Tristan Louth-Robins // Borrowed Out Of Time LP

Tristan Louth-Robins // Borrowed Out Of Time LP

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オーストラリア・アデレイドの実験音楽家Tristan Louth-Robinsが、2024年11月にアデレイドの実験レーベルde la Catessenから150部限定でリリースしたレコードです。

物音ドローン4曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more de la Catessen releases available at Tobira.

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12" black vinyl.
Edition of 150. 

Tracklist:

1. Conjuring 03:04
2. Memento Trails 14:31
3. Sunken Lodestone 14:40
4. Eternal Exposure 04:04

Text excerpt by Jon Dale, via the label :

"...Tristan is one of those consistent presences within Adelaide’s network of experimental musicians, sound artists, and general refuseniks. I remember him always being around, but at a remove from the circles I was in, and he seemed, at the time, aligned more with sound art and conservatorium practices, though that was a reductive understanding of the complexity of Tristan’s thinking, even two decades ago. It’s been lovely to catch up with his music on Borrowed Out Of Time and get to grips with both the eloquence of the compositional approaches he’s arrived at here, and the sensitivity of his listening and recording; even in MP3 form, this is a lovely record to listen to.

The album itself started with Tristan’s use of remote acoustic recorders. Deploying them to a reef at low tide, near his hometown in Normanville, he found himself empathising with these lonely, passive technological presences: “It was the first time I could remember a profound pang of something for what the technology was experiencing, sensing and ‘feeling'.” A loosely contemporaneous encounter with James Bridie’s Ways Of Being and the concept of unwelt (“the way non-human things sense and experience the world around them”), plus a commission for an installation work for Adelaide Festival’s Neoterica, nudged Tristan further in the album’s direction, thinking through ideas of the uncanny/unheimlich and interference.

If that material, plus other recordings sourced from those acoustic recorders, proffers the groundwork for Borrowed Out Of Time, Tristan’s embellishments and extrapolations in his home studio bring other voices to bear – a Tama acoustic guitar; tape hiss; digital noise; cymbals; fence wire; ring modulation; yet more – producing a suite of four works that strike as gently poignant, even as they deal with source material that is sometimes disembodied, denaturalised, or rendered adrift through processes of compositional dislocation. Reflecting on his ways of making, Tristan mentions, “A lot of my compositional process nowadays errs on the side of being very tactile,” and you can definitely hear that in Borrowed Out Of Time, alongside a spatialised dimension to the material that is maybe drawn from other studio practices – “I frequently spread sounds out in the space using many loudspeakers of different sizes, so I can move these around and treat them by covering them with bowls, turning them upside down, or placing them under or within resonant vessels.”

Throughout, I hear a cussed curiosity and a sharpness in attention, coupled with a compositional ear that’s hitherto been mostly implied; now, though, Tristan’s music has achieved an easeful poetics that has no need to ask you to be enamoured of it. It’s simply there, smartly designed, inviting even at its most austere, ready to welcome you to its world, on its own terms, but with warmth and understated wit."

Artist : Tristan Louth-Robins

Label : de la Catessen

cat no : DLC017

オーストラリア・アデレイドの実験音楽家Tristan Louth-Robinsが、2024年11月にアデレイドの実験レーベルde la Catessenから150部限定でリリースしたレコードです。

物音ドローン4曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more de la Catessen releases available at Tobira.

----------------------

12" black vinyl.
Edition of 150. 

Tracklist:

1. Conjuring 03:04
2. Memento Trails 14:31
3. Sunken Lodestone 14:40
4. Eternal Exposure 04:04

Text excerpt by Jon Dale, via the label :

"...Tristan is one of those consistent presences within Adelaide’s network of experimental musicians, sound artists, and general refuseniks. I remember him always being around, but at a remove from the circles I was in, and he seemed, at the time, aligned more with sound art and conservatorium practices, though that was a reductive understanding of the complexity of Tristan’s thinking, even two decades ago. It’s been lovely to catch up with his music on Borrowed Out Of Time and get to grips with both the eloquence of the compositional approaches he’s arrived at here, and the sensitivity of his listening and recording; even in MP3 form, this is a lovely record to listen to.

The album itself started with Tristan’s use of remote acoustic recorders. Deploying them to a reef at low tide, near his hometown in Normanville, he found himself empathising with these lonely, passive technological presences: “It was the first time I could remember a profound pang of something for what the technology was experiencing, sensing and ‘feeling'.” A loosely contemporaneous encounter with James Bridie’s Ways Of Being and the concept of unwelt (“the way non-human things sense and experience the world around them”), plus a commission for an installation work for Adelaide Festival’s Neoterica, nudged Tristan further in the album’s direction, thinking through ideas of the uncanny/unheimlich and interference.

If that material, plus other recordings sourced from those acoustic recorders, proffers the groundwork for Borrowed Out Of Time, Tristan’s embellishments and extrapolations in his home studio bring other voices to bear – a Tama acoustic guitar; tape hiss; digital noise; cymbals; fence wire; ring modulation; yet more – producing a suite of four works that strike as gently poignant, even as they deal with source material that is sometimes disembodied, denaturalised, or rendered adrift through processes of compositional dislocation. Reflecting on his ways of making, Tristan mentions, “A lot of my compositional process nowadays errs on the side of being very tactile,” and you can definitely hear that in Borrowed Out Of Time, alongside a spatialised dimension to the material that is maybe drawn from other studio practices – “I frequently spread sounds out in the space using many loudspeakers of different sizes, so I can move these around and treat them by covering them with bowls, turning them upside down, or placing them under or within resonant vessels.”

Throughout, I hear a cussed curiosity and a sharpness in attention, coupled with a compositional ear that’s hitherto been mostly implied; now, though, Tristan’s music has achieved an easeful poetics that has no need to ask you to be enamoured of it. It’s simply there, smartly designed, inviting even at its most austere, ready to welcome you to its world, on its own terms, but with warmth and understated wit."

Artist : Tristan Louth-Robins

Label : de la Catessen

cat no : DLC017