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ALWAYS
SOUND
ALWAYS
SOUND is a 200 page full colour book with photos, bilingual text and
3 audio CDs
covering my work over a period of about 15 years.
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SON EST TOUJOURS PRESENT est un livre bilingue de 200 pages
en couleur avec photos, textes et 3 CDs audios
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128
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in English (extract) and French
73
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Song Sculptures
Sianed
Jones, Pierre Corbi, Benoît Keller and Will on top form.
Audio CD with 32 pages of photos of sculptures and song lyrics in French
and English
78
minutes of music recorded at Nicéphore
Cité in Chalon-sur-Saône just after Christmas 2004. Engineered
by Denis Vautrin, this disc presents a new relation between sculpture,
sound and music. Words and melodies grow from the sounds and forms of
eight of Will's sculptures, creating a unique world that is visual and
aural in equal measure.
1 Ground
Rules 2 Slow Talker 3 Safe Words 4 Falling Water 5 Your Tongue 6 The
Couple 7 The Leaf 8 My Oldest Friend 9 I Remember 10 Thirsty Parasite
11 Deep Slate 12 Incomplete
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two solo CDs
by Will Menter, released April 1st 2003
wood wind and rain
songs
sound sculptures,
slate marimbas, cave recordings
This
collection combines live recordings made underground in the Carrière
de Vignemont in Loches, near Tours in France, (where four of my sound
sculptures are housed permanently) with recordings made in my home
studio. Like Bees in the Bathroom, the emphasis is on long
tracks, and these explore the sound of the quarry as much as the sculptures
and instruments. All the sounds apart from the saxophone and the quarry
wall, Paroi and Paroi Abdominale, are made by sound
sculptures and instruments I have made. Out of Phase and Slate
Sections exploit a different technique. The sounds are all made
by my slate marimbas, but they are sampled and then played by a keyboard
and sequencer.
12
tracks, total time 69 mins (CD)
1 Touching
Rain Songs 2 Out of Phase 3 Paroi 4 Curved Ascending Air 5 Slate Sections
(1) 6 Slate Sections (2)
7 Slate Sections (3) 8 Slate Sections (4)
9 Paroi Abdominale 10 Wood Wind 11 Coupled 12 Bruine
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bees in the bathroom
sound sculptures,
weather, insects
Two summer recordings sandwich severe weather soundscapes.
Where Celebrating Rain and Ground Level were journeys
through changing places, Bees in the Bathroom emphasises steady
states. The pieces are longer (up to 35 minutes in the case of Rain
Songs) and invite listeners to immerse themselves in the feeling of
each sound and explore the changing detail. The Bees were actually
not quite in the bathroom, but recorded through a ventilation grill
in the wall last June. Rain Songs is probably my favourite
sound sculpture. I never tire of listening to it and finding new ways
to record it. This time it's in my barn on a cold January night, and
I'm adjusting the nozzles to change the dripping speed. Roterre
is a ceramic sculpture I made for my friend Pete Ridsdale. Two rotating
balls with percussive devices inside. I recorded this before handing
it over to him. I installed the sculpture Winter Wind (pictured
above) in front of my house in December 2002. Weathered documents
it's last day of life a month later, as one of the trees supporting
it blew down in this storm. Partners in Balance is an electrically
driven mobile where five pieces of slate scrape against each other.
The bamboo sounds on this track are another sculpture, The Ladder,
installed in the same space. It was cold again outside, but by a lucky
accident, Valentine was playing her recorder in the road when I recorded
this piece. I think the High Cicadas were having group sex.
Three were intertwined and two more waiting in line, two thousand
metres up in the Pyrenees last September. It was a beautiful sunny
day but with a strong breeze. There sound attracted me from far away
and I waited for the wind to drop to record them. They didn't seem
to be embarrassed.
6
tracks, total time 79 mins (CDR)
1
Bees in the Bathroom 2 Rain Songs 3 Roterre 4 Weathered 5 Partners
in Balance 6 High Cicadas
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Above and Below Ground
Level
second solo CD by
Will Menter, released Nov 1st 2001
sound sculptures,
recorded soundscapes, ersatzophone, clapping pots
Listeners
familiar with last year's Celebrating Rain will recognise the format:
a sonic journey that evokes an almost palpable landscape and environment.
This time we start in a cave in the Pyrenees where Dots and Dashes
guides us to look at prehistoric paintings. But, of course, the listener
must imagine the image . . . . . . in silence. . . . broken by the
chiming entry of a group of slate marimbas all slightly out of phase.
