Field recording: Bells of Basilique Notre-Dame, Verdelais, France, Sunday 7th July 2013.
Layered versions with time and pitch adjustments to explore the harmonics, ending with the 'true' version, including the late comers arriving for the service.

BELLS Of VERDELAISE Mixdown 2

Elemental Machinery

Sun Tracker (excerpt)

Quijote (excerpt)

Cupula (excerpt)

FLAT TIME/sounding> silencing> lightening> darkening

David Toop in collaboration with Anthony Kelly and David Stalling.

Drum, light, mechanical devices, nature shavings, stable room
Hilltown New Music Festival, 2012

"A post-industrial machine/installation for the impression of time; an archive wiped clean; a surface, a vessel, the falling of shavings from nature.The first of two pieces about time, sound and the instrument." (David Toop)

FLAT TIME/sounding> silencing> lightening> darkening - Installation Sound

Recorded at the Richmond Zoo in Virginia in March 2016. Dedicated to the memory of Jed Speare (1954-2016), composer and phonographer; his Cable Car Soundscapes (Folkways) is a landmark album in phonography and 20th century music.

I had the honor (and pleasure) of meeting Jed and performing with him and Ernst Karel as part of the New England Phonographers Union in January 2015.

FLAT TIME/sounding> silencing> lightening> darkening - Installation Sound

Farpoint Recordings

Related tracks