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HSOB062: Devon Osamu Tipp - "Carnegie after Serra" / Matt Aelmore - "Wild Human"

by Devon Osamu Tipp / Matt Aelmore

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Matt Aelmore: Under The Bridge 02:08
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Matt Aelmore: By The Drainage Pond 03:07
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Matt Aelmore: By The Access Road 01:10
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Devon Osamu Tipp: "Carnegie" after Serra 1 07:35
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Devon Osamu Tipp: "Carnegie" after Serra 2 07:33
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Devon Osamu Tipp: "Carnegie" after Serra 3 05:58
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Recorded and filmed for the Wild Human film, these pieces are defined by the physicality of the spaces where they were documented--inside Richard Serra’s 38-foot tall Cor-Ten Steel sculpture Carnegie, under a bridge in Schenley Park, or in a field of green where reverberations bounce back from an overgrown hill some hundred feet away. Within the slanted walls of Carnegie, Devon Osamu Tipp’s shakuhachi is a voice both with and against the modulating swells of car engines, the gusts of wind against stone and concrete, the many motors and fans pumping in and pumping out. Long tones cut through the chaos outside; growls and shrieks temper it.

Writing from within a global pandemic and the accompanying shelter-in-place orders, these recordings reflect a life foreign to current conditions. Here, sound is active, intentionally injecting itself into the aural byproduct of human life. The runner’s aim is not the generation of sound, but the recorder’s aim is to allow it into the mix. Matt Aelmore’s trumpet cuts through the hiss of swaying trees and birdsong. It bounces against the rail of the train tracks, and it sinks alongside the water into the watershed. Here, in the park, we hear the resonances of three spaces, each containing examples of human intervention into the natural world--a walking bridge, sculpted drainage ponds, a carved hillside envisioned to support the building of homes.

In both timelines, writing from my desk today and two years ago, sweating in the August heat, setting up microphones, these sounds are unnatural visitors. If voice is the original instrument, the tool that allows the voice passage is surely not too far off. Here are voices in the wilderness, a wilderness altered by “progress” and virus and sometimes intellect and compassion, a wilderness that was and will be accepting of these sounds.

- David Bernabo, April 16, 2020

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released April 23, 2020

Recorded on 08/19/2018 at various locations in Schenley Park and on 09/11/2018 in Richard Serra's "Carnegie" sculpture at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.

Matt Aelmore: trumpet
Devon Osamu Tipp: shakuhachi

Engineering, Mix, and Master by David Bernabo
Text by David Bernabo


Bios:

Matt Aelmore is a multi-instrumentalist performer and composer currently performing with the bands How Things Are Made, Watererer, and Weekend Pants. Notable collaborations include funk legend Betty Davis, Indonesian pop icon Rhoma Irama, and the Germany-based experimental music ensemble Noise-Bridge Duo. Matt also holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (PhD), Manhattan School of Music (MM), and Wichita State University (BM).


Devon Osamu Tipp
Shaped by sonic sensitivity from a young age, Pittsburgh based composer/performer Devon Osamu Tipp creates unorthodox musical environments from ostensibly incompatible realms. A PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh, Tipp’s music draws influence from his Japanese and Eastern European roots, his experiences as a jeweler and painter, and his studies of gagaku and hogaku in Japan and the US. His compositions focus on rhythmic and timbral transmutation of cyclical materials, ranging from the orchestral, to string basses prepared with honey stirrers, to concerti for traditional Japanese instruments. He received his BMus from Montclair State University, where he studied composition and microtonal music with Dean Drummond, and shakuhachi with Elizabeth Brown. His music has been performed by microtonal specialists Kjell Tore Innervik, Veli Kujala and Tolgahan Çogulu. He has also worked with Rarescale, the Thin Edge New Music Collective, the Sudbury Guitar Trio, and members of Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. His compositions have been featured at the Soundscape Festival, Bowdoin Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Sävellyspaja Summer Composition Masterclasses, and the Tokyo International Double Reed Society Conference. For more information, please visit www.greengiraffemusic.info

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