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Inside the music, microscopic sounds live within a prone and fragile ecosystem, where ambient atmosphere shrinks to encapsulate its tiny melodies and other assorted noises. For this collaboration, Xu & Seaman (Bill Seaman and Nicola Fornasari) exchanged samples, fragments, and ideas over continents and cables, moving from North Carolina, USA, to Italy. Although the sounds within have a certain amount of freedom, floating around in an ambient state, its atmosphere remains self-contained
The music is a tired set of sounds, with slow, tonal ripples occasionally beset by a light, dissonant interference or a gentle thrumming, like an insect in flight. The ecosystem is delicate, but it always maintains its balance. Particles turn into tones. Liquid meets air. Everything connects
Made by hand… 1 x vintage (circa:1935-1958) 7″ classical / opera vinyl covers, 1 x vintage (circa:1935-1958) 7″ vinyl, 1 x glass mastered CD (full size), 1 x circular see-through CD cover, 18 x prints (150mm x 150mm) on luxury uncoated paper (designed by Craig Tattersall), 1 x double sided hand numbered print on luxury uncoated paper, 1 x Qvinti Horati Flacci Opera Omnia insert (1910), 1 x vintage song sheet music insert (1910-1920), 1 x Stories of the Great Operas insert (1930), 1 x vintage family photograph, 1 x vintage cine-film negative strip, 1 x vintage photo negative in original glassine bag (numbered), stamped / hand numbered / scented, all of the above rests inside stitched Japanese wax bags, download code (includes 19 PDF prints), made with love…