Anne Guthrie: Gyropedie (Students of Decay)
We’ve been admirers of Anne Guthrie’s work for years and Gyropedie offers another beautiful exploration of field recording and delicate brass and electronics inflections.
From the one-sheet:
“Gyropedie, Anne Guthrie's third record for Students of Decay, takes us further into her hermetic practice, wherein expertly captured field recordings, French horn, and electronics are woven into potent and richly imagined electroacoustic environments.
In Guthrie's own words, ‘ Quite literally a record of pilgrimage from East to West. Remnants of Midwest and East Coast soundmarks, instruments sold to lighten the travel load, sketched out and then buried under the new. Winter birds and crunching snow, frozen playgrounds, broken synths -- I spent a year decoupaging over this, but of course it's still there. […] California has something alien about it I'm still trying to grasp. A second moon appears occasionally in the daytime, and there are frequent, murky transmissions. Primarily vintage, unabashed, corny, I find myself becoming an impressionist.’”
In 2018, we released a collaborative between Guthrie, visual artist Virginia Overton and composer and theoretician François J. Bonnet. Sculpture Gardens (FAG 004) considers the intersections of sound, artistic intervention and environment.
* Anne Guthrie is an acoustician, composer, and French horn player. She studied music composition and English at the University of Iowa and architectural acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she completed her Ph.D in 2014. Her music combines her knowledge of acoustics and contemporary composition/improvisation. Her electronic music has focused on exploiting the natural acoustic phenomena of unique architectural spaces through minimal processing of field recordings.
** Guthrie’s composition focuses on the orchestration of non-musical sounds, speech in particular.
*** Her French horn playing focuses on electronic processing and extended techniques used in improvisatory settings, as a soloist and with Fraufraulein and Delicate Sen, among others.
*** Edition of 300.