BOOK OF AIR
is a series of bundled compositions exploring each time specific musical parameters closely related to sound, frequency and time. How is the perception of sound influenced by time? What happens when we slow down time, stretch time, and so use time as a microscope to zoom in on sound? How do we relate to time in music as improvising and performing musicians? There are currently two projects in Book of Air: fieldtone and vvolk
Projects
Agenda
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VVOLK
“As a listener you experience one sound, one cloud, one texture, with slow moving details within. While getting deeper in the sound of vvolk, the perception of time fades. It is astonishing how improvised music can create such a timeless, and calming experience for the listener. This timelessness clearly has an effect on the physical body. After a concert of ‘vvolk’ you will leave with an altered body state.”
This is the second Book of air chapter performed by ‘VVOLK’. The music of ‘VVOLK’ is played by a group of 18 improvisers with roots in jazz and classical music. The group investigates performing and improvising music, in close relation to present time; what are the possibilities in playing music, when changes in this music pass by unnoticed? How do we as musicians relate to the running time of a performance? How does our hearing and memory react to these slow changes? As a result ‘vvolk’ let’s you experience music which is less perceived in the present time, but rather occurs in our memory of the past. This clearly challenges the improvising musicians, and makes audience and performers discover new territories in collective improvisation.
Inspired by the slow tempo and invisible motion of nature; how the seasons pace without sudden turns, slow and gentle. Seemingly still, yet always in motion.
CREDITS
01 lente > zomer
02 herfst > winter
Music performed by:
STIJN COOLS – drums
SEP FRANCOIS – vibraphone & percussion
HENDRIK VANATTENHOVEN – double bass
NATHAN WOUTERS – double bass
LAURENS SMET – double bass & electric bass
BERT COOLS – electric guitar
RUBEN MACHTELINCKX – electric guitar
BENJAMIN SAUZEREAU – electric guitar
NIELS VAN HEERTUM – euphonium
VIKTOR PERDIEUS – tenor saxophone
THOMAS JILLINGS – tenor saxophone
ERIK BOGAERTS – alto saxophone
FRANS VAN ISACKER – alto saxophone
MATHIEU ROBERT – soprano saxophone
STEFAN BRACAVAL – flute
INDRE JURGELEVICIUTE – kankles
FRUZ TONTELING – harmonium
WOUT GOORIS – rhodes
Composed by STIJN & BERT COOLS
Recorded by PETER DESMEDT
Mixed by STIJN COOLS
Mastered by UWE TEICHERT
Cover Picture by JOHN TAI
Layout by JONATHAN KARSILO
Published by Sub Rosa 2016 SR413
Recorded january 7th 2015 at ‘deSingel’, blauwe zaal
Coproduction of ‘deSingel’ International Arts Campus
VVOLK – se (in) de bos
CREDITS
released October 14, 2018
Music composed by STIJN COOLS
Music performed by VVOLK
LAURENS SMET – electric bass
HENDRIK VANATTENHOVEN – double bass
NATHAN WOUTERS – double bass
STIJN COOLS – drums & cymbals
SEP FRANÇOIS – vibraphone & cymbals
INDRE JURGELEVICIUTE – kankles
FRUZ TONTELING – harmonium
WOUT GOORIS – rhodes
BERT COOLS – electric guitar
RUBEN MACHTELINCKX – electric guitar
BENJAMIN SAUZEREAU – electric guitar
NIELS VAN HEERTUM – euphonium
YANN LECOLLAIRE – bariton saxophone
VIKTOR PERDIEUS – tenor saxophone
THOMAS JILLINGS – tenor saxophone
ERIK BOGAERTS – alto saxophone
FRANS VAN ISACKER – alto saxophone
MATHIEU ROBERT – soprano saxophone
Recorded on 29 may 2016 in Rataplan
Recorded by IVAN MORENO
Mixed by WERNER PENSAERT
Cover photo by ALEKSEI KAZANTSEV
Graphic work concept by VICTOR ROBYN
Produced by granvat – Published by Sub Rosa SR(V)444 2018
Made possible thanks to the financial support of the flemish government of Belgium, and the recording space support by rataplan
BOOK OF AIR is an original serie created by granvat
The copyright in this sound recording is owned by granvat, under exclusive license to Sub Rosa
FIELDTONE
Fieldtone refers to ‘roomtone’: Roomtone is the “silence” recorded at a location or space when no music is played or dialogue spoken. Every room is different, and these recordings always carry their unique character. The compositions of fieldtone are inspired by the tempo and sonic textures of specific nature locations. The sound to be found in nature has a very slow groove. A groove embedded by silence, and so slow it can almost only be felt while spending a few hours in the nature at sea, during a forest trip, in open fields, etc… It is this groove and the “silence” of nature that was an inspiration for the fieldtone compositions. By embedding this silent slowness into the compositions, the details of the sounds played become much more prominent. In this way the silence itself, amplifies the sounds that are played, and will also amplify the room surrounding the listener. The music is performed by an ensemble of string instruments supplemented with drums.
CREDITS
01 SHEN sow tyray
02 SHILLE gwer canne
03 PHIO beres
04 O chiba ram ren
Music performed by
NATHAN WOUTERS – double bass
INDRE JURGELEVICIUTE – kankles
BERT COOLS – electric & acoustic guitars
BENJAMIN SAUZEREAU – electric guitar
STIJN COOLS – drums & composition
Recorded on 16-19/07/2013 in Gembloux
released November 15, 2015
Recording supervision by IVAN MORENO
Mixed by STIJN COOLS
Mastered by UWE TEICHERT
Cover picture by SANDRA SENA
Layout by XING DETHIER
Published and Released by Sub Rosa SRV412
Produced by granvat & Sub Rosa 2016
