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Evan Lindorf-Ellery and John Collins McCormick
“Deep Talk in a Shallow Creek” CDr
Garbage Strike
This recording was made June 3, 2023 near Kingston New York while standing in the Stony Kill. In part one, John and Evan improvise with and against each other and nature. The raging water is a dynamic barrier at once the audible center and distracting noise. Part two showcases audio’s ability to fool the senses, by slowing the playback speed we can challenge the figure/ground relationship.
If there is a need for constant sound I like a creek. They are reliable, if rain-dependent.
Of making sounds I think and don’t think about what I’m doing to the environment and what it does to me.
Evan brought me to the creek on the recording near Kingston NY on June 3, 2023. We hiked around a waterfall and followed the creek into the woods. I mostly played cornet with a balloon mouthpiece while walking back and forth. Evan brought a few things including a harmonica and found a few more including some branches.
I enjoy the figure/ground relationship in these recordings, similar to painting.
Is slowing down a recording like zooming in on a picture?
Painting has rules to forget. I never knew sound rules. Is changing the compressor in the middle of a recording like misrepresenting scale?
Evan Lindorff-Ellery
Reamplifications by John Collins McCormick
“June 26, June 27” 2xCDr
Garbage Strike
This double disc project originated with Evan’s recordings, which comprise the first disc.
Evan’s original recordings June 26, and June 27 were made at home in one take, an improvisation with feedback, instruments, and interior environment. The following disc “Ponder with Strong Hands” and “Silo No Jazz” include Evan’s original recordings re-amplified by John Collins McCormick.
In service to the microphone in the room and the simultaneous ability to forget about the microphone in the room.
Cymbals, the window, the floor. Simultaneous layers of the original recording combined and overlapped into different spaces, different rooms. Rooms, guitar bodies, drum, empty silo, speaker, amplifier, microphone in the room monitoring some other room, some other day.
