Animal architecture by Loren Chasse
For many years I've been wanting to create a sonorous fantasy in response to Karl von Frisch's fascinating book "Animal Architecture". Imagine an ear pressed to the carapaces, cocoons, nests, corals, the casings of mud.....discerning a music of this dimension's materials and transmutations.
Sounds made using glass panel, wire/nylon brushes, 1930s era Decca victrola, sandpaper, shells, autoharp, electromagnetic fields, dried lichen, foghorn, paper, resonators, mouth organs, field recordings (Costa Rica, Crete, and Croatia) and melodion.
Tracklist
| 1. | Chrysalid and ichor | 12:56 |
| 2. | Compass mound | 4:13 |
| 3. | Saliva casings | 19:22 |
| 4. | Holes, mounds, drips, webs | 10:42 |
| 5. | Biogenic lime hex | 18:05 |
Credits
(with love to s.r. who knows well the songs of these places)
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Loren Chasse's current projects include himself, So I'm As You'll, and Latourel. Past projects include idBattery, Of, Thuja, The Child Readers, Franciscan Hobbies, Coelacanth, the Jewelled Antler label, collaborations with Derek Eklund, Juho Toivonen, Caspar Sonnet, Keith Evans, and Michael Northam composing for TopShake Dance Company, and performing with Portland's Extradition ensemble.