ANM051
32:59
CD / Print / Digital
1. ˈcarēən pit
2. boPET osc
3. Protolith
4. Halite Bachi
5. Groundwater
6. Aiteann
Impossible drum and environments.
Realised in Ireland, England and Japan 2018 - 2020
Tracks 1, 2, 5 & 6 make use of Tom Mudd’s Gutter Synth
Artwork by Arnau Sala Saez
Skeleton drawings by Luciano Maggiore
Mastered by Niklas Adam
Anòmia
2022
http://www.anomia.info/
What in the possible environment of this impossible drum would be the language of a community (fleshy, photosynthetic or air) which is gathered by, sounded through, the gut of these musical ideas?
This text inscribes a first part flux or fluctuations of this old future ground. A real, synthetic, notional language for an imagined community of organic life grown out from the site of these sounds:
these breathing pit, an
actual breþynge fragrance
imparting, sinks from.
vapour.
n’protoluib blad
relieving mīcaply lif, ficxio.
our grind, membracaer.
becauz it ismattering. attends-ÿous, limbs of
the trassing plaa, placed.
apart we’k ymagin them heaving toned.
μεταβολή whip, a fungal hold.
something else gaswaljo
lip edge wi hekstis gorse
fu’molēroot apersuasõx.
carbon, or u sunk compression is opening
ha s a’ready soil, will happen, again.
we knead wheeze of actorz calm
charging drifts
ripple, wider
is organised or
grown.
how generous bodies have been
into life
—Paul Abbott
Ground Drum: a predrum membranophone, constructed with an animal skin (membrane) stretched over a pit in the ground (resonator)