Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Remeber that Ben Frost/Eno collab?

Here's a lil' more info:

With the 50th anniversary of the publication of Krakow writer Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris in 2011, Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnasson are creating an ambitious project with Sinfonietta Cracovia, one of Poland’s leading orchestras. Created for 29 string players, 2 percussionists, prepared piano, guitars and electronics, Music For Solaris has its beginnings in both Lem’s original novel and the 1972 film adaptation by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a re-imagined soundtrack for a film so still as to become almost absent, a story in sound, and an exploration of an interior cosmos. It is music written by human beings, removed and mutated by machine intelligence, then translated once more by human beings. It is strange and unique, filled with and borne of concepts. Integral to the project are a series of "film manipulations" by Brian Eno and Nick Robertson, drawing on moments from the original Tarkowsky film to create a visual parallel to the music composition process.

The seed of Music For Solaris began simply enough with Ben Frost’s dissatisfaction with the original score for the Tarkovsky film.“I always felt that Russian composer Eduard Artemyev's score compounded the external, science fiction elements of the story rather than exploring the internal, the human,” he says. With a commission from Krakow’s Unsound Festival – based in the very birthplace of Stanislaw Lem’s novel – Frost found himself with the opportunity of working with Sinfonietta Cracovia. Soon enough, he had also recruited his friend and Bedroom Community labelmate, Icelandic composer / conductor Daníel Bjarnason.

A visual element created by Brian Eno and Nick Robertson has now become a crucial part of the whole. The work will recorded in Krakow, for release as an album on the Icelandic label Bedroom Community. The North American premiere of the piece and launch of the album will take place at Unsound Festival New York at the start of April 2011, marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lem’s novel.

I don't wannaCAN NOT wait for this to come out..

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