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Title:  .Murmer Artist:  Murmer Label:  Special Offer Format:  CDR Price:  € 3.10   Mp3 samples: none

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"The source recordings for .murmer were all taken during my first six months as a resident of the city London. Hence they document my exploration and discovery of a new home, as well as of a new medium. I purchased my first recorder and microphone upon arrival here, and began exploring their possibilities alongside exploring the city. These sounds are not a portrait of a location, however I made no attempt to map a geography. They are more personal many originate from within my private space (the refrigerator and grill provided in a bedsit; the wind through an apartment window) and all are tied strongly to my personal movements (the air vent on my local bus, the heater in my place of work). What ties them together is that they are all new sounds, for myself as well as (hopefully) for my listener, that caught me unawares and demanded to be given attention. That is what I have attempted to do." (Patrick McGinley)

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 of his work. Soon after, he began creating compositions with the minimal technical set-up of an analogue 4-track recorder 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. The concentration of his work is 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

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