Violin Liquid Phases, by Austin Larkin

Violin Liquid Phases

by Austin Larkin

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1.	I 13:17	buy track
2.	II 10:41	buy track
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7.	VII 07:10
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Culminating as a treatise on his elemental practice with the violin, Austin Larkin's "Violin Liquid Phases" also can be heard as a distillation of a feeling within a moment, a document of catharsis. An immersive work of subtle melody, psychoacoustics, and fluctuating form, Larkin's debut album is comprised of eight recordings of solo violin.

"...There is this feeling I come back to of being in the backseat of a car, driving through the forest and looking out the window, the sun strobing across my face, pulsating light filtered by limbs and branches. I am steady, the sun is as well, it is the movement of the car that creates pulsation, the pattern of light on my face is asymmetric, but the pattern is constant with my eyes open or closed. To have the pattern of sound be shifting with limit on movement and flux, and from this, a multiplicity of phenomena -- movement not as transition from stillness, but the ceaseless becoming of something. These patterns change in pitch space and temporal space form counterpoint, constructed variance perceived in a domain, this field becoming structure, concrete, existing apart with presence and form, like a tree which we see or lilac which we smell. A moiré of bowing patterns placed on a configuration of tones cause interferences, become phasing shapes within the medium. From gesture opening to gesture the state reflects upon itself, hearing the unison of gesture and its sound closes the circle from the line of causality..."

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released October 25, 2022

Solo violin by Austin Larkin
Recorded and mixed by Mell Dettmer
Mastered by AF Jones
Cover photograph by Nathan Vass

Recorded on the traditional lands of the Duwamish people in what is now known as Seattle, WA

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Austin Larkin New Haven, Connecticut

Elements of tone, interstices of fields, asymmetries, and patterns. Performance and practice informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies.

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