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U67 | simon whetham

U67 | simon whetham |dry

1. locked_excerpt

https://unfathomless.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/u67_simon-whetham_dry_1.-locked_excerpt.mp3

3. still locked_excerpt

https://unfathomless.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/u67_simon-whetham_dry_3.-still-locked_excerpt.mp3

format : CD ltd to 200 hand numbered copies/Digital
Regular edition of 160 copies packaged in clear vinyl sleeve with folded insert + an additional art card both on 350gr satin paper
Special edition of 40 copies  packaged in thick kraft recycled cardboard digisleeve with frame.
it holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ a set of 3 square photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper
it’ll be inkjet printed with edition number + artist’s name and title.
release year : 2020
length
: 51’48
tracks :
1. locked
2. reserved
3. still locked
4. wet underfoot (exclusive digital bonus of about 16mins with the special edition only !)
status : OUT NOW !

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Regular edition 

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 15 € (inc.postage)

Special ultra ltd edition

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 18 € (inc.postage)

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Bundle offer till the end of January only  (U67 regular edition + either U07 “mall muzak” or U17 David Vélez-Simon Whetham “Yoi” – pls precise which one you want when ordering !)

(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 25 € (inc.postage)

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full simon whetham bundle offer till the end of January only  (U66 regular edition + U19 “History of Violence” + U48 “Ramshead”)

(Belgium) : 33 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 34 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 35 € (inc.postage)

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: info :

Two bodies of water, contained in man-made channels and held back by barriers. Such is our desire and need to control nature, that we have used this resource to aid our industrious endeavours, often at the expense of the local area and environment. Steel, wood and concrete stand tall, holding back huge volumes of water to be channelled to produce electricity, cooling processes or simply be stored for future use. Often these processes contaminate the water – some bodies we visited are so poisonous they no longer support life, although from our point of view they are beautifully clear and limpid…

The sound of water infiltrates the fabric of the materials used to control them and this became my focus. Recording these sounds through the surfaces and materials of the restricting structures I hoped to retain some of the energy passing through them.

Then in a process of self-reference, I played the recordings back through the materials, documenting the results, and repeated this process a number of times. The sounds became more tonal and some frequencies were enhanced, just as others dissipated. Recording both directly from the surfaces of the materials and extremely close to them, I hoped to capture the vibrations passing through the structures but also the air in close proximity to their surfaces. The results have very little audible space and are rather claustrophobic, but also quite varied.

Postscript: The title ‘Dry’ is an obvious reference to the subject of the work being water, but also that the recordings were not processed using software plugins (where one uses the terms wet and dry to specify the amount an effect is used on a source) but by the recording and playback process itself.

(simon whetham, December 2019)

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