notes
"An experiment in listening. These compositions are
an offshoot of the daily soundscape programme I ran (Out Of The Blue)
for Resonance FM radio between July 2001-2002, which consisted of commissioned
real-time recordings made all around the world between 23.30 and midnight
GMT (the time of the broadcast). This CD begins with material from these
broadcasts confecting, as it were, two composites of the Earth and a few
of its inhabitants, somewhat analogous to what an impossible satellite
ear with pinpoint acuity might hear in transit - plus one ear-cleaning
stretch between them, taken from a single hear-point. I have tried to
make these pieces both open and to work on parallel levels: not only do
they have their own narrative and aesthetic qualities, but I hope they
also offer a meditation on listening and not listening, interpretation
and structure, chance and microphonics. The list of ears around the world
who supplied basic material is too long to print here, but it includes
many names familiar from these catalogues, and many from the still young
soundscape and phonograpic community. Full details of people and places
are given in the booklet, along with artwork and thorough notes."
—Chris Cutler
artists
Features environmental recordings by an astoundingly long
list of people such as Peter Cusack, David Lee Myers, Otomo Yoshihide,
Chris Cutler, Andrew McKenzie, Nicholas Collins, Maria Avram / Iancu Dumitrescu,
Amy Denio, Jim Pugliese, Christopher Delaurenti, Toby Paddock, Thomas
Dimuzio, Brian Labycz (aka Koura), Michael Northam, Haco, John Levak Drever,
Gino Robair, Marcelo Radulovich, Maggi Payne, Aaron Ximm, Eric Muhs, Michael
Rüsenberg, and many many others.
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