Tourist Kid -  A Circulation EP (TT023) 
Digital & Cassette | 23/02/2016
 http://thisthing.us  http://bandcamp.thisthing.us


Rory Glacken has been heavily invested in Perth music for some time, documenting and presenting various events and archiving outsider goings-on. Their own efforts as Tourist Kid have been subtle and considered, with their live shows capturing recent attention. This EP marks their first release for a label.

"For me, the record itself came out of continual late night on-foot commutes from city to home, usually after clubbing or seeing close friends or whatnot. I have pretty bad tinnitus that acted up a bunch whenever I would be walking home which affected listening to music
and my engagement with the surroundings at the time.

Throughout the process of making this record, I became obsessed with the idea of how each person interprets & processes silence differently. I'd say I live a life surrounded by, and constantly filled with other people, often the walks I take are therapeutic & have a degree of seclusion. I find the idea of cancelling out or ignoring the presence of background / ambient noise strange when It comes to listening to music, as it often filters through and affects my experience of listening. Whereas silence can often be seen as a complete vacuum of sound, I became interested in the idea of living in the presence of intrusive or ambient background noise without feeling the need to drown it out.

Tonally, I wanted to find a way of having 128KB samples - fragments and soft synths which mimic real instruments - to be able to coexist and melt into something more ambiguous through layers of signal processing. The entire record was made on a laptop which isn't out of the norm for a lot of producers, however I feel that many feel shame or hide from that idea. I want to embrace the idea of trying to cultivate or sculpt an organic "non laptop" sound from purely digital means, whilst being able to
keep both elements of natural & digital present.

Texturally, the record takes cues from ASMR & Musique Concrete however my primary focus was on cultivating spacial awareness. I understand the EP falls foremost under the Ambient / Drone category but a lot of the status quo factors in terms of time and form weren't in my interests and structurally I wanted something that felt generative & cyclical."

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Conditions of surroundings & locations 
are set

Like making money
like hang in/out

a suburban island
Within the slow street rivers

Good
Just good
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Where do the one stop and where does the other begin?
What are we building and what are we leaving behind?
Here,
there are no solutions, 
only questions and answers.

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The FUTURE SUBURBAN CONTEMPORARY (FSC) is  a exhibition place, a blog, a magazine, a sound project, a battle plan, a cooperation, a fight and a platform for execution of all sorts of projects made by emerging inter/national artists, 
@ FSC in Copenhagen, Denmark & in the wwww.

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FSC is a satellite project growing out of the art collective Gallery FIST (GF) and FSC is organized by Jens Ivar Kjetså. 
GF and FSC want to merge the virtual, physical and the metal, to create new languages for future ways of mis-/understandings of the past, future, now and the total other.

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vibe offerings to the peruvian sun god's side piece 
 

Reposting Experimental, Noise, Drone, Outsider, Musique Concrete, Ambient, Empty Amusement Park, Lo-Fi and Public Access Television music or anything fringe.
Message me if you have anything interesting that I can share.

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