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Time and the Weather is an ambient soundscape mix of Bastard Island (Linear Obsessional, 2019). Dispensing with vocals the instrumental recordings redolent with spatial diffraction, signal refraction, small sounds, and distance communication, evoke the atmosphere of the island. Paid download includes a bonus track.
subsong 45:00, 2012
[download mp3]
subsong started life as an audio cassette tape found in
Bermondsey on Tower Bridge Road. The tape contains music recorded from
the radio and dates from, I would guess, the mid 1990s or thereabouts.
The main section of the piece was captured with the tape playing on fast
forward/cue. The digital audio was then incrementally slowed down to
produce continuous sound with a duration of 45 minutes, the capacity of
one side of a C90 cassette tape. This extreme processing transforms the
base materiality of the analogue tape. The off-speaker microphone
recording, the wow & flutter, the tape noise, and the songs of
daytime radio, become auratic affect as a continuous slowly changing
ambient drone piece, a distant chorus of ghostly voices and sustained
(dis)chords in an uneasy false stasis.
A 30 minute version of subsong was made for the 128kbps objects project by or-bits.com presented from 22 – 28 October 2012 at Basic.fm.
