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Floater

by Bradfield Dumpleton

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An explorative, slo-fi meditative drift of improvised sound collage, recorded one rainy afternoon at our recently-deceased house (aka Kalonga). Spacious sounds of rain outside, watery bloops, found percussion (such as playing the wooden body of a centenarian piano with felt mallets), and various other noises I bent into & out of shape later that night in the lab.

Over the months of June / July we had to move from our home of the last 5 years. I spent the final weeks alone in the empty house, saying goodbye and recording various sounds that I could experiment with later. This album is from the first of those (last) recordings.

My creative process for this album (as with many others) was in the spirit of deliberate accident and creative synchronicity, of chance operation and chaos magick. Each layer of sound was recorded independently of the other tracks. My available time was tight, so I had to work quickly & spontaneously. I simply hit record and improvised each time with whatever impulse arose.

The tracks were then laid randomly over each other in order to observe how the disconnected sounds intersect, akin to a cut-up approach. To me it's a kind of jazz thinking, inviting elements of deconstruction, space, intersection and surprise. The new soundshapes created in this spontaneous way by the raw source material then informed my editing & sculpting later.

More info: bradfielddumpleton.com/floater-2022/

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released June 10, 2022

All music © Bradfield Dumpleton 2022
Improvised, revised & otherwised at Nicholls Rivulet, SE Tasmania.
BD plays: Rain samples, cello bass, Juno 6 synth, waterbowl, brushes, piano, 3stringbox slide guitar, vase, general banging of things.

Cover photo © BD

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A library of musical sketchbooks, mapping my various evolutions from 2005 to next week. Dedicated to exploring sound for its own sake. Many diverse delights here for the patient & attentive listener.

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