Land Marks by Richard Knox
Land Marks is a visual and audio body of work by artist and musician Richard Knox that explores gestural and experimental textures using ink and sound.
Art and music woven together.
Chance happenings that remain permanent.
The walls, pavements, bridges and fields serve as unrelenting inspiration. Constant presence. The grit, rust, water, paint and decay, a perpetual mark maker on these everyday experiences. Otherworldly contours. The permanence of happy accidents. The unintended that somehow resonates. Inadvertently. Captivating points of discovery on the familiar commute. Pay attention to your surroundings, to the details, to the seemingly familiar. Look deeper. Explore beauty in the decay.
Musically, Land Marks explores long-form drone composition, recorded to tape, predominantly using electric guitar. Distorted, broken motifs struggle through layers of reverb. Subtle pulses flicker in the distance. Bowed notes appear and fall away. The sound rooted in improvisation, in experimentation, in collapsing textures.
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Land Marks is also an exhibition and sound installation and features 20 new pieces of monoprint and mixed-media work, taking place at KIN.DER in Glossop, Derbyshire.
Opening on Saturday May 20th for one day with a live, solo guitar performance from Richard in the evening, the exhibition will then re-open on May 27th through to May 29th as part of Derbyshire Open Arts. Tickets are available at slowsecret.com
Tracklist
| 1. | Land Marks #9 | 9:31 |
| 2. | Land Marks #2 | 6:56 |
| 3. | Land Marks #7 | 15:00 |
| 4. | Land Marks #3 | 10:34 |
| 5. | Land Marks #8 | 15:28 |
Credits
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For vinyl, CD's and merch visit www.gizehrecords.com
All music written, recorded and mixed by Richard Knox at Cloud Blunt Moon. Electric guitar, noise box, drum machine, fx, radio.
Artwork and silkscreened CD sleeves by Richard.
