artist: REVENANT
title: Topolo
label: Prele Records
country: France
format: CD
title: Topolo
label: Prele Records
country: France
format: CD
“Revenant” is an ongoing project with open membership that focuses on site-specific acoustic
actions, or activated environments. Each action is a document of a specific moment in time
in a specific location.
This CD was recorded in a forest near the Italian village of Topolò, not far the Slovenien
border, during the Pushing The Medium 3 symposium in October 2006. The participants for
this release include: Yannick Dauby, Olivier Feraud John Grzinich, Hitoshi Kojo and Patrick
McGinley.
All sounds from Revenant: Topolo originated from materials found in-situ, or from the space
itself. No overdubbing or editing was done in order to document this specific action and
location in time.
"Huge pines, chestnuts, beeches, and a few oaks. A vague border. On one side a Slovenian
village, on the other an Italian one, which our maps locate at the end of a cul de sac. En
route for this Slovenian village, on this ageless path, having begun in the village of Topolò,
bags full of bits and pieces: a few biscuits, a recorder, some chocolate, several worn out old
violin bows. The path becomes ever steeper and more tortuous, sometimes blocked by fallen
logs, sometimes aided by stone steps barely showing. The trees try to tempt us off the path;
then one or two of us give in to the call of a huge pine standing proudly to one side. With the
first light touch the tree speaks: a strangled sound pierced through by a note both muffled and
sharp, a pluck of another twig, a bowing of a third, a held frequency, a slight pressure on
another until it breaks. Each dried branch of this sound-tree gives rise to stammers, murmurs,
cries or whispers, linguistic trial…" (from Olivier Feraud's booklet text)
actions, or activated environments. Each action is a document of a specific moment in time
in a specific location.
This CD was recorded in a forest near the Italian village of Topolò, not far the Slovenien
border, during the Pushing The Medium 3 symposium in October 2006. The participants for
this release include: Yannick Dauby, Olivier Feraud John Grzinich, Hitoshi Kojo and Patrick
McGinley.
All sounds from Revenant: Topolo originated from materials found in-situ, or from the space
itself. No overdubbing or editing was done in order to document this specific action and
location in time.
"Huge pines, chestnuts, beeches, and a few oaks. A vague border. On one side a Slovenian
village, on the other an Italian one, which our maps locate at the end of a cul de sac. En
route for this Slovenian village, on this ageless path, having begun in the village of Topolò,
bags full of bits and pieces: a few biscuits, a recorder, some chocolate, several worn out old
violin bows. The path becomes ever steeper and more tortuous, sometimes blocked by fallen
logs, sometimes aided by stone steps barely showing. The trees try to tempt us off the path;
then one or two of us give in to the call of a huge pine standing proudly to one side. With the
first light touch the tree speaks: a strangled sound pierced through by a note both muffled and
sharp, a pluck of another twig, a bowing of a third, a held frequency, a slight pressure on
another until it breaks. Each dried branch of this sound-tree gives rise to stammers, murmurs,
cries or whispers, linguistic trial…" (from Olivier Feraud's booklet text)