Rutger Zuydervelt – Stay Tuned

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CD – Baskaru

Rutger Zuydervelt invites us to take a walk “through” the orchestra. Stay Tuned began life as an installation piece in which different speakers present a different group of instruments playing a single note, as if an orchestra were tuning up. The work uses the idea of “human DJing”, in which an audience member’s movement around the space affects what they hear, something that also functions as a metaphor for mixing. In this case the listener is able to sonically navigate through a group of 150 musical elements, mixing their own track as they go. The installation ran through summer and autumn 2013 indoors at the Sounds Like Audio Art space in Saskatoon, Canada before moving to the Great Wide Open on Vlieland, Netherlands, a natural green oasis by the sea. Released on Baskaru – a transalpine label well known to our readers – the 50-minute CD version takes us on a journey through a continuum that involves many of the most recognized international avant-garde musicians including Oren Ambarchi, Richard Youngs, John Butcher and Nate Wooley, just to name a few. The effect is that of an orchestra that tunes up endlessly and Zuydervelt – also known by the moniker Machinefabriek – should be satisfied with this disorienting listening that eventually reconciles with meditative moments of great intensity and choral magnificence.

 

Rutger Zuydervelt – Stay Tuned