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)

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.

kids say "echo echo echo!" (to the memory of Jed Speare)

Paul Kane and Katie O'Looney | Seven Catastrophes in Four Movements
A new CD / booklet featuring poetry and sound by Paul Kane and Katie O'Looney.

Presented as a special fold out booklet printed on uncoated paper stock, hand numbered edition with an audio CD mounted into the back cover.

The folding booklet contains poetry and notes by American poet Paul Kane. He has published five volumes of poems including Work Life (2007) and A Slant Of Light (2008) as well as eight other books of various kinds. The audio CD features readings of the poems by Paul Kane and music by Irish improviser Katie O' Looney. The music plays off the poems in various ways: it responds to, shapes and at times, leads the text as a parallel creation, partly composed and partly improvised.

The genesis of Seven Catastrophes in Four Movements was a poetry reading in Périgord in the south of France where Katie and I met up. We spoke casually about doing something together at some point but soon thereafter Katie came up with a serious proposal for collaboration. She wanted to do a project centered on the number seven, which, fortuitously, coincided with some reading I had been doing in Catastrophe Theory,which defines seven possible models for how complex systems fail when pushed too far. (Paul Kane, June 2013).


Paul Kane & Katie O'Looney - Co. Kerry (excerpt)

Farpoint Recordings

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