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Ukigusa (the sky is as blue as a tragedy)

by D'Incise

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I wonder if the boat'll be late again (n°2) 15:10
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Don't leave anything behind (n°3) 10:01
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Just... hold... your... horses (n°4) 06:50
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She sent me a postcard (n°6) 08:24
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I'm not so sure now (n°7) 12:35
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But I want you to remember me from time to time (n°8) 09:22
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You're all so quiet tonight (n°9) 08:14
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He always left like that, with a heavy heart (n°10) 07:03

about

There is still a few copies of the edition available at
www.suppedaneum.com/ukigusa.htm

«UKIGUSA (the sky is as blue as a tragedy)» is a composition for prepared vibraphone and two players. Composed in ten distinct parts—eight of which are realized by d’incise and Cyril Bondi on the accompanying CD-R—the piece incorporates sheets of aluminum, cardboard cups, Styrofoam, acacia beans, and other disparate objects and extended techniques in combination with the vibraphone to explore pitch, timbre, and the delicate interplay of materials. The result is by turns austere and lush, abstract and organic; it is also unfailingly beautiful. «UKIGUSA» is released in a limited edition of 100 archival CD-Rs, each of which is accompanied by the complete score; two sheets of origami paper, one of which carries the track listing and additional credits; and a hand-folded origami swan that bears the Suppedaneum logo.

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“Ukigusa (the sky is as blue as a tragedy) is a piece on a shore, where one would hesitate between ground and water. If it can be seen as an instrumental piece, its roots are in a practice of collecting objects, finding pitches in them, manipulating them, looking for the materiality of the vibration and its capacity to propagate or interact with other objects. The instrument is turned again into a primitive artifact, resonating plates of metal activated by two people, four hands, or four bows.
In Ukigusa, one will find tonalities and harmonies that should be listened to for what they are, but which are also merely the context or the door for much more to happen on an intimate scale, small sonic architectures, a poetics of the decay, parasites, slowness, the lost sometime of control over things, and the distanciation between the gesture and its consequences. Beauty is not something to be ashamed of in this piece, nor is its melancholic mood.”
–d’incise

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released May 1, 2017

Performed by Cyril Bondi and d’incise.
Recorded in September 2016, Insub. Studio, Geneva, Switzerland.

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D'Incise Genève, Switzerland

d'incise has no perticular instrument, using whatever can be considered as such, softwares, recordings, objects, percussions, harmonium, etc.
He's interested in radicalism, reductionnism, repetitions and conceptual approaches, building specific set-up for each new occasion, in improvised or composed context. ... more

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