Commissioned by Radiophrenia and WORM, Rotterdam Sound Studio
A composition for radio by Hannan Jones and Murray Collier.
“We are tapping into the invisible currents of the Earth, sending messages through the ether…”
- Nikola Tesla, early radio experiments, c. 1900
The ground opens up, we fall inwards, the shifting rubble opens to ineffable depths. A world unseen, but heard into being. The synth becomes the conduit, transmitting in frequencies, straddling the boundaries between organic and artificial sound, guiding the antipodeal line through layered interiors; crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, and core.
The synthesizer is not an instrument of control but a porous interface navigating the imaginary of the natural datum. Turbulence shapes new forms, inverted waveforms, liminal cocoons, subharmonics and overtones, a cartography of the unexplored. The tunnel wall fractures, revealing not just space, but something beyond the reach of engineered design. A cavernous expanse.
Above, renewal? Or at least, a reckoning?
A Line Drawn Downwards blurs the space between history, prophecy, and fiction; folded into the
Earth. We bore into the hum of the world and hope something answers.
Recorded at WORM Sound Studio in Rotterdam, this sonic cartography unfolds through the distinct textures of each instrument; Kawai 100F, Syntron Syrinx, Soma Enver, Korg MS20, Korg PS3210, Optigan, Moog Prodigy, ARP 2600, EMS Synthi, Publison DHM89 B2, Yamaha CS100, ARP Odyssey, Roland TB303, Blippoo Box, Juno 60, Organelle, Boss DD7, Paia Proteus, Roland SP404, Roland D50, Yamaha 40M, Yamaha 60M, Phillips Philicorda, and the Fender Rhodes.
Murray Collier is a musician and producer from Ayrshire, now working in Glasgow. He has released music on Sacred Summits (Emotional Response/ Firecracker Recordings), 12th Isle, Real Landscape, Optimo Music and Domestic Exile. He has performed at the Tate Modern, Turner
Contemporary, the ICA, and Tramway, and for festivals such as Rewire (Den Haag), Glasgow Film Festival, Counterflows, 53100 (Siena, Italy) and Donau Festival (Krems, Austria).
Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography.
