Light Folds, by The Seaman & The Tattered Sail

Light Folds

by The Seaman & The Tattered Sail

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Margaret Harmer Truly amazing work here in quantity and quality! Endless loops, repeating themes, reminiscent times of vinyl and tape machines. The parallel with photography and light exposure is brilliant! This is a must in your ambient music collection! Favorite track: Abstraction 4 - If Light Was Breathing.

Blackout "To pass through pain and not know it, a car door slamming in the night, to emerge on an invisible terrain."
John Ashbery

A.C I have floated across, into, along and beneath this album so many times. On more that one occasion I have left it on repeat for days at a time. Masterpiece seems to small a word to describe it, this album has a life of its own, it breathes and wanders far and wide. It rewards you with every listen and has only gotten better over the years. It's just as beautiful this evening as it was the night I first heard it
thank you for years of joy. Favorite track: Vinyl - The Luminous Mercurial.

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	1.	Vinyl - Her Whispers 07:42
	2.	Vinyl - A Void of Light 08:13
	3.	Vinyl - Dust and Grey Sound 05:24
	4.	Vinyl - Against the Swells 05:56
	5.	Vinyl - The Luminous Mercurial 06:15
	6.	Vinyl - Dusk 06:20
	7.	Vinyl - 7 Holes 04:56
	8.	Vinyl - If Light Was Breathing On The Turn Of The Tide 09:51
	9.	Vinyl - Shiftlightmatter 2 06:17
	10.	Vinyl - Light's End 05:30
	11.	Vinyl - Tender To The Touch 06:56
	12.	Vinyl - Minute Folds 08:08
	13.	CD - Her Whispers Fall Silent 10:48
	14.	CD - A Tear In The Sails 08:00
	15.	CD - The Lighthouse Of Grey Sound 12:15
	16.	CD - Against The Swells 15:26
	17.	CD - In Light Of The Mercurial 11:07
	18.	CD - The Fallen Light 19:54
	19.	CD - A Body of 7 Holes 15:40
	20.	CD - If Light Turned The Tide Breathing 09:32
	21.	CD - Matter And Light 09:32
	22.	CD - Suspended Dust, Slow Movement, Light's End 13:33
	23.	CD - The Tender Of Emotion 10:56
	24.	CD - Light Folds 18:27
	25.	Abstraction 3 - Whispers Across the Silent Dusk 11:41
	26.	Abstraction 3 - A Tear in the Sea 14:24
	27.	Abstraction 3 - In a Fragmented Light 10:24
	28.	Abstraction 3 - Light Folds Across the Swells 17:19
	29.	Abstraction 3 - Luminous Hands 09:25
	30.	Abstraction 3 - Repetition of a Gesture 10:08
	31.	Abstraction 3 - Light Falls / 7 Holes 11:21
	32.	Abstraction 3 - The Final Light 06:24
	33.	Abstraction 3 - Shifting Light / Waves of Matter 06:32
	34.	Abstraction 3 - Light Cuts / Key Motions 09:20
	35.	Abstraction 3 - Of Emotion 10:09
	36.	Abstraction 3 - Light Folds [Syn] 05:12
	37.	Abstraction 4 - Her Whispers Are Like The Silent Dusk 08:36
	38.	Abstraction 4 - A Tear In the Sky 07:51
	39.	Abstraction 4 - The Lighthouse of Grey Dust (for MD) 10:28
	40.	Abstraction 4 - Against a Swell of Emotion 09:04
	41.	Abstraction 4 - In Light of the Mercurial / Cage (abbrev) / Life Ends 06:14
	42.	Abstraction 4 - A Film From a Quiet Distance 10:08
	43.	Abstraction 4 - Precede Dust (A Sound Distance) 13:27
	44.	Abstraction 4 - If Light Turned the Tide Breathing In Dust and Grey Sound 14:13
	45.	Abstraction 4 - If Light Was Breathing 09:43
	46.	Abstraction 4 - Details And Folds 09:20
	47.	Abstraction 4 - A Tender Motion 10:22
	48.	Abstraction 4 - Skin / Light Folds / Confused Sex Machine 07:21
	49.	Abstraction 5 - Whispers Silence Her 13:52
	50.	Abstraction 5 - At Its Sinking 15:41
	51.	Abstraction 5 - (Re) Folded Light 13:12
	52.	Abstraction 5 - Dust Against The Swells 08:03
	53.	Abstraction 5 - This Emergent Light and The Random Walk 06:22
	54.	Abstraction 5 - A Mix of Light Pulses (Daylight to Dusk) 08:24
	55.	Abstraction 5 - The Folded Map Of Light 09:00
	56.	Abstraction 5 - If Light Whispers Grey Sound 15:12
	57.	Abstraction 5 - ShiftLight Armatures 12:00
	58.	Abstraction 5 - Light Ends and Begins Again Elsewhere 10:28
	59.	Abstraction 5 - Attending To A Motion's Collapse 09:34
	60.	Abstraction 5 - One Delicately Touches The Light Folds 07:17

about

The audio process…

Light Folds by The Seaman and The Tattered Sail is a collaboration between Craig Tattersall (The Boats, The Remote Viewer, The Humble Bee, Cotton goods, Theodore and Hamblin, The Famous Boyfriend, etc.etc. and artist/designer) and Bill Seaman (SEA, Attsea, Otic.Info.Set, sp.op.cit, Spilly and the Drops, etc. and media artist exploring linear and interactive works). The work took place via the internet, sending differing files back and forth using Drop Box, wetransfer.com, and vast quantities of email. After about 2 years Tattersall and Seaman met face to face!

