[microsound-announce] [framework radio] #759: 2021.05.30

Mon May 31 05:04:26 EDT 2021

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#759: 2021.05.30
listen to this edition here:
https://frameworkradio.net/2021/05/758-2021-05-30/

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this edition has been produced by regular contributor mark vernon. for 
more information see http://meagreresource.com. producer's notes:

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Mark Vernon - Ribbons of Rust
Audio Archaeology Series Volume 2: Laem Thian

Ribbons of Rust continues a series of works exploring concepts around 
audio archaeology and found sound that began with the ‘Lend an ear, 
leave a word’ LP - Volume 1 in the Audio Archaeology series - released 
on Kye records in 2016. It is an irreverent, non-purist approach to 
field recording that puts found sound recordings of voices and music 
from the past on an equal footing with contemporary field recordings of 
a particular location.

This album focuses on a derelict and abandoned holiday resort at Laem 
Thian bay on the east coast of the island of Koh Tao in Thailand. The 
resort is situated in a small cove that is only accessible on foot via 
an overgrown path and a walk of several miles - a journey very few 
tourists bother to make. The concrete structure opens out onto a small 
sandy beach that would have provided an idyllic holiday setting at one 
time. A number of palm-thatched holiday cottages with dilapidated roofs 
slide down the hillside. There are signs of vandalism; graffiti 
decorates the walls, the remains of campfires, broken glass and other 
detritus litter the floors – but traces of the previous occupants also 
remain. Children’s toys, kitchenware, hand written notes, menus, 
mattresses, a plastic telephone and four cassette tapes – rusty, caked 
in sand, weather damaged and corroded by the humid salty sea air.

Back at home these tapes were prised apart and transplanted into new 
cassette shells to salvage the audio from them. This unearthed an array 
of typically sentimental Thai easy listening and pop tunes and, perhaps 
more unusually, Christian sermons and hymns in Thai. It seems likely 
that the music and voices on these tapes would once have resonated 
within that space and through the composition process they intermingle 
with the sounds of this location once again. This piece is made from 
excerpts of the recordings found on the tapes along with field 
recordings taken on site, the journeys there and back and audio rips 
from video clips uploaded by other travellers who came across this same 
location.

The haunting quality of this place left a deep impression on me. The 
sense of isolation and abandonment it engendered was in stark contrast 
to the rest of the island, and indeed the rest of Thailand as I 
experienced it. This feeling stayed with me and in some way it permeated 
the rest of my stay in the country. It is that feeling that I wanted to 
convey through this work. The impetus behind this project has been less 
objective documentation and more a form of sonic time travel. A document 
of a place that no longer exists.

All recordings made or found in Thailand between February and March 2016.

Developed during the Hospitalfield Summer Residency 2017. Made with 
support from the PRS Foundation’s Open Fund and Sound and Music’s 
Francis Chagrin Award.   

Original version released as a limited edition cassette by Flaming Pines 
in 2019.

Special thanks to Tian Miller, Barry Burns, Ian Middleton and Kate 
Carr.   Location photographs by Tian Miller.   Cassette documentation by 
David Fulford.

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framework intro submissions:

    1)    take yourself and an audio recorder to a location of your choice
    2)    record for AT LEAST 1 minute before you -
    3)    read aloud the following text (in english or translated):

welcome to framework. framework is a show consecrated to 
field-recording, and its use in composition.  field-recording, 
phonography, the art of sound hunting; open your ears and listen!

    4)    continue recording for AT LEAST 2 minutes after the text
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recording to us on any format, or send us an mp3

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