.murmer by murmer
::: artist notes :::
the source recordings for .murmer were all taken during my first six months as a resident of the city of london. hence they document my exploration and discovery of a new home, as well as of a new medium. i purchased my first recorder and microphone upon arrival here, and began exploring their possibilities alongside exploring the city. however, these sounds are not a portrait of a location; i made no attempt to map a geography. they are more personal. many originate from within my private space (the refrigerator and grill provided in a bedsit; the wind through an apartment window) and all are tied strongly to my personal movements (the air vent on my local bus, the heater in my place of work). what ties them together is that they are all new sounds, for me as well as (hopefully) for my listener, that caught me unawares and demanded to be given attention. that is what i have attempted to do.
::: liner notes :::
• .rumer ::: modem and telephone line
• .errum ::: air vent on a 73 bus, malfunctioning gas heater, feedback,
escalator at pimlico tube station
• .meurm ::: refrigerator, gas grill
• .rumme ::: unidentified tape loop, 3 182-cm. long metal pipes of
varying diameters
• .ummer ::: modem and telephone line
• .mmeru ::: air vent in a red austin mini, wind whistling through a 3rd
storey window, air vent on a 73 bus
all compositions and source recordings made between january and june 1999 using minidisc, stereo microphone, analogue 4-track, reverb, distortion, and digital and analogue tape delay. unidentified tape loop constructed by simon f.
bake records / bake 057
Credits
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
patrick tubin mcginley (aka murmer) is a sound, performance, and radio artist based in estonia. his work is about small discoveries and concentrated attention; it focuses on the unnoticed but extraordinary sounds that surround us. he works with spaces, objects, resonances and people in composition, performance or simply collective action, in the exploration of perception via attentive listening.