THE TIME OF BELLS, 1

RELEASE DATE: JANUARY, 2004

The ringing of European village bells has long shaped civil and religious time – daily time, seasonal time, work time, ritual time, social time, collective time, cosmological time. In these six soundscape compositions, including a suite from France, bells ring the time of day, the time of prayer, the time of festival, the time of transhumance, the time of festivals and rituals, the time of location, from seaside to mountains. Simultaneously sounding a present and past, the time of bells is both their resonant moment and their remarkable technological and social history.

Includes bilingual liner notes, English and French.