Acute Inbetweens by Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello
Since their initial meeting in Australia during 2006, Stephen Vitiello (USA) and Lawrence English (AU) have enjoyed a long distance collaboration orbiting around the joint passion for field recordings and modular synthesis.
Exploring the points of convergence and divergence between electricity and environment, the duet's “Acute Inbetweens” is a collection of works derived from hazy environmental memory, imagined landscape and field recorded actualities. It's a blurring mist of encountered spaces, recreated by means voltage controlled.
Like the spatial inspiration that guides the record, “Acute Inbetweens” pace is tempered and during certain pieces borders on a sense of timelessness. Pieces such as “La Voix est absente” unfold with a pacing of the lauded opening Lotus flowers at Sinobazu-no-ike pond, individual elements revealing themselves in subtle arcs of sound, swelling into a rich harmonic whole. By contrast “Exposure in Relief” is a more robust and pulsing work in which micro melodies spiral into one another.
“Acute Inbetweens”, sharp moments diffused in time.
Tracklist
| 1. | Christening the Blackbird | 6:45 |
| 2. | Soft Plastic Shell | 10:44 |
| 3. | La Voix est absente | 6:56 |
| 4. | Tickled Inside | 7:56 |
| 5. | Exposure in Relief | 7:55 |
Credits
Recorded and produced by Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello 2007-2009. Mixed and mastered at 158, Brisbane.
Special thanks to Andrew Deutsch for organ loop on “Exposure in Relief”. Thanks to Tracy, Georgia, Rebecca and Schnapps.
