• Trembling Embers

  Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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  Trembling Embers is a new 50 minute solo album featuring 10 compositions based largely around live and studio improvisations recorded with self-built 4 & 6 string devices, zither and processing via Samplr for iPad. These pieces have been developed by adding field recordings, metal percussion, bass guitar, orchestral samples and further processing.
  
  The first four tracks are playful exploratory excursions into the dynamics of the instrumentation and how simple edits with little or no processing can be woven together to form pieces with a particular momentum and personality. The strings, which have in some instances been prepared with crocodile clips or metal rods, have been played with rubber mallets, tubular steel, wood, violin bow, battery-driven fans and e-bows.
  
  The next three tracks take the processing a good deal further, where there is little in the way of untreated sound – it has been transformed into new shapes and dimensions which depart some distance from the source sounds, especially the track Jumping Compass, which takes the processing to escape velocity where files are cooked, burnt, chopped, diced and re-configured in a manic game of sonic pinball.
  
  The remaining tracks expand the methodology further by adding field recordings, bass, metal percussion and occasional subtle shadings of orchestral samples. These tracks use a combination of treated and untreated improvisations to create richer compositions that tend toward a more slow moving, pacific, widescreen feel.
  
  Strings also appear as part of a field recording, which features on Tilled Until Tide Turned, where an aeolian harp constructed by artist Mark Garry was recorded on the grounds of DIT college at Grangegorman in Dublin. Their wispy, ethereal tones lent an otherworldly air. Other field recordings on this track include descending steel steps into Vatnshellir deep cave in Snæfellsnes and flapping masts in Keflavik, both in Iceland, and in London, train station announcements at Rainham and walkers and cyclists in Greenwich tunnel. Paradox Lost features the sound of swing doors and automatic doors recorded in Dublin and London, along with struck metal railings, pigeon wing beats and ever present air traffic over London.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Trembling Embers via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more
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• Digital Track

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