Nature Denatured and Found Again

by Michael Pisaro-Liu

Nature Denatured and Found Again cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 February 2019
  • Label: Gravity Wave
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 4:04:00
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Wandelweiser collective composer delivers a stunning five-part electroacoustic work heavily reliant on field recordings captured in natural environments. The album meticulously interweaves the sounds of rushing water, bird calls, and rustling leaves with exceptionally subtle, sustained instrumental tones, challenging the listener to distinguish between organic environments and composed soundscapes.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, forest, avant-garde, atmospheric, natural, minimal, conceptual, ambient, experimental, long-form, nature, silence

Tracklist

  1. Disc 1: Fissures in Green (2011) 1.1 Rain at the Station (12:12)
  2. Disc 1: Fissures in Green (2011) 1.2 Still Life with Cicadas, Waterfall and Radu (12:12)
  3. Disc 1: Fissures in Green (2011) 1.3 Silent Prayer (12:12)
  4. Disc 1: Fissures in Green (2011) 1.4 Langhalsen (12:12)
  5. Disc 2: Pathsplitter (Yellow-Red) (2012) 2.1 Canon a2 (12:12)
  6. Disc 2: Pathsplitter (Yellow-Red) (2012) 2.2 Canon a3 (12:12)
  7. Disc 2: Pathsplitter (Yellow-Red) (2012) 2.3 Canon a4 (12:12)
  8. Disc 2: Pathsplitter (Yellow-Red) (2012) 2.4 Canon a5 (12:12)
  9. Disc 3: Landscape in Black and Grey (2013) 3.1 The Chords of the Grosse Mu虉hl (12:12)
  10. Disc 3: Landscape in Black and Grey (2013) 3.2 Six-Part Panorama (12:12)
  11. Disc 3: Landscape in Black and Grey (2013) 3.3 Building A World (12:12)
  12. Disc 3: Landscape in Black and Grey (2013) 3.4 The Disappearance of a World (12:12)
  13. Disc 4: White Light Under the Door (2014) 4.1 Electricity (12:12)
  14. Disc 4: White Light Under the Door (2014) 4.2 Heat (12:12)
  15. Disc 4: White Light Under the Door (2014) 4.3 Light (12:12)
  16. Disc 4: White Light Under the Door (2014) 4.4 Gas (12:12)
  17. Disc 5: Hellgru虉n (Small New World) (2015) 5.1 Malachite (12:12)
  18. Disc 5: Hellgru虉n (Small New World) (2015) 5.2 Bird Warnings (12:12)
  19. Disc 5: Hellgru虉n (Small New World) (2015) 5.3 The River is a Green Brown God (12:12)
  20. Disc 5: Hellgru虉n (Small New World) (2015) 5.4 Emerald Twilight (12:12)

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