signal mountain
by jim haynes
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Limited Edition Compact Disc
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Albumthree way split with five elements music, andrea marutti, and jim haynes. please note, the download of this only contains the haynes material, as we do not have the rights to other tracks.
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about
signal mountain is an edit / re-composed audio-only version of a piece that was shown at the san francisco museum of modern art in 2011 for the activating the medium festival, sponsored by 23five incorporated. the entire piece was a collaboration with media artist allison holt, though sound construction and composition was the sole responsibility of jim haynes. for the full iteration of signal mountain, haynes had constructed a table table sized diorama with model trains, motors, illumination, lenses, rusted metal, and other things, with holt tracking through this space using a modified surveillance camera, while haynes extracted noise and tone from this rather rich sonic environment. within this particular collaboration, a deliberate synchronicity between image and sound could be controlled, manipulated, and amplified.
nocturnal drones amass into snarling crescendos of volatile motors, turbines, and kevin drumm-esque dissonance which morph into an evocative movement from a slow-motion heartbeat rhythm and radio frequencies detuned into sweeping, ghostly sinewaves captured from within a WWII era bunker via a shortwave radio.
this piece was included on a three-way split CD with five elements music and andrea marutti (aka amon) on the russian label observatorie. as the helen scarsdale agency does not have the rights to those other two pieces, we are only publishing haynes' work here.
nocturnal drones amass into snarling crescendos of volatile motors, turbines, and kevin drumm-esque dissonance which morph into an evocative movement from a slow-motion heartbeat rhythm and radio frequencies detuned into sweeping, ghostly sinewaves captured from within a WWII era bunker via a shortwave radio.
this piece was included on a three-way split CD with five elements music and andrea marutti (aka amon) on the russian label observatorie. as the helen scarsdale agency does not have the rights to those other two pieces, we are only publishing haynes' work here.
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released September 15, 2011
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helen scarsdale California
post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic electro-acoustics, sublimated dream-pop,
obfuscated field recordings, recombinant noise, existential vacancy, and then some.
no demos accepted. full demo policy explained here: helenscarsdale.com/about.htm
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