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Left​-​Handed Club

by Guido Gamboa

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Left-Handed Club:

"This piece is a sound collage that uses as its foundation a vocal survey of the writings of various figures who have shared the chance identity of being left-handed. Words from the French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, the German expressionist Paul Klee, the Dutch barbarist painter Karel Appel, the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, the American conceptualist John Baldessari and the contemporary Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho were recited by various voice actors and then processed, abstracted or recontextualized in manners that serve to reimagine and transmogrify in equal measures the relation of their contents. One can consequently view the contingency of being left-handed as a type of larger aleatoric process chaining together the otherwise disparate ideas of a group of individuals whose shared characteristic is one that in any other context would be inconsequential—something of a “club of left-handers” is formed through my guiding hand.

As with many aleatorically-minded works, what ultimately comes into focus as the object of interest is no longer just the source materials and their originary contexts but the new and unforeseen meanings proposed by their fortuitous concatenations. In the sonic gathering of the voices of these various figures along with even more disjunctive sonic miscellanea, a new collective voice may reveal itself for interpretation beyond the sum of its parts, if not only for a simple embrace of the most minor manifestations of chance in the formations of our identities."

- Guido Gamboa

왼손잡이 클럽:

"이 음악은 ‘왼손잡이’ 라는 우연적인 정체성을 공유하는 사람들의 인용구를 채집하여 사운드 콜라주로 표현한 작품입니다. 프랑스 상징주의 시인 폴 베를랑, 독일 표현주의 화가 파울 클레, 네덜란드 바바리스트 화가 카렐 아펠, 러시아 생리학자 이반 파블로프, 미국 개념미술가 존 발데사리, 핀란드 현대음악 작곡가 카이야 사리아호의 인용구를 다양한 성우들이 읊으며 이것을 가공하고 추상화하여 새로운 맥락으로 재구성하였습니다. 비록 사소한 특징일지라도, 왼손잡이라는 우연한 속성을 공유하는 이들의 다양한 아이디어들을 연결하는 우연의 집합체는, 나의 콜라주를 통해 ‘left-handed club’ 으로 다시 형성됩니다.

우연성을 다루는 다른 작품들과 마찬가지로, 이 작품은 원본 자료나 출처적인 맥락 보다는 우연의 결과에 집중하여 새로운 의미를 찾습니다. 여러 인물들의 목소리와 다양한 음향적 요소를 결합한 이 소리적 집합체는 표면적인 의미를 넘어 다양한 해석 가능성을 제시합니다. 이는 우리의 정체성 형성에서 ‘우연’이라는 사소한 것에서 시작하여 초월하는 예상치 못한 새로운 해석을 제안하려는 작업입니다."

- 귀도 감보아

*The first track was originally commissioned and broadcast by ORF Kunstradio Vienna.

*Images Left-Handed Club:
Karel Appel: “Appel at Work in 1993”, 1993, Photo by European Pressphoto Agency
John Baldessari: “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art”, 1971, Video by John Baldessari
Paul Klee: “Paul Klee in seinem Atelier am Kistlerweg 6 in Bern (Sommer 1939)”, 1939, Photographer Unknown
Ivan Pavlov: “Ivan Petrovich Pavlov”, 1890, Photo by Deschiens
Paul Verlaine: “Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)”, Photographer Unknown
Kaija Saariaho: “Composing Verblendungen”, 1982, Photo © Kaija Saariaho


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released December 10, 2023

Artwork by Guido Gamboa
Cover Design by Yewon Kim
Mastered by Jung Yeon Cho

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