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Kitchen Composition

by David Blamey

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My home in South West France is located in remote countryside that faces the Pyrenees. The region is known locally as “lost France” since so little has changed between the last centuries. We don’t have heating or mains gas supply, for example, but it is quiet, the air is clean and the night skies are full of stars.

While sitting alone in the kitchen one autumn evening, I was struck by the musical equivalence of logs hissing in the fireplace and the rain that was steadily falling outdoors. It seemed astounding to me that even though a pan of water could be boiled to oblivion over my fire and that a blaze of twigs would be extinguished within a matter of minutes in the downpour, the sound of fire and water in this setting was articulated as if by close relatives, rather than opposing forces. A peculiar harmony was unexpectedly revealed in the sonic realm that united these hard-boiled polarities.

By concentrating on the noise of the house more deeply, a trickle from a tap left running in the adjacent bathroom came into aural range. It blended agreeably with the reverberation of my chair leg as I scraped it on the stone floor while adjusting position to get nearer to the glow of the hearth. Then a stick of bamboo cut from the garden exploded in the flames just as the gale blew a mournful whistle through the wood instrument that is our dilapidated kitchen window frame.

Little by little a concert of small sounds presented themselves to me and so naturally, as an expression of profound appreciation, I picked up an old brass Indian rickshaw horn and began to play along.

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released September 9, 2022
Mastered by Taku Unami
Design by Valerio De Lucente

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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

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