Scale CD & Booklet
LIMITED EDITION
A beautiful CD & Booklet package documenting a site specific collaboration inspired by the acoustic, architectural, poetic and historical properties of Les Bains::Connective, a socio-artistic laboratory in a disused art deco public baths complex in the Moroccan quarter of Brussels.
The Scale CD & Booklet includes a CD recording of music for miniature percussion, guitar and toy piano; images of Rosemary Joy's miniature percussion instruments; text by Cynthia Troup; and animated musical score by David Young. Design by Propellant.
David Young [composer], Rosemary Joy [visual artist] and Cynthia Troup [writer/historian] collaborating with musicians Tom Pauwels [guitar], Fedor Teunisse [percussion] and Yutaka Oya [toy piano] during a month of workshops and rehearsals at Les Bains::Connective.
The project culminated in a presentation and recording of music for toy piano, guitar and hand-made miniature percussion instruments in the tiled expanses of the Les Bains complex, creating miniature pools of sound, where once there were vast echoes of recreational clamour.
The artists first met when composer David Young was the subject of a Champ d'Action portrait concert in 2003 featuring Tom Pauwels, Fedor Teunisse and Yutaka Oya and others performing Young’s compositions from the past ten years.
In December 2003, Marie-Héléne Elleboudt, MUSiCLAB curator was a featured artist in the Aphids event Instrument Building at Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.
Scale was released on CD in 2006.
FIRST PERFORMANCE - 2004
TIME
Residency: July 2004
Performance: Friday July 30, 2004
PLACE
Les Bains::Connective
Rue Berthelotstraat 34
1190 Brussels [Vorst/Forest]
Belgium
Subsequent performance as part of Aphids' New Music Machine in November 2006. Percussion Eugene Ughetti, guitar Geoffrey Morris, piano Michael Kieran Harvey.