"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.
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).