All sounds borrowed from various rooms, the things that happened in them, and those that come in from outside. collected and re-arranged 2020. some recordings initially made for the Amplify 2020 series, others not.
Master: Phil Julian.
Print: Ben Owen/Middle Press.
HOLES were formed as part of a research project undertaken with support from RMIT, Melbourne.
I have borrowed sounds made by people and some by things; some sounds I initiated myself.
Elements of this piece first appeared on the Aposiopèse compilation VIII. Sounds were then borrowed, discarded and re-arranged into a mix for the Ears Have Ears radio program (RIP). Further additions and subtractions were made, and over time it all de-arranged into the form it is in here. Thank you: air conditioning units, bicarb soda, malfunctioning white goods, alleyways, constructions sites, trains, escalators, plastic bags, hollow vessels, floor boards and empty rooms.
All sounds collected 2012-19. Arranged and de-arranged 2016-19. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
"I am a collector of rubbish: not an archivist, but in a small way, a hoarder. Clutter seems to be attracted to me.
Housekeeping was originally conceived as a project to finally put to use some of this amassed junk, and then to discard it all once again. It first took shape as an installation work for 8-channel audio, found objects, speakers, transducers, desk, chair and room; presented at Blindside, Melbourne, August 2017.
Since then it has slowly shifted itself into this CD. However rather than a documentation of an installation, this iteration has been arranged from the debris collected during the process of making one. Sound was gathered together from various raw audio materials; object manipulation; rehearsals, studio tests and failures; recordings of both installation and de-installation; the final composition files ; recordings of the installation in-situ; the empty gallery space; the Nicholas Building (the home of Blindside); a performance made with Clinton Green enacted to close the installation. All collected materials were then cut up, tumbled around and de-arranged into the current form it finds itself in here."
Eamon Sprod / Tarab