Drone Hill 225
"South of a disused caravan site (elevation 225) and north of a sheep wash (elevation 238) is a point where electrified wires descend from a hilltop and meet. Mr Harrison has been recording at this focus in varying weather conditions over several years using piezo-transducers amd portable MD equipment. By this simple technique the entire hillside is turned into a microphone." Recorded 1997-1999 at Drone Hill.
Sitting on Theories on the Frontier on Extension
2003 release ** Cardboard sleeve, each copy with a unique hammer imprint. "Akin to Erik Satie’s advice to the performer of his Vexations to prepare oneself with some “serious immobilities”, Cal Crawford here examines the impossibilities of holding still. For ‘sitting on theories on the frontier on extension’, his first full length solo CD, he generated sounds by sitting on top of a bundle of blankets with a microphone rolled up into its center. This one hour process was his starting point. He di…
Kasi Naigo
2001 release ** "A sound study of Ingmar Bergman’s Tystnaden (The Silence) and the silence of the Other… the object itself is a compression of an impossible space through the trituration of a gesture-the infinite as a question… A singular blast of air interchanged with a hollow, crackly static drone are almost constant through this, disc, and they serve to create an eerie, lonely, wide-open silence…"