Tracklisting

01 Mind Drift Eimer Birkbeck

Mind Drift Field recordings collected in India. Mix assembled upon return home.

I would like to experiment in presenting these recordings as hanging ‘sound walls’ if I were to present ‘Mind drift’  as an installation. 

Eimer Birkbeck My practice shifts between processes and methodologies of capturing and composition that arise from my relationship to the immediate environment and our experience of place and memory through sound. 
The microphone as my tool, acts as a sonic barometer, to record the aural world from the peripheral edges to the core of the acoustic environment. 
Through creating images for the ear, I will focus on the mysterious qualities of human communication, the questions raised by the linguistic confrontations that occur within the public spaces of social architecture, and the power of human communication represented by the voice taken out of its visual context.

02 Di Angela Guyton

Di is a poem set to sound wherein a boy and a girl decide to make-up to take on the world. It begins with a short introduction that details the state of the harsh world they inhabit, and as this couple interact with one other it becomes apparent that they are murderers.  The second half of the song shares the same lyrics as the first, but delivered by a passionate southern Baptist preacher.  

Angela Guyton was born in Cartagena, Colombia. She then moved to the United States, living briefly in the midwest before settling in Miami, Florida. In 2005 she received a bachelor's degree in art education from Florida International University. Currently, Angela's work focuses on live painting accompanied by live experimental music.

Sergio Gato was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. He plays guitar, bass, drums and piano, is a prolific songwriter and home recording artist. His main interests in music include Americana, classic rock, experimental and improvisational music.

03 Hollow Hilary Mullaney

hollow swelling,
still    
stagnant

Hollow is presented for this submission as a fixed media work consisting of an unedited recording of an improvised piano part performed by myself, with the accompanying tape part. The score consists of six chords, scored in a grid to be interpreted by the performer and could be played in any order or inversion. As this piece evolved I began to realise that describing them as ‘chords’ in this context was perhaps incorrect as what evolved was a series of pitch rows, played as chords, where I tried to evolve them slowly into each other, while bringing them up in register without making it too obvious to the ear. While recording this version some glitches occurred and I used these in the subdued electronic part along with a number of edits of the decay’s from some of the notes. For this reason I’ve chosen to submit this piece as it responds to the ‘madeup’ theme – glitches have been ‘invented’ through the process of creating the piece and in a sense concocted from the recording process. Similarly the text ‘emerges’ from the work to give a sense of the pieces story – in terms of the listeners perception of the piece are these words ‘madeup’ or real?

Hilary Mullaney (b. 1979)Hilary Mullaney is a composer/sound artist based in Dublin.Her compositional output primarily consists of fixed media pieces, which have been performed and broadcast at a number of festivals, installations and concert events in Ireland, UK, France and USA. She has had works released on CD, on non-standard and also on Sound Report: Comfort of Strangers a SoundNetwork release of collaborative works. Future projects include the Mamori Sound Project, Brazil with Francisco López in December 2008. 

04 So On Gintas K

So On is an imitation of harmonies heard somewhere, melodies, and feelings of exaltation. But when I am trying to imitate those feelings, they catch me, and experience of bordering between imitation and the real feeling becomes very shady

Gintas K ( Gintas Kraptavicius) has been participating in the Lithuanian experimental music scene since 1994. 
Gintas K was a core member of the first Lithuanian industrial electronic music band 'Modus' . From 1997 to 2000 he worked as an editor on the radio station 'Kapsai' for an alternative radio show titled 'The Ways and Mistaken Pathways'. Since 1999 Gintas K has been working as a sound artist exploring minimal digital sounds, sine waves, noise, glitches, microwaves and acoustic vibration, making music for films, sound installations. Gintas K sound works were presented in various festivals, exhibitions and released by various record labels

05 Klangtas Mark Pilkington

Klangtas Welcome to the world of Klangtas a place not far from our very own.  
A world of sounds that exists in the vortex between our ears of your imagination. 
Klangtas is inhabited by creatures made up from a multitude of sonic elements, organisms that float on the waves of our minds.  
Come with me on a journey to experience this strange exotic place.
On this recording I will introduce you to some of the creatures from Klangtas.  I will communicate with them, find out more about their world, their goings on within the space between the speakers.  

Mark Pilkington is a performer and composer of electronic and electroacoustic music. 
Interested in fusing together digital audio/visual structures that can be manipulated from a 
score or improvised in real-time thus presenting performances that question traditional 
concepts of art, music and technology.  
Mark also runs his own audio/visual label called ‘TUM' - http://www.thought-universe.co.uk. With live and recorded broadcasts around Europe via the EBU.