Next on the program is a new work of discovered sound by Landesberg Kausman titled SUKHOI 27.
To create the piece, Kausman wired more than three thousand contact microphones to a Sukhoi 27 jet fighter, sampled every noise it made during a thirty minute flight from takeoff to touchdown, and then spent six months in his studio weaving the aircraft's audio profile into a two hour soundscape. Every sound you will hear was derived from the aircraft.
Writes Kausman: "At an air-show in Nice I saw many aircraft performing spectacles, and in the end found myself thinking of Arthur Clarke's definition of the most impressive sound ever made by man: that of air falling mile after mile into a hole drilled through the sky.
"And it is undeniably impressive, that sound: stunning, as hammer-blows often are. And yet, this vehicle -- with its thousands of parts operating within bogglingly small tolerances to keep the ship from falling to earth, operating in harmony -- is it not in some way more of a true orchestra than a mere instrument of violence?
"My question becomes: Is a machine's best use that for which it is designed?
"Here is my answer."
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