A Static Place, by Stephan Mathieu

A Static Place

by Stephan Mathieu

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polinos If you listen carefully you might be able to hear the spectres of gothic, renaissance and baroque music haunt the abstract drones of these carefully constructed soundscapes. The companion piece to Mathieus wonderful "Remain".

Justin Ashworth I've been missing this. So glad to have it back in my life. The best ambient music I've ever heard. Favorite track: A Static Place 1a.

Ruben van den Belt Swirling sounds cover you. The blanket is there to let nobody see you cry for cosmos. Favorite track: Schwarszchild Radius.

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1.	Schwarszchild Radius 10:00	buy track
2.	A Static Place 1a 10:00	buy track
3.	Minuet 10:00	buy track
4.	A Static Place 2 19:58	buy track
5.	Dawn 10:00	buy track

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“A Static Place is about the journey of sound. Between 1928 and 1932 the earliest recordings of historically informed performances of music from the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque era were etched into 78RPM records. I used some of these records from my collection, playing them back with two mechanical acoustic HMV Model 102 gramophones. The initial soundwaves produced back then by period instruments like the clavichord, viols, lute, hurdy-gurdy are read from the grooves by a cactus needle to be amplified by the gramophones diaphragm housed in a soundbox. Those vibrations travel through the tonearm which is connected straight to the gramophones horn, which releases the music to my space.Here the sound is again picked up by a pair of customized microphones and send to my computer, to be transformed by spectral analysis and convolution processes.”

- Stephan Mathieu, Madrid, Nov. 31, 2010

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released February 1, 2011

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12k is a New York based experimental music label run by artist Taylor Deupree that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music since 1997.

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