Living Room

from DMARC by Alan Gleeson

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The concept behind this piece is the perception of silence. In today’s modern world what is accepted as silence is often cluttered with subtle “interference noises”. Technology and location play a big part in this and often little thought is given to sound ecology. The unconscious random output that can be heard is subtle noise, sometimes we hear it or other times we are unaware of its presence. This is due to fact that they’re categorized as or are masked by the humdrum of daily noises. The silence in this piece represents a world surrounded by technology, it’s set in a city but could be written to represent any environment, the sounds here function as placeholders for the setting.

Music also can be very noisy, not to mean distortion or clangorous sounds but the way music making has developed, “it led people to think that the act of making music consisted of the act of making more and more sound, and filling up more and more space with sound”(Brian Eno, 1995). Technology now allows unlimited densities of sound, which is sometimes abused in all genres of music. The sounds in this piece reflect the sounds of daily life, even if we don’t hear or are aware of these sounds our brain does hear them and is affected by them. If we do become aware of these sounds rather than shutting out this noise or getting frustrated by it, listen to it another way, is there music in this sound? A lot of music is listened to as a means to escape or cover over things, sound here leaves space for the listener to contribute. The piece may be looked at as the sound of a Sunday afternoon in the city, if you listen a certain way. “The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."(John Cage)

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from DMARC, released August 4, 2016
Alan Gleeson

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