lawrence english studies for stradbroke

Lawrence English is perhaps a bit better known for his releases on labels as Cronica, and his own label Room40, regular guests in Vital Weekly. Here he presents 'hydrophonic recordings made january and august 2007, Stradbroke Island, Queensland'. Recording windlike sounds, which perhaps come to us in an unprocessed form, save perhaps for some extreme filtering. Crackling high, deep bass ends, water sounds and wind sounds. Here the role of the composer seems to be reduced to merely making a registration of the sound, and, more importantly, selecting them as musical pieces. Great record of pure field recordings.

Vital Weekly 631, reviewed by Frans de Waard