Barrie James Sutcliffe: Stereo Field
Lee Noyes: InputLoop Sampler, OP1
Rec. Elementstudion
Gothenburg, Sweden
7 August 2021
Mastered by Lee Noyes, December 2021
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credits
released January 14, 2022
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I have no wish to sign my breath is the third in the trio of January '22 releases on isr-digital, and is the latest in my and Barrie James Sutcliffe's now ten-year conversation on the topics of art and sound.
I wonder, what is this? Is it music, or is it more non-music, or even anti-music? While I have no trouble identifying as a musician, Barrie does not. Does this affect the choices we make in the moment, and how? We are both grappling with the vagaries and impetuousness of our electronics, and so it seems that the balance between improvisation and composition, for us, may lie in the act (or attempt) of creating with intention, yet forced to let go, most often allowing the results to lie in anonymity and the obscurity of albeit well-organised folders on a hard-drive. This has been the case for above 90% of our recorded experiments, discussions and dialogues since we began in 2012.
Joan Miro wrote: "Anonymity allows me to renounce myself, but in renouncing myself I come to affirm myself even more. In the same way that silence is a denial of noise, but as a result, the slightest noise in silence becomes enormous".
We won't sign this, our latest breath, with grand gestures - but it will be audible and alive!
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