Goodbye 20th Century | Sonic Youth
Goodbye 20th Century | Sonic Youth
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Edges 16:02
Six For New Time - For Sonic Youth 8:08
Having Never Written A Note For Percussion 9:04
Six (3rd Take) 3:01
+ - 7:02
Voice Piece For Soprano 0:12
Pièce Enfantine 2:21
Treatise (Page 183) 3:29
Four6 30:20
Six (4th Take) 3:02
Burdocks 13:16
Piano Piece No.13 (Carpenter's Piece) - For Nam June Paik 3:49
Pendulum Music 5:56
Although much more turbulent than the distant electric storms of the series' last release, the ethereal Invito al Cielo, Goodbye 20th Century conjures similar alchemies of cacophony and serenity. But the new album has less to do with free improv extensions of SYR3.
前作 Invito al Cielo は、不協和音と静けさの錬金術を彷彿とさせるようなエレクトリックな嵐のような作品であったが、今回のアルバム Goodbye 20th Century では、SYR3の自由なインプロヴィゼーションの延長線上にあるというよりは、自由なインプロヴィゼーションのようなものを感じさせる。しかし、新しいアルバムは、SYR3の自由な即興演奏の延長線上にあるものではない。
Rather, we hear the band (boasting an impressive roster of guests) interpreting the work of past masters. Along with more renowned modern composers like John Cage, Steve Reich and Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Youth & Co. play pieces by Stockhausen protégé Cornelius Cardrew, experimental violinist Takehisha Kosugi (who performs on the album), and atonal-chromaticist James Tenney. Sonic Youth is joined again by Jim O'Rourke, along with New York downtown turntablist Christian Marclay, composer Christian Wolff (who also contributes a piece), percussionist William Winant, and longtime Sonic Youth producer Wharton Tiers.
The half-hour-long interpretation of John Cage's 1992 composition "Four6" stands at the heart of the two-disc set, and best exemplifies the work's aesthetic of entwined beauty and monstrosity. Other highlights include "Six for a New Time," a piece that Pauline Oliveros composed specifically for the occasion, and James Tenney's "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion," an uprising of droning guitar under the direction of Jim O'Rourke. 1992年に作曲されたジョン・ケージの「Four6」の30分に及ぶ解釈は、2枚組の中心に位置し、美と怪異が絡み合ったこの作品の美学を最もよく表しています。その他のハイライトは、ポーリーン・オリベロスがこの機会のために特別に作曲した「Six for a New Time」や、ジム・オルークの指揮によるドローンギターの反乱「Having Never Written a Note for Percussion」など。 But let's not kid ourselves. Goodbye 20th Century is difficult music: music that is not supposed to be enjoyed so much as to be endured. To purchase this album is to purchase over an hour-and-a-half of some of the most abrasive noise imaginable outside of an industrial factory setting. And you must find what's beautiful. This is perhaps why I have found the SYR series so engaging-- because the experience of listening to these releases amounts to a considerable amount of introspection: you must rethink your categories every minute, you must continuously reassess the boundaries of music and noise, structure and disorder. But if all you hear is dissonance and feedback and Kim Gordon's hot, ghostly musings, you're not listening. しかし、自分たちをバカにしてはいけない。 Goodbye 20th Century は難しい音楽であり、楽しむものではなく、耐えるものである。このアルバムを購入するということは、工業工場以外では考えられないような、1時間半以上にも及ぶ、最も研磨されたノイズのいくつかを購入することになる。そして、あなたは美しいものを見つけなければなりません。なぜなら、これらのリリースを聴くという経験は、かなりの量の内省に相当するからです。しかし、もしあなたが不協和音とフィードバックとキム・ゴードンの熱くてゴーストのような呟きしか聞いていないのであれば、あなたは聴いていないことになります。