Direct Contact
Peter Van Riper
Alternates new metal music with cuts of concrete "double hearing sounds." These are music played on a variety of objects such as pine cones, shells, Indian corn, armadillo shells, sticks, keys, and camel bones. Each object produces double sounds to be sorted out by the listeners. Each side ends with music on aluminum rings. The material draws inspiration from the non-western traditions of Indonesia and Japan.
Sustainable Music
Peter Van Riper
Music with sound listened to closely, so as to include both things played and things resounding. Sounds heard with responsive attention so as to increase one's awareness of being in a place at a time. The music involves hearing sounds, which are natural sounds paid attention to, and spirit sounds, which are human-made arrangements of sound.
