ANDREW ZEALLEY
Themes & Variations
black vinyl LP with insert, 31 x 31 cm
signed/numberededition of 300
tourette009
ANDREW ZEALLEY: THEMES & VARIATIONS
is the third installment in Zealley's "How To Explain Silence To A Dead
Hare" series of vinyl project editions. The album showcases selected
film, video, installation and performance music by Zealley,
commissioned by visual artists - including Luis Jacob, Joey Medaglia,
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, and Scott Treleaven. Produced by PSBEUYS,
THEMES & VARIATIONS is released on Tourette Records (USA). This
vinyl-only edition of 300 numbered LP's launches at Art Metropole on
Saturday April 25, 1-3 PM.
On THEMES & VARIATIONS, Zealley
intersects various aspects of his sound practise: field recordings,
audio art, existential house, tonal mantra, and musical
form/composition. At the center of THEMES & VARIATIONS are the
scores for Scott Treleaven's trilogy of short films: GOLD, SILVER and
LUSTRE. Composed and produced in 2005-2006, this group of instrumental
compositions is punctuated, for the album, by four thematically-related
works: APOTHEOSIS II, HABITAT THEME 2, SIGNAL, and ARENA.
TRACK NOTES:
The
score to Treleaven's film on pandrogyny (starring Genesis P'Orridge and
the late Lady Jaye Breyer), GOLD's cycling vortex of digital and
acoustic sounds is followed by two variations on the same melodic and
tonal themes: APOTHEOSIS II (an early audio sketch for GOLD), and
HABITAT THEME 2 (developed for Luis Jacob's HABITAT installation at
AGO). The plaintive love-pop electronics of SIGNAL, originally produced
for Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay's CONSTELLATION performance piece, is newly
remixed by PSBEUYS for the album. The swirling dream-scape of SILVER,
the score to Treleaven's homage to John Dee (starring AA Bronson), is a
seemingly endless sustain of electronics, violin and bell tones. ARENA,
featuring the "beatbox" vocals of Luis Jacob, is the audio score to
Joey Medaglia's video RE: FORM (BECOMING VISIBLE). An alternate version
of ARENA's motifs can be heard on Zealley's exhibition soundtrack, AA
Bronson School For Young Shamans. THEMES & VARIATIONS concludes
with the 3-part score for LUSTRE, Treleaven's super8 tryptich starring
Massimo & Pierce (Black Sun Productions). Here Zealley turns to a
more classical interpretation of "themes and variations," literally
voicing the score's tender melodic main theme (written for a local
violin busker), through a series of pastoral string and oscillating
electronic deconstructions.
ANDREW ZEALLEY: THEMES &
VARIATIONS is mastered for vinyl at The E Room, by Peter J. Moore, and
features performances by Luis Jacob, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, violinist
Adm Shedden, and the PSBEUYS-directed Prospect Cottage Strings.
THEMES
& VARIATIONS is released on Tourette Records (USA), catalogue
number TOURETTE009, and is available online at www.artmetropole.com and
directly from the artist's site.
more info : www.andrewzealley.com