Past The Clocktower, The Walled Garden

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The gaye device Dreamy minimal modular excursions. Favorite track: Mudflatts and Ferries.

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1.	Electric Meadow 01:52	buy track
2.	Seafront Process 05:08	buy track
3.	The Walled Garden 03:40	buy track
4.	Sybil Cycling 02:57	buy track
5.	Mudflatts and Ferries 06:42	buy track
6.	Bridge Watching 03:29	buy track
7.	In Forty Six 03:41	buy track
8.	Tea Whistle 01:42	buy track
9.	Fallen Sycamore Leaves 09:58	buy track

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David Mason of Listening Center, following 2022’s Cybernetic Window for Polytechnic Youth and Sendings Found for Temporary Tapes, presents the first in a series of albums which feature a detail from SX-70 polaroid photographs as the focal point of the artwork, hence the name, Series 70.

The first of these, titled Past The Clocktower, The Walled Garden, explores the transposition of memories of the artist’s childhood home — a coastal suburb in Dublin — to a realization in tonal synthesis, with an emphasis on the recollection of public spaces and neighborhood locations of historical significance. For example, the house where a renowned Physicist lived in the 1950s, is on a street lined with Sycamore trees; also the local municipal park, a former estate — in which can be found a walled physic garden, and a clocktower, (not currently functioning) the hands of which have been arranged to display perpetual midday, or midnight.

The instruments used solely consist of one small analogue modular synthesizer, built into an old Samsonite briefcase, with the exception of In Forty Six, which features chords from a polyphonic synthesizer. All tracks were recorded directly to stereo as performed. Much use is made of an “Arabesque Generator” which forms multiple overlapping patterns emanating from the same figure, generating sequences with a quasi-contrapuntal feeling.

PTCTWG represents perhaps the most personal album to date from Listening Center, while still navigating a familiar yet unfamiliar sonic terrain with nods to early electronic, radiophonic, minimalist and ambient aesthetics.

"...the nine grouped pieces exist sublimely in their own bubble of mesmeric minimalism, alluring ambience and chirruping charms..."
Adrian Pannett, Concrete Islands

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released October 6, 2023

David Mason - Modular and Polyphonic Synthesizer
Recorded in Beacon NY, 2020

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Listening Center presents a patchwork of imagined pasts and futures, in which the listener can make their way through an undergrowth of dream-like melodies and electronic sound palettes which have the effect of being now reassuring, now unsettling.

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