| Artist: Murmer |
| Title: "They Were Dreaming They Were Stones" |
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Catalog #: GF030 |
| Series: I |
| Total Time: 61'25" |
| Release Date: January 6, 2004 |
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They Were Dreaming They Were Stones
01: Prologue
02: Part One
03: Parts Two, Three and FourThe first 50 copies of "They Were Dreaming They Were Stones" came with a bonus 3" CDr entitled "Elements". These were sold out in 6 days.
They Were Dreaming They Were Stones (GF030): This piece was composed very slowly over the course of the last two years; part one came first - inspired by the hypnotic rhythm of the ancient gas meter in my basement - and was then left alone for about a year. Finally, with a desire to reuse some old telephone feedback recordings that had been made for a composition that I hadn't been happy with, the prologue came into existence, and then, much later, the longer conglomeration of parts two, three and four. I mastered these as a single track as, while they are three distinct parts, they do not have distinct transitions, blending slowly from one into the next. The piece shares many of its elements with the live soundtrack to the show K.A.., which I have been performing over the past year with the French performance company Urba. The earlier parts were completed when rehearsals began, and were integrated into the show, and much of the latter work came directly out of the rehearsal process. - Patrick McGinley
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Elements: Elements has been released by Ground Fault as a limited edition 3" cdr included with the first fifty copies of They Were Dreaming They Were Stones, making use of all the sound elements from K.A. that were not represented on the full length CD it accompanies. This is not a performance document; the sounds are completely restructured, as the ties to the visual elements with in the performance are obviously not present. The development, culminating with the grating of a coiled metal wire, follows the slow advance of a storm, finally exploding and abating in the final moments.- Patrick McGinley
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m u r m e r
history:
patrick mcginley (born 1975) is an american born musician and theatre artist who has lived and worked in europe since 1996. from august 1996 until september 1998 he lived in paris, where he studied theatre and began his sound experiments in the context of those studies. moving to london in november of 1998, he began a collection of found sounds and field recordings that would become the basis of all his work. soon after, he began creating compositions with the minimal technical set-up of an analogue 4-track and 3 guitar effects pedals. he has composed works for several theatre performances, including the works of his own company, as well as performing live soundworks for others. his work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one's own breath.
current projects:patrick's fourth cd as murmer has just been released by the american record label ground fault. This follows releases for bake records (netherlands), s'agita recordings (italy), and absurd (greece). he is also currently working with multiple performance companies for upcoming productions, and has spent much of the last year touring a recent work with the parisian company urba in france, england, and denmark. He is a co-founder and chairman of framework, an organisation that produces a biweekly radio show on london's resonance104.4fm and organises and promotes live events for artists working in the realm of field recording and phonography. he is constantly developing new material, solo and in collaboration with other sound, visual and performance artists including rotozaza, urba, joel stern, jonathan coleclough and michael northam.
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