This track was designed to conclude my collection of etudes developed using field recordings collected around Charlotte Street Arts Centre. The piece is meant as a playful reflection on western temporality and tonality centring, utilizing field recordings of the A440 piano key and a small clock located in CSAC’s piano room. There’s an irony embedded in this piece that is meant to challenge  broader musical habits of tuning and time when compared to the rest of the etudes from this collection, which are composed mainly with the non-linear and unplanned environmental sounds of the building. These concepts challenging time and tone are explored through manipulation of the clock speed and regularity of tiks and toks as well as the ringing of one note, spatialized and transformed, throughout the entirety of the piece. An additional objective of this piece was to reveal the deep complexity in simple procedures. It’s amazing that a small clock and a single note on a piano can lead to so many outcomes.

Equal Intemporal (etude)

Charlie Harding