Artist : Andy Graydon
Title : Geomancy
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2009
Date : 08/04/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 07
Label : mAtter
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 51:58 min
Size : 62,2 MB
Tracklist:
----------
01.12:12 12:12
02.02:11 02:10
03.04:38 04:38
04.03:22 03:22
05.04:40 04:40
06.03:09 03:09
07.21:47 21:47
-------
51:58 min
GEOMANCY
released by mAtter (Tokyo)
available for sale in the US vial mail order from Winds Measure Recordings and Floor Sugar
Geomancy is a new dvd+cd collection of works about place and displacement, location and identity, and
with the environment (or the "field" of field recordings) as a complex envelope of forces and meanings
which light and sound can both trace and transform.
The CD contains a new long-form sound work, "Untitled (geomancy)". The piece was created from field
recordings that were subject to a series of material and digital transformations: the original recordings
were cut to a series of acetate phonograph records for an installation work in 2008, and these well-worn
records, revealing a new landscape of their own in both sound and texture, became the basis for the
composition.
The DVD collects four of Graydon's super 8 films on video. "Farwanderer", a story of finding identity in
displacement, is the keystone work, revealing themes that are central to much of Graydon's film work.
"Surroundings" evokes a restless sense of place more directly in images and music. "Focal Plane" is
based on a live image and sound performance piece, and deals with the coming to life of an environment
from the most fundamental elements of light, shape, motion -- and how these are always something less
and something more than they seem. "Untitled (Aina)" is a visual field recording of sorts, showing
environments on the islands of Hawaii where natural and human processes are set in friction or
resonance, and accompanied by sound from the original acetate records used to create the "Untitled
(geomancy)" sound composition.