First presented as a durational audio-visual performance presented at Human Resources in Los Angeles (CA), Snowfall explores the hushed stillness and isolation sometimes experienced during a snowstorm. Presented over 6 hours, the audience was allowed to come and go as they please. This afford the viewer a more personal experience with the piece through the dispersion of the audience. Snowfall was constructed using photographs and field recordings collected at the Jentel Artist Residency outside Banner, WY in February 2010.
Yann Novak
Snowfall
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- Duration:
- 60:00
- Format:
- CD, Digital, Streaming
- Edition:
- 500
- Release Date:
- February 11, 2014
- Track Listing:
- Snowfall
- Purchase:
- Bandcamp
- Listen:
- Apple Music
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Press:
January 8, 2018
Snowfall gibt sich kühl-distanziert und schafft es doch, den Hörer zu engagieren und eine Spannung aufzubauen. Tolle Platte!
February 15, 2016
A superb album that will delight lovers of minimalism and granular ambient.
December 31, 2014
A Closer Listen, Hawái, Headphone Commute & Pascal Savy.
December 17, 2014
Poised in its stillness, the sounds of a hundred seasons can be discerned.
November 12, 2014
…the sounds of deconstructed stillness begin to reveal their very own beauty, audible alone in their isolation from everyday sounds, and our own constantly buzzing mind. If there was ever a soundtrack composed for an understanding of the true nature of reality, and for the vipassana meditation during which such insight may be glimpsed, than Novak’s Snowfall is that score.
July 14, 2014
The phenomenological verse of the earth outside, which usually talks to me in clarity and sensory agreement, becomes confused and contradicting through the mutative lenses of glass and headphones; a foreign language that shuts me out, or perhaps, shuts me inside myself.
May 7, 2014
…a constantly evolving auditory system where each component contributes to a prevailing illusion of motionless harmoniousness.
April 3, 2014
Really calm and static-filled, but with progression and evolution.
March 30, 2014
While sonorities stay low in the rumble zone, they’re in perpetual motion. Near mid-way drones fold in, lighter and darker, focus shifts between muted wind-howl and soft thrummings, small sounds suggestive of freezing, crackling, temperature and wind bringing different dimensioned snowflakes to strike hard surfaces.
March 30, 2014
…an agora of sonic creatures only heard in the frontiers of inaudibility.
March 1, 2014
Snowfall is an excellent example of granular micro-sound design, given that while the material remains dynamically pitched at the level of a controlled rumble, it’s constantly evolving and always in motion.
February 16, 2014
…the overwhelming awareness of isolation which turns into pure aural bliss.
February 11, 2014
…Novak highlights the ways in which one might begin to understand a storm’s development through sight and sound, instead of forecast and radar.
February 1, 2014
Cuando el agua se transforma en vapor que experimenta una alta deposición en la atmósfera a una temperatura menor de …
January 17, 2014
The sound does have the same kind of quietness one experiences when the world is covered with thick layers of snow.