We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Restless Leg

by Tom White

supported by
Graham Dunning
Graham Dunning thumbnail
Hannah Ellul
Hannah Ellul thumbnail
marnoi
marnoi thumbnail
ciaranmackle
ciaranmackle thumbnail
George Rayner-Law
George Rayner-Law thumbnail
fyodor
fyodor thumbnail
group A
group A thumbnail
mrblackw
mrblackw thumbnail
DARYL WORTHINGTON
DARYL WORTHINGTON thumbnail
/
1.
Soft Close 10:52
2.
Jitters 09:04

about

Tom White is an established figure on the international sound art scene. Aside from his physical output – 25 solo and collaborative releases – his live performances attract a burgeoning audience as interested in his compositional originality as his mechanical wizardry. It’s not unusual at his gigs to witness a front row semicircle of technocrats craning their necks to ascertain what model of tape player or software programme he’s using, while fellow artists and pure sound enthusiasts sit still, eyes closed, allowing themselves to be transported into a landscape of vibrations, glitches and clanks. The one question that typically bridges these sections of his fan base is: how on earth is he making that astonishing sound? As a digital native this music is produced by someone who is instinctively adept at harnessing the pick ‘n’ mix power of software tools, but also someone who is an authority on the history of analogue sound experimentation. The result: an aural language that blends influences as wide ranging as Luc Ferrari, Maryanne Amacher and Autechre that is firmly rooted in the mundane timbre of daily life while aspiring to the concurrent depths of inner and outer space.

This new release by Continuous Tone is a stereo mix of a live performance presented at Café OTO earlier this year. Kate Carr and Iain Chamber invited Tom to respond to their theme of “Rubbish Music” in which they take discarded objects as source material for live improvisations. The subsequent composition employs a pair of modified kitchen pedal bins as musical instruments; close mic’d, with the lids opening and closing periodically to modulate the sounds passing through and ‘prepared’ with bamboo sticks placed on the speaker cones inside so that low frequencies vibrate the metal lids.

credits

released November 7, 2022

Recorded by Pedro Subtil at Café OTO, July 10th, 2022
Mixed by Tom White
Mastered by Taku Unami

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Continuous Tone image

Continuous Tone London, UK

David Blamey lives and works in London. He established the Continuous Tone online platform for artists working with sound in 2019. The Wire described his O.K. cassette release for My Dance the Skull’s Voice Studies series as ‘something quite strange, creepy and good’. ... more

contact / help

Contact Continuous Tone

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Restless Leg, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now