Tracklist 2019. Photocopy of hand-typed A4 sheet, 297mm x 210mm (unlimted edition)
Handout for the exhibition 'PLUNK, BOUM, KRASH, ZZZT' at Laure Genillard, London 2019
Taxi Argument - 2015
Taxi Argument by Sean Dower: track 71 on Open The Window
OPEN THE WINDOW
Linear Obsessional's third annual "open access" release is built around a simple premise:
Open your window and record two minutes of what you can hear, interacting with it live,
or editing and processing the recordings later. From this concept has emerged this 85 track,
2 hour 50 minute compilation of extraordinary recordings from all over the world.
Released December 24, 2015
Compiled and Edited by Richard Sanderson for Linear Obsessional recordings.
Download includes a 62 page PDF booklet of contributor notes, photographs and an essay.
ON AIR - OFF AIR. Residency at Beaconsfield, London - 2015
Excerpts of recordings made in the Victorian railway arch at Beaconsfield, London
Link to more informationand images here: ON AIR - OFF AIR
Instruments used in the recording of On Air - Off Air
Link to more information and images here: ON AIR - OFF AIR
The Ultimate Brown Sound Record - 2010
The Ultimate Brown Sound Record, 12" brown vinyl record - 2010 (Limited edition of 200)
The record contains 7.24 minutes of Brown Noise on each side.
The Ultimate Brown Sound - Newterk Centrum, Aalst Belgium 2010
The Ultimate Brown Sound - presentation booth at Netwerk Centrum, Aalst Belgium 2010
Contnuous loop video (7.24 min per side): watch video on youtube
Vizualiser Videos #1-4 (2004)
The 'Vizualiser Videos' were auto-generated from electronic music using software plugins
All music by Sonofapup
Left: Vizualiser video #3 is auto-generated using the Tech RTA live visual plugin, which translates sound into a multi-channel sound level meter. The original soundtrack was made in 1996 using the OMS test facility with Quicktime instruments. Each mouse click triggers a random permutation of notes and sounds from a total of 128 possible instruments and percussion. The player can only affect the rest between notes and the sustain (by keeping the mouse button depressed).
(video witAbove: Still from Ronnie and Jimmy, 2001 sound, 5.30 mins)
Audiopathology, 2001. 5 videos, total running time 22 mins. Installation dimensions variable.
Five music videos with sound and image made concurrently by the artist. Exhibited in a specially
constructed space with sound insulation and safety lights. More information and images >
I Want to Dance 2001 - Video with sound, 5.43 min.
Lyrics by Charles Gaines, music by Sonofapup, video by Sean Dower, vocals by Georgina Starr.
I want to dance was produced for 'Song Poems', curated by artist Steven Hull. The project involved
collaboration between about 100 writers, musicians, video makers and graphic artists and resulted in
exhibitions and performances in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.
A box-set of CDs and artwork was also published - more information on Discogs
A series of photographs and digital audio recordings made at specific sites across London.
The recordings reflect localised sound culture and its interaction with architecture, technology
and the natural world. Originally commissioned for Code #2 (edited by Waling Boers).
Other sites included Blackfriars (#1), Brixton (#2), Camden (#3),
Chelsea (#4), Hackney (#5), Bermondsey (#6), Portabello (#8),
Regents Park (#9) and Whitechapel (#10) - more info here
The Curfew Recordings (1984). CD release, March 2013
New digital realease of The Curfew Recordings (recorded in 1984)
The Curfew Recordings
The Curfew Recordings were made at a disused industrial site on the river Tyne in
1984 and feature John Smith (then publisher of Interchange magazine), Sean Dower
(ex Death Magazine 52 & later of Bow Gamelan Ensemble) and John Mylotte (of the
band Metgumnebone).
The recordings were made inside a steel-plated silo (approx 10m tall and 18m wide)
once used for bitumen storage. The instrumentation is acoustic and the recording are
unprocessed (the space however adds a remarkable reverb).
Instrumentation included: bull roarers, spirit whistles, human thy-bone trumpet,
chimes, pipes, gongs, flutes, drums, projectiles, scraped and bowed objects and other
materials like glass, metal, bones and wood.
This is the first digital transfer of the original tapes to become available.
Death Magazine 52 - double vinyl disc on Harbinger Sound(archive release 2012)
1980's Black Country based electronics, percussion and noise band Death Magazine 52
These recordings capture the core group and its floating membership at various stages
of their existence. Recordings from the studio sessions and live sets, including playing
to a a school hall full of teenage girls at 3pm one afternoon, and as the final band to play at
the legendary Equinox Event at the London Musicians Collective, an event that was raided
and closed down by the police. The recordings are of a raw nature and should be considered
as historical documentation.
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