We will be playing as part of the World Listening Day Preview held at Cafe Oto, FRIDAY 16th July, exploring the sounds of East Londons Soundscape, along with many other artists.

“Fruit for the Apocalypse invite you to participate in a preview of East London Soundscapes at Cafe Oto. East London Soundscapes has been created for the first World Listening Day, which happens in a secret location on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The purposes of World Listening Day are to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography.”

We are very thankful to be included on the second compilation released on duckbay records entitled ‘sing’. Our contribution is called ‘Frosted Window’ and portrays the experience and enjoyment found when observing the blending and transformations of colours and patterns of the outside world while looking out through a frosted window, all whilst in the comfort of a warm home.

Frosted Window was created using a music box, and field recordings taken in our first home together in London, of the inside and outside sounds heard and listened to together. These sounds were delicately processed in a way that we hope creates the desired effect.

We hope you can enjoy our contribution and all the others that can be found on this great compilation released on db.

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This footage was taken from inside looking out through our marked studio window. The music being played in our studio is taken from our new album ‘reminiscence’, hopefully due out early this year on Slow Flow Rec. The other incidental sounds, or perhaps they could be thought of as marks on the music, are heard as if inside, although some of these sounds origin however, are not.
‘reminiscent green’ explores a relationship created from two locations, the inside and the outside, articulated through what we see and what we hear. In this short work, we can neither hear what we see, or see what we hear, yet we can imagine.

Visited some famous London water today with Peter Cusack and friends to take some field recordings.
The day was grey, the tide was out, and the area was swamped in mist. This footage is inspired no doubt by Roni Horn’s recent exhibition nearby at the Tate Modern, which has changed our perception of this water for good. It’s different now, holding many stories.

Just because I’m quite excited about this audio/video diary entry and feeling particularly prolific today.

This is the first entry of many, exploring minimal movement through audio and visual means. These posts will be temporarily available on our facebook page before being eventually available only through moize.net. Each audio/video entry will be accompanied with a short piece of writing found under ‘continue’. This writing will sometimes be our thoughts, sometimes more abstract, sometimes a bit of both.

I woke early this morning, hoping for a bright day in London, and it wasn’t all that bad. I shot this little video with blurry eyes, and while watching it back made some music.

I haven’t heard this sound for so long…

This extended tone dropped me back into the whirl of memory. I remembered how excited we were about it when the school teacher announced in the morning that there would be 30 minutes of hiding underneath the table that day. I remembered clearly how we were teasing our classmates who couldn’t squeeze themselves underneath their tables.

Then, it came, as expected, yet, surprised you each time.

Recently we both had the pleasure of meeting with sound artist Felicty Ford, and was involved in a discussion that she organised for the podcast Cut and Splice program series: Living Rooms. We met with Felicity and other sound artists to discuss domestic soundscapes, sonic wallpaper and many views on how we understand and relate to sound within our own sonic environment and the sonic environment around us.

We are very pleased to announce the release of our first album ‘Seiren’. We have been very lucky and honored to have been picked up by the new Japanese label Murmur Records run by Yuki and Emi of Liquid weeld. Murmur Records have been excellent in providing us the support and understanding for our conceptual album, and choosing to master at a much lower volume than we thought they would be willing, which means a great deal to us. The album is one track approximately 53 minutes in length, of delicate resonant sounds to drift into your listening environment, ideally suited to be played through speakers.