erased mornings by the humble bee

When invited by the guys at Dauw to produce a remix, rework or response to the original 'morning music' to accompany the vinyl reissue I thought about how things alter, morph, distort and decay over time and what traces of the original are then left behind. So I set about trying to 'erase' the original songs from 'morning music' so that I could use these remaining traces as the start for the new erased works.

After initially digital processing and re-composing morning music I worked this audio through various analogue systems utilising such things as snow/ice, magnets, river water/mud, degraded cassette tapes and tape systems. Eventually I stitched all of these new sources into 2 long-form audio pieces that formed side A and B of the cassette.

The last stage of the erasing processes was undertaken through the copying of the 35 cassettes in the edition. Cassette 1 was taken from the final mastered, processed erased Longford audio, cassette 2 in turn was copied from cassette 1, cassette 3 in turn was copied from cassette 2 and so on until the final cassette 35 was finally copied from cassette 34. Each cassette was open to loss of audio information, interferences, tape stretching & warping and a number of other possible ways that the audio would be lost.

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