El/Element 1




El/Element 1

Per Svensson




Time: 40´23´´
This recording is a work of sounds from the primordial elements and electricity.
A document of electroacoustic music, an action and a shaman ride.
2 live performances and mixed field recordings; Soundart by Per Svensson from 1987.
The primary concert of EL / ELEMENT 1 was performed at the Royal Academy of fine Arts in Stockholm, Sweden, 3rd-5th of October, 1988. In conjunction with the exhibition "3 days at the Royal Academy of fine Arts" with Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Per Svensson, Kent Tankred.

PER SVENSSON "El/Element 1" ­ Sounds from the primordial infrasound and psych-out(hostage hallucination, lycanthropy) to form a subtle "soundscape", like a poem...This piece was played at the first Nordic Sound Art festival. With his field recordings building a swell of noise and sound, like a heavy wind or sounding like doors and distant voices. ­ A Grep On Sound, 1989.