Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring each time specific musical parameters closely related to sound, frequency and time. How is the perception of sound influenced by time? What happens when we slow down time, stretch time, and so use time as a microscope to zoom in on sound? How do we relate to time in music as improvising and performing musicians? There are currently two projects in Book of Air: fieldtone and vvolk.
“As a listener you experience one sound, one cloud, one texture, with slow moving details within. While getting deeper in the sound of vvolk, the perception of time fades. It is astonishing how improvised music can create such a timeless, and calming experience for the listener. This timelessness clearly has an effect on the physical body. After a concert of ‘vvolk’ you will leave with an altered body state.”
This is the second Book of air chapter performed by ‘VVOLK’. The music of ‘VVOLK’ is played by a group of 18 improvisers with roots in jazz and classical music. The group investigates performing and improvising music, in close relation to present time; what are the possibilities in playing music, when changes in this music pass by unnoticed? How do we as musicians relate to the running time of a performance? How does our hearing and memory react to these slow changes? As a result ‘vvolk’ let’s you experience music which is less perceived in the present time, but rather occurs in our memory of the past. This clearly challenges the improvising musicians, and makes audience and performers discover new territories in collective improvisation.
Inspired by the slow tempo and invisible motion of nature; how the seasons pace without sudden turns, slow and gentle. Seemingly still, yet always in motion.
CREDITS
01 lente > zomer
02 herfst > winter
Music performed by:
STIJN COOLS – drums
SEP FRANCOIS – vibraphone & percussion
HENDRIK VANATTENHOVEN – double bass
NATHAN WOUTERS – double bass
LAURENS SMET – double bass & electric bass
BERT COOLS – electric guitar
RUBEN MACHTELINCKX – electric guitar
BENJAMIN SAUZEREAU – electric guitar
NIELS VAN HEERTUM – euphonium
VIKTOR PERDIEUS – tenor saxophone
THOMAS JILLINGS – tenor saxophone
ERIK BOGAERTS – alto saxophone
FRANS VAN ISACKER – alto saxophone
MATHIEU ROBERT – soprano saxophone
STEFAN BRACAVAL – flute
INDRE JURGELEVICIUTE – kankles
FRUZ TONTELING – harmonium
WOUT GOORIS – rhodes
Composed by STIJN & BERT COOLS
Recorded by PETER DESMEDT
Mixed by STIJN COOLS
Mastered by UWE TEICHERT
Cover Picture by JOHN TAI
Layout by JONATHAN KARSILO
Published by Sub Rosa 2016 SR413
Recorded january 7th 2015 at ‘deSingel’, blauwe zaal
Coproduction of ‘deSingel’ International Arts Campus
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