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    "Jonathan Coleclough - Gate (out)"genre: Minimal
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    Sounds of ice cracking and gate squeaking. Original sounds recorded on the River Kennet (UK) and at Badwydog Bach farm (UK). LP: A different version appears on 'An Uncommon Nature' Label: Anomalous http//:www.anomalousrecords.com
    CD: An Uncommon Nature   Label: Anomalous

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    'Gate (out)' illustrates two aspects of field recordings that particularly interest me, emotional resonance and sonic texture. It uses a recording I made in 1996 by hanging a microphone from the front of two tied-together canal boats as they cruised along a frozen river. The sound you hear is the ice breaking as the hulls bite into it. For me the sound brings back memories of that particular boat journey, the friendships and alliances formed during it, the freezing cold weather, the uncertainty we felt about whether the boats would be able to make it through the ice. The sound also has a texture that fascinates me - it's made up of hundreds of different cracking sounds, each one unique - but together all those different cracking sounds form a texture that at one level can be considered almost uniform. Yet within that uniformity is a constant stream of unpredictable variation.

    Several years after making the ice recording, I used it along with a more recent recording of a squeaking iron gate on a farm to make this piece of music.

    A different version of 'Gate' appears on the compilation LP called 'An Uncommon Nature' released in 2001 by Anomalous Records of Seattle, USA. The LP also has pieces by Jeph Jerman, Mirror, Agog, Climax Golden Twins, Mike Shannon, Monos, Richard Lerman, and Dave Knott.
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