Langham Research Centre - Tape Works. Vol. 2 - [Vinyl]

Tape Works Vol. 2 is the new album from the UK's leading musique concr�te ensemble, Langham Research Centre. This album presents recent substantial pieces that contrast with the shorter pieces found on Tape Works Vol. 1 (2017) which showcased some of the group's earliest tape experiments. These new pieces utilize recordings made in specific locations in addition to an array of analogue devices and sound producing objects, some of which feature in the album's cover art. This approach is evident in Dinotique, commissioned for Caf� Oto's Stereo Spasms festival in 2019, a celebration of the work of the late French composer Luc Ferrari to mark his 90th birthday. Luc Ferrari – a founding member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) who worked alongside composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry – is an inspirational figure to LRC. Asked to choose one of Ferrari's works to respond to with their own new piece, LRC selected Les Anecdotiques (2002), a work in which Ferrari combines his recordings from a series of travels with his archive of electronic sounds and spontaneous and intimate words. LRC put their own location recordings and electronic sounds together, and placed them in dialogue with those of Ferrari, having been given permission by Brunhild Ferrari to incorporate parts of Les Anecdotiques in this new work. Brutalist buildings are a recurrent feature on this album. They are an architectural manifestation of modernism, the arts and ideas movement that has long fascinated the group. On Tape Works Vol. 2 there is a parade of inspirational concrete structures, from the echoing ramp of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall ('Terminal Voltage Traces') to the Paris architecture of Le Corbusier, Jean Renaudie and Ren�e Gailhoustet ('A Return to Spatial Futures'). Dinotique features recordings from London's Barbican Centre, while in 'Accarezzo' even the remote shingle of Orford Ness is accompanied by recordings from the site's c

Langham Research Centre - Tape Works. Vol. 2 - [Vinyl]

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