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rt2: tiles + more

by peter farrar

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about

The tracks on this album are a collection of sound experiments from late '21 through '22. Most of them were recorded quite rough, and the point of discovery and recording coincided many times. Some of these sounds I haven't been able to recreate, just a fluke. Also, most of the music is acoustically very quiet, and so there were challenges in capturing it, but that's also why i find some of these tracks interesting. here's some notes about the music.


tracks 1,2,5,7,9,12,15,16,18,20:
The sound of a bunch of ceramic bathroom or kitchen tiles half-submerged in water. I tried different ways to record this, different mic placement,etc. Most of these recordings were recorded in pots using wireless mics. The cylindrical-ness of the pots gives a weird reverberence. The mics were placed as close to the tile as possible (the part that wasn’t submerged)

tracks 6,11,22:
The ceramic tiles were submerged in water for a few seconds and then taken out and left facing upwards. The mics were placed resting on the tiles, to get as close to the sounds as possible. It’s extremely quiet.

track 10:
I made some steam flutes using small canisters filled with water, and heating them on hot plates. The canisters had a very small opening on the top and foil was resting over the hole, creating the whistle.

track 13:
same device used in track10, except this time a fork was used in place of foil and gauged into the steam opening.

tracks 3,4,14,19:
Beer cans were heated in boiling water and then placed on a flat surface like a tile or pane of glass. A bit of water is put on the flat surface. The sound is created from the can sucking up the moisture outside of the can. Jim Denley calls these contraptions “weather systems” because of the use of air pressure systems. And Peter Blamey has said that the bubbly phenomenon is known as “cavitation” (this is probably the same phenomenon in the submerged tiles tracks.)

tracks 8,21:
The same method as above, except that for these tracks I tried applying heat to the can as it was sucking up the water, which then created the reverse; the water was pushed out of the can. As I took off the heat, the can started cooling and then started sucking again etc.

track 17:
Another steam whistle. This time I drilled a small hole in the opening of a metal water bottle. I’m not really sure why it started whistling the way it did, and I could only make it work a few times. All I know is I’d pour a small amount of cold water into the opening and the bottle would suck up the cool water while simultaneously exerting steam and something about this action created the sound.

track 23:
This was an old beaten up saucepan that had a very thin base. When I boiled water in it something about the unevenness of the way it was sitting created these sounds in the metal. My guess the metal was in an oscillating state between heating and cooling, or expanding and contracting. But I’m really not sure.


Lastly, because there's so many tracks, i find playing on shuffle is the best way to listen to it.

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released April 14, 2023

recorded & mixed by Peter Farrar 2021-2023.

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