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Suspicious Drone

by Pete Haughie

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Suspicious Drone 05:03
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Thomas Cole Tyler - Suspicious Drone 05:41
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Jam 09:05
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about

Walking home dejected and drenched after a particularly miserable field recording session at the end of a long run of more field recording sessions I found myself on platform one of Newcastle Metro System's Monument Station. Arriving just after a train had departed I was alone and in that silence I happened to notice something. The sound of a struggling motor with a slipping belt coming from the darkness of a tunnel. As I had my equipment with me I began recording.

"Within five minutes, introduce each voice individually and pull back, returning to silence after each. Then bring all of them to the fore. Slowly build towards a sense of tension."

Using Pauline Oliveros' Music Meditations and John Stevens' Search and Reflect as inspirations this was the limited instructional score I gave to local sonic artist Thomas Cole Tyler when I handed over the Suspicious Drone artefact.

Also recorded is a performance of myself following the same score. Further to the composition we recorded a collaborative free electronic improvisation alongside the prescribed recordings as a method of examining the Suspicious Drone's potential as part of a suite of sound making tools for performance.

I based the interface on the idea of the Buddha Machine by FM3. Three samples only, each controlled by a pair of knobs - one volume and another for rate of playback. A curated experience controlled by the user.

Suspicious Drone is also available on cassette on request.

Tom's work as Plastiglomorate can be found here: plastiglomerate.bandcamp.com

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released May 2, 2018

Pete Haughie & Thomas Cole Tyler

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