Suitable listening for this liminal season between Michaelmas and Hallowmass: the creaking of a garden gate:
“All of the music on this album was created from a single recording of a front garden gate on Torridon Road in Hither Green, London. These sounds were captured using a contact microphone and processed, looped and edited on three reel – to – reel tape machines with all electronic effects or artificial reverb strictly forbidden.”
Available in four editions: Dawn (illustrated here), Dusk, Day, Night.
Part of a project offering daily messages, reveries and artefacts from the spectral and pagan hinterlands of England:
A Year In The Country: An English idyll, a midnight sun…
“A Year In The Country is a year long journey of and searching for an expression of my underlying unsettledness to the English bucolic countryside dream… and wandering about and through the trails of things that have influenced, inspired and intrigued me along the way, which will quite possibly take in the further flung reaches of folk music, folklore and what has been labelled hauntological culture.”
Evidently someone has time and money on his hands....
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, EVIDENTLY! There's a HUUUUUGE amount of money to be made in releasing obscure, limited edition tape music! Have you never heard of doing something because you just enjoy it?
DeleteActually I was talking about the people who buy these things. Bored with notes, I guess?
DeleteOne man's absurdity is another's fine art. If I saw it in a shop, I might pick just pick it up just for the presentation. It's certainly attractive and well laid- and thought-out.
ReplyDeleteHowever, my preference would be for a 78 rpm vinyl record sporting a handcolored camera obscura image of the gate !
Believe me, if that was an option I'd have gone for it in a flash!
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