VV.AA. - Airport Symphony

Travel perceptions documented by eighteen artists, with eighteen different sound imprints.
The place where source recordings were collected, between March and June 2007, is Brisbane airport, Australia. Then, sound sources have been digitally manipulated to obtain these final effects.
Commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation, realized by Room40 label, this is an unique flying experience.

Label: Room40
Cat. #: EDRM417
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
1-01 - David Grubbs - Chimney Swifts (6:15)
1-02 - Richard Chartier - Retrieval Path (11:26)
1-03 - Francisco López - Untitled #203 (12:51)
1-04 - Camilla Hannan - Double Glazed (4:54)
1-05 - Taylor Deupree - Fear Of Flying (6:12)
1-06 - Christophe Charles - Airport Symphony, A Brief Life (9:38)
1-07 - Dale Lloyd - Airs For Beacons / Signals For Ports (5:22)
1-08 - Marc Behrens - 3 Winged Zones (10:17)
1-09 - Toshiya Tsunoda - Peak To Peak (5:00)
2-01 - Tim Hecker - Blue Ember Breeze (6:03)
2-02 - Stephan Mathieu - Lux-Scn (23:45)
2-03 - Christian Fennesz - Verona (4:43)
2-04 - Burkhard Beins - Tarmac Berlin Edit (8:40)
2-05 - Jason Kahn - Transit (3:31)
2-06 - Ulrich Krieger - Noise Pollination (8:20)
2-07 - Keiichi Sugimoto - Tum (4:18)
2-08 - Christopher Willits - Plane (6:40)
2-09 - Joel Stern - Terminal Dreamer (5:37)

On Room40 catalogue also:

VV.AA. - Airport Symphony Virtual Terminal (2007, Room40, DRM401)

(see here)
freely downloadable here

Links:
Marc Behrens
Burkhard Beins
Christophe Charles
Richard Chartier
Taylor Deupree
Christian Fennesz
Camilla Hannan
Tim Hecker
Jason Kahn
Ulrich Krieger
Dale Lloyd
Francisco López
Stephan Mathieu
Joel Stern
Christopher Willits
Room40

Taylor Deupree + Christopher Willits - Listening Garden

from Vital Weekly # 585:

Line boss Taylor Deupree teams up with Christopher Willits, who himself is also a big shot in the world of ambient glitch or whatever one calls it, for a work which they composed for two 'quiet indoor/tea spaces installed at the Yamaguchi Center For Arts and Media in Japan in June of 2004.
This is ambient music in the sense that Eno intended it to be when he first thought of it. Music that wouldn't be really present but fill the ambiance in a nice way.
Deupree and Willits recommend the listener to hear this in a similar situation, low background level and without headphones. Tea drinking is not too well spend on this coffee junk, and actually I must admit that I found more pleasure in turning up the volume quite a bit and listen quite carefully - quite the opposite to what they want, but I found their music more enjoyable that way. The details come out much better of course, and one hears all the subtle differences of environmental recordings, Willits guitar and Deupree's synthesizer humming. Even then things are quite textured, but quite rich.
It has moved away from the old Eno sound (which I only enjoyed on 'Music For Films' in his first ambient phase) into richer musical tapestries. Quite nice, even when not entirely new.

(Frans de Waard)

Label: Line
Cat. #: Line_032
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Untitled (5:17)
02 - Untitled (6:07)
03 - Untitled (10:16)
04 - Untitled (7:41)
05 - Untitled (4:09)

Links:
Taylor Deupree
Christopher Willits
Line