Bur sting brea k’r is the début EP by Montreal's Cloud Circuit.

Cloud Circuit is Deanna Radford (poetry) and Jeremy Young (electronics.) The Cloud Circuit Ensemble includes Philippe Vandal (saxophone) and Alexandre St-Onge (bass & laptop.)

This project is inspired by the failures of communication technologies as they are tied to human experiences of communication. All efforts are put in place to transport the listener into the grey areas of connection; a space where de-synchronized signals, dropped data packets, repetition and/or deterioration of information is observed.

Young develops a magnetic soundscape in which Radford's voice transmits from. Produced using sine wave oscillators and physical interventions on amplified surfaces with saxophone (Vandal) and bass (St-Onge), Bur sting brea k’r evokes the sense that one can hear when the sounds, recognizable and unrecognizable, fall away into particles.

Using the soundscape as infrastructure and atmosphere, Radford delivers her poetry guided by the process of deep listening and semi-improvisation. As in live Cloud Circuit performances, her words are spoken in response to sound by Young, Vandal and St-Onge. At the same time, she deconstructs word order so we might question typically intended meanings and better feel the presence of the machines and software which surround us. This demonstrates the ironies that; first, we observe a text deliberately deconstructed by a human to represent the shortcomings of a technology set up to meet an essential and very human need; communication. Second, words sometimes shift from the technical to the emotional as a result of repetition and this process of scattering.

Here lies the strength of Cloud Circuit; the ability to create in the listener the desire to re-synchronize disorganized blocks of information and at the same time, accept the tragic end reserved to them.

In some ways, Bur sting brea k’r is an invitation to appreciate the failure of our connected world and the void left by it's loss of meaning. 

Archive Officielle (AO_019, 2020)
Duration : 09:55 Min | 4 Tracks
Released: April 24, 2020

Deanna Radford: words, deconstructed word events, mouth sounds
Jeremy Young: sine waves, mouth sounds
Philippe Vandal: saxophone on Side A
Alexandre St-Onge: bass, laptop on Side B
Mixed by Markus Lake
Mastered by Lawrence English
Designed by Marie-France Gaudet

B2 Speed Of Sound, A Trail Of Airplane Exhaust [slowly]

B1  Bur Sting Brea K'r

A2  Airbus 321

A1  A Letter From The Cloud Eternal Network

This track accompanies the same-titled visual poem Cloud Circuit created for the pages of Occulto 7: Art-I-Ficial.

Watch it performed live as part of the Live in Concrete series at Concrete Studio in Montréal, Quebec
youtu.be/1-KmSIU3y00

"The audio work is a recreation (or, unmachinization) of the timbral sounds of static by human-performed means: against slate, graters, bubble wrap, and electromagnetic frequencies captured from cellular devices and filtered. We wanted to create artificial static, reflecting on what it means to bring electronic, non-human, and non-musical phenomena to human scale, and invent a counterfeit world that posits that this is in fact how static is created. In other words, to promote a false piece of audio with a false understanding of its scale. And this is not random: Cloud Circuit’s main source interests lie in the deconstruction of the false promotion of the internet as existing in the atmospheric omnipresence of “the cloud”, where in fact, its delivery, maintenance, and operation bases exist as a result of human manpower, and flow thourgh fibre-optic cables on the floors of our oceans." 


www.occultomagazine.com
www.liveinconcrete.com  

Music: Cloud Circuit
Synths and amplified surfaces: Jeremy Young
Voice and poetry: Deanna Radford
Image: found transatlantic telecommunications cable images glitched by aleatoric data editing. 
Released: October 10, 2020

"Static Studies: Four Ersatz Phrases In Dactylic Hexameter For Sea [s] & Cloud [c]" {Occulto, 2020}

Cloud Circuit
Live at Bug Incision, Calgary, AB
10-27-2024

Deanna Radford - words & word events deconstructed, voice
Jeremy Young - sine & square wave oscillators, tape, radio.
Em Medland-Marchen - photography
Bradley Hawkins - audio recording

Produced by New Works Calgary & Bug Incision. Very special thanks to Chris Dadge, Rebecca Bruton, Jessica Ackerley, Nia Devetzis, Ado Nkemka, Po Yeh, and High Line Brewing. 

https://cloudcircuit.ca/
https://www.newworkscalgary.com/jessica-ackerley-trio-cloud-circuit-devetzis-plays-hennies

Cloud Circuit - Live in Calgary 2024

Deanna Radford plays words of mouth, language events, EMF. Jeremy Young plays magnetic tape, tube oscillators, tiny radio.

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