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The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group - The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group
Sun Ark 2013

The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group is a spice- hunting collective formed in Rotterdam in the Summer of 2012, when multi-media cultural centre The Worm graciously opened their world class synthesizer studio to the current incarnation of Sun Araw Band. Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw, Magic Lantern), M. Geddes Gengras, Tony Lowe (CEO Raw Tings), and Butchy Fuego (San Gabriel, Boredoms) spent a week amidst Syrinx, Serge, and Surinamese victuals, tracking the self-titled double album live to 2-track. 

The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group - Haze March / Exotic Food

Struggle Into The Unknown is created by a single sound source of locks and keys. An extensive amount of recording was done in order to capture the different sounds available within this field. I also built a Max/MSP tool to be used within the composition, as a different way to process the sound. 

The structure of the piece is important as it does follow a loose narrative, which is a reaction to the sound source used. The source of locks and keys has a number of connotations as to what locks and keys mean to people, but a common factor is the fact in which they will unlock something. Relating, the piece is a struggle and a frustrating, frantic and obsessive urge to get into what is locked. The piece starts by looking for a key, using only the sounds of keys in this section and then moves onto a section of only lock sounds. This represents the way in which you would unlock something. The sounds also reflects the human movement of trying different keys and different methods, expressed by the frantic short phrases that build and amount. Original sounds are very much present in the first half of the piece as we move through the key and lock sections, but also processed sounds are added to this to heighten the frantic movement. Within the lock section there is a shift in position as the timbre and movement of the sound acts as if as a listener we have gone inside the lock, hearing the mechanism from inside. Space plays a big part in the piece, and in this section absorbs the listeners in from what was a relatable personal space to a more in depth experience. Directional tendencies of the frantic struggle and constant movement throughout both sections has built into a tension and release development, shown by the turn of a lock, and the dynamically loud clunk.

The door is unlocked. The space in which you are in has changed. Where are you? How do you feel? Was it worth the struggle? Do you like where you are?
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Get out!

The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group - Haze March / Exotic Food

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