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Instrumentation (detailed)

Electronic / Electroacoustic

Electroacoustics

In February, I found myself working a week in Stuttgart. This came on the tail end of an intense peri­od of work and travel — and it was, in fact, the last one since, as by that time Baden-Württemberg already registered cases of COVID-19 and the country would soon go into lockdown.

This was recorded early in the morning, as the sun rose over the Oberer Schloßgarten, between the Staatsoper and the Landtag. You hear one earlymorning jogger and a smattering of distant chatter, but the soundscape is mostly dominated by the birds and other animals that nest and frolic around the Eckensee. The city had not yet awoken; this window records a slice of the gradual reintroduction of the human. And it is from this situation that the curious dramaturgy of the recording (which is unedited in its temporal unfolding) emerges: these two layers coexist not in the other’s negative space — nor is the human here drown­ing out the ani­mal — but their utterances seem to cluster together in time.

This soundscape was recorded on a Zoom H2n with a Primo ECM172 omni microphone.

Luís Salgueiro

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Early Eckensee	Premiere	2020/Jun/23						Notes