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from April Fields by Various Artists

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"""Stage-Plugged Forest"" is a composition for field recordings, created for the <i>April Fields</i> project by Silber Media.

The piece uses two distinct sets of field recordings. The first are ambient recordings I made on a Zoom recorder around Greenfield Lake in Wilmington, NC, where I live. In addition, other field recordings were used from around my own property, which is across the street from the park.

The second set of recordings were made during setup of our Squidco Presents Hooked on Sonics at BarZarre in Wilmington, our monthly series. Heard are the voices of myself, Carl Kruger, and Sean Hart (and possibly others not prominent in the recording). These are all from one concert, and I am uncertain who is actually generating the sounds used. I unearthed this recording while searching for sources, which was definitely recorded because I fortuitously forgot to turn off the recorder after checking levels.

As I developed the piece I was curious about the interaction of these two very disparate sources, as though the electronic test sounds were animals in the park and vice versa. I found the two uniquely suited to each other, right down to a feedback buzz that would normally irritate me during setup, but which had a lovely character inside the piece. I also riffed on the extraneous sounds of the field recording equipment, sounds made by plugging an unplugging devices, startling and inexplicable noises generated by the equipment itself, brought to the surface when put under an audio microscope (aka normalizing).

All the work on this piece was done using Cubase on Macintosh. Many thanks to Brian John Mitchell for making this project possible."

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from April Fields, released May 7, 2020

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