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This [Orchestra] Practise This [Single]

by Kim Harvey & John Harvey

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The source sample is a 14-second recording made by my younger son while on a school trip to Osaka. From an open window on the fifth floor of the host school, he heard the wind-band section of the school’s orchestra rehearsing in the grounds. The players were clearly audible. They were segregated in separate practise areas according to their instruments (presumably): the trombones in one place, the clarinets in another, and so on. The musicians would have been largely oblivious to one another’s efforts. However, from my son’s perspective, four floors above ground level, all of them could be heard at once and together.

The recording captures a natural superimposition of fragments in the form of a fortuitous and ephemeral ‘uncomposition’ of orchestral music. The instrumentalists can be heard repeating small segments of their parts over and over again. In this way, the repetition of the sample, which forms the basis of the sound-art work’s composition, reflects their practice. The title of the work derives from a statement heard at the end of the sample made by a female Japanese student or teacher who was present in the same room as my son.

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released August 9, 2014
Personnel: Otemae High School Orchestra, Kim Harvey (originator and sound recordist), anonymous voices, and John Harvey.

Instrumentation: Wind-band, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 camera, and Adobe Audition CS6.

Context: Sectional rehearsals of the Otemae High School Orchestra, Osaka, Japan, 4.43 pm, 9 July 2014.

Compositions by: Kim Harvey and John Harvey.
Engineered and produced by: John Harvey.
Cover Concept and artwork by: John Harvey.
Cover image: Kim Harvey, view from a window, Otemae High School Orchestra Osaka, Japan.
Conceived and mastered at: School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Wales, 2014.
All compositions ℗ and © 2014 Kim Harvey and John Harvey.

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John Harvey Ceredigion, UK

I’m a practitioner and historian of sound art and visual art, and Emeritus Professor of Art at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, UK. My research field is the sonic and visual culture of religion. I explore the sonic articulations of the Christian religion by engaging visual, textual, and audible sources, theological and cultural ideas, and systemic and audiovisualogical processes. ... more

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