Tuulikki BartosikPrimary Reception
CrĂłnica 116~2016 download
Release date: 31 August 2016
Tracklist
- Primary Reception (15:07)
Global listening is receptive to the entire aural field, internally and externally. Pauline Oliveros
Playing and composing music, which easily becomes about making an end product by putting sounds together and shaping them in certain ways, is not the same as working with sound as a natural force. Sound generated by whatever, that happens whenever, exists independently from music, yet through cultural constructions, eventually may lead to it. While making music and feeling the importance of the surrounding space I can feel unity between different senses: to hear, to feel, to move (while I am playing), with sound, through ârecording-listening-playingâ.
This is a reminder that, âanswers are here all the timeâ â in the wind, trees, water, steps, everything which is around me and within me. I just need to hear and listen instead of going randomly through my head searching for an answer of how to play.
I have worked with traditional music for over 20 years and it is easy to get stuck in the codes of tradition. I think about what we exclude in music making (or other art forms) when we only focus on tradition, as it should be done, instead of just listening ourselves and letting musical creation flow.
What do I react to while I am playing? From time to time I am affected by traditional music patterns of melody and rhythm while improvising. During Active Crossover, I found myself thinking âthe less we hear, the more we listenâ. I should not to be afraid of limits, to dare to go beyond them, to see what is there to explore. I don't have anything to gain while playing, if it happens in the âhere and nowâ, as a process of connecting emotions and feelings to the conditions of my surroundings.
Tuulikki Bartosik is an Estonian free-bass accordion player, composer, producer and folk/world music teacher currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. Her music is rooted in Scandinavian and Baltic traditional music influenced by improvisations and field recordings from places she has visited and lived in. Tuulikki's solo album âStoried soundsâ (RBRCD31) was released in March 2016 by the independent UK label RootBeat Records.
This is the eighth release in the series Corollaries, that compiles works resulting from Active Crossover: Mooste, a cross-cultural collaborative residency curated by Simon Whetham and hosted by MoKS, in April and May 2015. All works are composed from material compiled in a collective archive during the project.
Credits
- Music by Tuulikki Bartosik
- Recorded and arranged by John Grzinich
- Material for Primary Reception was recorded as an exercise in responding to ânatural acousticsâ, in this case the unique reverberant open space of a pine forest in South Estonia. Here the reverberation is not used as an added effect but as an instrument of equal significance to the musical evocations of Tuulikki Bartosik, the wildlife and ambient noises that are captured by the microphones without discretion from the environment as a whole. Additional material was used from an initial âpercussiveâ exercise recorded during Active Crossover on May 11th 2015 (with Simon Whetham, Eamon Sprod, James Wyness, Dawn Scarfe and John Grzinich)
- Mastered by Miguel Carvalhais
- Cover photos by John Grzinich