Looking for Narratives on Small Islands (Side II WM25 LP)
from Oltre / Transparence dubplate: extended trilogy by Robert Curgenven
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Looking for Narratives on Small Islands (2009) - Part One (17mins) mixed in London, UK (August) and Flensburg, Germany (November) from 34min live set recorded at The Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK, 12th July, 2009 incorporating "Transparence" dubplate (RF007), guitar feedback, binaural microphones, industrial fans, unprocessed field recordings from remote Australia, Germany and Japan. Part Two (3mins) recorded live at Cinema Oblo, Lausanne, Switzerland, 25 May, 2009 incorporating the same materials as Part One.
From a walk-in through desert grasses, gently undulating tones hover above a swelling bed of crackling vinyl – a coming to life, a coming to consciousness within a submerged psychology of landscape. Past and present become blurred, displaced and replaced. This meandering actor – the auditor – moves in and through a passage of imagination mirroring an impossible topology where peaks and plains are superimposed yet somehow mutually defined.
An artist almost pathologically sensitive to space, Curgenven has created a work somewhere between a meditative stasis and constant movement. Palpable references within the sound shift and mix against one another, giving rise to conflicting emotions, conspiring to form an unnamable feeling between a tangible, shimmering real and an eternal déjà vu.
Distilled from contrasting travels and dwellings in remote Australia, Japan and Europe between 2004-2009 and concluding a trilogy of works around the “Transparence” dubplate, the narrative of this white disc is inscribed with a kind of ‘open text’, overlaying seemingly disparate elements, each made free of a studio, as with a field recording, each creating a bridge, a ‘ritornelle’, between contained spaces and lines of flight which could connect them.
- Julian Day, ABC Classic FM (from interviews with Robert Curgenven)
Looking for Narratives on Small Islands (2009) - Part One (17mins) mixed in London, UK (August) and Flensburg, Germany (November) from 34min live set recorded at The Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK, 12th July, 2009 incorporating "Transparence" dubplate (RF007), guitar feedback, binaural microphones, industrial fans, unprocessed field recordings from remote Australia, Germany and Japan. Part Two (3mins) recorded live at Cinema Oblo, Lausanne, Switzerland, 25 May, 2009 incorporating the same materials as Part One.
From a walk-in through desert grasses, gently undulating tones hover above a swelling bed of crackling vinyl – a coming to life, a coming to consciousness within a submerged psychology of landscape. Past and present become blurred, displaced and replaced. This meandering actor – the auditor – moves in and through a passage of imagination mirroring an impossible topology where peaks and plains are superimposed yet somehow mutually defined.
An artist almost pathologically sensitive to space, Curgenven has created a work somewhere between a meditative stasis and constant movement. Palpable references within the sound shift and mix against one another, giving rise to conflicting emotions, conspiring to form an unnamable feeling between a tangible, shimmering real and an eternal déjà vu.
Distilled from contrasting travels and dwellings in remote Australia, Japan and Europe between 2004-2009 and concluding a trilogy of works around the “Transparence” dubplate, the narrative of this white disc is inscribed with a kind of ‘open text’, overlaying seemingly disparate elements, each made free of a studio, as with a field recording, each creating a bridge, a ‘ritornelle’, between contained spaces and lines of flight which could connect them.
- Julian Day, ABC Classic FM (from interviews with Robert Curgenven)
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from Oltre / Transparence dubplate: extended trilogy,
track released March 1, 2012
Mastered by Jason at Transition, London, UK, 2010
Original 12" Pressed by Archer Records, Detroit, Michigan, USA
White 352gsm stock cover with white ink letterpress print | obi & insert | white letterpressed labels
Original cover Design & printing: Ben Owen
Mastered by Jason at Transition, London, UK, 2010
Original 12" Pressed by Archer Records, Detroit, Michigan, USA
White 352gsm stock cover with white ink letterpress print | obi & insert | white letterpressed labels
Original cover Design & printing: Ben Owen
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Robert Curgenven Ireland
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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