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Marcus Leadley - Installation for an Imaginary Beach

from The Forest of Plasticity [volume3] by various artists

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Installation For An Imaginary Beach, is sort of concrete montage created using field recordings from Whitstable and a Max/MSP patch containing multiple layers of sound file players. Playback triggering was orchestrated by the ASCII codes of the letters in a text score (a poem, what I wrote...) which cycles, unheard, for the duration of the piece:

Whitstable

I practiced here in the early 80s.
Alex could sing like Bono – but – we made
More money busking Beatles songs.
More than pumping gas on a Sunday.
Or working at the chipboard factory:
Gotta love that 20p coin.
I’d drive over from Herne Bay for parties:
Intimate, run down little houses packed with life.
Narrow gardens overgrow, a distant sound of surf.
Purple Hipsters in the kitchen,
Red Squares on the stairs,
And the late-night scent of Rothmans
Hanging in the air.

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from The Forest of Plasticity [volume3], released January 23, 2018

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