Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory
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Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory is effectively the soundtrack of a collaboration between David Sylvian
and Russell Mills
.
The pieces were written to accompany an installation of sculpture and experimental exhibitions, conceived and produced by national and international artists at the invitation of Tokyo Creative '90, staged at the "Space FGO-Soko" in the Temporary Museum, Tokyo Bay, Shinagawa, which ran from 29 September to 12 October 1990.
Accompanying the album is a catalog/book of 96 pages which chronicles the entire installation as well as biographical history of both artists about the installation. The music is ambient and moody and consists of two instrumental tracks. Both tracks are available on the 1999 Sylvian ambient compilation Approaching Silence
.
David Sylvian
David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
and Russell Mills
Russell Mills (artist)
Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK in 1952. He paints, creates multimedia installations, designs stage sets and lighting and has produced record covers and book covers for Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins,Michael Nyman, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, and Nine Inch...
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The pieces were written to accompany an installation of sculpture and experimental exhibitions, conceived and produced by national and international artists at the invitation of Tokyo Creative '90, staged at the "Space FGO-Soko" in the Temporary Museum, Tokyo Bay, Shinagawa, which ran from 29 September to 12 October 1990.
Accompanying the album is a catalog/book of 96 pages which chronicles the entire installation as well as biographical history of both artists about the installation. The music is ambient and moody and consists of two instrumental tracks. Both tracks are available on the 1999 Sylvian ambient compilation Approaching Silence
Approaching Silence
Approaching Silence is a compilation album of ambient music by David Sylvian collecting the tracks from the 1991 limited release Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory installation soundtrack CD as well as the soundtrack cassette from the installation "Redemption" , staged in August 1994 at the P3...
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Personnel
- David Sylvian - instruments, engineer, sound, lights (exhibition), installation concept and creation
- Russell Mills - box design, sound, lights (exhibition), installation concept and creation
- Noel Harris - engineer
- Frank Perry - Noan bells, bowed Gong, Finger bells
Additional personnel and exhibition's personnel
- Yuka Fujii - project co-ordinator (for Opium Arts)
- Richard Chadwick, Natasha White - co-ordinating assistants
- David Buckland - photographic treatments and advisors
- Ian Walton - enclosure canvas and installation collaboration
- Kendall Wrightson - technical advisor, assistant
- Kiyofumi Terui - installation construction supervisor
- Miki Maeda - lighting
- Yoshihide Murao - sound
- Naoki Tachiwaka - producer
- Yasuaki Kujuro - co-producer
- Shigenori Kashimura,Tsutomu Mori - project co-ordinators (Japan)
- Kunihoko Yoshimeki - sponsorship (for Tokyo Creative)