voices #54
◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
here we got:
public_machines
answering some questions. We have already observed his experimental / drone / noise / field recordings work here.
[1. IDEA]
■ The A. O.: The track from “A Universe” that we prefer is “Arms Used to Hold You”. Can you tell us how it came to light?
► public_machines: Like so much of my music, it came to be by chance. I had at different times recorded two piano pieces on separate tracks on a multitrack cassette player and then forgot about them. Some time later I found the unmarked cassette, played it and was immediately struck by the strange but familiar feeling. By chance, the tracks were recorded just slightly out of sync but when played together they fit, in an odd not-quite-right way with an almost limping rhythm, something I found very fascinating.
This was then recorded from a regular cassette player at a lower speed to make all the textures and noise from the tape come alive. It was re-recorded to tape several times, each successive recording further degrading the sound and bringing even more analog artefacts into the mix. To finish off the track I added a touch of granular and delay effects.
I don’t want to go too much into the meaning of the track, as it’s meant to be up to the listener’s interpretation. However, as the title suggests it’s about loss in some way. But to me the music feels ambiguous. So is it a sad loss or a happy loss? Maybe a little bit of both?
[2. CREATION]
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