Assembled from live recordings made on December 7, 2013, in the steam engine room in the factory at Not Quite, Fengersfors, Sweden.

These sounds were performed live over the course of about four hours within a light installation in a cold engine room filled with smoke, as part of the event "Knycklabruket." The clangs and rattles that can be heard are from the different pieces of abandoned machinery in the room vibrating. More pictures from this can be found at youaredissolved.com.

Live analog electronics, no sampling or looping. Mixed from a single stereo location recording.

Barrie James Sutcliffe - electronics, recording, mixing, mastering.

Thanks to Chris Porcarelli and Karl Hallberg at Not Quite, and all the supporting artists during the event.
Special thanks to Henrik Lövgren.

NOTE: This is mastered with plenty of dynamics, but the constant drone is enough to give temporary hearing damage after extended loud listening on either headphones or large speakers in a small room. Be careful with bass, friends.

Outside

The Room Is Growing (Reprise)

And You Are Dissolving

The Room Is Growing

The Room Is Growing (Approach)

Instability

Inside

First concert of this little project that we have not worked with enough really. Performed at a theatre in Angered, Göteborg. The second concert we gave in September 2011 was way better though, unfortunately no one recorded it.
Thanks to Louise Magnusson for recording and Goran Hassanpour for organizing the show.

Johan Zetterqvist - Guitar
Barrie James Sutcliffe - Radio, Synth, DSP

Eagle Fight - Untitled (Live July 28 2011)

Live performance recorded March 30, 2012 at Klubb Text for Textival at Jazzhuset, Göteborg.
Using words from a text work of the same name, this is part of an ongoing project titled "My Name Changes Every Day," with the singer/historian Clara Gustavsson. This recording was presented the day after at Stora Teatern in the form of an installation at the Textival Literature Festival, consisting of an old radio from the 30s playing the music. The project is intended to involve an older radio and sculptural elements currently under production since early 2012.
Some of the synth sounds were from a machine I got from Damon Mar aka Marsynth.

Recorded pre-monitor and unmastered, listen at your own risk.

Barrie James Sutcliffe - Radio, Synth, DSP, Text, Voice
Clara Gustavsson - Voice

Knowing You Knowing Me

Excerpts from a 20+ minute performance. Recorded Oct 27, 2012.

I tried in vain to master the bad live sound here (it was recorded on an in-camera mic), but I hope it's at least passable.

Clara Gustavsson - Vocals and Delay, Samples
Barrie James Sutcliffe - Electronics (radio, synths)
Richard Widerberg - Guitar

BCR - While the Music Plays On (Excerpts)

Live performance from Dec. 12, 2010 at Hey! It's Enrico Pallazzo in Göteborg, Sweden.
This was a live action performance, which beyond the live sound element also involved a lot of movement within the space of the installation <a href=http://youaredissolved.com/#783771/A-Resonant-Tomb>"A Resonant Tomb."</a> I will have a video for this soundtrack soon!

On the floor of the installation I inscribed a labyrinth. The circumference of the labyrinth is surrounded by eleven radios.

I am tied with a rope to the floor at the center of the labyrinth, thus being restricted to move only within that space. In my hands I am holding a radio or a radio with an analog filter. Slowly walking the maze, I strafe past the radios in the circle. Since they are turned on, they interact with the radio I am holding.
A few times you will hear an uncontrolled oscillation (such as at the very end), which was a feature of the installation that somehow also manifested in the radio I performed with! This interference sound is a result of many radios in the same space being tuned to the same frequency.

The performance program involves a small introduction, spending the first half with the filter off while entering the labyrinth, and turning the filter on for the second half while escaping the labyrinth.

The title relates to the impossible promise of perfect sound fidelity, and the strenuous demands of the performance itself. It comes directly from an early ad for wax cylinders made by the Indestructible Record Company.

Equipment used: Radio (MW from 1570 - 1590 kHz), analog filter.
Thanks to: Mappe Persson for recording and helping me mix, Jan &amp; Anna at Skup Palet for hosting the exhibition.
(Photo by Hanna Eliasson)


Do Not Wear Out

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