Susan Campos - Fonseca
Noise Artist-Composer & Scientist
Minimal Aggression
Artist: Various
Composer: Julián de la Chica & Susan Campos-Fonseca
Lyric: Various
Format: Album
Release: Sep 18, 2015
Catalogue: Irreverence Group Music IGM-005
GTIN/EAN/UPC: 4050215144378
Producer: IGM
Track listings
Mandala, VI poems by Susan Campos-Fonseca
01. Poem No.1
02. Poem No.2
03. Poem No.3
04. Poem No.4
05. Poem No.5 (Human Number)
06. Poem No.6 (Tritono)
Beauty, Death songs
07. No.1 - Prologue
08. No.2 - Yo no soy rubia
09. No.3 - Snow white
10. No.4 - She knows
11. No.5 - Epilogue
Butoh Meditations
12. No.1 - Katana
13. No.2 - Espino blanco
14. No.3 - Prophecy (Profecía de los trenes y los almendros muertos)
Album Notes
NY-based, Colombian composer and pianist Julián de la Chica, and Costa Rican composer, writer and musicologist, Dr. Susan Campos-Fonseca (Casa de las Américas Prize 2012), present in the album Minimal Aggression their mutual questions about Minimalism, their possibilities and trajectories in the XXI century. This album can be seen as a first "Manifesto" and as an artistic research, where two worlds converge: independent creation (de la Chica), and academic thinking (Campos-Fonseca).
It is a "Manifesto" and a “research project" because both creators reflect on the challenges of choosing to be a “minimalist" today. Talking about vanguard art and transgression is something completely historical. The burden of historicism poured over the creative act is, perhaps, one of the greatest tests for a composer today. If you are a creator of sound, you're in historical perspective. The works gathered here choose Minimalism as a possibility for an ascetic journey, where musical materials can be reduced to a minimal structure, exploring the tension between sound and noise. Within this search, Noise and Poetry become articulative axes.
This project brings together the Costa Rican sound artist Alejandro Sanchez Nunez, and the poems of Elise Plain, Juan Andrés García Román, Marco Aguilar Sanabria and Susan Campos-Fonseca. Exploring the boundaries between music and Noise, sound and word, organic and cybernetic body, singing Human and "inner jungle," the album counts with the voice of Ana Echandi, Martha Mooke’s Viola, and Alex Sterling’s Sound engineering. Dystopia of desire that “pricks” asceticism ... as in the "Aggression" summarized by Frida Kahlo in her "A Few Small Nips" of 1935, showing the murder of a woman. The lover stabbed to death, says in his defense a phrase that crowns the work: "... but it was but a few small nips." The accuracy of this expression summarizes Minimal Aggression.
Julián de la Chica and Susan Campos-Fonseca explore the minimal act of sound which travels without pretension, ascetic, going abyss. This is an act of resistance, "Nips" in a saturated society where "everything feels" where we drown in the "everything possible", empty.
Credits:
Produced by Irreverence Group Music (IGM)
Music by Susan Campos - Fonseca and
Julián de la Chica
Artists: Various
Mandala
Recorded by Richard Rozen
at Richard Rozen Studio Brooklyn, NY
Mixed and mastered by Alex Sterling
at Precision Sound Studios in New York, NY
Beauty, Death Songs & Butoh Meditations
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alex Sterling
at Precision Sound Studios in New York, NY
Poems by Susan Campos - Fonseca (Mandala);
Elise Plain, Juan Andrés García Román
(Beauty, Death Songs); Marco Aguilar-Sanabria
(“profecía”, Butoh Meditations)
Program Notes by Dr. Susan Campos - Fonseca
Artcover by Jenny Odio
Booklet by Lina Gracia
Photography by Hassan Malik.
Julián de la Chica’s music is published
by JDLACHIK Music Publishing, Inc. (BMI)
Susan Campos - Fonseca (BMI)
Manufactured & marketed by
Irreverence Group Music (Brooklyn, NY)
Made in US. Total time: 60 min | IGM - 005
Ⓟ and Ⓒ 2015 IGM