<br><b>Christopher McFall & Ben Fleury-Steiner - the dirty and the clean .EP</b><br><br><br clear="all">First collaborative effort from these two excellent sound artists from the deep America.<br><br><p><i>my work is a process of combining field recordings made on a dreary<br>
Sunday morning in the poorest sections of inner city Wilmington,<br>
Delaware--essentially these recordings were of empty spaces of wind<br>
moving through tight graffiti covered alley ways and rows of<br>
government housing located on the outer fringe of the city--the<br>
recordings primarily consist of a sudden clatter of debris, strange<br>
chiming noises but mostly a stretch of ghostly silences. I combined<br>
these recordings with processed electric guitar and electric mbira.<br>
everything was recorded live in the studio to create a series of<br>
textural works--this process of creating a musical environment I<br>
intended throughout to be a kind of reclaiming of what lay beneath the<br>
taken-for-granted, indeed, "dirty" city underbelly. that is, I wanted<br>
to bring out the beauty in all landscapes and natural phenomenon<br>
(i.e., wind), however, disguised and dirtied they may be by government<br>
neglect and public indifference to longstanding segregation....</i></p>
<p><i><em>[ Ben Fleury-Steiner ] </em></i></p>
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I've really enjoyed listening to Ben Steiner's compositions. They're
wonderfully layered in depth and exhibit an exqusite density that comes
across in a pristine way, one of which that really captivates my ears.
Last summer I began talking with Ben about the possibility of
collaborating and things began to fall into place really quickly, which
was great. At the time we were also talking about the cities we live in
and about the variety of sounds we come across as a result. To me these
works represent the artistic culmination of treated sound extracts of
the urban display. They exemplify a hybrid of the urban experince
rendered through sound, built and broken, the dirty and the clean...</i>
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<p><em><i>[ Christopher McFall ]</i> </em></p><br><a href="http://www.con-v.org">http://www.con-v.org</a><br><br><br><br><br>