Artist : Andy Graydon
Title : Geomancy
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2009
Date : 09/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 04
Label : mAtter
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 65:29 min
Size : 87,2 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Farwanderer 08:46
02.Surroundings 06:50
(the ship, the shoal, the shore)
03.Focal Plane (ten frames align on the) 23:31
04.Untitled (aina) 26:22
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65:29 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.