Brooklyn-based composer Anne Guthrie
creates immersive sonic environments intended to disorient
the listener with their dichotomy between expansive
space and intimate sonic details. In Conservatoire,
Guthrie offers two variations on field recordings
she made of the Conservatory at the Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis. The first, lengthier piece develops
slowly out of an expansive, bass-heavy sea of humming,
gradually revealing the field recordings which compete
for dominance with the underlying drones as the piece
moves towards its conclusion. The second piece concentrates
on higher registers, giving a bit more prominence
to the field recordings while the drones mutate with
slightly more urgency. Beautifully crafted sonic architecture
evoking movement and interaction within a challenging
space.
