April 2020 - everydaymeal – Composition (LP)
Released April 30 through czaszka (rec.), Edinburgh
Released April 30 through czaszka (rec.), Edinburgh
--- Fifteen months of living abroad were spent mainly studying in Scotland. While taking walks and field trips, I did notice sounds in my environment in a way I'd never done before. It seemed like every cell of mine was exploring the invisible dynamics around me differently since these new sonic inputs were never put into my unconscious mind before. Occasionally I'd enjoyed zoning out and listening meditatively. Some of these explorations were recorded and after twenty months, listening back to those moments constructs what was once deconstructed. Every place with its own story of time and space sparkled memories in my head, an experience similar to what Pauline Oliveros calls "Auralization," a practice to 'hear' memories in one's mental space as opposed to visually imagining them. Some sounds are synthesized to mimic field recordings, blurring the line between what is real and what is imagined/auralized.
While playing around with the process of Auralization, the distinction between these recordings and my memories would blur. Also, it seemed like every sound could assume multiple identities in the context of other sounds. This experience could lead to pausing the recordings to listen to my apartment's background noise in Tehran and fusing them with the field recordings. During the first five-week period of the ongoing quarantine, while working with these recordings, my perception was once again refreshed towards the sounds in my surrounding being repeated everyday over and over again.
Side A
1. popcorn & kettle
2. Kamo river
3. Curlews and a field gate
4. Soundwalk in the world’s largest city
5. Tar
Side B
1. Atlantic Ocean
2. Jolly at Galloway
3. The Japanese crows & airplane 4. Dental auralization
5. Tehran 6:30am
2. Jolly at Galloway
3. The Japanese crows & airplane 4. Dental auralization
5. Tehran 6:30am
Artwork: DWA Graphic Department
