Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Directed by Hiraki Sawa (copyright Hiraki Sawa / Dale Berning 2021)

Buy/Stream album The Horse Stories flau.bandcamp.com/album/the-horse-stories

The Horse Stories is a soundtrack for Hiraki Sawa’s film Going Places Sitting Down by Dale Berning. All tracks were originally composed for Hiraki Sawa’s film Going Places Titting Down, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and Bloomberg London, for Waterloo Sunset, the Dan Graham Pavilion at the Hayward in November 2004. It is a piece about make-believe journeys to far-away places (at the tips of your fingers, between the cracks in the floor at your feet, on the edge and behind the door, right here where you are, close-by…). These tracks are released as The Horse Stories on vinyl on Bo’Weavil Recordings in 2006, as The Horse and Camel Stories on CD on FLAU in 2007.
For the soundtrack Dale used sounds belonging to the country house and garden in which Sawa filmed – water running in the upstairs bathroom; rain water dripping on the stones outside the kitchen door, sparkling water in a glass on the table, the wind-chime and the clock and the record player… And then the sounds of music boxes being played – one elaborate antique music-box with bells the shape of bees and a miniature hollow drum, and other simple music boxes, playing only one tune each, tiny naked metallic combs and drums and handles.

At the core of all Dale Berning’s sound work lies a deep interest in ideas of aliveness, of space and the awareness of time passing, of breathing and being still and of listening. And of the possibility of grace.

ロンドン在住のアーティストDale Berningによる「The Horse Stories」は、さわひらきの映像作品「Going Places Sitting Down」のサウンドトラック。長らく廃盤となっていたFLAUの初期カタログの一つが、14年ぶりにDale自身の描き下ろしの新装アートワークでリイシューとなります。

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