Single "Run" releases November 1, 2024
EP "Saints Rest" releases November 8, 2024

All music composed by Shriven.

Carter Boyle - Guitar, Vox
Blake Creamer - Bass, BG Vox
Charles Harding - Drums, Synths, BG Vox

Recorded, mixed, mastered by Monopolized Records.

We would like to thank Music-Musique NB & the Province of New Brunswick for making this recording possible.

Storm

Deity

Blameless

This piece uses some recordings that I collected in the foyer at several levels. I was really interested in the resonance of speech and the way in which the diffusion in space makes it difficult to make out words that people speak from afar. With this I was inspired to revisit the research of Diana Deutsch, who works in the realm of Phantom Words and Auditory Illusions. When formant and form and closely related in time, it's possible that the brain will perceive words that are not really there. It's kind of like pareidolia for the ears.

Uncanny Foyer / Phantom Words (etude)

This piece was developed using recordings collected in the building's creaky and crackly front stairwell as well as the overhead auditorium rumblings from the Connexion ARC office. The intimate sounds of floorboards were documented by taping contact mics to the floor. I composed gestures by walking around and applying pressure to different areas around the mics, which lends the piece an essence of live performance. Room sounds were also collected using my Zoom H2n. The tonal element of the piece was built out of a computer notification sound. At one point, the subtle anomalous sound of typing can be heard as a counterpoint to the creaking floorboards.

Floorboards (etude)

Elevator Music (etude)

An etude designed with hums, drones, buzzes, and textural sounds documented all around the Charlotte Street Arts Centre building throughout December 2024. Water fountain motors, AC buzzes, bathroom hand dryers, drones of snow plows from the Xmas Eve snowfall resonating through space are but a few of the distinct recordings that make up this piece. This composition is meant to highlight the lesser noticed tones that make a space run and ensure that it remains accessible as well as habitable.

Hum (etude)

This track was designed to conclude my collection of etudes developed using field recordings collected around Charlotte Street Arts Centre. The piece is meant as a playful reflection on western temporality and tonality centring, utilizing field recordings of the A440 piano key and a small clock located in CSAC’s piano room. There’s an irony embedded in this piece that is meant to challenge  broader musical habits of tuning and time when compared to the rest of the etudes from this collection, which are composed mainly with the non-linear and unplanned environmental sounds of the building. These concepts challenging time and tone are explored through manipulation of the clock speed and regularity of tiks and toks as well as the ringing of one note, spatialized and transformed, throughout the entirety of the piece. An additional objective of this piece was to reveal the deep complexity in simple procedures. It’s amazing that a small clock and a single note on a piano can lead to so many outcomes.

Equal Intemporal (etude)

Shriven is New Brunswick’s newest rock band made by Carter Boyle, Blake Creamer, and Charles Harding. Somber songs from the depths of a dark ocean for friends and foes of Cellarghost, a similar sounding outfit with similar members from the days of old. Shriven is set to release their debut EP Saints Rest on Nov. 8, 2024, accompanied by a performance at Flourish Festival’s PERISH and a maritime tour with a Montréal band called DahL.