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SECOND SITE
Paul SCHUTZE
- Ref. XS134M
- VIRGIN RECORDS, 1997.
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Interprètes
- Paul SCHÜTZE : Steel drums, Percussion, Processing
- Païvi BJÖRKENHEIM : Voice
- Clive BELL : Khene, Flûte
Pistes
- 1 First prologue
- 2 The dial is only visible by starlight
- 3 Every day at noon the sun shines through these apertures for the space of about a minute
- 4 image of the sun indicates the sun'
- 5 The s position as it passes through a hole in the concurve surface
- 6 Suspended in the hum of history
- 7 Originally cross wires stretched across each hemisphere
- 8 The ramped stair to the North of the two drums vanishes at 32 feet
- 9 These steps enable the observer tosell
- 10 There is a huge calibrated sundialon each of its sides
- 11 This chamber is filled with gardentools and broken furniture
- 12 The mosaic of starlight slips back like the lid of an opening eye
- 13 This engine is primarily a calculator, though altitudes may be observeved using the sighting bar fitted to the back
- 14 It is inscribed with concentric circles, at the centre of which lies a pointer
- 15 The calibrated parts are raised on three-foot pillar
- 16 The pink masonry charges the twilight
- 17 Another slope with stairs for the reading of figures
- 18 The This engine is now only visible inthe twilight
- 19 Here is an immense brass circle suspended
- 20 Two hemispheres representing the sphere
- 21 This wall describes accurately theNorth/South meridian
- 22 There are pillars at the centre ofeach curcular wall each open to the sky
- 23 First memory
- 24 The sky has shaped this place
- 25 Here I find a central iron pole with hooks facing to the North
- 26 A shadow is cast to the West before noon
- 27 The shadow can fall in the vacant sector of a drum
- 28 Days and nights are measured here,and in the measuring seem longer, suspended somehow
- 29 The whole brass circle can be revolvedaround its vertical diameter so that altitude observations can be taken of any object at any time
- 30 A lofty but narrow chamber is contrived in the thickness
- 31 A further series of steps is only visible during the vernal equinal
- 32 Hold the machine in the vertical plane
- 33 Visible portions of the celestial sphere are represented by this map which pivots at the point representing the pole
- 34 To move through these structures is to set them in motion
- 35 The altitude of the body observed is given while observing the verticallyhanging bar through the two brass rings
- 36 A shadow is cast to the East afternoon
- 37 These calibrations are no longer clearly visible
- 38 Another flight observation steps and the sense of quiet rotation as Iascend
- 39 I study the vaults of a shell in which we float
- 40 Twenty-seven degrees, thirty-sevenseconds
- 41 The roofs of the enclosed drums are implied by shadows
- 42 floor and walls are calibrated to r
- 43 The ead altitude and azimuth
- 44 Here is the Supreme Engine
- 45 The sun seen through the pair of brassrings is used by the bar to indicate the time from sunrise until sunset
- 46 A pointer indicates on 3 arms: West, North and East
- 47 Here was the Supreme Engine
- 48 The engine of amplitude has a functionwhich is no longer known
- 49 This engine has a rectangular brass plate
- 50 Second prologue
- 51 One complete engine is formed by 2differently incomplete parts whichcombined provide total reference
- 52 At one moment in the year the sun shines through a hole in the wall to a calibrated arc
- 53 The stone dish is slotted with figuresand shadow
- 54 The positions and altitudes of heavenly bodies may be gauged with this engine
- 55 Some steps ascend past marking to a platform
- 56 The central pillars are five feet three inches in diameter
- 57 On the East face are inscribed 2 quadrants of 20 feet radius
- 58 The plants will steal this engine whenwe have gone
- 59 The shadow is cast North/South at noonby an iron pin
- 60 A shadow is cast to the East afternoon
- 61 These steps are worn to a ramp andlead nowhere
- 62 All the lead calibrations are warmto touch
- 63 It is only necessary to engrave a scale of the tangents along to obtain a direct reading of the declination
- 64 Second memory
- 65 The lead calibrations are poisonous tothe touch
- 66 This is the North pointer engine
- 67 The rim of each hemisphere is a horizon divided into degrees and minutes
- 68 Here is a room to divide the sun like an orange
- 69 Sighting bars were placed in the slots within the chamber, but not remain now
- 70 The sound of insects here studs the night like a thousand fizzing stars
- 71 Access by observers to each engineis gained by an imperfection whichdiffers from one to another
- 72 These structures are receipt of starlight
- 73 Seven of the eight rings indicate signs
- 74 Third memory
- 75 Fourth memory
- 76 I have observed and measured for seven years
- 77 The heavens were spherical
- 78 Fifth memory
- 79 There are 4 of these arcs, 2 in each chamber
- 80 These are instruments fuelled by shadow, and engines propelled by thesliding of the skies
- 81 The stars are ranged across the inner shell of a vast hollow sphere in which hung the earth
- 82 All the gardens will concur. Here is the mixed engine
- 83 I will build other gardens
- 84 And the lights fall on the circular arcs
- 85 Beneath this circle is an arc of masonry steps for the convenience ofobservers
- 86 Threads can be pegged to the centre of each quadrant and semicircle to enable observation
- 87 Here is a huge vertical right-angled triangle made of stone
- 88 These arcs are also accessible by numerous flights of stairs
- 89 We are closer to the sun now
- 90 On the West face is described a semicircle of nineteen-feet, ten-inchradius
- 91 Into this chamber no ray of light can find its way except through 2 small squares high in the South wall
- 92 The movement of the engines produces ascent
- 93 Sixth memory
- 94 Pointing towards the pole an iron pin is fixed at right angles to thecentre of a dial
- 95 Some of the calibrations are now submerged beneath the ground and cannot be read
- 96 This room is a lidless drum
- 97 Seventh memory
- 98 Near the bottom of the wall facingthe South side of the eastern hemisphere is a hole
- 99 There are arcs made of marble which are calibrated with inlaid lead in degrees and minutes
- 100 I have seen charts sent from Portugal but they are flawed and full oferror