ANDY GRAYDON & LUKE MARTIN : Transparent Archipelago

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Format: CD [zappak-015]
Shipping Weight: 0.08lbs

2,380円

'bout the Composition
To begin, we picked five field recordings from our sound archives; three from Andy and two from Luke. These recordings became our 'material in common' for composing the piece.
Next, working independently we each made our own ‘islands,’ areas of sound and silence set in a frame of duration. To create an island, each of us selected five excerpts from the original sound sources. We then gave each sound a ‘vertical cut’ in the form of a narrow band pass filter, limiting it to a specific frequency range; then applied a 'horizontal cut' to each sound in the form of a time edit, choosing a section from the original field recording. This resulted in floating slices of sound laid out topographically within a total duration to form the features of each island.
Finally, we superimposed each of our individual islands over one another, like transparencies or photographic slides, allowing their interaction to create new patterns and alternations between sound and silence; opacity and transparency; land, sea and sky.
After finishing the piece, we came across a poem by Fernando Pessoa (The Fortunate Isles, 1934) that seems to articulate something we were doing musically. In each listening there is the hope that a novel 'island' will arise, somehow still linked to the indeterminacy symbolized by the sea, to the indeterminacy of our everyday lives, our archives, and the choices made along the way toward this composition: a 'fortunate island,' a 'land with no place' - something we may only stumble upon in a state of half-sleep, half-knowing, eyes and ears half-closed.'

1. Island 1 14:40
2. Island 2 10:58
3. Island 3 13:11
4. Island 4 07:58
5. Island 5 12:45

released September 1, 2024

Composed and mixed by Luke Martin and Andy Graydon
Additional recordings by Fern Silva
Mastered by Luke Damrosch
Cover Images by Andy Graydon