Tracklist:

1.1. Material Study 01 (Sand) (16:41)
2.1. Material Study 02 (Cello and jacket) (5:18)
2.2. Spatialisation Study 01 (8:02)
2.3. Spatialisation Study 02 (1:40)
2.4. A pencil rubbing for the album cover (2:54)


Extended production notes:

Material Study 01 (Sand) is a recording from a stereo hydrophone buried under the sand in a lake. Standing on top of the transducer, holding the MiniDisc recorder in my hand, and monitoring the feed with a pair of in-ear earphones, I slowly shifted my weight and the sand beneath my feet. My younger brother was on the shore throwing firecrackers into the water; this was an ‘accidental’ aspect of the recording.

Material Study 02 (Cello and jacket) is made from a cello as it is dropped onto a carpeted floor with a contact microphone taped to it’s bridge. The moment of impact was ‘frozen’ with an infinite sustain effect pedal. Both the sustained tone and the live feed from the contact microphone were played into the room at high volume while the contact mic was still attached to the cello. This was recorded. Roughly one year later year later this ‘cello drop’ recording was amplitude modulated in a computer audio synthesis environment by a pair of stereo contact microphones taped to a wind breaker being blown by an air circulator as it hung from the ceiling by a string.

Spatialisation Study 01 (One freeze from seven positions in a house) is made from four frozen tones generated from a file on my computer in a computer audio synthesis environment. The four tones were played back simultaneously in an arbitrary stereo spread at a high volume on a home entertainment system in the living room of a house with high ceilings. The stereo and computer were both left undisturbed for an afternoon, and their output was recorded to a portable SD card recorder via a matched pair of stereo omnid.......
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