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Tristan Bath, Wire Magazine:
"An extremely strange assemblage of field recordings by Bristol's Seth Cooke, largely collected from above-ground water features in the city following the below-ground route of the River Frome. Intriguingly, the entire piece is based on a work by Swiss composer Stefan Thut, whose scores often revolve around systems and rules more than notes on staves. Cooke's recordings of the various water features range from irregular thuds of sploshing water to trickling patter, all the while interjected by skateboard wheels, cars and general Bristolian street chatter. As a sonic topography it seems to both criticise and celebrate the unusual route of the Frome. Revised and rerouted as it has been so many times over the last century or two, the sound of the gushing river remains a key component in the city's backdrop."

Original release notes:
"This version of "aussen raum" – a realisation of Stefan Thut’s text-based score – uses recordings and non-recordings of an oft-ridiculed water feature built atop and supposedly symbolising the redirected and culverted River Frome beneath Bristol’s Harbourside. This botched and banal public art is the centrepiece of a perpetually contested inner-city site in flux over seven centuries. The recording was made in 2015, and the location is being remodelled yet again at the time of writing in 2017. Partially inspired by Bristolian artist Richard Long’s 1967 work ‘A Line Made by Walking’, the piece involved repeatedly treading a single straight path through the fountains and the cascade. Recordings of four of these tracings are presented in this release. It comments on trends and superstitions in field recording – relating to water, human activity positioned in opposition to the ‘natural’, and assumptions about the capability of sound to represent ‘place’. The cover art features a photograph of the statue of Neptune that has taken up yet another temporary residence at this location as the river’s genius loci, twin symbols of our ambivalence towards water in urban spaces. Both god and river have led transient, displaced existences over hundreds of years, of No Fixed Abode like the increasing numbers of rough sleepers currently taking refuge in the urban vacuum around the Harbourside."

credits

released May 15, 2017

'aussen raum', Stefan Thut, 2008
im aussen raum – an area outside
(mehrmals) – (several times)
zwischen klang und rauschen – between sound and noise

"The River Frome was diverted in the 1240s and 1820s, then culverted between 1858 and 1938. It was used for defence, trade and sewerage before its burial beneath Bristol’s commercial centre. The 1998 redevelopment included a series of water features marking the river’s subterranean path, from the relocated statue of Neptune to the padlocked outlet where it emerges into St. Augustine’s Reach. The remodelling was criticised in the 2010 Bristol Central Area Action Plan: Cherish & Change Summary due to binge-drinking culture, fumes, traffic flow, safety, noise and “dribbling” fountains. This symbolic Frome is a self-contained freshwater system. The rivers are disparate; the tribute water irreconcilable."

Seth Cooke - no-input field recordings, stereophonic field recordings
Stefan Thut - score

Mastered by Branic Howard at Cloud City, Portland, Oregon

Photograph by Seth Cooke

Layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery

Printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans

Duplicated by National Audio Company, Springfield, Missouri

Originally released on 15th May 2017 by Notice Recordings:
noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/aussen-raum

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Seth Cooke Bristol, UK

filling noise with space

artefacts and artifice

live performances involving feedback & resonance

occasional drums & electronics

other projects:
Dominic Lash & Seth Cooke (duo)
Every Contact Leaves a Trace (label)

past projects:
Hunting Lodge
Defibrillators
Bang the Bore

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