Helena Gough – With What Remains

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.” sagte Elvis Costello einst in einem Interview. Helena Gough schreibt auf ihrer Homepage: “Sometimes I hope to offer a moment in which someone might sense that things do not have to be as they are… Because ‘words fail me’. Language leaves too much to be desired.” Wir hören also lieber Helena Gough’s herausforderndes Debüt „With What Remains“, das 2007 auf Entr’acte erschien. Geknister, Rauschen, Statik-Geräusche, Brummen und elektronische Störgeräusche bilden die Ingredienzien der 7 Stücke, aus denen das erste, Sift, durch die phantasievolle Kombination zufälliger und abseitiger Geräusche hervorsticht. Ihre Kompositionen basieren auf Aufnahmen kleinster Geräusche, die sie auf verschiedenste Weise umformt und transformiert. Sie beschreibt ihren Ansatz wie folgt:

“Using the real world as a source. Exploring the qualities of a sound. A process of uncovering, of revealing hidden details and turning perspective on its head. Searching for beauty in situations that might be considered ugly or irrelevant. A commitment to the potentials and possibilities of all things in the shadows. A fascination with states of stasis, by matter that appears to be still yet is always in motion. Searching for sounding movements that change our perception of time and textures that slowly evolve, rotate and turn in on themselves. To listen, rather than just to hear with dumb ears. The power of sound as a transformative experience, a place for uncertainty and substance.”