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Selected Circumferences

by Chris Caines

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1.
Our Glorious Dead 05:19
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2.
People You May KNow 05:44
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3.
We Used Whatever Came To Hand 06:17
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4.
Advances In Pure Mathematics 05:07
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5.
The Right To Remain Silent 05:00
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6.
The Ribs Beneath The Skin 05:40
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7.
I Regard This As An Omen 06:28
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8.
Blind Carbon Copy 13:05
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9.
A Backyard Blood Sacrifice 05:10
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10.
I'm Afraid That Is All We Have Time For 14:26
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Selected Circumferences is a soundtrack collection from the Circumference twin channel video work completed in 2021. These pieces like the video work they come from aim to arrive at a point of stasis. While there are (sometimes busy) timbral and tonal shifts that occur, beneath the surface layer they remain simple harmonic ideas that present themselves with bones laid bare, hoping to act as points of static reflection like the portrait format video compositions they accompany.
The twelve piece video work is constructed from five minute sections on two alternating screens, a tik and then a tok, to make up an hour or alternatively to represent the calendar months of a year. The sound is composed from the archive or material built up over the twelve month period of production and contains reworked and reimagined elements of previous live performances and sketches alongside newer material from field recordings made during the year. The scrapbook collage basis of both the raw visual, textual and sound material led to the piece developing a diary like shape as it came together. Unavoidably as this period was mid 2020 through mid 2021 it became a type of journal of the plague year. Writing this now toward the end of 2021 I can hear in these selected fragments the quality of that time, the wrenching rollercoaster of day to day uncertainty inside the stillness of mostly domestic confinement.

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released November 4, 2021

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