The CDs are now sold out but the album may be available to download from Michael Tanner’s Bandcamp page.
Michael Tanner Nine of Swords CD album. Dusk Edition £10.00. Dawn Edition £12.00
Audiological Research and Pathways; Case #3
Audiological contents: Nine of Swords (54.20 minutes).
Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.
Custom printed and hand-finished by A Year In The Country.
Nine of Swords was created by using nine tarot cards allocated to nine sonorous, percussive instruments which were played in the order of their drawing from the deck.
Its method of creation recalls the random cut-up literary techniques of William Burroughs or automatic writing and the resulting work is a 68 minute journey which is a balm to contemporary intensity of input.
No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of Nine of Swords; the music in the album was guided purely using the (non)choices of the turns of the cards.
Also available as a limited edition Night boxset and Day string bound booklet: see Day #245/365.
Dusk Edition: Limited to 52 copies. £10.00.
Hand-finished packaging; all black CDr in matt recycled sleeve with insert.
Top of CD. Bottom of CD.
Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Hand numbered on the back of the insert.
Dawn Edition. Limited to 52 copies. £12.00.
Hand-finished white/black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and badge.
Top of CD. Bottom of CD.
Artwork custom printed by A Year In The Country using archival Giclée pigment ink.
Includes 25mm/1″ badge, secured with removable glue on a tag which is string bound to the sleeve.
Back of the insert is hand numbered.
Album credits:
All music written & played by Michael Tanner.
Recorded at Greenwitch 04/06/2014 using an X-Y positioned Beyer M101 and Shure SM57.
4 x Water Bowls. 2 x Singing Bowls. 2 x Temple Bells. 1 x Cymbals.
No plug-ins or FX were used in the making of this piece.
Artwork and packaging design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department.
Available at our Artifacts Shop, our Discogs Audiological Archive and our Bandcamp page.
Prices include free UK shipping. Normally ships within 7-14 days.
An excerpt from this Audiological Case Study can be listened to via our Mark II Ether Victrola below:
Visit Michael’s work at Day #120/365 of A Year In The Country.
Visit Michael Tanner in the ether here: www.iamplinth.bandcamp.com
(where you may also find him working under the names Plinth, The Cloisters, Taskerlands and The A. Lords).
The library of A Year In The Country Audiological Research and Pathways series includes:
Case Study #1: Grey Frequency: Immersion
Case Study #2: Hand of Stabs: Black-Veined White
Case Study #3: Michael Tanner: Nine of Swords
Case Study #5: She Rocola: Burn The Witch / Molly Leigh Of The Mother Town
Case Study #6: Howlround: Torridon Gate
Case Study #7: Racker & Orphan; Twalif X
