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LM004 - Dale Lloyd - Enabling Articulate Fields

 5 Pieces in line with what we can expect from this master of delicate thunder. Dale Lloyd gives us quite precise electronics interlaced with acoustic sources. Excellent electroacoustics from the USA.

Composed for EARLabs in June, 2003, using field recordings and electronic embellishments from a Moog Concertmate MG-100 analog synthesizer. Some of the field sources were derived from air pressure moving the front door of my apartment during a very windy evening. The ventilation that moves through the building adds to the air pressure. Having a window open during the windy night, makes the door move erratically, especially if the window in the hallway is also open. Other field sources include a university power generator, various room acoustics, and the motor of a damaged cd player.

Aside from producing his own sound work, Dale also runs the and/OAR label centered around field recordings, electroacoustic and other experimental sound works; and also produces the field recording compilations for phonography.org. More about Dale and his activities: and-oar.org.

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review

Two new web-based releases from the friendly folks at Earlabs. Dale Lloyd runs the and/OAR label and releases compilations for phonography.org. His work is from the realm of field recordings. The basis for these 5 short tracks are sounds recorded in his apartment,
mainly the sound of air trying to force its way through his front door one particularly windy night, while opening another window to adjust the air pressure within the apartment. Having experienced this
phenomona on several occasions I can attest to the interesting sounds that can occur, from door slams to the squeal of a pressure cooker.
Lloyd processes these sounds and for the most part they are no longer recognizable. Faint shimmerings, crackles, and whispers are the results of heavy audio filtering to which Lloyd adds some embellishments from his Moog Concertmate MG-100 analog synthesizer.
What remains is the sensations that the original sounds can conjure.
At times this reminds me of the swedish project Dead Letters, with the quiet goings on of organic matter rendered into strange mechanic operations. A fascinating listen.
(VITAL WEEKLY, week 26 2003)
       
       
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