METAL by Sylvia Hinz+Andrew Leslie Hooker

Sylvia Hinz bass recorder
Andrew Leslie Hooker virtual turntables

Sylvia Hinz is one of the leading recorder players worldwide, specialising in contemporary music and improvisation.
https://soundcloud.com/sylviahinz

Sylvia Hinz is facing one of the toughest battles - cancer. She has dedicated her life to music, and now she needs our support: all money raised by this release goes to Sylvia - also, if you’re able, consider donating directly: https://ko-fi.com/dissonant_witchcraft

In 2020 I randomly discovered Sylvia Hinz’s “Windserie I – VII” recording on bandcamp:
https://sylviahinz.bandcamp.com/album/windserie-i-vii
After an incredible listening experience, I emailed Sylvia, asking her to be involved in my PhD research, which in the first place would involve her improvising a bass recorder solo to a no-input mixing board sound-score. Much to my delight she agreed and, a few months later, sent me a beautiful ten-minute recording which I have spent the last five years pulling apart and putting back together in order to create a musique concrète tape-score for Sylvia to play solo with/against.
This track METAL was born out of absolute frustration with the difficulties of composing the tape-score, and entailed me “throwing” Sylvia’s original recording into four virtual turntables and maniacally improvising for half-an-hour.
Despite many conversations over the years, I have never met Sylvia face-to-face, but after listening carefully to the sound of her breathing for so very long, I feel that I have really got to know her on a whole other level of artistic tenderness.
[ALH]

since 1994

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