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Anyaa Arts Library presents Pyrasonix, Africonica.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 20367
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sound installations (Art).
- Musical instruments--Construction.
- Musical instruments.
- Musical instrument makers.
- Musical instruments in art.
- Documentary films.
- Musical instruments--Africa.
- Music--Africa.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Suites.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 1 audio disc (55 min) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on DVD disc: Pyrasonix : the sounding sculptures of Nii Noi Nortey
- Title on CD disc : Africonica
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Fe, N.M.] : VoxLox, [2014]
- Summary:
- A two-disc set. The Pyrasonix DVD includes two videos: a 31 minute version chronicles the library's sound sculptural installation made by Nii Noi Nortey over the ten-year period of 2005-2014. During each of these years Steven Feld produced a photographic inventory of the sculptures, selections collaged and animated here. It is enhanced by a second video (2012) that features a live solo performance and conversation with Nortey about how the sculptures are not mute but speak. The Africona compact disc is a 55 minute piece improvised by the members of the Anyaa Arts Collectif in January 2014. Edited from two weeks of musical conversations, Afrifonica is a 13-part non-linear suite, a sonic voyage inspired by and sounded in the Pyrasonix sculptural installation space of the Anyaa Arts Library.
- Participant:
- Africona performed by the Anyaa Arts Kollektif (Nii Noi Nortey, adungu, afrifon, didjeridu, flute, mbira, ngoni, wia ; Nii Otoo Annan, apentema, afrikan perkussion kit, gyil, kitchen cans, trapset ; J.C. Abbey, wia, conch shells ; Alex Coke, flute, piccolo, wia ; Steven Feld, ashiwa).
- Credits:
- Pyrasonix: Steven Feld, photography, video, sound ; Jeremiah Ra Richards, editing ; Nii Noi Nortey, installation & performance ; Accra Trane Station, musical selections.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- OCLC:
- 929641267
- Publisher Number:
- 114 VoxLox
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