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The Book of Hours

by Alex Hawthorn

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Sunday 9p 13:52
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Monday 3a 07:09
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Monday 9a 15:29
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Monday Noon 16:36
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Monday 3p 16:46
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Monday 9p 13:04
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Tuesday 3a 15:30
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Tuesday 9a 20:32
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Tuesday Noon 15:10
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Tuesday 3p 13:40
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Tuesday 9p 12:28
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Wednesday 3a 12:09
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Wednesday 9a 20:16
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Wednesday 3p 19:36
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Wednesday 9p 22:32
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Thursday 3a 13:01
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Thursday 9a 17:08
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Thursday 3p 19:35
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Thursday 9p 18:14
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Friday 3a 15:18
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Friday 9a 22:36
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Friday Noon 15:24
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Friday 3p 18:44
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Friday 9p 21:22
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Saturday 3a 08:36
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Saturday 9a 26:04
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Saturday 3p 26:07
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about

This album serves as an archive of documentation for The Book of Hours, a durational performance I did in January/February, 2022. I lived in a gallery space for 6 days, improvising electro-acoustic pieces every three hours according to the daily schedule of prayer laid out in the Medieval devotional text, the Canonical Hours: midnight, 3am, sunrise, 9am, noon, 3pm, sunset, 9pm.

The sound remained on continuously throughout the week - each piece would begin from the soundscape that was left from the previous piece, three hours prior. The pieces ranged in duration from around 10 minutes up to 30 minutes. When not improvising (or sleeping) I read, wrote, and thought about the concepts of time.

The recordings presented here are unedited with only basic mastering compression has been applied. "Wrong" notes, intermittant cables, and out-of-tune oscillators are all laid bare and presented as truthful documentation of the pieces I created over the course of 6 days.

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released June 10, 2022

Composed and captured by Alex Hawthorn, Jan 30th - Feb 5, 2022
Mastered by Alex Hawthorn, June 2022

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Alex Hawthorn Los Angeles, California

Artist, composer, technologist based in LA/Brooklyn.

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