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Alan Morse Davies
Amusement Park Phases
Album HK 2007 on At Sea Records label
Electronic (Abstract, Experimental)
Inspired by Steve Reich's late 60's tape works, "Come Out", and "It's Gonna' Rain", I wondered what Reich might have done if he had access to modern technology at the time. I had also been thinking about constructing something abstract from the sounds of old fairground organs, whirrs, clicks and occasionally strange tuning included. So, I digitised a bunch of recordings of fairground organs and other musical automata, then set about arranging each recording in layers up to 10,000 deep, coming up with three basic patterns (A, B and C) which I felt teased out interesting aspects of the original sound. The end effect of this in some of these pieces, is that the listener is able to hear every moment of a recording at once. After a few days of this, working feverishly but not stopping to listen to the results, I realised I had made a couple of mistakes right at the at the start in how I had arranged the patterns. In a way my modern technology was mimicing the imperfections of the original instruments, so I left the "mistakes" intact.
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Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phase II-15 Type A | Alan Morse Davies | 9:06 | |
| 2 | Phase I-55 Type ABC | Alan Morse Davies | 5:48 | |
| 3 | Phase II-17 Type A | Alan Morse Davies | 25:23 | |
| 4 | Phase II-19 Type A | Alan Morse Davies | 2:56 | |
| 5 | Phase I-27 Type ABC | Alan Morse Davies | 15:56 | |
| 6 | Phase II-11 Type A | Alan Morse Davies | 1:44 | |
| 7 | Phase III-4 Type ABC | Alan Morse Davies | 3:04 |
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