Tip! *100 copies limited edition* A single note can linger in the air far longer than the hand that set it moving. That awareness sits at the heart of the new joint release by Clinton Green and Barnaby Oliver - artists who have made a practice of listening for what comes after the obvious, and who thrive in the shadowlands of acoustic exploration. Their partnership, forged and refined through years in Melbourne’s ever-inventive experimental community, is not built on conventional themes or structures. Instead, it unfolds through the careful study of resonance, space, and quiet change. On this latest recording, Clinton Greendraws delicate drones and tactile frictions from aluminum bowls and the cavernous interior of a 102-key grand piano, coaxing out vibrations often left to evaporate unnoticed in everyday life. Alongside, Barnaby Oliver answers and provokes with violin, piano, and the gentle friction of bowed banjo, feeding back into each gesture the energy and tension that make improvisation a living process.
The works collected here are not performances to be consumed, but rooms to be entered. Sound accumulates in waves, sometimes almost vanishing, sometimes growing thick, raw, and immediate. The duo’s approach asks for patience; instead of offering climax or clear resolution, Clinton Green and Barnaby Oliver allow each permutation to unravel, drawing the listener further into a shared ritual of attention. The recordings find their genesis in a live set at Tempo Rubato, where the act of listening itself became a communal event - amplified in this release's follow-up studio session, now sensitively sequenced for the physicality of two vinyl sides. Across two slow arcs, quietness is given its own weight and texture - a horror-movie hush sometimes, at other times a gently flickering glow. Environment is not a backdrop but an active collaborator; the ambient sounds of the recording space expand the music’s subtle harmonic blooms. What emerges is not only the result of shared intent, but the natural product of stewardship - of staying with sound long enough for it to show its finer details, and for the musicians and audience alike to discover new possibilities within a continually renewing acoustic landscape. This release is more than documentation - it is an invitation to dwell within the overlapping worlds Clinton Green and Barnaby Oliver patiently construct. Careful in execution yet quietly radical in their intent, their collaboration extends a hand to anyone interested in finding nuance and wonder within the patiently unfolding.