"Overheard and Rendered" is the first of a new series of limited edition sound work collections that illustrate the various utilization of field / environmental recordings.

Review - JUNE 2006
TOUCHING EXTREMES - Roma, Italy

The thin line between acoustic pollution and insightful exploration is easy to trespass, yet "Overheard and rendered" is one of the finest compilations of unprocessed field recordings in recent times. Environmental sounds have a vocabulary of their own, but it's the composer/soundscaper who applies the necessary touches to transform common hearing in artistic sensitiveness. Focus and perspective are fundamental in all of these five pieces, which exploit the attributes of simple elements and everyday's objects but also disguised monstrosities: Pali Meursault's creation for power units and air extractors in Budapest's railway station has some impressive sinister buzz which one would never notice while traveling. And what about the ever-emotional ship horns echoing in Perri Lynch's track? What this listener means is that by isolating a sound - or a series of sounds - from its original context, we can appreciate a whole new aural dimension that is the key to a better appreciation of our own reality as perceptive human beings. Or - as Emmanuel Mieville calls it in the liner notes - "oscillate from microcosm to macrocosm" (and vice versa) will allow to better develop a personal discipline that must necessarily include a change of attitude towards our surroundings. (Massimo Ricci)