Work
Reminiscence
Title: Reminiscence
Duration: TBC
Catalogue: TBC
Format: cdr
Label: Slow Flow Rec, JPN
Year: 2010 (released VERY soon)
Details: sleeve, cd-r, audio
"I found her reading. I was in the room, or rather I was not yet in the room since she was not aware of my presence.…Of myself–thanks to that privilege which does not last but which gives one, during the brief moment of return, the faculty of being suddenly the spectator of one's own absence–there was present only the witness, the observer, in traveling-coat and hat, the stranger who does not belong to the house."
– In Search of Lost Time, M. Proust
Live at Unit 3.03
Title: Live at Unit 3.03
Duration: 32:12
Catalogue: de6007
Format: mp3
Label: Dragon's Eye Recordings, USA
Year: 2010 (released May)
Details: sleeve artwork by Kimvi Nguyen, field recording audio
Live at Unit 3.03 is a sequence of sound sketches that were spectrally deconstructed and reconstructed live, with intentions of engaging the listener with the space. Each sound used was mono allowing any stereo effect of movement perceived to be those created from the influence of the space itself.
The nature of performing at Unit 3.03 is generally one of a more domestic gathering than that of a public event. This shared domestic-come-temporary-social situation creates an interesting interaction with the sounds to be heard coming from within and beyond this personal and intimate space. Interestingly, this situation also directs ours attention inwardly to the sounds that we carry with us and outwardly to the ones that people carry with them.
This recording was taken during our very first live performance held at Unit 3.03, where we shared tea, coffee and cake, met old friends and new ones, and shared old stories and made new memories.
Recorded on the afternoon of March 20th, 2010, at Unit 3.03, London, UK.
Thanks to Dead Wood and Jonny Hill who also performed that day and to everyone who visited our home on that memorable afternoon.
Also, special thank you to Kimvi Nguyen for providing the artwork, a gift on that day.
sing
Title: sing
Duration: 72:51
Catalogue: db02
Format: cd
Label: duckbay, USA
Year: 2010
Details: handmade cardboard sleeve designed by starshaped press, cd, audio
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.
"The CDr's come in a lovely antique and metal printed sleeve designed by starshaped press.
The concept behind the title for the release follows along with the theme of communication, which I feel is such an important element in music, that I started with the first compilation. To "sing" is the most basic form of human musical expression and so I thought this title was fitting as a counterpoint to 'listen'."
- Jordan Suer
seiren
Title: seiren
Duration: 53:17
Catalogue: mmr - 03
Format: cd-r
Label: Murmur Records, Japan
Year: 2009
Details: cardboard, cd-r, audio
Inspired by the image of the merging of sea and sky, mimosa|moize strives to create sound to 'depict' this visual phenomenon of the sea in the state of extreme stillness and almost indistinguishable from the sky.
In attempt to extract the essence of the sea, Seiren is composed through harnessing the melodic resonant frequencies of 13 different seashells. The prolonged still sound and extreme low volume are the key features of Seiren as it is not a mere representation of the sound of the sea, it is, more importantly, a reflection towards the background sound in our surroundings that dives in and out our awareness and consciousness.
What Seiren wishes to achieve is to integrate with the sounds that exist in the room where it is played into through speakers, and to direct our attention to the sounds that we normally neglect in our daily lives.
The Glassed Spring
Title: The Glassed Spring
Duration: 10:23
Year: 2009
Details: Composition
'The Glassed Spring' is a soundscape composition merely using one single recording.
Inspired by the empathetic relation between objects and sounds, I make an attempt to capture the traffic and other environmental sounds that vibrate the window glass through contact microphone. Using the similar technique employed by Alvin Lucier 'I am sitting in a room', the recorded sound is played back on to the window glass and recaptured by contact microphone till it reaches the resonant frequency of the window glass.
In attempt of using single one sample/recording to compose, the recording is analysed and deconstructed according to the frequency bands, then it is 'pieced' back by merely adjusting the volumes of each frequency bands.
Definition Mediated (Through Aluminium)
Title: Definition Mediated (Through Aluminium)
Format: Sound Installation
Year: 2009
Details: aluminium sheet 250/250mm, speaker, sound source
'Definition Mediated (Through Aluminium)' is an ongoing sound-art work.
Often when we hear an ambiguous sound our tendencies will be to attach some definition to this sound, in an attempt to categorise or discern the nature of its cause. Little clues within the sounds makeup will aid during this period of definition, as we might cross reference sounds in our own memory. If presented with an object and an accompanied sound, but with a sound less likely for us to recall as having an obvious connection to that object, how then, would we experience this aforementioned defining moment? Would we now be more aware or perhaps confused during this defining moment, as we fall into and out of clear definition?
'Definition Mediated (Through Aluminium)' was first exhibited at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2009.