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Joshua Bonnetta - Low Islands album

Joshua Bonnetta - Low Islands album

  • Performer: Joshua Bonnetta
  • Genre: Electronic
  • Title: Low Islands
  • Released: 2017
  • Style: Field Recording
  • MP3 version size: 1711 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1934 mb
  • Other: AU WAV VOC AHX MOD XM MIDI
  • Rating: 4.8
  • Votes: 373

Description

Joshua Bonnetta ‎– Low Islands. This tape, a map of sorts, resituates recordings of five disparate islands into an archipelago built up from layers of sound fragments. A study in accretion and the sedimentary parallels of geological formations and sound design; islands imagined as repositories for environmental memory, above and below. Field recordings collected from Fårö, Norratäljeviken, Stockholm & Stora Karlsö. Processed via cassette and Nagra .

Joshua Bonnetta - "Low Islands" C26 single sided - Canto 10. ‘I call the place I am writing now the bay of broken things. In the February storms, spume wraiths climb the hundred-foot cliff to fight and fall like bitter rain in the moonlight upon the cabin roof. Created from field recordings collected at various low islands in and around the Baltic Sea from 2012-2015. in Manhattan and Ithaca winter 2016. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

His work has been shown within North & South America, . Europe, Russia and South Korea. He is the 2009 recipient of the National Film Board of Canada award to 'Best emerging/mid-career Canadian filmmaker' from the Images Festival.

Directed by Joshua Bonnetta. The upcoming contemplative feature film from audiovisual artist, Joshua Bonnetta.

Filmmaker and composer Joshua Bonnetta patiently considers that evocative conceit across a 2-channel film and soundtrack, shot on 16mm colour negative film at the original transmission (Cornwall) and reception (Newfoundland) sites of Marconi's first trans-atlantic radio broadcast, and accompanied by a lushly etheric soundtrack (de)composition created from fragments of site-specific field recordings, shortwave and longwave radio recordings.

Tracklist: 01. Everything That Was Ever Something (23:53) 02. What Lies In It (20:08). The two compositions revisit the sites of Jude’s initial photographs in and around the Salton Sea in the Southern California desert, and use site specific field recordings and analogue processing to craft an aural counterpoint to the photographs themselves and the photographic process

The upcoming contemplative feature film from audiovisual artist, Joshua Bonnetta.

Tracklist

A The Bay of Broken Things 25:22
B Empty Side

Credits

  • Mastered By – Giuseppe Ielasi
  • Recorded By, Photography By – Joshua Bonnetta

Notes

‘I call the place I am writing now the bay of broken things. In the February storms, spume wraiths climb the hundred-foot cliff to fight and fall like bitter rain in the moonlight upon the cabin roof. The earth shakes from the drum roll of the surf. I lie awake and watch through the window beyond my bed. There is no ticking in my brain; this is the elemental night of chaos. This is the sea chewing its million-year way into the heart of the continent.
The caves beneath resound with thunder. Again those warring wraiths shoot high over the house. Impelled as though I were a part of all those leaping ghosts, I dress in the dark and come forth. With my back against the door, like an ancient necromancer, I hurl my mind into the white spray and try to summon back, among those leaping forms, the faces and features of the dead I know. The shapes rise endlessly, but they pass inland before the wind, indifferent to my mortal voice.’

Loren Eiseley One Night’s Dying from The Night Country

This tape, a map of sorts, resituates recordings of five disparate islands into an archipelago built up from layers of sound fragments. A study in accretion and the sedimentary parallels of geological formations and sound design; islands imagined as repositories for
environmental memory, above and below.

Field recordings collected from Fårö, Norratäljeviken, Stockholm & Stora Karlsö.
2012-2015.
Processed via cassette and Nagra 4.2.
Edited and mixed in Manhattan, New York City 2016.

Limited edition of 100 on cassette with transparent shell and printed j-card. Side B is labelled as above, but contains no recorded audio.