Now this space music album (or ambient if you wish) is more like the old musique concrète but more understandable. Schryer uses real sounds, on cut one, which is short, this time the ocean, a train and a voice calling. Cut two, called Cloches which means [bells] in French, he’s got church bells, distorted car horns, metal sounds… Envol, which is a plane taking off over the surf… up to 7 short pieces.
These are part of Musique de l’Odyssée sonore Then we’re onto El medio ambiente acústico de México. Very obviously “things” Schryer picked up on a trip to Mexico. Ocean, voices, a little this a little that. More ocean on Vancouver Soundscape Revisited boat horns, some Spanish, birds, far away music… industrial sounds. This is totally a collection of the odd and mundane. Laughter, drunken singing. What do I say?? this section seems to build into something. I really don’t know what to say about this. It is not confusing, the sounds are in good order… they make sense. But I still don’t know what to say. I like it better than early 20th century “musique concrète.” But then, I only liked that for its ground breaking ideas. This is ok. I guess it’s places that picture themselves in bits of sound. Sound Paintings.
