31012017 Luftdrueckt

Någonting, allting

All sounds from gas bottles,cooking pans and pot lid.
Influenced by Mbira from Zimbabwe and Gamelan from Indonesia.

Luminous Island Dub

From the 2nd Album of NONSOUND : "Rock'n Roll Studies"
(Snow in Water Records, 2019)

ETHER

Composed for Wave Field Synthesis at Game of Life, Den Haag, NL, primarily with non-standard synthesis processes.

Textonics

TSMOK

TSMOK07

Featuring material recorded & assembled from November 2019 until deep in quarantine, Tim Parkinson's 'Here Comes A Monster' captures the fear and foreboding atmosphere of the UK's capital city, scribing diaristic post-punk scenes through a twisted lens. Holding a mirror to the city's inner topography, Tim assembles images from the underground and overground; fragments of eavesdrops, moments and moods that have burrowed into his conscience.  'They've Got A Good View Of The Shard' repeats a mantra-like overheard phrase about the tower corporate skyscraper, a building Tim describes like "big sleeping monster from another planet that looks as if it might shoot a laser into the sky and ignite the atmosphere". 'Everything Is OK' composes mechanised denial and the sound of people playing candy crush in a breeze of ice-cold industrial cycles. The counterbalance of dealing with the world by staring into the headlights (“Get Me Out Of Here”) while also using filters of denial (“HeadPhoneHead”), is a theme that haunts the album. The idea of Monsters of mythology included Behemoths and Leviathans - the monsters Tim is coming to terms with are not just physical, but everywhere.

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Written and performed by
Tim Parkinson - voice, guitars, midi synths, midi drums, field recordings, midi piano, reed organ, percussion

with 

The GBSR Duo (George Barton & Siwan Rhys) - vocals (track 1, 3, 6)
Angharad Davies - vocals (track 1, 4, 6), violas & percussion (track 6)
Nouvelle Ensemble Contemporain - vocals (track 1)
Year 10 drama students from Ashmole Academy - vocals (track 1)
Emma Harrison, John Lely, Juliet Fraser, Luke Nickel, Brian Lee, Angharad Davies, Rori, Gerry Summers, Gwenno Saunders, Sarah Hughes, Alex Ward, Dominic Lash, Lutfi Abu Aun, Mark Knoop, Rick Pushinsky, Laurence Crane, Ros Bailie, Markus Trunk, Alex Nikiporenko, Matteo Fargion, Rachael MacArthur, Mira Benjamin, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Benedict Drew, Steve Beresford, Onyee Lo, Xenia Pestova-Bennett, Rhodri Davies, Angharad Closs Stephens, Travis Just, Kara Feely, Gilbert Linley, Thierry Madiot, Silvia Tarozzi, James Saunders, Marianne Schuppe, JG Thirlwell, Dora Blount, Richard Dawson, Jessica Cox, Ruth Sanderson, Rachel Steadman, Leo Chadburn, Laura Steenberge - vocals (track 4)

October 2019-April 2020

Cover art by Rick Pushinsky. Arranged by Oliver Barrett.

TR011 - Tim Parkinson - 'Get Me Out Of Here'

A Lumanoise drone oscillator is used as sound source in this performance. The device is adjusted in such way that special properties of the sound can be manipulated using three photocells.
The output signal is passed through a reverb and reaches two stereo monitor speakers.
The room ist illuminated with four candles, which are placed around the devices. The candles are extinguished step by step. With the darkening of the room the sound changes and fades away.
The recording was taken with a Zoom H4n and is not entirely free from noise. Sorry.

Wake 2

WAKE - opusculum for light-sensitive oscillator

nepenthe and hemlock

Ottae

CDA CAD Impr. n 1

tasmansea is music about the grease stain left by your nose on the plastic lid of a paper mug