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1​.​1 Bardo (longform) for Three Turntables, Pipe Organ & Piano

from Beyond Enclosures (3 album set) by Robert Curgenven

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"Bardo" deploys turntables accompanied by discrete intrusions of pipe organ and piano harmonics to create a spatial and temporal suspension permeated by an aetheric tactility, as sounds disorientingly enter and leave, merging and confusing the boundaries of interiority and exteriority. The piece establishes a non-place, an in-between zone which draws on the tension, both physical and perceptual, between two contradictory positions – while cumulatively fostering a state where the listener simultaneously holds both positions equally – where you not only expects things to change but also to remain as they are. Fundamentally, listening is to hear not only sound but also disturbances in the air in a given location: This engenders an embodied and physical experience, where quiet undisturbed air is as audible as a fierce wind. This kind of listening is also about being attendant to the specificities of the air – changes in pressure, temperature and humidity - their effect on the air and sound alongside their importance for a location’s context over a given duration.

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from Beyond Enclosures (3 album set), released September 17, 2021
Mastered by Antti Sakari Saario, Cornwall, 2020.

Recorded Fields Editions | RFE06 | CD

23minute shortform version previously released on Longform Editions (AUS) in December 2020 (LE068)

Multichannel Installation versions (with unlimited permutations and variable duration) exhibited at:
3 channel at RAM Projects, Berlin (2011);
5.1 channel at DDK Weglin, Lublin, Poland (2012);
7.1 channel at Reverse Gallery, New York (2013);
3.1 channel at Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2017).

Turntables recorded at 4 The Field, Nancledra, Cornwall, 2011, using assorted vinyl, acetates, dubplates and mixing-console/noisefloor manipulations.

Fazoli grand piano recorded at HörSaal, Berlin, 2004-05.

16-foot pipe organs recorded in Cornwall at the churches of St Paul (Ludgvan), St Winnow (Towednack), St Uny (Lelant), St Wyllow (Lanteglos), St Cyrus & Juliette (St Veep) and in Ireland at St Mary's COI Marmullane (Passage West, County Cork).

Mixed at: 4 The Field & Trewetha, Cornwall (2011-13), Civic Trust House, Cork (2017), The Ashes, Cork (2019) and Connemara, Ireland (2020).

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Curgenven's work emphasizes physicality, our embodied response to sound & its relation to location, air, weather & architecture; including works produced for National Gallery of Australia, Palazzo Grassi Venice, Sydney Festival, Maerzmusik & Transmediale Berlin. The Wire (UK) surmises “behind the music lurk such [disparate] presences as Alvin Lucier, King Tubby, Murray Schafer and Eliane Radigue.” ... more

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