Social Interiors – Spatial Circumference (Full Album)

Tracklist & info

00:00 - Things Change, Things Remain The Same (composed by Rik Rue)
20:41 - Mound Of Mounds (composed by Shane Fahey)
34:33 - Silent Latitudes (composed by Julian Knowles)
47:21 - Spatial Circumference (composed by Julian Knowles, Rik Rue, Shane Fahey)

This previously unreleased material by Social Interiors contains a solo piece by each member, culminating in the group piece and title track "Spatial Circumference", which brings each of the three previous pieces, and members, together.

Rik Rue's piece incorporates sound sources from the Australian outback, Julian Knowles' piece is based on recordings made from a long wire installation by Alan Lamb in the scrub country of Baldivis, WA; and Shane Fahey's piece was drawn from locations around West Head in Ku-ring-gai National Park, Sydney.

The final group piece consists of spatial surround sound recordings in coastal and rainforest regions on the south coast of NSW, spot source recordings, and tuned resonance modelling synthesis.

The works on the CD have their origins within a live a/v performance piece composed for Australian Perspecta 'Between Art and Nature' at the Art Gallery of NSW, in Sydney Australia. The sound was was presented in conjunction with video by Peter Oldham who worked with the same at the same beach and rainforest locations. Audio was projected into the performance space via a 12 channel surround sound system.

The concept for the recording process involved an investigative undertaking to produce a sonic expression of rich and evocative habitats. In order to follow this venture through, concerted and repeated contact with the environments was required. In this way awareness and presence was built, carrying through into the compositions.