Light Folds, by The Seaman and The Tattered Sail

Light Folds

by The Seaman and The Tattered Sail

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1.	v01 Her Whispers 07:42	buy track
2.	v02 A Void of Light 08:13	buy track
3.	v03 Dust and Grey Sound 05:24	buy track
4.	v04 Against the Swells 05:56	buy track
5.	v05 The Luminous Mercurial 06:15	buy track
6.	v06 Dusk 06:20	buy track
7.	v07 7 Holes 04:56	buy track
8.	v08 If Light Was Breathing On The Turn Of The Tide 09:51	buy track
9.	v09 ShiftLightMatter 06:17	buy track
10.	v10 Light's End 05:30	buy track
11.	v11 Tender To The Touch 06:56	buy track
12.	v12 Minute Folds 08:08	buy track
13.	cd01 Her Whispers Fall Silent 10:48	buy track
14.	cd02 A Tear In The Sails 08:00	buy track
15.	cd03 The Lighthouse of Grey Sound 12:15	buy track
16.	cd04 Light Against The Swells 15:26	buy track
17.	cd05 In Light Of The Mecurial 11:07	buy track
18.	cd06 The Fallen Light 19:54	buy track
19.	cd07 A Body Of 7 Holes 15:40	buy track
20.	cd08 If Light Turned The Tide Breathing 09:32	buy track
21.	cd09 Matter And Light 09:32	buy track
22.	cd10 Suspended Dust, Slow Movement, Light's End 13:33	buy track
23.	cd11 The Tender Of Emotion 10:56	buy track
24.	cd12 Light Folds 18:27	buy track
25.	b01 Whispers Across The Silent Dust 11:41	buy track
26.	b02 A Tear In The Sea 14:24	buy track
27.	b03 A Fragmented Light 10:24	buy track
28.	b04 Light Folds Across The Swells 17:19	buy track
29.	b05 Luminous Hands 09:25	buy track
30.	b06 Repetition Of A Gesture 10:08	buy track
31.	b07 Light Falls / 7 Holes 11:21	buy track
32.	b08 The Final Light 06:24	buy track
33.	b09 Shifting Light / Waves Of Matter 06:32	buy track
34.	b10 Light Cuts / Key Motions 09:20	buy track
35.	b11 Of Emotion 10:09	buy track
36.	b12 Light Folds [syn] 05:12	buy track
37.	c01 Her Whispers are Like The Silent Dusk 08:36	buy track
38.	c02 A Tear In The Sky 07:51	buy track
39.	c03 The Lighthouse of Grey Dust (for MD) 10:28	buy track
40.	c04 Against A Swell Of Emotions 09:04	buy track
41.	c05 In the Light Of The Mercurial:Cage(abbrev):Life Ends 06:14	buy track
42.	c06 A Film From A Quiet Distance 10:08	buy track
43.	c07 Precede Dust (a Sound Distance) 13:27	buy track
44.	c08 If Light Turned The Tide Breathing In Dust And Grey Sound 14:13	buy track
45.	c09 If Light Was Breathing 09:43	buy track
46.	c10 Details And Folds 09:20	buy track
47.	c11 A Tender Motion 10:22	buy track
48.	c12 Skin:Light Folds:Confused Sex Machine 07:21	buy track
49.	d01 Whispers Silence Her 13:52	buy track
50.	d02 At Its Sinking 15:41	buy track
51.	d03 (Re)Folded Light 13:12	buy track
52.	d04 Dust Against The Swells 08:03	buy track
53.	d05 The Emergent Light And The Random Walk 06:22	buy track
54.	d06 A Mix of Light Pulses (Daylight To Dusk) 08:24	buy track
55.	d07 The Folded Map Of Light 09:00	buy track
56.	d08 If Light Whispers Grey Sound 15:12	buy track
57.	d09 Shiftlight Armatures 12:00	buy track
58.	d10 Light Ends And Begins Again Elsewhere 10:28	buy track
59.	d11 Attending To Motion's Collapse 09:34	buy track
60.	d12 One Delicately Touches The Light Folds 07:17	buy track

about

The Seaman and The Tattered Sail are Craig Tattersall and Bill Seaman

The audio process…

Light Folds by The Seaman and The Tattered Sail is a collaboration between Craig Tattersall (The Boats, The Remote Viewer, The Humble Bee, Cotton goods, Theodore and Hamblin, The Famous Boyfriend, etc.etc. and artist/designer) and Bill Seaman (SEA, Attsea, Otic.Info.Set, sp.op.cit, Spilly and the Drops, etc. and media artist exploring linear and interactive works). The work took place via the internet, sending differing files back and forth using Drop Box, wetransfer.com, and vast quantities of email. After about 2 years Tattersall and Seaman met face to face!

It started with a simple back and forth set of responses to a few audio files, building up loops and tracks. Over time it built up to over seven hours of music. We initially made a double CD of works but we kept abstracting and remixing and colliding things. Tattersall brought his distinct form of “dusting” which explored unique forms of noise, tape ambience, tape degradation, etc. Seaman often explored abstraction using Ableton Live, especially in terms of time / pitch manipulation, and exploring the combination of a multitude of Ableton plug-ins. Huge amounts of data were sent back and forth! Occasionally we went a bit mad with naming and keeping track of... more
credits

credits

released December 20, 2013

Craig Tattersall:

Guitar, piano, dusted loops, analogue loops, digital loops, drum machine, analogue synth, synth bass, field recordings, abstractions, fragment constructions and reconstructions, abstractions of Seaman (etc.), analogue spatial recordings, artificial wind, crackles (record surface noise), Logic

Bill Seaman:

Piano, vocal, text, fragment constructions and reconstructions, time abstractions, quartet samples, trumpet samples, clarinet samples, drum machine abstractions, drum machine constructions (samples), digital distortions, bit reductions, synth abstractions, abstractions of Tattersall (etc.), digital loops, radical pitch shifts, noise enhancements, historical samples, crackles – record surface noise (from Tattersall), artificial crackles (Ableton Live), artificial rain

trumpet (sample recordings) – Robert Ellis-Geiger

Ciompi Quartet (sample recordings) – Eric Pritchard (violin), Hsiao-mei Ku (violin), Jonathan Bagg (violin and viola), Fred Raimi (cello)

clarinet drones (sample recordings) — David Beaudry

Ableton Live (construction space),
Roland Edirol R-09HR Ver.3.0 instrument and voice recordings

Mastered by Miles Whittaker
Vinyl master by James Plotkin (Miles Whittaker initial master)

Produced by Tattersall ↔ Seaman
Cover Design, Pinhole Camera Photography, Prints - Craig Tattersall

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Bill Seaman Durham, North Carolina

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