Field Studies by Magnetic Foragers
Field Studies is an audio-visual release of fifteen tracks in three parts. Officially launched at Ventnor Fringe Festival in August 2013 with a live performance, the album is the result of over two years of work by Magnetic Foragers. Noise, music and found sounds are combined with animation and video shot in England, Wales and Germany between 2010 and 2012.
Incorporating themes of identity, memory and communication, Field Studies is a multifarious work which blurs the boundaries between video art, music and sound art.
Online launch trailer: https://vimeo.com/82541435
Tracklist:
Part 1: Noise
1. Cross the Desperate Land
2. Far
3. Interlude: Small
4. Yeah I Said It
5. Interlude: Machines Take Over
Part 2: Transformation
6. Head Full of Wool
7. Interlude: The Frustration of Heat
8. Four Walls
9. The Blackest
10. Journey to Nowhere
Part 3: Contrast
11. Mono Reel
12. Follower
13. Interlude: Broken Sleep
14. Questioner
15. Inside
Extra Features:
- 5 trailers
- Live studio session
- Configurations (Video art triptych)
- Web links
Credits
Audio: James Allard
Video: Tom Brown
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AV duo Magnetic Foragers create brooding experimental compositions of noise and abstract visuals, often involving themes of transformation, elusive memories and confused visions of beauty.
Layers of textures are punctuated by melody, rhythm and representational images, in immersive improvised performances and video art pieces from sound and video artists James Allard and Tom Brown.