time and distance

for more details on the 20th Project visit Cabinet Pin.
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released january, 2009

this is the track i put together for the 20th project this month. i'd been reading january's wire magazine (of course) and was inspired to try and push a few sounds in obtuse directions. so basically, it's one piano recording, played right through in real time, and one drum loop. the piano is in 3/4 and the drums in 4/4, though the piano is in half time. they kind of flail in and out of time - well, not actually out of time, just the accents move in and out of phase, hopefully creating some sort of tension. the rest of the sounds are those two bits of audio being processed - bit crushed, distortion, delays etc.

i also got to do the artwork for the compilation. for this one, i used an old ubd sydney street directory, which i've had sitting around waiting to be used for something. i took pages out of it which had not too much info - from the edges of sydney - and pasted them onto regular pieces of paper, just to make them a bit sturdier. i then photocopied all the info onto them, cut them out and sewed the sides up. done.

1. Northern Snow - MERANKORII
2. Tweaking the Cortex - IAIN & ROSS DALRYMPLE
3. Surface of Objects - FISHEADS OF FUN
4. Fries - VLAYMAN
5. Hearing Words As Only Shadows - FRONTEIRS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
6. No, Really, It's Nothing - COMMUNITY MUSK
7. Victory March - A MACHINE FOR FINDING THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
8. Time and Distance - TELAFONICA
9. San Choi Bow Wow - THE LOST EYES
10. Who Knows Where? - FRONTEIRS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
11. 43 to 44 - SUPERACTION80
12. January - THE DESKS
13. Slicer - CLOUDY
14. Should Children Wear Black? - FRONTEIRS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
15. Sunday - STEPHANIE WALDRON
16. Oh Benny (A Satirical Take on our Attitude Towards Benny's Room) - THE LOST EYES