Buan

from DMARC by Alan Gleeson

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Buan - Irish word mean constant, continual, or perpetual.

In the modern times we live we are faced with a barrage of sound and noise day and night. In Cities and built up areas throughout the world noise is a bigger problem than it has been in the past. As the population grows, cities expand and as our world becomes smaller we should consider what sort of sonic environment we want the future to be. Our senses have evolved to filter out background noise so we can concentrate and avoid distraction. With all this sonic information constantly coming at us, we hear everything but often don’t have a chance to listen to individual sounds. If people had a chance to do so they might realize the imprint were leaving on the soundscape, as R. Murray Scahafer says in the “World Soundscape Project”, “...it is not unusual for man to begin valueing things, just at the point where he is engaged in wrecking them”. Its often said by people living or working in such environments that “you get used to the noise”. While this may be true at a functional level, sound and noise are a much more powerful force than people give them credit for and effect us as music does on a subconscious as well as physical level.

All the material in piece comes from field recordings made in and around Limerick City. In recording the sound you become hyper-aware of the omnipresent human element. Every recording was accompanied by the drone of traffic. In the treatment of the material I was interested in processes that would completely transform the sounds while still maintaining a temporal or dynamic imprint of the original sound and also a roughness, brought about from the process, which I left exposed, as a comment on our apparent ability to tune out distracting sounds. Through doing this i hope to emphasize the irony that while a lot of the sounds are abrasive and would sound out of place if heard in the street, most people accept the foreign sounds that where the source for these transformations.

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from DMARC, released August 4, 2016

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