Werner Dafeldecker & Lawrence English – Fathom Tides

Description

The collaborative project of Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker has consistently been concerned with processes of transformation. This is all the moretrue for Fathom Tides, the duos second album for Hallow Ground following up on Tropic of Capricorn from 2023. Using field recordings collected fromdiverse coastal environments made by English and later treated extensively by Dafeldecker, the two sound artists explore cyclical changes in nature acrossthese seven pieces. Through its abstracted soundscapes, Fathom Tides poses concrete questions: What impact do we have on the world we inhabit?
Tropic of Capricorn was based on material English had recorded around Australia to highlight the countrys colonial past. On Fathom Tides, water andtides provided a conceptual framework for the duos remote working processnotions of states of action and tidal dynamics becoming guiding principles intheir work with the source material. English and Dafeldecker were led by the question how the morphing of solid forms into more liquid states might becaptured and used as compositional guides for their respective preparations treatments and the addition of electronics to the source material. While erodingcoastlines, river systems, and glacial transformation served as inspiration, the seven pieces resulted out of the two sound artists paying close attention toseemingly minute details through which immediate anddistant histories peek through often in the most unexpected and rewarding ways. Hence, Fathom Tides does not provide a macro view on the catastrophicchanges humans have facilitated on Earth. It is its own sound world guided by both the pace of its subjects and a recognition that time is fluida reminderthat our clocks are not those of the world around us.

Tracklist:

1) Fathom Tides I
2) Fathom Tides II
3) Fathom Tides III
4) Fathom Tides IV
5) Fathom Tides V
6) Fathom Tides VI
7) Fathom Tides VII