The new album by Australia's Lawrence English, Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds, dropped today. This extended work includes The Necks' Chris Abrahams, as well as Norman Westberg (Swans), Jim O'Rourke (Gastr del Sol), Chuck Johnson, claire rousay, ambry downs, JWPaton, Vanessa Tomlinson, Dean Hurley, Madeleine Cocolas, and Stephen Vitiello. That lineup makes you wonder if Oren Ambarchi was out of the country or something.
I think English would appreciate the sidebar quote by Goethe. On the Bandcamp page, he notes, "I like to think that sound haunts architecture. It’s one of the truly magical interactions afforded by sound’s immateriality. It’s also something that has captivated us from the earliest times. It’s not difficult to imagine the exhilaration of our early ancestors calling to one another in the dark cathedral-like caves which held wonder, and security, for them."
"Today the ways in which sound occupies space, the so-called liquid architecture, holds just as much wonder, albeit one that is often dominated by functionality and form. Beyond those constraints however, how sound operates in the material world is something that exists at the fundament of our understanding of music, and moreover within the broad church we know as the canon of sound arts."
He also notes, "Whilst the architectural and material features of space might remain somewhat constant, the people, objects, atmospheres, and encounters that fill them are forever collapsing into memory."
Give this a listen and time will stand still, the architecture of the multiverse will dissolve, and the reality of the present moment will become crystal clear.
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