{"id":3333,"date":"2010-12-01T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T13:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.com\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2010-12-01T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T13:53:47","slug":"review-%e2%80%93-29-palms-der-2010-%e2%80%93-by-ron-schepper-textura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2013 29 Palms (DER) 2010 \u2013 by Ron Schepper &#8211; Textura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.i8u.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/i8u-29_Palms-de5030.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3313\" title=\"5x7 - Front - Landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.i8u.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/i8u-29_Palms-de5030.jpg?resize=320%2C276\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 Palms, i8u on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonseyerecordings.com\/\">Dragon\u2019s Eye Recordings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In her i8u work, Montreal-based sound artist  France Jobin specializes in \u201csound-sculpture,\u201d an exemplary example of  which is documented in the forty-one-minute, single-track work <em>29 Palms<\/em>.  Her inspiration for the piece came from a recent visit to the Joshua  Tree National Park in Southern California from where, presumably, she  collected the field recordings that appear in the piece; Jobin also used  analog equipment and computer processing to capture her response to the  site. <em>29 Palms <\/em> doesn&#8217;t adhere to a single, predictable  developmental arc; instead, the material rises and falls, grows louder  and then softer as it pulsates at medium volume and then burrows into  microsound where the listener strains to catch whatever details are in  play; at the ten-minute mark, for instance, the barest tinkle of a  triangle can be heard amidst ghostly tones that are as just as faintly  defined, and when a high-pitched sine tone suddenly appears twenty-eight  minutes into the piece, it has a huge impact it wouldn&#8217;t otherwise have  in another context. Soft residues of static and wavering tones  commingle within a sonic space largely inhabited by gently droning  swells of nearly imperceptible ebb and flow. So muted is the material  that when played at low volume (and sans headphones) it blends  indissolubly into the immediate environment\u2014until, that is, a noticeable  increase in volume and intensity occurs three-quarters of the way in as  <em>29 Palms <\/em> undertakes its final ascent. One might characterize the recording as immersive and hyper-minimal microsound.<\/p>\n<p>December 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.textura.org\/reviews\/i8u.htm\">Textura<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Palms, i8u on Dragon\u2019s Eye Recordings In her i8u work, Montreal-based sound artist France Jobin specializes in \u201csound-sculpture,\u201d an exemplary example of which is documented in the forty-one-minute, single-track work 29 Palms. Her inspiration for the piece came from a recent visit to the Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California from where, presumably, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review \u2013 29 Palms (DER) 2010 \u2013 by Ron Schepper &#8211; Textura&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[543,177,232],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-29-palms","tag-dragons-eye-recordings","tag-textura"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}