It started with a simple back and forth set of responses to a few audio files, building up loops and tracks. Over time it built up to over seven hours of music. We initially made a double CD of works but we kept abstracting and remixing and colliding things. Tattersall brought his distinct form of “dusting” which explored unique forms of noise, tape ambience, tape degradation, etc. Seaman often explored abstraction using Ableton Live, especially in terms of time / pitch manipulation, and exploring the combination of a multitude of Ableton plug-ins. Huge amounts of data were sent back and forth! Occasionally we went a bit mad with naming and keeping track of things… Usually a number of mixes for each initial work emerged out of the process. Sometimes the abstractions went quite far away from the original tracks. The double album on Vinyl came late in the game where a series of shorter versions and new abstractions were defined.

Tattersall played Guitar, piano, dusted loops, analogue loops, digital loops, drum machine, analogue synth, synth bass, field recordings, abstractions, fragment constructions and reconstructions, abstractions of Seaman (etc.), analogue spatial recordings, artificial wind, crackles (record surface noise).

Seaman was working primarily with Ableton Live and contributed Piano, vocal, text, fragment constructions and reconstructions, time abstractions, quartet samples, trumpet samples, clarinet samples, drum machine abstractions, drum machine constructions (samples), digital distortions, bit reductions, synth abstractions, abstractions of Tattersall (etc.), digital loops, radical pitch shifts, noise enhancements, historical samples, crackles – record surface noise (from Tattersall), artificial crackles.

We worked with some excellent musicians in the construction of the samples…

Trumpet (sample recordings) – Robert Ellis-Geiger; Ciompi Quartet (sample recordings) – Eric Pritchard (violin), Hsiao-mei Ku (violin), Jonathan Bagg (violin and viola), Fred Raimi (cello); Clarinet drones (sample recordings) — David Beaudry; in Ableton Live (construction space), and Seaman used a Roland Edirol R-09HR Ver.3.0 for instrument and voice recordings.

The musical influences run the gamut from ambient, industrial, glitch, dance, pop, jazz, classical, experimental, noise art, etc. Seaman has called this alt.genre in the past… although it really defies a single musical label.

The working process was quite exciting to hear what each had done with the tracks as an ongoing process… The project is incredibly rich in its subtle exploration of psychoacoustic spaces and layerings, and it is vast… The works form a series of plateau-like spaces where time is explored and erased, and an atmosphere for reflection and association is presented. Duration was not worried about and many of the works are quite long. The entire project has been incredibly exciting and rewarding in that we each seemed to pull the best out of the other!

It is also worth noting that as an aside to creating within this album, there was a huge element of learning within the album.

Working with a new creative partner always begins with finding a commonality in working practices, then from this you can bring your individual approaches to working practices, it is in the dialogue whilst working through these passages that you learn from each other.

The artwork process…

Like most work undertaken there is a underlying aesthetic language that has been built up over years of arts practice, whether this be audio or visual production.

An aesthetic language seems to span audio and visual works that is to say that you use a language and approach to creation in the same way whether it be audio or visual work, so it seems obvious that visual artwork that is in creation at any given time will in some ways mirror audio creation at the same time.

So as we where in the thick of creating the audio I had started making some experimental pin hole lumen prints (a photographic technique where you work with photographic paper within direct sunlight).

These were simple images of dots created with holes in little metal boxes. They were interested in capturing light and time rather than a conventional image. So the images were created using one (pin) hole exposed for one hour, two (pin) holes for two hours and so on up to 12 holes/12 hours.

I was sharing these with Bill and as well as Bill liking the work/process it became apparent that they seemed to share an aesthetic with the audio we were working, looking at light, time, space.

So in conversation with Bill I started to take the photographs into digital forms, exploring how the ‘dust’ of the analogue process could be extrapolated through digital forms, and then of course taken back into the darkroom and analogue processes, exactly how we were working in the audio work.

From there, and through extensive email conversations the artwork developed into the body of work that comes with the release.

Like the artwork the titles also reflect the abstraction process. Needless to say – “Light Folds” can be understood from many different perspectives. – Craig Tattersall

www.light-folds.tumblr.com

credits

released December 20, 2013

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Craig Tattersall:

Guitar, piano, dusted loops, analogue loops, digital loops, drum machine, analogue synth, synth bass, field recordings, abstractions, fragment constructions and reconstructions, abstractions of Seaman (etc.), analogue spatial recordings, artificial wind, crackles (record surface noise), Logic

Bill Seaman:

Piano, vocal, text, fragment constructions and reconstructions, time abstractions, quartet samples, trumpet samples, clarinet samples, drum machine abstractions, drum machine constructions (samples), digital distortions, bit reductions, synth abstractions, abstractions of Tattersall (etc.), digital loops, radical pitch shifts, noise enhancements, historical samples, crackles – record surface noise (from Tattersall), artificial crackles (Ableton Live), artificial rain
trumpet (sample recordings) – Robert Ellis-Geiger
Ciompi Quartet (sample recordings) – Eric Pritchard (violin), Hsiao-mei Ku (violin), Jonathan Bagg (violin and viola), Fred Raimi (cello)
clarinet drones (sample recordings) — David Beaudry
Ableton Live (construction space), Roland Edirol R-09HR Ver.3.0 instrument and voice recordings

Mastered by Miles Whittaker
Vinyl master by James Plotkin (Miles Whittaker initial master)

Produced by Tattersall ↔ Seaman
Cover Design, Pinhole Camera Photography, Prints - Craig Tattersall

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