ecllipses
(with Matt Marble)
And/OAR and/30 · 2008 CD · 48 minutes · Composed 2002–05
Rustling and jumbled textures, rhythmic rolling, ideophones, free exchange, blind layering, room tone, micro-envelopes, creatureality, re-recording, auditory fatigue. Sources include fabric, pebbles, various drums and rattles, upright bass, a down comforter, grass, tin foil, radio static, glass spheres, bowed wires, scraped autoharp, voice, moose call, recorder, tuning fork, feedback, oscillator, cello, hammer dulcimer — alongside field recordings of graveyards and parks in Portland OR.
"Aprupture is where holes find their way into a sound-material, lurching along, burrowing in... The ecllipses as a dotted pattern clues the method of intermesh. Woven into a sheet, the sheet being torn and rumpled, then becoming large enough to include a landscape. A composition curdles in the ear." — from the liner notes