Welcome To The Ice Box
Joshua Fried
About this work:
Welcome To The Ice-Box was commissioned by Danish Broadcasting Corporation and SOUND/GALLERY Copenhagen (25 loudspeakers permanently installed in the main town square). It was the winning project in SOUND/GALLERY-DR's world-wide Competition In Sound II--the 20th Century as You Never Heard It. The gallery premiere was on September 14, 1997, and the national radio premiere was on September 18, 1997. The piece was composed and recorded by Joshua Fried in the studios of Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
Welcome To The Ice-Box abstracts, interrogates and re-contextualizes sound bites that are familiar and may arouse intense associations, and attempts to uncover great sonic as well as tonal beauty in them. As purely musical values are by nature abstract, the sounds thus abstracted lose their original associations and so the listener must hear them anew.
Version: Danish Radio version
Year composed: 1997
Duration: 00:30:00
Ensemble type: Unspecified Instrument(s):Ensemble
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Instrumentation notes: Recorded piece for radio and installation.