Richard Chartier - Transparency (Performance) Album

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Transparency (Performance)

61:20

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
LINE_049	Richard Chartier	Transparency (Performance) ‎(CD, Album, Ltd)	Line	LINE_049	US	2011

Credits

• Photography By [Grand Tonometer Detail] – Richard Chartier

Notes

From the liner notes:

In 2010, sound artist Richard Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship to explore the National Museum of American History's collection of 19th Century acoustic apparatus for scientific demonstration. Chartier focused on the works of the German physicist Rudolf Koenig, including the Grand Tonometer (c. 1870-1875). This beautiful and precise set of 692 tuning forks expresses the frequency range 520 v.s. (vibration simple) (260 hz) to 8192 v.s. (4096 hz). The pitches of the forks extend over four octaves, affording a perfect means for testing, by enumeration of the beats, the number of vibrations producing any given note. The Grand Tonometer is the only instrument of its kind in existence. During his Fellowship, Chartier individually recorded each of this unique instrument's existing tuning forks as well as many other instruments, devices, and their tonal interactions.

Rudolph Koenig considered the Grand Tonometer and his other creations to be purely scientific instruments. His precise workmanship extended the Grand Tonometer's range to frequencies across the field of human perception, thus allowing the listener a chance to witness the nature of sound itself. Chartier's own compositions juxtapose soft and hushed, almost imperceptible, fragments with high and low frequencies, bursts, and static in an asymptotic process that cuts away from and deepens the nature of sound, finally achieving compositional focus in the spaces between them. Chartier was particularly drawn to the Grand Tonometer, feeling a distinct connection to Koenig's approach to sound, and to his aim of a new, or enhanced, way of listening.

In a special live performance in the Ring Auditorium at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC on October 7, 2010, Chartier premiered the first version of a new work: "Transparency." This performance was inspired in part by the Hirshhorn's "ColorForms" exhibit, a collection of works by artists including James Turrell, Fred Sandback, and Olafur Eliasson, showcasing the use of abstract form to explore color's evocative possibilities, from the purely optical to the metaphysical. "Transparency" is created from just some of the myriad delicate recordings made during his Fellowship of the Grand Tonometer, other large tuning forks, metal and wooden resonators, and wood organ pipes by Koenig and his contemporaries.

Digital version available for download from Bandcamp in a variety of file formats.

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