Remote Provinces

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“This CD “remote provinces”, composed of materials recorded in Germany, Belgium, and Poland, mixed in with my own prepared guitar and signal processors, requires with each listening a process of interpretation. They are not documentaries nor are they pure: I cannot imagine as a naturalist that one edits out impurity. I cannot imagine that as critic of naturalism one edits out impurities. So in some sense it is a work that is in argument with formalist phonography yet it accepts the basic premise which I call “seeding across time”. My work is a bit like what one might call “wild-scaping” – allowing urban decay to express itself unchecked while nature takes over. It is in this regard I include “technical breakdowns”: wrinkles to remain in the table-cloth, stains on the tie or runs in one`s stockings to show through. Some sounds are designed to enter the “centre” of ego-consciousness, while others seem peripheral. And yet I have invested equal energy in these “remote” fringes and I like to imagine the music evolves with your environment and rides on a continuum of sound that surpasses every rendering and is renewed with each listening. The “remote provinces” are all around us. They may be places of exile but also places of solitude, introspection and transcendence but they are nevertheless characterized by ruptures and coincidences of attention. Each of us is a remote province integrating and disintegrating, emerging from and immersed in empire. I have tried to build in sound a sense of worlds inside worlds living, at the occasional expense of transparency, transparently.”