HOUSEKEEPING by TARAB

** due to changes at Australia Post, international postage of single CDs is now stupidly expensive. I have adjusted postage prices to reflect what it will cost me to send any small packages, and hopefully I can find a work-around soon, as I don't expect anyone to actually pay this !!!

I am a collector of rubbish: not an archivist, but in a small way, a hoarder. Clutter seems to be attracted to me.

HOUSEKEEPING was originally conceived as a project to finally put to use some of this amassed junk, and then to discard it all once again. It first took shape as an installation work for 8-channel audio, found objects, speakers, transducers, desk, chair and room; presented at Blindside, Melbourne, August 2017.

Since then it has slowly shifted itself into this CD. However rather than a documentation of an installation, this iteration has been arranged from the debris collected during the process of making one. Sound was gathered together from various raw audio materials; object manipulation; rehearsals, studio tests and failures; recordings of both installation and de-installation; the final composition files ; recordings of the installation in-situ; the empty gallery space; the Nicholas Building (the home of Blindside); a performance made with Clinton Green enacted to close the installation. All collected materials were then cut up, tumbled around and de-arranged into the current form it finds itself in here.

Mastered by A.F. Jones at Laminal Audio

Much thanks to: Martina Copley and all from Blindside, Matthew Davis, Emily Jones, Helki Sprod, Clinton Green, Rohan McLeod and everyone who came to listen....

Reviews:

Ed Pinsent : The Sound Projector
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2019/08/08/a-house-is-not-a-home/

Howard Stelzer : Vital Weekly 1166
http://www.vitalweekly.net/1166.html

Brian Olewnick : Just Outside
http://olewnick.blogspot.com/2019/05/alfredo-costa-monteiro-endlessness.html

Jack Davidson : Noise Not Music
https://noisenotmusic.com/2019/01/19/review-tarab-housekeeping-self-released-dec-27/

Tracklist

1.	HOUSEKEEPING I	16:03

2.	HOUSEKEEPING II	21:47

Credits

released December 27, 2018

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.