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Vexed Variations

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Vex House in London was finished in late 2017. It is a new building designed by Chance de Silva and inspired by the work of composer Erik Satie and his composition Vexations. I was commissioned to create a permanent sound installation as part of the project which is installed within the house itself, and was released in edited form on CD in 2016

Returning to the house I was listening to the sound of the building itself and tried an experiment. Inspired by American composer Alvin Lucier's work 'I Am Sitting in a Room' which features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room, re-recording it. This new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself.

So what you hear here is a 12 minute work with every minute registering another recording played back into the room, until after just eleven replays the original source material has been almost entirely devoured by the room itself, leaving this rather eerie deep dark tone remaining.

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from Vex, released November 22, 2016

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner is an artist and composer working in London. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. ... more

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