesmo local. Altamente recomendado!
Tudo livre e gratuito como convém'.
(Review @ Beats Play Free.
beatsplayfree.blogspot.com/2009/09/field-notes-from-bridge.html)