I have no clue who’s behind this project. There are a couple of hits on the name, but as this is a full no-input mixer recording… Just no 100% hit though the Eli Wallis from Vancouver, British Columbia / a poet from Kamloops came closest. And if I’m wrong? Hopefully, someone will correct me through the available channels because it’s always good to learn. ‘Knowledge is the only thing that multiplies if you share it’ was our motto at the chair of education where I worked around Y2K.
The three tracks on this 3″, two three-minute ones and one exactly 14 minutes in length, are all created with an Allen & Heath Zed-10FX mixer fed into itself. So we have a no-input mixer project here, and see more of them in Vital Weekly. The two short tracks, ‘Mirror Says’ and ‘No Sunbeam Ever Lies’, are two layers each, and I notice quite some noise in the recording. No idea where it comes from, but the feedback patterns would sound more open and resonate a bit more when that noise isn’t there. The compression pushes it into the front, which is a shame. Though yes, it’s a matter of opinion.
The title track is created in the same way, but here, four layers are created and recorded while the Melville Webber & James Sibley Watson silent film adaptation is played. This movie ‘envisions the house as a labyrinth of dark rooms looping back into themselves, ghostly recursions adrift with hypnotized inhabitants’ (from the promo text). This movie is available on archive.org, just follow the link. It’s a nice combination to try out (I did). So yeah, definitely something to replay in that setting. And proof that without instruments you can also make actual musical stuff.
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