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For Yves, After Hiroshi is a sound installation about perceived time, inspired by the feelings the paintings of Yves Tanguy inspired in me.
It began as a piece of music for harp, clearly (but unconsciously) drawing influence from Hiroshi Yoshimura’s music. As the material was extremely spare and simple I realized it would lend itself to experimentation with layering different tempi to produce otherwise-impossible rhythms.
The results were fascinating, as the layers spread apart or coalesced in ways that echoed the flexible way we perceive time. An hour at a desk can feel like a month; surfing a one-minute wave can feel like an instant.
The piece developed from music into sound installation when I began spatializing it. Depending on your location in the space, you could dip in and out of different tempo streams. I was struck by a similarity to relativity, as how we experience time depends on our location in space, with only references to other clocks in the distance.
Nick Norton makes things out of sound. Electronica.org.uk calls him a “composer and sound artist to be reckoned with” and Last Day Deaf calls his music “absolutely captivating.”
Nick grew up going to shows in the Ventura punk scene, playing guitar in bands, and spending summers on Catalina Island. He went to college at UC San Diego, where he discovered minimalism, noise rock and avant garde classical music, and to grad school at King’s College, London, and UC Santa Barbara. His first LP, Music For Sunsets, was released on people places records.
Nick works as a music editor, audio engineer, and professor. He plays live sets in surround sound and likes travel, sci-fi, dogs, and the ocean.
Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA
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