The third track from AREA C's fourth full-length CD, released in 2009 by Students of Decay: "Glacial harmonics drift in and out of each channel, skittering, modulated notes pulse and surge, sputtering suddenly to luminescent manifestation before disappearing just as quickly." Quite a departure.

Released February 2009

Tracks:
1. Composition Journal (6:38)
2. Of Set Purpose, No Arrangement (4:18)
3. Fact, Fancy, Legend (5:54)
4. Sleeping Birds (2:57)
5. Spell of Resistance (6:16)
6. Meeting Mid-Air (5:40)
7. Charmed Birds vs. Sorcery (21:37)
8. Black-thorn, Falcon, Picris (7:01)

Charmed Birds vs. Sorcery

Fact, Fancy, Legend

The fifth track from AREA C's second full-length CD, titled "Haunt," which was released in June 2007 by Last Visible Dog Records. This CD is based around a group of dual-farfisa improvisations that Erik Carlson & Jeff Knoch (Eyes Like Saucers) undertook and expanded upon.

The title haunt refers to frequented places or states of mind, places we return to again and again, sometimes obsessively, sometimes in a somnambulistic trance. These are not ghost stories, but we can't deny the unexlained other's spectral presence. The title was inspired by a book of the same name by poet Keith Waldrop.  Remnants of other times and places, outdated technologies, signals sent out but never received...

Circle Attractor PART I

In April of 2008, AREA C was commissioned by the NASA RI Space Grant Consortium and the Museum of Natural History in Providence, RI to compose an original score for their "Mission Moon: past, present, future" exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. SEA of RAINS is the resulting 55-minute soundscape, inspired by the names, colors, history and otherworldliness of this still-strange fixture in our sky.

Sea of Rains

sea of vapors

ocean of storms

lake of dreams

seething bay

sea of clouds

mare imbrium

sea of serenity

Draft of audio for Atlantic Mills.

Sources:
- Lowell, MA textile looms
- New Bedford, MA textile looms
- 133-year old Wool Carding Machine
- Corliss Steam Engine
- Misc. industrial sewing machines
- Labor protests from 1934 in Saylesville, RI
- General textile strike audio from 1934
- Haywire (band) from Atlantic Mills practice space
- Black Pus (band)
- Misc. music from Olneyville
- Rogue Gallery @ Atlantic Mills
- Terrastock #1 music festival from 1997 at Atlantic Mills

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From the AREA C cd "Map of Circular Thought" on Preservation Records, 2011.

Map of Circular Thought

Ebbs to a Steady Burn

Ebbs to Steady Burn

Track 4 from 2009's Students of Decay release, titled "Charmed Birds vs. Sorcery."

Sleeping Birds

AREA C is based in Providence, RI and has released music on the following labels:  Preservation Records; Sedimental; Students of Decay; Sloow Tapes; Last Visible Dog; Trensmat; handmd; Rare Youth; etc.

www.areacmusic.com

In addition to AREA C, Erik Carlson is an installation artist and designer.  His public art installations can be seen in Rhode Island; Denver, CO; Washington DC and San Diego, CA.

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