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Forgot I made this one :D LOL Anyway here it is. Had to delete a few to fit this on. Can't wait till I can afford a pro account. :-)

Yea but?

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Voice in the dark

Movement of the masses

Date: 2013-07-05; Time: 09.42 am; Location: Kallaste; Length: 07'32

Kallaste, Estonia - Market. 

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[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-07-05 Kallaste, market

At the Weekend On The Continent Event on the Nene Valley Railway

USA S160 No 6046 approaches then slows for the speed restriction over the River Nene bridge at Lynch wood. After crossing the River the train accelerates away towards Wansford with a train from Peterborough NVR.

At the Weekend On The Continent Event on the Nene Valley Railway

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Frequent hitter

Happy now

Stride

Armageddon? Take the first right turn and its just at the end of the road.

Enthused by the groove

Parallel Landscapes is the first solo full-length album from Swiss artist Steinbrüchel on 12k, despite his relationship with the label and apperances on compilations, collaborations (Status, with Frank Bretschneider (12k1033)) and EP releases (Mit Ohne, (12k2010)). It seems that Steinbrüchel was waiting for the right moment to release such an illustrious album that is not only a release of music but of visual art as well.

Parallel Landscapes consists of a compact disc in a cd wallet and a beautifully printed sixty page colour printed booklet with a laser stenciled wrap-around cover conceptualized and designed by Steinbrüchel featuring photographs from Taylor Deupree and an essay by Lawrence English. The booklet and cd wallet are housed in a slipcase printed inside and out in black and white on contrasting paperstocks.

The music on Parallel Landscapes was created with the design process in mind. Steinbrüchel engaged himself with ideas of «designing» music instead of making or writing music and about the importance of music existing with (or without) visual enhancement.

The ideas of landscape, while not new in the musical world, were prevalent throughout the creative process. Music vs. landscape, music as horizontal layers, drawing new curves (landscapes) over sound files, imposing one landscape onto another and hearing/seeing the results. However, the album isn¹t just about horizontal combinations but vertical inbetweens as well. What happens from one event to the next? What happens when events are combined? How does the addition of one object (audio, visual) redefine another object next to it? What happens to a table when a chair is placed in front of it? ... And how does all of this coalesce into sonic and visual space?

There¹s an incredible amount of exploratory thought behind Parallel Landscapes that make this one of Steinbrüchel¹s most ambitious projects to date. His music has become increasingly refined but always retaining his signature sound. Still using the ideas of sine waves and pure tones but now softened with time, his palette stretches across electronics into a variety of found and acoustic sources. Bell tones are in the forefront, interspersed with the soft crackles of noise and static. Tones are stretched across the visual plane like a bell being carried across the land forever duplicating itself. Parallel Landscapes is engaging and reflective and sets a new standard in Steinbrüchel¹s creative output.

Parallel Landscapes

Delaysion resonata

We met in a dark alley

Your Ears in Some Bushes

Fawn

Jungle Ambience

My name is Gary Ladds; I am 66 years old and live in Cambridgeshire. My interest in railways was started by my Grandad who, when I was a small child used to take me to watch steam trains pass by on the Great Northern Railway. Later I watched the BR blue Diesels pass by on the same line. This interest has stayed with me all through my life. The interest in sound recording was down to one man, Peter Handford. It was a chance purchase of an ASV Transacord vinyl LP ‘This is York’ in the local ‘Boots’ back in 1978 that sparked things off. Hi-Fi record decks were the in thing then, and combined with a good pair of Sennheiser headphones I was transported back in time. I collected a few other railway recordings throughout the late 1970’s including some of the superb recordings made by Brad Miller of Mobile Fidelity, before other distractions took over. In 1981 after re-visiting the records, I had an idea that I would like to be able to record the sounds of railways myself. Early ventures were mixed. The only equipment I had was a Sony Walkman and a cheap stereo microphone, but, it got me out there doing it and I tried again in 2000 with a JVC Minidisk and a slightly better mic. This was a slight improvement but I needed to invest in better gear. Again it went on the backburner until 2013 when I realised I really must do something about this before it was too late and these are the results.

At the Weekend On The Continent Event on the Nene Valley Railway

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