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Ex-Easter Island Head Modern Classical 2014

Genre:	Electronic / Jazz
Performer:	Ex-Easter Island Head
Title:	Two Comissions For Cassette Tape
Style:	Modern Classical
Date of release:	2014
MP3 album size:	1261 mb
FLAC APE album size:	1905 mb
WMA album size:	1253 mb
Digital formats:	MP3 MP1 VOC MP4 DTS ADX VQF

Tracklist

A1	A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison 1: Antrim	5:59
A2	A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison 2: A Curfew Tower	4:31
A3	A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison 3: Cairn	6:55
B	Mercy Comission	15:58

Companies, etc.

Mastered At – Roughgrain

Credits

Design – Lewis Mclean
Mastered By – Martin Kuchta
Mixed By – James Rand

Notes

‘A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison’ was commissioned by Static Gallery, Liverpool and was written and recorded across five days in The Curfew Tower, Cushendall; an 18th century tower functioning as an artists' residency in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Using a pair of microphones, two prepared guitars, cassette four track, percussion and the resonant properties of the stone walls, wooden floors and narrow passageways within the four-story structure’s architecture, the piece sees the duo of Benjamin D. Duvall and Patrick Morrison reflecting on the life of playwright, director, actor and mentor Bill Morrison (1940-2011). Part celebration, mourning and wake, the piece sees Bill's typewriter returned to Antrim the county of his birth and resting place of his ashes – and incorporated into a deeply personal ritual of sound and remembrance.

‘Mercy Commission’ was an evening length installation piece for three cassette tape loops and multiple speakers, commissioned by Mercy Arts/Literature agency as part of the Spectres of Spectacle event held at Static Gallery, Liverpool, 29 September 2011. The brief was to create “Half-erased, deliberately fogged works across lo-fi, spoken word, and the analogue/digital crossover”. The three loops each represent a fragment of a personal history: a lost mangled loop of voice and synthesiser unearthed, a prepared bass guitar inherited from a friend no longer with us, a hundred year-old harmonium threads of narrative cycling permanently in slow phase, combining and separating to produce a meaning just out of reach. The piece ran continuously for six hours with no processing, save for volume adjustments performed from a simple timeline based score and the changing timbral and dynamic effects caused by the movement of people through the gallery. Presented on this release in a significantly condensed form foregrounding the melodic, tonal qualities of the piece over its durational ones, Mercy Commission is Ex-Easter Island Head's first 'performerless' piece, with the mechanical certainty of the endlessly repeating loops taking the group's use of repetitive processes to their logical extreme.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
none	Ex-Easter Island Head	Two Comissions For Cassette Tape ‎(4xFile, FLAC, Album)	Tombed Visions	none	2014