Recorded June 2021 at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) with guitar, bass, Moog synthesizer, bells, and various kinds of magnetic tape
Mastered by Rafael Irisarri at blackknollstudio.com
Cover image by me with Polaroid SX-70 film, August 2021

Epigraph

“ . . . on reflection “

. . . on reflection (two)

. . . on reflection (five)

Here's a song from one of the two albums I hope to release this year

woes of the meadow

a staple of that brick wall

Doomelec

silently existing

fort smith, ar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi90bN_Spr0

eclair

"Rionnach Maoim" - shadows cast on the moorland by clouds moving across the sky on a bright and windy day (Gaelic)

Music by Benoit Pioulard
Artwork by Gregory Euclide 

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of  new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Doomelec

On Principle