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Peter Zinovieff

Bridges from Somewhere and Another to Somewhere Else, 2010

Multi-channel audio work encoded for 47 channel The Morning Line Sound System

Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Bridges from Somewhere is a set of contrasted electronic music pieces with impossible derivations from snatches of classical music and textures of real sounds. The Bridge to Somewhere Else uses multiple fragments from some of Béla Bartók’s 1936 Edison Phonograph recordings of Turkish folk music, which is a collection among Jürüks in Anatolia. In all the sections similar but wild electronic distortion techniques are used to glue them into a single work.

*1933. Originally a geologist then a pioneer in electronic music, owned the first private computer music studio. He has worked extensively with many composers and is also known as a designer of synthesizers made by EMS such as the VCS3.