{"product_id":"inventions-4","title":"Inventions","description":"\u003cp\u003eBen Carey returns to Hospital Hill in 2026 with \u003ci\u003eINVENTIONS\u003c\/i\u003e, his third release on the Australian experimental music label. A sonic alchemist, Carey is most known for his work with analogue synthesisers, including rare \u0026amp; historical equipment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApproaching these machines with a sense of curiosity, Carey coaxes detailed sonic structures from networks of electricity, discovering latent possibilities of his chosen equipment through human-machine collaboration. Describing his approach, The Wire Magazine observed that Carey works by “not so much bending [the machine] to his will as letting it sing for itself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 2023’s METASTABILITY, Carey mined the sonic depths of a single historical instrument, the La Trobe Serge ‘Paperface’ modular synthesiser, creating dynamic works from a single source. The instrument’s designer, Serge Tcherepnin, remarked that Carey “treats my synths like the real musical instruments they aspire to be.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eINVENTIONS\u003c\/i\u003e, Carey’s experiments opened outwards towards a diverse ecology of machines, with its six dense tracks assembled from encounters with analogue equipment at studios in Stockholm, Den Bosch, New York, Melbourne, \u0026amp; Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the title implies, Carey’s new record foregrounds the act of invention as a creative practice. For Carey, the systems he works with are not treated as fixed instruments, but as the ground from which to invent, re-invent, \u0026amp; explore dynamic, living machines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking inspiration from the French philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon, Carey approaches invention as an organic process, where his chosen machines become a site for exploring what Simondon calls the “dynamism of lived functioning” of technical objects. Carey’s works follow these trajectories as they develop, recalling earlier musical notions of invention as a searching, exploratory practice, or ricercare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the album, equipment, patches, \u0026amp; compositions form a continuous field of activity. Sound emerges through negotiation: between intention \u0026amp; outcome, stability \u0026amp; instability, control \u0026amp; resistance. Drawing on material captured across a diverse range of equipment over a two-year period, \u003ci\u003eINVENTIONS\u003c\/i\u003e documents these encounters, resulting in a series of works where sound \u0026amp; musical forms emerge from systems in formation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hospital Hill","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":58815395627339,"sku":"R5342-5283","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/HHLP04260758-cover.jpg?v=1791888622","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/inventions-4","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}