The technician lowered the tonearm onto the acetate record, producing a rhythmic sequence of sharp clicks, before decaying into a low, echoing pulse. Lifting it off, he sniffed in irritation and sat down. X “Can’t say I’m surprised; this happens from time to time.” K “huh?” X “…easy enough to miss, you tune out for what…maybe two seconds? A burst of spinal static bleeds through the server’s hypodermic memory barriers and pretty soon your whole trace-line is burnt to a crisp.”
Recorded during the Muon Open Studio at Science Gallery Melbourne, µMuography emerged from a generative conversation around particle physics, the agency of muons as interstellar messengers, deep space/time sound rumblings, and non-human sonics.
µMuography vinyl is lathe-cut as an edition of 10.
• cold air • and flesh peeled back • festering circuitries of alien nerve tissue • spinal static and blind teeth • a single drop ~ of perspiration °• an osmotic transfusion • the pale sea • fish eggs °• mineral particles • biological wreckage • swirling amongst estuaries.
Originally released by Branch Points Records, April 2021.
An electro-acoustic project combining modular synthesis, vocals, and field recordings.
Breaking ice, winter landscapes, crowded metro stations, and an automated car wash intermingle with percolating electronics and speech to form an animate/inanimate assemblage.
