HOWLROUND

A Creak In Time (OST)

Genre: ELECTRONIC

Boomkat Product Review:

Two years in the making, Howlround’s haunted tape loop constructions have found their perfect home soundtracking the sublime images of filmmaker Steven McInerney and the result is the unique audio-visual collaborative project A Creak In Time, available via the latter’s Psyché Tropes label.

"Comprised of Robin The Fog, Chris Weaver and four reel to reel tape machines, Howlround create unique and immersive compositions and performances by direct manipulation of natural acoustic sounds on magnetic tape, with all additional effects and artificial reverb strictly forbidden. For this soundtrack, their most ambitious yet, the group have created a striking body of work made entirely from field recordings of different objects creaking: tiny and insignificant sounds, that, when amplified and extended via magnetically charged oxide particles begin to take on a curious new identity.

Taken from source material discovered in London, Yosemite and the Mojave desert, these sounds, through simple manipulation, gradually cast off their moorings and head into space, leaving their original identities far behind and chiming perfectly with the film’s recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale in a heartbeat from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos. Shot entirely on 16mm film with a musique concréte soundtrack, it’s both science and fiction and marks a dramatic new direction for all involved.

Steven McInerney is an Australian born multidisciplinary artist based in London. He is the founder of Psyché Tropes, an experimental label and film project focusing on the synaesthetic intersections between sound and its visual counterpart. Working predominately with 16mm and sound he creates recherché non-narrative works using in-camera and camera-less filmmaking techniques while performing live audio visual shows as Merkaba Macabre.”

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