"Henry and I were riding our bikes and came across a dumpster with large cardboard tubes inside, we held them up to our ears to listen telescopically, but in addition to this there were frequencies that were especially resonant and attenuated, forming something that was at once perceptually different from the environment while inextricably linked. We took them home and started placing microphones inside the tubes and listening to the house in a different way; the hum of the refrigerator, the cleaning of dishes, footsteps, outside traffic, all were shaped differently by means utterly minimal. We started seeking out other tubes, some found discarded at construction sites or on the side of the road, at hardware stores, or offered on the internet. Each tube has a distinct filter quality, bringing with it a seperate way of hearing, and in the same way subtractive synthesis operates, what is heard inside the tube is not less from being a cosm of the environment, but heightened through awareness, rendered acute, distilled, existing within the environment, not seperate. We have taken the same set of tubes to various sites- a waterfall, a refuge for migratory birds, a highway overpass, and a motorcycle rally, while at each site the tubes themselves are heard, with the environment. We think of these recordings not as a document of these sites within a duration, but a synthesis from or between these objects and the environments."
credits
released March 3, 2023
Austin Larkin - microphones, pipes
Henry Birdsey - microphones, pipes
supported by 4 fans who also own “Site Cosms I-IV”
Breathtaking recordings. Essential, elemental sounds. Oh to be a bat hanging in the cave while Henry plays the Harmonicas. To be a Mexican tetra feeling the sound waves as they traverse the pond. pemdas
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