Installation Recordings (1973 - 2008)

by Max Eastley

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1.	Installation No.3 pt.1 02:58	info	buy track
2.	Wooden Blocks And Brass Sheet 03:09	info	buy track
3.	Aerophones 1 03:34	info	buy track
4.	Monochord 03:48	info	buy track
5.	Aerophones 2 02:40		buy track
6.	Motors And Metal Rods 1 02:25	info	buy track
7.	Aerophones 3 01:00		buy track
8.	Serpentine Gallery Installation 05:23	info	buy track
9.	Clocks Of The Midnight Hours 02:00	info	buy track
10.	Stone Circle 1 01:56	info	buy track
11.	Motors And Metal Rods 2 03:43	info	buy track
12.	Centriphone - amplified and filtered 06:30	info	buy track
13.	Hydrophone String Installation 03:10	info	buy track
14.	Half Speed Metal Installation 03:58	info	buy track
15.	Stone Circle 2 01:39	info	buy track
16.	Two Aeolian Arcs 04:55	info	buy track
17.	Strings - interior and exterior 07:01	info	buy track
18.	2 Aeolian Harps pt.1 05:03	info	buy track
19.	Wooden Blocks 02:10	info	buy track
20.	2 Aeolian Harps pt.2 03:30	info	buy track
21.	Aerophones 4 04:05	info	buy track
22.	Motor And Strings 03:01	info	buy track
23.	Aerophones 5 00:44	info	buy track
24.	Installation No.3 pt.2 04:29		buy track
25.	Aerophones 6 00:54	info	buy track
26.	Aeolian Arc And Strings 04:47	info	buy track
27.	Aerophones 7 01:56	info	buy track
28.	Friction Tubes 03:58	info	buy track
29.	Aeolian Flutes 05:23	info	buy track
30.	Whirled Music 01:09	info	buy track
31.	Swung Aeolian Flutes And Grass Blade 02:17	info	buy track

about

This 2CD is essentially a retrospective of Eastley’s installation work. As such, it updates and adds many new examples to the 1975 release “New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments”, which was released as a split LP with David Toop on Brian Eno’s Obscure Records.
This is Eastley’s first solo CD. Of the 35 tracks, only the last 2 have any guests or ‘playing’ (the most virtuosic moment being George Lewis playing a grass blade). All the other pieces are either powered by the natural forces of wind and water, or else are motor driven gallery installations.
The ethereal sounds of the aeolian harp, the haunting aeolian flutes, and the violent tension of his aerophone installations are hallmark Eastley sounds. These sounds, and many others, sit amidst a wide range of acoustic settings, from windy hill tops to quiet brooks, residential street scenes to coastal shores. The indoor recordings are no less varied, ranging across a rich variety of acoustics and gallery spaces from tiny micro sounds to large scale amplification. Wood, metal and stone are brought to life with electricity. Although there are many photos in the 20 page booklet, much is left to the imagination to work out how the sounds are made. With this limited access to the visual, the focus is pulled towards the musicality of the sounds themselves. This musicality is reinforced by the slow crossfades of most of the pieces from indoors to outdoors to form a series of suites.
The recordings mostly date from the mid 70s, but there are pieces from later decades. Nearly everything was recorded either to Revox or Uher and occasionally cassette, using what microphones were available at the time. Recent recordings are digital. The varying quality of the recording set-ups across this 2CD adds yet another dimension to the shifting sound fabric of this anthology.

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released January 1, 2010

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