On Opposite Sides of Sleep shot by Fern Silva
A Visible Length of Light
by Lea Bertucci
semprevvd
semprevvd
Dreamlike album that haunts you from even the first listen.
Favorite track: An Arc of the Horizon.
michael rome
michael rome
A Visible Length of Light is my first purchase of Lea Bertucci music and I love every second of it. I will be exploring more of her works.
padredre
padredre
I keep coming back to this record. Somehow the field recordings, sax, organ, and bowed vibes blend just right. Invokes the stark beauty of the great plains.
jrsmith17
jrsmith17
Drawing out notes to great effect. Bandcamp only offers limited songs to favorite, but "To Bridge the Chasm of Experience" was my actual favorite. Great album!
Favorite track: An Arc of the Horizon.
feraldo
feraldo
There's something magical in these songs
Favorite track: On Opposite Sides of Sleep.
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift cardDownload available in 24-bit/96kHz.
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'Threshes' - Loop Cassette
'Threshes' is an endless loop cassette of an extended mix of one of the tracks from 'A Visible Length of Light' recorded in a dead cornfield in Nebraska while an Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha. There are only 25 in existence.Sold Out
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Color Vinyl + 'Threshes' Loop Cassette Bundle
Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumClear vinyl + clear cassette.
Includes unlimited streaming of A Visible Length of Light via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.Sold Out
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A Visible Length of Light (Second Pressing)
Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumSecond pressing of 2021's sold out "A Visible Length of Light". Pressed on white vinyl.
Includes unlimited streaming of A Visible Length of Light via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/96kHz.Sold Out
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The Beacon
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Refrain (Of Infinitude)
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about
Channelling temperaments of dislocation and wanderlust, filtered through impressions of distinctly American landscapes – coasts, cities, prairie – and the sonic material of everyday experience, defamiliarized by crisis, the New York based composer and multi-instrumentalist, Lea Bertucci, delivers A Visible Length Of Light.
Conceived across much of 2020, A Visible Length is the product of real-time reactions to, and reflections upon, the instability of the year, distilled into a series of prescient auditory typographies that shimmer with life and hope.
Recorded at Bertucci’s home in New York City and in Omaha, Nebraska, during her residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, A Visible Length Of Light comprises seven condensed works – deploying bass clarinet, alto sax, manipulated tape, organ, a venu wooden flute, and field recordings made in places as wide-ranging as Rio de Janeiro, the California coast, and Dead Horse Bay – surrounded by four “Refrains” – brief, minimal segments that capture Bertucci improvising, via whispers of flute, with the sounds upfolding outside her apartment. Foregoing the long-form compositional approach that has marked her previous albums, it emerges as one of her most pointedly melodic, harmonically rich, and structurally distinct efforts to date.
Laced with subtle nods to Bertucci’s long-standing immersion in early 20th century American traditional music (folk, bluegrass, jazz, and gospel), vast washes of spatial ambience, long-tones, pointillistic texture, and delicate interplay, weave an abstract vision of place in the face of displacement – what the composer describes as “the feeling of physically inhabiting a space, when the relationship to that space has become overwhelming, and provokes the desire to seek truth, transcendence, and moments of comfort, disquiet and catharsis through confusion” – that doubles as an intimate contemplation of collective experience and what it means to be American during turbulent times.
Indulging beauty, while simultaneously challenging notions of what that might be, fleeting impressions of emptied city streets in the midst of lockdowns and the overwhelming sprawl of the American midwest, merge with tense, aural metaphors for the necessary social unrest that has underscored their disarming quiet over the last year.
A Visible Length Of Light marks the relaunch of Bertucci’s Cibachrome Editions, conceived as a home for various projects and art objects, including recordings and music scores. It will be issued on vinyl in a standard edition of 475 copies and a deluxe edition of 25 copies that includes a custom-printed endless loop cassette containing an extended version of the track “Threshes”, as well as digital formats.
Conceived across much of 2020, A Visible Length is the product of real-time reactions to, and reflections upon, the instability of the year, distilled into a series of prescient auditory typographies that shimmer with life and hope.
Recorded at Bertucci’s home in New York City and in Omaha, Nebraska, during her residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, A Visible Length Of Light comprises seven condensed works – deploying bass clarinet, alto sax, manipulated tape, organ, a venu wooden flute, and field recordings made in places as wide-ranging as Rio de Janeiro, the California coast, and Dead Horse Bay – surrounded by four “Refrains” – brief, minimal segments that capture Bertucci improvising, via whispers of flute, with the sounds upfolding outside her apartment. Foregoing the long-form compositional approach that has marked her previous albums, it emerges as one of her most pointedly melodic, harmonically rich, and structurally distinct efforts to date.
Laced with subtle nods to Bertucci’s long-standing immersion in early 20th century American traditional music (folk, bluegrass, jazz, and gospel), vast washes of spatial ambience, long-tones, pointillistic texture, and delicate interplay, weave an abstract vision of place in the face of displacement – what the composer describes as “the feeling of physically inhabiting a space, when the relationship to that space has become overwhelming, and provokes the desire to seek truth, transcendence, and moments of comfort, disquiet and catharsis through confusion” – that doubles as an intimate contemplation of collective experience and what it means to be American during turbulent times.
Indulging beauty, while simultaneously challenging notions of what that might be, fleeting impressions of emptied city streets in the midst of lockdowns and the overwhelming sprawl of the American midwest, merge with tense, aural metaphors for the necessary social unrest that has underscored their disarming quiet over the last year.
A Visible Length Of Light marks the relaunch of Bertucci’s Cibachrome Editions, conceived as a home for various projects and art objects, including recordings and music scores. It will be issued on vinyl in a standard edition of 475 copies and a deluxe edition of 25 copies that includes a custom-printed endless loop cassette containing an extended version of the track “Threshes”, as well as digital formats.
credits
released April 16, 2021
All sounds composed and performed by Lea Bertucci
Recorded by Lea Bertucci
Mixed by Lea Bertucci and Randall Dunn
Mastered by Greg Obis
Cover image by David Benjamin Sherry, Grand Plateau, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah, 2017. Courtesy of Salon94.
Special Thanks to: The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Rachel Adams, Fern Silva, Forest Juziuk, Randall Dunn and Circular Ruin Studio.
Wholesale inquiries: orders@asragency.com
All sounds composed and performed by Lea Bertucci
Recorded by Lea Bertucci
Mixed by Lea Bertucci and Randall Dunn
Mastered by Greg Obis
Cover image by David Benjamin Sherry, Grand Plateau, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah, 2017. Courtesy of Salon94.
Special Thanks to: The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Rachel Adams, Fern Silva, Forest Juziuk, Randall Dunn and Circular Ruin Studio.
Wholesale inquiries: orders@asragency.com
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Lea Bertucci New York, New York
Lea Bertucci is a NYC based experimental musician whose work bridges performance, installation and multichannel activations of acoustic space.
Artist website: www.lea-bertucci.com
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