Sol Sketches
Machinefabriek
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Album (flac) | 21 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 21 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download Album (mp3) | 21 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download individual tracks | N/A | from £0.75 |
Machinefabriek - Sol Sketches
Sketches for the soundtrack of a documentary about Sol LeWitt, written and directed by Chris Teerink. Music recorded
and edited January 2011.
Film director Chris Teerink asked me to make the soundtrack for a documentary he would be making about American
artist Sol LeWitt. This was in 2009. Chris and I agreed that the music and the images should both be equally important
in his film. We didn't want the score to overpower the images, but neither did we want it to become solely background
'muzak'. I searched for a certain openness in the sound, while at the same time keeping a directness to it. Musical
references for me were the piano pieces of Morton Feldman (a friend of LeWitt), alva noto's collaborations with Ryuichi
Sakamoto, and Enrico Wuttke’s music project Flim.
I must admit that I was relatively new to LeWitt's work. Searching for more information and images, my admiration for
his art grew and grew. I found it extremely inspiring, and I became so (over) enthusiastic that within a week or two, I’d
recorded more than one and a half hours of music before any footage had been shot.
These Sol Sketches can be seen as meditations on LeWitt's work. With some books of his work opened in front of me,
I started improvising on the piano. This resulted in a few hours of raw material, which were then chopped up and
edited into shorter pieces. I made about 40 of 'em, from which I’ve selected 21 for this release.
The yet untitled documentary is still a work in progress, but the most recent footage I've seen looks amazing. I can
hardly wait to see the film on the big screen, perhaps at the beginning of 2012. Some of the Sol Sketches may appear
in the movie, probably in revised form. Others might not be used at all, and maybe additional music will be composed.
But these early versions of the soundtrack felt too good not to document.
Tracklisting
Download Album (MFDIOG10)
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 1
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 2
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 3
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 4
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 5
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 6
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 7
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 8
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 9
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 10
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 11
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 12
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 13
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 14
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 15
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 16
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 17
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 18
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 19
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 20
- Machinefabriek - Sol Sketch 21
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