Andy Graydon & Luke Martin // Transparent Archipelago CD
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American experimental musicianThis is a collaborative CD by Andy Graydon and Luke Martin, released in September 2024 by the Tokyo experimental label Zappak.
Below is a commentary by the label.
"Andy Graydon and Luke Martin are both artists based in the United States. Andy Graydon's work centers around ecosystem research, and he also works as a filmmaker. Luke Martin works as a performer and artist who focuses on music with a focus on silence. This work is shaped by a space that is primarily silent, soft, and occasionally very strong bass sounds. They used field recordings as "compositional material," and likened the areas of sound and silence to "islands." Through editing, the individuality of each "island" was brought to the surface, and by blending the sounds of the two artists, who had worked independently, the result was a very delicate yet strong work."
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CD in cardstock sleeve + plastic cover.
tracklist:
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
Artist statement by Andy Graydon & Luke Martin:
"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. "
Artist: Andy Graydon & Luke Martin
Label: zappak
CAT No: zappak-015
American experimental musicianThis is a collaborative CD by Andy Graydon and Luke Martin, released in September 2024 by the Tokyo experimental label Zappak.
Below is a commentary by the label.
"Andy Graydon and Luke Martin are both artists based in the United States. Andy Graydon's work centers around ecosystem research, and he also works as a filmmaker. Luke Martin works as a performer and artist who focuses on music with a focus on silence. This work is shaped by a space that is primarily silent, soft, and occasionally very strong bass sounds. They used field recordings as "compositional material," and likened the areas of sound and silence to "islands." Through editing, the individuality of each "island" was brought to the surface, and by blending the sounds of the two artists, who had worked independently, the result was a very delicate yet strong work."
Labels and other works ///Click here to see more zappak releases available at Tobira.
----------------------
CD in cardstock sleeve + plastic cover.
tracklist:
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
Artist statement by Andy Graydon & Luke Martin:
"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. "
Artist: Andy Graydon & Luke Martin
Label: zappak
CAT No: zappak-015
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