Erasures and Displacements

by Bill Seaman

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1.	A Visual Record of Scratches Reflecting on Time 05:54		buy track
2.	A Structured Removal, The Balance of the Pulse 06:38		buy track
3.	Collections Of Relational Introspections 06:51		buy track
4.	Altered Instruments, The Removal Of Time 06:34		buy track
5.	Entering The Library Of Collapsed Moments 06:45		buy track
6.	The Somber Space Of A Word 05:16		buy track
7.	Watching From Within The Library Of Melancholy Gestures 05:34		buy track
8.	A Circulated Compendium Of Machinic Thoughts 08:48		buy track
9.	The Lie Of The Perfect Empty Set 04:03		buy track
10.	Slow Motioning Through Scattered Reflections 06:11		buy track
11.	The Reflections Inherent To A Chosen Room 06:10		buy track
12.	The Machinic Exhale 04:26		buy track
13.	The Sea's Enfolded Signatures 06:13		buy track
14.	The Illusive Space Of A Thought 05:26	info	buy track

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I often work by making libraries or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. To make the library I basically “erase” most of the recording, and “displace” it by building up a new set of musical relations in Live (hence the title of the album) [although there are many readings to these two terms]. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 30 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. I have additionally included a library of supercollider abstractions. I also build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively.

Question – are there any sounds from 78s in this recording? "

(Seaman 2017)

www.billseaman.com

Date : 06.06.16
Map point : eilean 78
Color : blue
Season : summer
Duration : 84.48 mn (42.32 mn + 41.16 mn)
Label - Eileen

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released June 6, 2017

Seaman – piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and ableton live abstractions. production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — contrabass and electric bass guitar library
Craig Tattersall — synth bass library
Robert Ellis-Geiger — trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn library
Jonas Braasch — horn library for "The Sea’s Enfolded Signatures"

Artwork by Francisca Pageo
Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo
Inside Photography by Mathias Van Eecloo
Design by Rémi Verdier

Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, Mathias Van Eecloo and all of the instrumentalists.

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