The sailors make fast the loose ends to ensure the boat is shipshape.
“Tying Up Loose Ends” is a nautically themed project split into 2 segments. The first, titled “Noise Forecast”, is heavily inspired by BBC shipping forecasts, the rhythm of their delivery and the alien yet comprehensible language used within them. The compositional framework for this part of the project is a text-based score which was written in a way that aimed to allow each participant a unique translation. To further contrast the finished pieces, careful attention is made in approaching different artists with varying sonic palettes.
The score for this first installment of the project reads as follows:
The second project segment, titled “Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan & Derelict”, is an exploration of how new life can be given to short pieces of sound that perhaps could get lost somewhere in a timeline. To achieve this, audio is salvaged from one person and recycled by another, although organised in such a way that ‘who is collaborating with who’ remains unknown. Artist and equipment information are intentionally removed as to hopefully have no influence over the finished works. Guidelines for FJL&D are: “SALVAGE You have received some salvaged audio from another participant involved. Use these sounds as a starting point. RECYCLE Please use both files, although they don’t have to be used in their entirety. One shot or single cycle samples are fine. You are free to edit & treat these in any way you see fit. Chop, Sample, Granularize & Mangle. Unrecognisable is good. Additional instrumentation is allowed and encouraged. This is not a remix project. COLLABORATION Audio discovered amongst your posts has been shared with another participant to carry out the same process.” Loose Ends #1 is focused around the fictional land, and surrounding coast, of “Culport”. The tracklisting is as follows;
NOISE FORECAST
1. Claude & Ola – Culport
2. Sw1n Hunter – FOAM_DRIFT(2vids)
3. Shane Latimer – Deluges: Clustered
4. Una Lee – 1 fib or no
5. BJC – Torrential Data v4_2
6. Scy1e – Racing the dawn
7. Mysterioso – Unapproved Beliefs
8. Vivienne Griffin – The Fake Haven
9. Hadi Bastani – nines am(o)ur ai
FLOTSAM, JETSAM, LAGAN & DERELICT
1. T.Jervell – Fanfare of Spring (Initials M.C.)
2. sweetearthflying – prismatic wounds
3. Sqrtsigil – nontitle
4. Morn Valley – Solar Transmission
5. Expanding Foam – saxa vord
6. Wimming Spools – flotsum & jetsum
7. Disxiple 113 – fiesta, forever
8. Subfusc – Batons With some sprinkles of sea sounds recorded by Matilde Meireles, Lisbon, 2020. Many thanks to all who took part for their incredible work.Barry & Phil – Tone Burst
Again with the music lacking percussion. Tonal textures moving at various tempos.
Hal Walker – Low Key Gliding (extended) Curd Duca – Touch Gregor Dys – zwischen den jahren Petr Válek – Doma Music for Ji.hlava 2020 Janíček, Procházka – 1 Krekso feat. Agnes Hvizdalek – You Are Efficient Claude & Ola – spaces in red – Steep Gloss Yann Tiersen – Porz Goret Lela Clawson-Miller – Harmonium Drone Sigmund Krähe – Organ 73 Carina Robin Parmar – Pack Ice Claude & Ola – Red Ice Peter B – Deer Biphenyl autotectonic – Atoms of the Mass The Dura Hotel – The Magic Lovers Uumans – At the Hospital Live At The Music Gallery – The Puppetmaster Paul DeMarinis – Forest Booties (1978) featuring The Pygmy Gamelan
Saul Rayson – bent danelectro delay Mark Fell – on work Mitxela – slide whistle 02 Dragon roost island boop e – KASTLE v1.5 #14 Jem Finer – Score for a hole in the ground (clip) Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! decadebridge – o.5 Samuel Edmund – Long Before The End Tapes and Topographies – Tape Unwound Noctopolis – A Year Ending Katie Gerardine O’Neill – Key in Door r beny – lupine Frond – No Fate Sitar Outreach Ministry – I Love You, Mary Jane Ekin Fil – To Be Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist – The Sloping Tower Molina Carmen – Villain Will Samson – A Baleia Guybrush – Observing through the eyes of your father BEING – QUIETRAIN Lisa Lerkenfeldt – In A Room Clouded By Smoke Machinefabriek & Berlinde Deman – Luchtwezen Jez riley French – copenhagen gate (locked groove)
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