rick reed | keith rowe | bill thompson
shifting currents
(mikroton1718) 2xCD

Lovely double CD set in a nice plastic-free package. Limited edition of 300 copies. Highest recommendation!

Recorded at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November 2009 and at Stirling’s Le Weekend Festival in May 2009.

Rick Reed: EMS synthesizer
Keith Rowe: guitar, electronics
Bill Thompson: live electronics

Installation and composition: Bill Thompson
Commissioned by PRS for New Music

The recordings for the piece were gathered over the course of a year from Huddersfield, Stirling, Aberdeen (United Kingdom), and s'Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands). These were used to create an installation consisting of over 100 tracks that were remixed in real time during each performance. The set up varied from show to show, sometimes playing through 6 speakers and 3 subs, and at other times, through 12 speakers etc. The performers were positioned at the center of the audience, who in turn, were surrounded by the speakers from the installation. The performers' only instruction was to improvise sensitively to the sounds of the installation and each other.