Sebastian Meyers photograph and audio recording of a bomb hitting down in Libya (http://sebmeyer.com/war-sounds) was part of the inspiration behind my current project with photographer/cinematographer Christian Geldart, experimenting with the relationships between sound and the still image.
Matthew Herbert’s new album ‘The End of Silence’ is made up of that very same recording.
Details on Herberts album here (taken from residentadvisor.net):
“As always with Herbert, there’s a concept behind the recording: according to a press release, The End Of Silence was composed “entirely from a 10-second sound recording” of war photographer Sebastian Meyer being bombed by Libyan air forces in 2011. “I wanted to freeze history, press pause, wander around inside the sound—trying to understand its component parts, wondering why it was so scary when I had never actually heard any bomb first hand,” Herbert says. “In stark contrast to the written reports of the atrocities committed by dictators in the Arab word during the Arab Spring, here was something that rendered it real. It turned the virtual word back in to the visceral. Despite immediate and disparate access to news of world events, it’s rare to find something that punctures the safe veneer of distance that computers create. By hearing this sound, one is compelled to live inside the moment.””
“The recording was “fragmented and atomised” into samples, which were then played by members of Herbert’s band. The album, which is split into three parts, was recorded over three days in an Welsh countryside barn in June 2012. It will see release three months on from Herbert Complete, the exhaustive digital retrospective of the producer’s work as Herbert.”
Tracklist
01. Part One
02. Part Two
03. Part Three
Accidental will release The End Of Silence on June 24th, 2013.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=19596 (2013)
Here is Part One taken from ‘The End of Silence’
https://soundcloud.com/accidentalrecords-1/matthew-herbert-the-end-of
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