LOPSIDED
A new CD of original recorded material is now available for purchase.
My main concern in this collection of pieces is with the beauty of the sound inherent in a more unusual approach to instrumental performance and I seek this beauty in those sounds that are conventionally avoided, the sounds that are often considered as interference. Additionally, dissolution of the familiar or narrative structure is employed to draw attention to the sounds in themselves.
The violin and accordion predominantly use 'noise'-sounds to remove them from their more familiarly associated soundworlds. This is mixed with more conventional sounds from the piano to create a tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar. The percussion is what I call 'desk percussion', the sounds are produced by the foil of a tablet pack, a pencil drawing circles on paper, a tumbler chinked, a strummed hair-band etc.
I recorded all the pieces at home with minimal technology embracing Lo-Fi. This was a decision made as part of the aesthetic idea of seeking beauty in the 'glitch'. If I was embracing the instrumental 'flaws' I also wanted to embrace the technical 'flaws' that Lo-Fi recording would throw up.
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