Recorded fields
Recorded Fields opens a window onto acoustic fields, electrical fields, improvised fields: atlases of sound, field recordings and sound art. Begun in 2007 in Central Australia, now based in Berlin and Milan, Recorded Fields is a platform for immersive works framed at the fringes of the fields of perception - injecting energy and freshness challenging the field and defying easy categorisation.
Beyond Enclosures
On his captivating new solo album, is an Ireland-based, Australian-born Robert Curgenven - highly regarded for his majestic, coruscating pipe organ through to feedback, immersive resonances via turntables and custom-made vinyl, as well as carefully detailed field recordings, experimental turntable techniques inter-woven with piano and extended pipe organ techniques with an enveloping, often ecstatic and mystic effect recalling resonances and sound intended as a physical field of perception.The 3…
They Tore The Earth And, Like A Scar, It Swallowed Them
**Translucent Red Vinyl - Visceral psychogeography of settler colonialsm via field recordings - 30+ remote areas across Australia recorded over 12 years - pipe organ, guitars, dubplates** "Rendered via field recordings gathered over 12 years in over 30 remote locations across Australia, mixed and expanded within immense, shimmering harmonics wrought via pipe organ, dubplates, guitar, bass and turntable feedback, piano, and low frequency oscillators. "Imagine you have found a new country. …
Sirene (Selected pipe organ works 1983-2014)
Drone vanguard Robert Curgenven returned to his ancestral home of Cornwall to put together the visceral, yet contemplative Siréne, a gorgeous drone works massively recommended if yr into Kevin Drumm, Eliane Radigue, Jason Lescalleet, Janek Schaefer. Mastered & Cut by Rashad Becker, Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, April 2014.16-foot pipe organs recorded in Cornwall at the churches of St Paul (Ludgvan), St Winnow (Towednack), St Uny (Lelant), St Wyllow (Lanteglos), St Cyrus & Juliette (St Veep). Un…
silent landscapes
Silent Landscapes, the first volume in Recorded Fields’ “Field Recording Series”, reveals four crisp, meticulously layered vignettes composed from field recordings made throughout Australia. Somewhere between beauty and brutality, the restrained fury of this landscape becomes quietly perceptible upon the threshold of silence; creating an intense exploration of uncharted territories at the edge of human experience. This country, given voice through one of the world‘s oldest living cultures, can u…
Alice Springs, central Australia
This is the first label's release and the first volume in the Sound Atlas Series. The project's recording stage began in Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory following an invitation to Curgenven and Howden to realise a project for Shifting Ground - Art Land Culture, a series of events running 3-18 May, 2007 designed to produce engagement with the arid landscapes of Central Australia. Alice Springs has a population of 28,000 and is a remote yet urban town flanked by mountain ranges, si…