New album “Svalbard” is released.
March 16, 2011
A collection of pieces based on the landscape of the Svalbard archipelago. Source materials include the Welsh pibgyrn (bagpipe), Italian zampogna (bagpipe) and ciamarella (shawm) plus some 78 records from the 1920s.
19 – The Adams Life Insurance Company
March 1, 2011
A new little piece using multiple processed layers from a 1970s insurance sales cassette. The combined sound is guttural, shamanic (to my ears). Control systems are theatre, and we seem to respond to the same things in the same way, time and time again, regardless of whether it’s politics, religion or advertising. I don’t mean the language, I mean the TONES.
18 – Spunk
March 1, 2011
I’d completely forgotten about this, it was part of a CD EP called “The Philip Glass Mens’ Room” which no-one bought in 2004, it’s unlike anything I’ve done before or since which may be for the best. I think I was trying to make 16th century polyphony spunky, in a Stevie Wonder kind of way and with all the melodies combined inside of a tiny electric piano-shaped space like early Pippa Glass. I had not quite mastered working with digital instruments at this point that’s for sure, but hearing it again I like it, so it is here.
