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Kristen Gallerneaux - Strung Figures
Kristen Gallerneaux - Strung Figures
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After making and scoring her own experimental short films (The Hum, 2018 & Echomaking, 2020), publishing her first monograph High Static, Dead Lines (Strange Attractor Press)—all while working full-time as museum curator of technology and researching how Q*bert learned to cuss from a phonetic synthesizer developed by an auto parts company in Detroit—Kristen Gallerneaux took a break. She plucked her beloved cat Forrest J. Ackerman off her synths, dunked her head in a tub of reverb and made an album. Bring on the 808 bleed and 19th Century conchs. The granular processors and spectral resonators. The “gnarled-up drum sample kit,” the bells from Arcosanti, and the random chunk of driftwood that washed ashore, ruing the cannonball that sank its mothership. EMBELLISHMENT ALERT. To be clear, this album had me at “Russian meteor run through a contact mic.”
The work of a folklorist/unrepentant homebody who enjoys quietly making bangers and a mean peach cobbler, Strung Figures was recorded in Kristen’s home studio in Metro Detroit during fall of 2020 and into winter 2021, and eventually mastered by Miles Whittaker in Manchester in the spring. In pandemic conditions of temporal drag and border decay, the terms of reverb and time stretch find their... more
The work of a folklorist/unrepentant homebody who enjoys quietly making bangers and a mean peach cobbler, Strung Figures was recorded in Kristen’s home studio in Metro Detroit during fall of 2020 and into winter 2021, and eventually mastered by Miles Whittaker in Manchester in the spring. In pandemic conditions of temporal drag and border decay, the terms of reverb and time stretch find their... more
credits
released August 13, 2021
Selected samples and equipment
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Opening Movements: processed guitar; bowed bell; contact mic voice; electronics
Dressing A Skin: Dearborn birdsong; contact mic voice; soil from Baldoon, Ontario; Estey field organ; electronics
White Noise: choir, voices, and handclaps recorded at the Teufelsberg Domes, Germany; a snippet of “Purple Beats” played through a metal tube with Dave Tompkins in residence; electronics
Closed Loop: bowed and struck bells; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; electronics
Get Dancing (Fire): field recording taken during the opening of “Making Knowing” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which includes elements of “Cloud Dance” by Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn; electronics
Fence Around A Well: bowed and struck bells; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; contact mic voice; mysterious whistle recorded in “The Domes”, Casa Grande, Arizona; electronics
Two Chiefs: conch shell collected in 1840 from the collections of the Bennington Museum, Vermont; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; Maine water; contact mic voice; processed violin; bells; shaker; piano; electronics
Invisible Residents: screwed-down recording of an unused interview for German radio about the time kg saw a fetch of a relative in a shopping mall on the same day he passed on; screwed-down snippet of DJ Screw; electronics
Invented Figures: contact mic voice; ceramic bells; processed violin; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; conch shell; electronics
Ten Times (Riddim): contact mic voice and drones; piano; electronics
A Finger Catch: processed flute; driftwood; electronics
Credits
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Produced and mixed by KG
Mastered by Miles
Design and layout by BB
Thanks
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BB Brooks, Dave Tompkins, George Clift, Virginia Wing (aka Sam, Merida, and Chris), Miles, Sean Canty, Jamie and Mark at Strange Attractor, Matt Ashton and The Leaf Library, Kresge Arts In Detroit, KG friends and family
Selected samples and equipment
--
Opening Movements: processed guitar; bowed bell; contact mic voice; electronics
Dressing A Skin: Dearborn birdsong; contact mic voice; soil from Baldoon, Ontario; Estey field organ; electronics
White Noise: choir, voices, and handclaps recorded at the Teufelsberg Domes, Germany; a snippet of “Purple Beats” played through a metal tube with Dave Tompkins in residence; electronics
Closed Loop: bowed and struck bells; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; electronics
Get Dancing (Fire): field recording taken during the opening of “Making Knowing” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which includes elements of “Cloud Dance” by Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn; electronics
Fence Around A Well: bowed and struck bells; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; contact mic voice; mysterious whistle recorded in “The Domes”, Casa Grande, Arizona; electronics
Two Chiefs: conch shell collected in 1840 from the collections of the Bennington Museum, Vermont; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; Maine water; contact mic voice; processed violin; bells; shaker; piano; electronics
Invisible Residents: screwed-down recording of an unused interview for German radio about the time kg saw a fetch of a relative in a shopping mall on the same day he passed on; screwed-down snippet of DJ Screw; electronics
Invented Figures: contact mic voice; ceramic bells; processed violin; Chelyabinsk meteor shards; conch shell; electronics
Ten Times (Riddim): contact mic voice and drones; piano; electronics
A Finger Catch: processed flute; driftwood; electronics
Credits
--
Produced and mixed by KG
Mastered by Miles
Design and layout by BB
Thanks
--
BB Brooks, Dave Tompkins, George Clift, Virginia Wing (aka Sam, Merida, and Chris), Miles, Sean Canty, Jamie and Mark at Strange Attractor, Matt Ashton and The Leaf Library, Kresge Arts In Detroit, KG friends and family
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