On Earth // In Air, by Alex Hawthorn

On Earth // In Air

by Alex Hawthorn

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	1.	Foundation (live at EESF) 16:59	info	buy track
	2.	Ex Undis, Cognitio (live at Floating Transmissions) 21:00	info	buy track

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Two performances from September, 2023: CalArts' Experiments in Electronic Sound Festival 2023 in Los Angeles and Floating Transmissions radio sound art festival, Hamburg, Germany. Two separate pieces, linked by considerations of medium and transmission.

// Foundation

Recorded live at CalArts' inaugural Experiments in Electronic Sound Festival on September 28, 2023.

"Foundation" uses an 18" square slab of poured concrete with a contact mic embedded in the center as the only source of sound for the piece. The signal is then mangled, looped, fed back, processed, and glitched to produce the soundscape. A variety of implements are used to strike, rub, and vibrate the concrete, creating an array of sounds.

// Ex Undis, Cognito

Recorded live aboard the MS Stubnitz, Hamburg, DE, on September 2nd, 2023, as part of the opening night of Floating Transmissions, a week-long radio sound art festival.

"From the waves, knowledge". A piece crafted through a combination of the Moog Subharmonicon and recordings of radio waves received by a geostationary satellite, primarily of a shipping weather report for vessels on the oceans below. I am captivated by these mangled recordings of radio waves escaping Earth's atmosphere and finding a shipping weather report recorded from space felt apt in Hamburg, one of the busiest ports in the world.

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released December 1, 2023

"Foundation" recorded by Justin Scheid and the CalArts concert crew.
Mixed by Alex Hawthorn
Photograph from EESF courtesy of CalArts
Photograph from Floating Transmissions courtesy of Diana Raiselis

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