"A fascinating listening experience and comes strongly recommended." --- Avant Music News
"These soundscapes are claustrophobic and haunting, grim and unnerving, yet at the same fascinating and strangely enticing. A wonderful debut album from this talented and unassuming sound art duo." --- Fog Songs.
Watch live performance of Trash and Treasure at the State 51 Factory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9URZ8iNsR0
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Rubbish Music uses sound to investigate the journeys, transformations and impacts of our discarded objects. Using our worn out treasures, empty vessels and broken devices as an orchestra of vivid musique concrète materials we examine the worlds we make and destroy via our rubbish.
From the great rubbish patches we have made in our oceans to buried dumps and sophisticated recycling plants the objects we let go of continue in many guises without us. Decay, transformation, re-purposing and recycling are just some of the means by which our everyday objects might persist and change in ways which extend beyond our relationships with them.
These journeys discarded items embark upon also create new worlds, new niches for species. From the changing habits of animals making the most of our swathes of waste, to the rise of plastic devouring bacteria, throwing away objects, and what happens to them next has profound effects. With our toolkit of rusty bells, dirty oven grills, onion skins, toilet plungers, wine bottles, nasal spray and a squeaky chicken toy, we seek to imagine some of them.
RUBBISH MUSIC is the duo of Kate Carr and Iain Chambers.
Upcycling is their first album.
released November 20, 2022
Track 1 composed, mixed and performed by Kate Carr
Track 2 composed and mixed by Iain Chambers
Track 3 is comprised of an edited live performance from Cafe Oto and rehearsal sessions at CRiSAP by Iain Chambers and Kate Carr. Edit by Kate Carr.
Special thanks to Cafe Oto for the live recording, CRiSAP for rehearsal space, Nonclassical and State 51 for forthcoming live performance video.
Mastered by Nima Aghiani.
Art: Kate Carr and Iain Chambers.
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