Saturday, March 21, 2020

MUQARNAS released on Mahorka Records

  
 
Very soon available on cassettes for the cassette fetishists. And already available for sound fetishists: the audio! Online, free for download or pay as you wish. The pieces were contemplated as responses to architectures and geometrical mosaics recently studied. The Roland MC 307, the Flashback Looper, Roland Live Looper were the principle tools. Having mapped the sounds & parameters, I practiced and then recorded live, leaving them without any further manipulation, which accounts for some fluctuations and instabilities.

“Walking into a mosque one enters into the space of a very strong idea. Although these architectures reflect the human universe of the believers, the principles of their construction obey the laws of the creator of the universe. Walking in a valley, into cave or forest presents an equally strong idea, if one listens carefully. The natural world is also created by an unknown, undefinable creator. The creator, singular or plural, incarnate in the creation of spaces like valleys and forests and caves doesn't speak our language but what we have of the language of architecture and speech is drawn from the resonance and the laws of such spaces. Listening itself becomes an architecture. We reflect on how and when we listen. Simplicity and complexity convolve an infinite interaction.” 
-- Jeffrey Alan Gburek

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