Art auction as cinematic blockbuster. 

Coronavirus statistics intoned over a zoom call. 

Alan Watts, crows, God, anti-God. 

AND YOU SHOULD FEEL GRATEFUL. 

mind maps is the debut cassette release from square ears founder David Curington. A manically over-assembled collage of sonic and semiotic association. Internet rabbit-holes as sound. Once comprehensible revision notes derailed, to help no-one pass any exams, ever. 

Three tracks are paired with three corresponding images, included as postcards with this release. 

The opening track monet money mahogany’s starting point is a rumination on the visual art world through a Sotheby’s auction of a Monet painting, recorded through laptop speakers from a YouTube video as if to say Curington would never have had sufficient power or status to have been in the room: a running theme throughout mind maps is that how a sample is recorded is just as important as what the sample represents. Curington’s artistic response to the colour of Monet’s painting is to rerecord a couple Debussy piano preludes through an old tape machine in a bathroom and blend the results together to form a surreal haze which gradually overwhelms the track: the subtle hues of Monet become a coarse, blast-furnace red. 

Releasing 3rd December. Preorder the full album here:
https://squareears.bandcamp.com/album/mind-maps

mind maps

monet money mahogany - David Curington

Kantos Chamber Choir conducted by Ellie Slorach.

Snow on Snow - Kantos Chamber Choir

A gospel church band in the throes of a post-service experiment with drones. 

Free improvisation tossing to-and-fro between freedom and repenting for its sins. 

An impression of Pink Floyd tracks by Sun Ra, desiccated by Derek Bailey. 

Square ears presents the sound of Spacefood. 

Four extended tracks are presented on two sides of a cassette for this release, accompanied by artwork and T-shirts designed by Rogier Smal so you can wear 1970s techno-optimism with pride, imagine yourself enrolled an Open University astrophysics course delivered over VCR in warm, hushed tones by a moustached professor and bathe in a sonic haze of soul-meets-punk future nostalgia.

David Birchall: electric guitar 
Adam Fairhall: organ 
Johnny Hunter: drums 

Recorded at Rogue Artist Studios by Anton Hunter 
Mixed by David Birchall 
Mastered by Richard Scott 
Artwork by Rogier Smal

Pre-order:
https://squareears.bandcamp.com/album/once-they-get-in-here-taps-head-its-game-over-man

Once They Get In Here (Taps Head) It's Game Over Man

I Can't See His Shadow - Spacefood

Third track from THE WAY by David Curington.

Cassette and digital download now out for preorder:
https://squareears.bandcamp.com/album/the-way

THE WAY

NO HANDS - David Curington

Collaboration with Sarah Boulton, performed by An Assembly directed by Jack Sheen

Bass Clarinet: Elliot Gresty
Flugelhorn: Chloë Abbott
Piano Joseph Havlat
Soprano: Patricia Auchterlonie 
Percussion: Dori Raphael 
Viola: Alex McFarlane 
Cello: Lydia Hillerudh 
Double Bass: Dan Molloy
Conductor: Jack Sheen

Performance 16.05.17

image: trample scan by Sarah Boulton

Deer tracks (2017) - An Assembly

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monet money mahogany - David Curington

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