We move upwards to High Ridge where cowbells and wind dovetail into
the fired earth percussion sounds of Transhumance. Then suddenly we
are in Somerset for Ice Skid : a flooded and frozen field where ice
shards skip across the surface. This set explores solid and brittle
sounds - slate, fired earth, ice - tapped, scraped and snapped. Each
piece is a surprise but the shared materials draw them together. Eventually
we are back underground but this time in the vaulted cellar of Cluny
Abbey where the natural reverberation of Stone Reflecting resounds
the warm sounds of fingers tapping the slate marimba heard earlier,
drawing the journey to a calm conclusion.
10
tracks, total time 39 mins.(CDR)
1 dots and dashes 2 about listening 3 high ridge 4 transhumance 5
ice skid 6 subsistence 7 stepping 8 the guiding song 9 abundance 10
stone reflecting
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Celebrating Rain
solo CD by Will Menter,
released Nov 1st 2000
sound sculptures, recorded
soundscapes, soprano sax
Celebrating
Rain takes
the listener on a thirty eight minute sonic journey. Starting from the
delicate melodies of water dripping on slate, passing through the deep
gurgle of "Ascending Air" to an underground water cistern in Somerset.
A soprano sax plays first on a beach in north Wales then beside an almost
dry waterfall in Burgundy. In winter, in a special event for the millenium,
the same waterfall gushes down on to Will's "Falling Water Resonating
Devices". The set culminates with "Beautiful Rain" where the voices
of Chartwell Dutiro and Sianed Jones accompany the sounds of rain dripping
through an oak tree on to five slate marimbas.
9 tracks, total time
38 mins.(CDR)
1 Poor Cow 2 Ascending Air 3 The Singing Goat 4 Watercatch 5 Slow Talker
6 Falling Water
7 Warm Current 8 Slate Beach 9 Beautiful Rain
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OVERFLOW- Ses Plus
Grands Tubes
CD reissue of
mid 80s and mid 90s material - released 1st February 2001
tubes..............
Overflow
was about tubes. Lots of tubes. Mainly plastic ones. We played them in
many different ways. Lip buzzing like trumpets, flute blowing one end
with the other end in water, tapping one end with a flat rubber beater,
whistling into them to bring out high harmonics, standing them in water
and gurgling air through them, fixing the neck of a balloon over one end
to make a double reed, attaching a sax mouthpiece to make a cheap bass
clarinet, sliding different diameters into each other to make a trombone.Overflow
was also about hocket, the technique found all over the world where several
players interlock their sounds to make a melody that seems to be monophonic
and contrapuntal at the same time. The group was based in Bristol in the
mid 1980s and performed across Britain and Europe. The first three tracks
are from that period, the other two, in a similar spirit, were made in
1996 for "Remplisson" a radio collaboration between Steve May
and Will Menter.
5 tracks, total time
21 mins.(CDR)
1 Submerging Polly 2 Overflow 3 Bakerloo Boogaloo 4 Esprit de Grotte
5 (I'm Just) Trying to Relax
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Cân Y Graig - Slate
Voices
a celebration of slate
1990 studio recording
now available on CD. The first appearance of Will's slate marimbas!
A new
instrument, the llechiphone, made from the most ancient material, slate.
With musical influences from across the world Sianed Jones's passionate
singing gives a new voice to the rural industrial community which once
thrived around Mount Snowdon in North Wales, but is now often neglected.
Poems specially written by Gwyn Thomas are set to music by Will Menter.
Musicians: Will Menter,
Sianed Jones, Henry Shaftoe, Marco Anderson, Ralf Dorrell
Instruments: many llechiphones, voice, soprano sax, trombone, violin,
bass viol, drum kit.
9 tracks, total time 50 mins.(CDR)
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Strong
Winds and Soft Earth Landings
1994
studio recording now available on CD. Recorded mid-tour in Dorset!
Three
Zimbabwean and four British musicians intertwine traditional Shona mbira
music with jazz and new music, celebrating the human journeys that follow
the centuries old migrations of swifts and swallows between Europe and
southern Africa.
Music: Will Menter
and the band.
Words: Musaemura Zimunya, Libby Houston, the band.
Musicians: Will Menter, Chartwell Dutiro, Newmas Kunatsa, Julian Dale,
Erin MacDonnell, Chris Mhlanga, Henry Shaftoe.
Instruments: mbira, karimba, double bass, slate marimba, soprano sax,
drums, shakers, voices.
13 tracks, total time 67 mins.(CDR)
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to "Moving Towards Africa" by Will Menter
Strong
Winds and Soft Earth Landings
Booklet with three
short stories:
Hakuna,
Mbira Player by Musaemura Zimunya
Cultural Conflict by Musaemura Zimunya
The Birdwatcher by Will Menter
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Will Menter,
Atelier Des Neuf Portes,
Changey,
71360 Saisy,
France.
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