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Air​+​Electricity

from Ar Ais Ar​í​s by Robert Curgenven

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Locating a place via the isolation of its characteristics or by presuming it to be a defined and discrete entity, denies such a place much of the continua in which the terrestrial exists. Does a place exist only if it is connected to another place in the mind of an individual, be they from the narrowed epistemological horizons and confines of the modern city or town? Is a place knowable only by what inhabits it? Surely a place cannot exist only in and of itself? What if the Where of that place is not only outside of the person in question’s schema but also connected to other places via means not immediately perceivable or referable to by them? (Simple categorical questions – Is it by a lake, a forest – what is happening there – is there walking, sitting… is there a road two kilometres away, is it flat, is it near a hill? – contextual details remain invisible to minds which seek only the renaming of the known.) How can a purely locative means operate now without this new place being a function of other, known, places? The questions concerning the actualities of the Where of this place need not be a suspension (of belief, disbelief, etc), or its relegation to being a non-place, or a place which is Other – but it is in the shadow of the “I” that must know, state, possess, which prevents any articulation of space outside of that which is perceptible in mere phenomenological terms – which relegates “this place”, to being a sonic location of either that which is interesting or is not interesting. When the unknown is categorised as an extension of the known world, its concrete existence is reduced to an abstraction – an isolated point in a noological desert. An empty space, inhabited by clones of the pre-existing and with only a name as signifier.

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from Ar Ais Ar​í​s, released December 4, 2020
Three continuous recordings of guitar/amp feedback: recorded in afternoons in Berlin, Stralau 68 (July 2008) and Melbourne, Brunswick (November 2007). Field recordings: Winton, musical fence, daytime (November 2006); Kakadu National Park, near Jabiru, daytime (June 2006); Alice Springs, claypans, night (May 2007); Sydney, Royal Botanical Gardens, night (December 2007); wind, Tanami Desert, daytime (November 2006); Alice Springs, Jessie Gap, morning (May 2007). Extract from RF006 limited edition CDR “air+electricity”, originally mixed by hand in Milan, 18-21 August, day and night.
Remixed: Connemara, 2020.
[*Previously released: German tour CDr, 2008, edition of 40]

Mastering: Antti Sakari Saario

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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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