WCWBF by Roy Boswell
Tracklist
| 1. | Sea Tape | 5:06 |
| 2. | "Valoa sormenpäissä..." | 2:44 |
| 3. | At Home #1 | 3:50 |
| 4. | Horses on the Danube | 3:53 |
| 5. | At Home #2 | 4:34 |
| 6. | "Violence, Light & John..." | 8:32 |
| 7. | Lulling | 3:09 |
| 8. | Crying | 6:05 |
| 9. | "Olet osa tuota kaikkea." | 2:20 |
| 10. | Whale Searches for a Friend | 7:58 |
Credits
released February 11, 2012
Roy Boswell: Vibes automaton instruments, steel drum, prepared piano, keyboard, electric guitar, field recordings, composition and mix.
Voices and recordings from home: Anna Maria Häkkinen, Sofia Simola, Emmi Venna, Rea-Liina Brunou, Elli Pulkkinen, Saara Hurme.
Steel drum: Erno Aaltonen.
Cover photo by Milla Martikainen.
WCWBF was an audio continuation of a contemporary dance performance with the same name at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, March 2012. The audio here was given to each audience member on a cassette tape, with the idea that the last 40 minutes of the piece would continue as audio only and in private.
Choreography by Anna Maria Häkkinen, lights by Erno Aaltonen, sounds and music by Roy Boswell, scenography by Milla Martikainen and performers Rea-Liina Brunou, Saara Hurme, Elli Pulkkinen, Sofia Simola & Emmi Venna.
WCWBF was the first time I used my vibraphone automata instruments – simple, home-made machines made with a turntable, a mallet and vibraphone blocks. The performance used two of these elements, one playing a single dud note (more like a clank) in the back of the performance space, and another closer to the audience playing three successive notes (as audible on track 8, where the automaton is accompanied by steel drum).
This piece was also a first foray into my work with 'sound as performance'. Track 1 is the sound transferred from a cassette tape buried in the sand at Marjaniemi beach in winter, just where the waves reach at low tide. Later that evening, we returned to dig out the tape at high tide.
What remains on the recording is the hisses and pops of the salt and grains of sand on the tape itself as it runs over the heads.
Roy Boswell: Vibes automaton instruments, steel drum, prepared piano, keyboard, electric guitar, field recordings, composition and mix.
Voices and recordings from home: Anna Maria Häkkinen, Sofia Simola, Emmi Venna, Rea-Liina Brunou, Elli Pulkkinen, Saara Hurme.
Steel drum: Erno Aaltonen.
Cover photo by Milla Martikainen.
WCWBF was an audio continuation of a contemporary dance performance with the same name at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, March 2012. The audio here was given to each audience member on a cassette tape, with the idea that the last 40 minutes of the piece would continue as audio only and in private.
Choreography by Anna Maria Häkkinen, lights by Erno Aaltonen, sounds and music by Roy Boswell, scenography by Milla Martikainen and performers Rea-Liina Brunou, Saara Hurme, Elli Pulkkinen, Sofia Simola & Emmi Venna.
WCWBF was the first time I used my vibraphone automata instruments – simple, home-made machines made with a turntable, a mallet and vibraphone blocks. The performance used two of these elements, one playing a single dud note (more like a clank) in the back of the performance space, and another closer to the audience playing three successive notes (as audible on track 8, where the automaton is accompanied by steel drum).
This piece was also a first foray into my work with 'sound as performance'. Track 1 is the sound transferred from a cassette tape buried in the sand at Marjaniemi beach in winter, just where the waves reach at low tide. Later that evening, we returned to dig out the tape at high tide.
What remains on the recording is the hisses and pops of the salt and grains of sand on the tape itself as it runs over the heads.
License
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Roy Boswell is a Helsinki-based artist who works with the possibilities of (imaginary) sound and music having a space in sculpture, and the sculptural aspects of music.
royboswell.fi