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siren | Alec Finlay and Chris Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n GrD 01 | CD + booklet > [Sold Out<\/font>]<\/p>\n a new bookscape<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you<\/p>\n Here I am, here I am, waiting to enfold you<\/p>\n <\/p>\n siren is a new collaboration between Alec Finlay and Chris Watson – a field recording of a sung performance by Clive Powell and Maria Jardardottir, performed in a Northern harbour. For siren the singers were invited to reprise a line from Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’ and extend it into a litany. Chris Watson is a leading nature recordist, recognised internationally for his innovative sound art. For siren he has composed an intense poetic field of sound. ‚The swelling flow of a high tide that morning against the stonework of the pier masks each of the opening lines and draws the listener to an individual voice in a sea of sound. (Chris Watson)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‚The singers are separate, alone on their pier. Emotionally siren was always concerned with aloneness and a quality of drowning; drowning in desire or a desirable sensation of immersion, womblike. The amniotic quality is located in repetition, as the singers slow their performance down, descend into the breath, into the body; as they sing to someone, sing within themselves, sing the absence.‘ (Alec Finlay)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n siren is the fourth in a series of bookscapes – an innovative series of publications created by Alec Finlay and platform projects, exploring extended experiences of reading.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n siren | cutting:<\/p>\n MP3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1 Track (14’26") <\/p>\n Artist: Alec Finlay<\/p>\n Sound composition: Chris Watson<\/p>\n Featuring: Maria Jardardottir and Clive Powell<\/p>\n Publishers: platform projects, morning star<\/p>\n Format: 12 pages, pb CD, colour<\/p>\n ISBN: 09546831-8-8<\/p>\n Release Date: March 10th 2006<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alec Finlay is an artist, poet and publisher. He lives and works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Alec is currently Visiting-Artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Recent books include Shared Writing, Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not and Wind Blown Clouds. bookscapes was preceded by pocketbooks (2000-02) and small press series (2002-05).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris Watson is a sound recordist with a passionate interest in wildlife and atmospheres. He was a founder member of Cabaret Voltaire and a member of the Hafler Trio. As a freelance recordist for film, TV & radio, Chris specialises in natural history and documentary locations. He is represented by Touch and has released three solo CDs; Outside The Circle of Fire (1998), Stepping into The Dark (1996), and Weather Report (2003) and his latest release Number One (2005) was with KK.NULL and z’ev. For further information<\/p>\n www.chriswatson.net<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n bookscapes is published by platform projects (formally pocketbooks) – a creative organisation based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that produces innovative and collaborative visual arts and literature projects. With new publications encompassing public art, sound recordings and digital animation platform projects encourages a generative approach to all art forms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Further details contact platform projects:<\/p>\n info@platformprojects.org<\/a><\/p>\n +44 (0) 191 265 6699<\/p>\n
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