SUPERMARKET LP 2023
Two pieces generated from musical material found within a 14-minute recording of Sainsbury’s supermarket, Chingford, UK, recorded at 17:26 on October 16th, 2020. The source recording contains music-like material. The material, once isolated, cross-processed and rerecorded, reveals extended electroacoustic versions of itself.
In the source recording (audible in Variation 1), checkout scanners produce clusters of short pitched tones as the cashiers process shopping items. Each checkout has its own distinct pitch. These tones are accompanied by the resonant mechanical drone of the conveyor belts. There are also more chaotic momentary events such as metallic trolley collisions and customer service announcements. These three musical elements (tones, drones and events) form the material for these pieces. Both pieces are precisely rhythmically articulated by the musical events in the original source recording.
Variation 1: Hard Disk Recorder / Digital Sampler
Variation 2: Piano, Bowed Piano, digital sampler and Ring Modulator
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