01 De Koolmees Suzuki Type Glass Harmonica, 1973 (23:46)
02 Analapos A – Voice Composed, 1970 (14:44)
03 Analapos B – Multiple Stand, 1973 (22:33)
04 Analapos C – Object For A Single Person, 1970 (9:20)
Total time 70:23
Book+CD released by Het Apollohuis, The Netherlands, 1990
‘Soundsphere’, Akio Suzuki‘s acclaimed masterpiece, was meant by Paul Panhuysen, director of Het Apollohuis, as an introduction to his sound work, with a book detailing various instruments Suzuki created, as well as diagrams and documentation on previous performances from the 1970s and 1980s. It was conceived during an artist-in-residence time Suzuki spent at Het Apollohuis. The 36-pages booklet edition came in an oversized cardboard box and was limited to 1,000 copies. The disc focuses on 2 instruments only: the De Koolmees, a self-build glass instrument already described in a previous post, and the Analapos, a long spring attached to a pair of cylinders, played either by plucking the string or singing through a cylinder. As customary with Suzuki, all sounds are out of this world, hardly ever sounding like man-made music at all. On track #1, Suzuki uses 2 of his glass instruments at the same time, making various use of them: rubbing or percussion, or a combination of both. The whole disc is extraordinary.
Music (133mb) and pictures (13 scans) provided by Olivier Prieur. Thanks!
hi continuo!
your description doesn’t allow this to be passed. merci!
btw – have you ever tried to upload files up to 200mb to mediafire? officially this shouldn’t work, but it works perfect for me – with a free account, not a pro one!
Hi Lucky. Hope you’ll enjoy the music.
As for Mediafire: I’ll give it a try next time.
Thanks for dropping by.
nice magic carpet ride
Glad you enjoyed.
For a young belgian glass musician see http://www.charlottevanwouwe.com/. No releases or sound files yet I’m afraid, and all in dutch, sorry.
Looks interesting. Thank you.
merci!
You’re welcome.
Oh gosh… Everytime I return to your site there’s a big load of interesting music here waiting for me. Thanks a million continuo!
You might consider coming more often to keep posted ;) Thanks for dropping by, anyway.
This link seems to have quit working… I can only download a fragment of the file before it bogs down and my projected completion time balloons indefinitely.
Megaupload link works fine, if a bit slowly.