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Echo's Bones

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Saadet Türköz - For Madame Jeřábek, 1998 05:15
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Orloj Snivců - A Concert for Plasy, 1993 06:40
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Rajesh Mehta - A Day in Benedict - Solo for Bass Trumpet, 1998 02:53
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Akio Suzuki - Howling Objects, 1994 10:21
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Michael Delia / Martin Alačam / Tereza Roglová / Jaroslav Kořán - Clio, 1998 09:07
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Marie Kawazu - Solo for Voice and Echo, 1994 08:36
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Christophe Charles - Sound Shadow, 1997 04:00
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Hans van Koolwijk - Weg 04:02
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Společenství Pan (Luboš Fidler/Oldřich Janota/Štepán Pečírka) - Excited Aluminium, 1998 04:29
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Ewa Jacobsson - Anagram, part 3,1998 08:09
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Rova Saxophone Quartet - Grace, 1994 (free) 07:43
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Ross Bolleter, Michael Delia - Concertina218 07:31
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John Grzinich: Empty Saint Benedict Chapel, 2018 (free) 04:01
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anonymous phonographer - Echo's Cheekbone, 1999 08:23
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Neubauer Zdeněk: Gaia and the Anthropic Principle 14:20
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Prof. Zdeněk Neubauer (1942 – 2016) was a Czech philosopher and biologist, remarkable especially for his interdiciplinarity, original interpretations in science history and epistemology. Neubauer graduated from Charles University in microbiology, biology and chemistry (1965) and 1971 in philosophy. During his activities at Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica in Napoli (1967–1970) he made several discoveries in genetics. In 1982 he was forced to leave the university because of his nonconformist attitudes, both scientific and political. After that, he worked mainly as a philosopher (a programmer analyst by job), publishing in inedit communities.
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Jaroslav Kořán: Bells and Steps 04:05
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Selected archival files, recorded between 1993 and 1999 (2018) at Plasy Monastery, in the chapels of St. Benedict, St. Bernard, in the corridors, or around the premises. The resonant acoustics of chapels and the serene light invite visitors to interact with the space: their breath and even the softest noises and movements dissolve into the sonic reflections — as if opening a dialogue with an aural, airborne being, repeating that she hears — maybe the lonely and curious nymph Echo?

The title of the album refers to the ancient Greek love story: Echo was a mountain nymph, an oread, living in Cithaeron Mountains. Cithaeron was a king, or a mountain god, and was famous as a player on a lyre ( cithara). Godnes Hera, to punish poor Echo for some reason, deprived her of speech, and acoustic communication, except for the ability to repeat the last words of another. As a result, Echo's amorous affection, because being rejected by handsome Narcissus, her body slowly begins disappear and her flesh wastes away. Finally, only her sound and bones were left; her disembodied acousmatic voice floating above olive trees and meadows.

And Echo's bones, they say, turned into white limestone, or into pebbles. Meanwhile Narcissus drowned, because he tried to kiss his own mouth in mirroring water level. And his sisters mourned "having clipped their shining tresses, laid them on his corpse: and all the Dryads mourned: and Echo made lament anew. And these would have upraised his funeral pyre, and waved the flaming torch, and made his bier; but as they turned their eyes where he had been, alas he was not there! And in his body's place a sweet flower grew, golden and white, the white around the gold." (Ovidius, Metamorphoses).

Echo's bones spread all around the hills of Kithairon (Κιθαιρών) on the green grass, among the flowers, as a graphic score for the disembodied voice repeating the last word… alas, only if there was a sound nearby. Usually the landscape remained silent.
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released January 21, 2021

Rova Saxophone Quartet, Luboš Fidler, Oldřich Janota, John Grzinich, Zvukac, Marie Kawazu, Tim Hodgkinson, Rajesh Mehta, Akio Suzuki, Saadet Türköz, Orloj Snivců, Hans van Koolwijk, Christophe Charles, Ewa Jacobson, Ross Boleter, Michael Delia, Zdeněk Neubauer.

Recording by: studio Avik, Jiří Sláma, (Grace, Orloj snivců, Solo for Bass Trumpet), Jaroslav Kořán (Clio), Golo Foellmer (Howling Objects, Solo for Voice and Echo, Zdeněk Neubauer), Daniel Šperl (Excited Aluminium), Christophe Charles (Sound Shadow), Hans van Eck (Weg), Ewa Jacobsson (Anagram), John Grzinich, (Empty Benedict Chapel), Miloš Vojtěchovský (Concertina218, Echo's Cheekbone).

Selected and arranged by Miloš Vojtěchovský (zvukac et centrum.cz)
more info: see
agosto-foundation.org/hermit-foundation-and-center-for-metamedia-plasy

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Sonicity is a virtual entity, devoted to soundscapes, field recording, acoustic ecology, slow music, slow food, slow movement, quick actions. based in Prague. Occasionally making the recording public. see: sonicity.cz
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