kymatik

This track was created by the continual processing of an ambisonic field recording of a busy seaside street. If there is any intention to the piece it is to show that even though what one might consider "natural" sounds are practically absent from the original recording, when the significant sounds of the data that we as humans consider important (voices, vehicles, car stereo music, and other machinery in the case of a busy street), are filtered out, and the underlying patterns and reverberations are revealed, what remains bears more than a passing resemblance to the ebb and flow one might expect to hear in an environment solely populated by birds, arthropods and fauna.

Originally recorded straight to cassette from a session in 1989, this was reapproached with Mark Tamea in 1991. Very little changed at the time, but it was remastered with some tweaks in 2006 for the proposed release of Music for Users that year.

Unfortunately we don't have an anechoic chamber round here to engineer this in, but it is more delicate than Lorenz Attractor, which can be a little harsh to some ears. Fletcher Munson (equal loudness) curves were used to try and keep all the sounds present without being overbearing.. Please sit in the optimum listening position for your loudspeaker setup. The equal loudness curves have been set for an optimum listening level of 80dB or thereabouts. This track uses just intonation so don't be surprised if it seems a little flat to your Pavlovian sense of what's "in tune". There are a couple of small anomalies in this mp3 version. If you would like to download a 44.1 Khz version, just email us at nonserviam@lionslink.com

This version did not appear on the Paradigm Discs release

Gaia Distress Call - Live Mix: Personnel: McNaughton/I. Mladek. Equipment: Juno 106. Bel BD80. TR727. PZM microphone. Quadraverb+ Tapes. Previously unreleased. The final reworking of a track begun in early 1990, and the first without Dave Mulligan for around two years, it was finalised using the live engineering skills of Ivor Mladek in spring 1991.

"Stereo" version of an ambisonic recording using an AMS ST250 with an almost silent 36v 4 channel pre-amp

"Stereo" version of an ambisonic recording using an AMS ST250 with an almost silent 36v 4 channel pre-amp

"Stereo" version of an ambisonic recording using a Soundfiled MKIV modified with new gain control of 4 VCAs, shoehorned into the original pre-amp has also had an upgrade on the a-format caps, and a massively uprated transformer.

"Stereo" version of an ambisonic recording using a Soundfiled MKIV modified with new gain control of 4 VCAs, shoehorned into the original pre-amp has also had an upgrade on the a-format caps, and a massively uprated transformer.

"Stereo" version of an ambisonic recording using a Soundfiled MKIV modified with new gain control of 4 VCAs, shoehorned into the original pre-amp has also had an upgrade on the a-format caps, and a massively uprated transformer. Also using a 12v to 240v silent inverter made by the awesome Chris Richards.

"Stereo" version of an ambisonic recording using a Soundfiled MKIV modified with new gain control of 4 VCAs, shoehorned into the original pre-amp has also had an upgrade on the a-format caps, and a massively uprated transformer. Also using a 12v to 240v silent inverter made by the awesome Chris Richards.

Collaboration between Kymatik and the formidable and multi-talented Mark Tamea www.virb.com/marktamea This is not a great compression. Kymatik stuff is not readily compressed these days - we are audiophile producers. All our stuff is uploaded on torrents as FLAC somewhere. Get with it virb, and offer FLAC for a small fee.