{"title":"Kate Carr","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"midsummer-london","title":"Midsummer, London","description":"\u003cp\u003ePersistence of Sound presents a new album from one of  the world’s leading voices in field recording. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Carr is known internationally for her work with field  recordings, as well as using objects and experimental  recording techniques. Her work often probes the  ambiguities and perceptions of field recording, notably  on her 2023 album, \u003ci\u003eFalse Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Most of my work these days is interested in thinking  about field recording as a set of practices which produce  a particular version of a location, experience or even  species, and the relationships and practices which  produce that recording and which also might be  amplified or obscured within the recording itself.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate previously developed the idea of a sonic transect - a sound sampling along an axis – for an album made on a Spanish mountain in 2017, From A Wind Turbine To  Vultures (And Back). The idea explores sonic niches, the  ways they flow into each other and can be stitched  together in an attempt to convey the changing aspects of  - in that case - the terrain of a mountain and Kate’s  journey up and down it \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, \u003ci\u003eMidsummer, London\u003c\/i\u003e explores the different accents,  musics, and other sonic phenomenon of London at  locations tracing the river Thames, moving from the  outskirts in the west to the outskirts in the east. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Midsummer, London was composed with recordings  taken on the Summer Solstice June 21, 2023, from one  side of the city to the other on the longest of days. The  journey began in Loughborough Junction with stops at  Clapham Junction, Staines, Shepperton, Hampton,  Twickenham, Ravenscourt Park, Blackfriars, Deptford,  Woolwich Dockyard, Slade Green.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Persistence of Sound","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50429077422411,"sku":"2200934","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1395471116_16_231a6afa_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726837507"},{"product_id":"i-had-myself-a-nuclear-spring","title":"I Had Myself a Nuclear Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003eRivertones release the field recordist Kate Carr's new album, 'I Had Myself A Nuclear Spring'. An eerie symphony of cracking power lines, cries of water birds and the high pitched wine of nuclear towers, Carr's recordings trace the temporary wetlands of Marnay-sur-Seine, situated alongside a large nuclear power plant, just after the flooding of the river. Carr's work centres on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound. Her work draws on field recording, experimental composition and concepts and critiques of sonic mapping. She is the founder of Flaming Pines. Carr's great success throughout on 'I Had Myself a Nuclear Spring' is to use melody quietly and sparingly to draw the ear towards the uneasy dialogue between simmering electricity and the sounds of the marsh, the nuclear and the wildfowl.LP - With Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rivertones","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50494036771147,"sku":"402071","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494037492043,"sku":"402070","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d64f184a-d253-4b0f-9eaa-0ee9242d05d2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727702881"},{"product_id":"vertical-london-new-years-day","title":"Vertical London (New Year's Day)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKate Carr is known internationally for her work with field recordings, as well as using objects and experimental recording techniques. Her work often probes the ambiguities and perceptions of field recording, notably on her 2023 album, \u003cem\u003eFalse Dawn.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Most of my work these days is interested in thinking about field recording as a set of practices which produce a particular version of a location, experience or even species, and the relationships and practices which produce that recording and which also might be amplified or obscured within the recording itself.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate previously developed the idea of a sonic transect - a sound sampling along an axis – for an album made on a Spanish mountain in 2017, \u003cem\u003eFrom A Wind Turbine To Vultures (And Back).\u003c\/em\u003e The idea explores sonic niches, the ways they flow into each other and can be stitched together in an attempt to convey the changing aspects of - in that case - the terrain of a mountain and Kate’s journey up and down it. Now, following Midsummer, London, Kate’s 2014 album for Persistence of Sound, \u003cem\u003eVertical London (New Year’s Day)\u003c\/em\u003e explores a vertical trajectory through the city she calls home:  “On New Year’s Day this year I set off from my home in Loughborough Junction to undertake a rather idiosyncratic journey. For a long time now I have wanted to try and trace a vertical trajectory in London – and New Year's Day with its connotations of renewal and starting-over seemed just the time to attempt to flee upwards, if you will. \u003cbr\u003eThe spine of this album is that journey from roughly minus 20 metres below sea level to 240 metres above on that cold, short wintry day. It was a quiet day, by London standards, but not silent. It was still a London of some bustle and activity. Of overheard moments and chance encounters involving delivery drivers, commuters, tourists, taxis, tubes, buses, retail workers, joggers, crows, pigeons and foxes. \u003cbr\u003eAs I traced my ascending route from the depths of the Victoria Line, to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, Soho, Bloomsbury, and upwards to Kilburn, Hampstead, Crystal Palace, The Eye and The Shard I was struck by how reliant on all sorts of infrastructures this trip was. Electricity, gas, data, food, water, all of these systems, some silent, others audible, were intertwined in one way or another with my movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe recordings I took move from the electromagnetic hum of the underground and the DLR, delivery trolleys and bicycles, the echoes of public piano recitals, quiet parks and ambiences from the privatised spaces of the Eye and the Shard. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is just one moment in London. One journey on one day by one person. A version of London which is entangled with my own identity and recording practice. But it is also, I hope, a rendering of the city which might in its strangeness or familiarity reverberate with the version of London you carry inside of you, whether this is drawn from experience, fantasy or indifference. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy version is by turns fond, exasperated, frazzled, charmed, disappointed, hopeful, engaged and alienated. All the colours of experience for this most intimate and visceral of relations: a journey through the city I call home.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Persistence of Sound","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":57444604346699,"sku":"R1331-5723","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1443784210_10.jpg?v=1779803577"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/kate-carr.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}