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a r t i s t : Tarab
t i t l e : Surfacedrift
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Naturestrip NS3001
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : April/2005
t r a c k s : 04
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 103,6 MB
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recorded and arranged 2002-2003
field recordings, found objects, microphones.
Naturestrip is very proud to present surfacedrift, the debut
cd from Melbourne sound artist tarab (Eamon Sprod).
Constructed from field recordings and improvisations, using
natural and artificial sources combined to form richly layered
sonic environments.
Traces of sonic texture created by microphones dragged through
leaves and gravel. Rain pounding against buildings.Waves
crashing inside of an abandoned factory.Surfaces against
surfaces, scraping against one another. Marks are left.
Capturing the subtle detail of decay appearing from within the
heavy atmospheres of a larger space, surfacedrift explores the
simultaneous layering of interior and exterior, solid and
liquid. The four pieces evolve with an intuitive logic,
drifting through literal material evocations of place, and
hypothetical imagined spaces.
tarab has been working on the fringes of the Melbourne sound
world for the last 6 years, exploring the interplay of field
recordings and improvisations with found objects. He has
performed at Liquid Architecture, What is Music?, Melbourne
Improvisation Festival, and Variable Resitance, and has
collaborated with artists including Ernie Althoff, Rod Cooper,
Joel Stern. Eamon also works with video and installation.
"The magnificently-named Naturestrip label (nature strip - a
strip / slice / cross-section of nature - or nature's trip?
both will do just fine) is based in Melbourne, Australia and
concentrates on the work of "artists whose aesthetics range
from raw documentation to concrete music to instrumental
composition in which field recordings form a core element."
Sort of like Ground Fault with more ground than fault, as it
were. Local sound artist Eamon Sprod, aka Tarab, kicks off the
label with Surfacedrift - not sure all these names shouldn't
be lowercase.. forgive me if so - which the accompanying press
release describes as "traces of sonic texture created by
microphones dragged through leaves and gravel / rain pounding
against buildings / waves crashing inside of an abandoned
factory / surfaces against surfaces, scraping against one
another. Marks are left." Reminds me of that Luc Ferrari
autobiography: "It took a long time to realise that scraping
(frotter) is what interests me most".. Unlike Toshiya Tsunoda,
of whom more below, Sprod doesn't provide a blow-by-blow
account of the recording process, preferring to let the music
speak for itself. The above listed sounds are all more or less
recognisable, along with others - the roar and crackle of an
open fire, birdsong near and far - but Sprod uses them not as
mere local colour, as Ferrari might, but as raw material to
build larger, more abstract structures with. The most
satisfying piece in terms of form is the opening "surface"
(track titles like "iron" and "leaf" hardly communicate the
meteorological turmoil that underpins these pieces), but the
most exciting sounds are to be found on "bottle". You might
have dreamt about finding a message in a bottle, but I'll bet
you never wanted to be one yourself - I wonder if this is what
it sounds like in there out on the open sea." Paris
Transatlantic - Dan Warburton
"Surfacedrift is the impressive debut for Melbourne's Eamon
Sprod, who has adopted the moniker Tarab for his exploration
of field recordings coupled with found object improvisation.
Each of the four lengthy tracks maps out a psychogeography
through sound, specifying the intimate details of these
environments and accentuating the pre-existing natural
elements with sympathetic textures provided by Sprod. Most of
the time, his hand (which can be heard rustling leaves or
dragging objects through gravel) is perfectly attuned to the
natural settings, so as to render his own scrabblings almost
indistinguishable from his recordings of wind, violently
creaking door hinges, waves lapping at coastal boulders and
rain water spewing out of a clogged gutter. Where the
boundaries between what are natural and performative are
blurred on Surfacedrift, Sprod's compositional wandering
through his complex spaces recalsl the intuitive collaging of
material found in Francisco Lopez's epic La Selva and Chris
Watsons Weather Report." The Wire - Jim Haynes
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01-Surface [26:15]
02-Iron [11:45]
03-Leaf [09:01]
04-Bottle [16:29]
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63:30 min