Marc Sabat and Lorenzo Pompa - Epistolae Cucumeris

Tracklist

1	Cucumber Spiral Serenade

Credits

• Artwork – Lorenzo Pompa
• Composed By – Marc Sabat
• Design – Kühle und Mozer, Cologne
• Electronics – Marc Sabat
• Photography – Martina Sauter
• Producer – Marc Sabat
• Violin – Marc Sabat

Notes

"Epistolae Cucumeris" is an Artist Edition of 300 hand signed and numbered copies. The work consists of a leporello book with an exchange of letters between the two artists, Lorenzo Pompa and Marc Sabat, and a CD with a 38' audio composition "Cucumber Spiral Serenade". The music was created in response and parallel to Pompa's sculpture "Set Candid" (a cucumber placed vertically in salt enclosed in a glass vitrine). The music is made from two mono recordings: on the left channel a choir of violins and electronics plays a sequence of natural harmonics and on the right channel a solo violin plays a gradually rising melodic line microtonally tuned to the harmonics. In a gallery setting, the solo violin is projected over a highly-directional "audio spotlight" ultrasound speaker. When the works are installed together, along with the edition, they form the scenery "Epistolae Cucumeris". Editions are available directly from the artists or from Plainsound Music Edition (www.plainsound.org)