Still Lives by Max Wainwright

All of the sounds on Still Lives and the micro-structures within them arise from feedback networks which when left alone create ever-changing motion.
The tracks were recorded with various electronic music gear, meticulously tweaked and then set up to be recorded at predetermined lengths, with no editing, fades or cuts afterward.
Each track consists of a number of drones, juxtaposed and set apart by breaks intuited from the vague sensation of tempo in the preceding track.
The structure of the album is based on a simple increase in length and reduction in number, giving a symmetric series of cut-up drone walls ranging from noisy screeches and pulsating throbs to hum clusters.

The album structure visualised:
❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚___❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚___❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚_______❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚

If possible:
• listen in a good stereo or decent headphones
• turn up the volume
• listen in one pass

Always:
• do not shuffle
• do not repeat

credits
released on the 9th of October, 2015

Album cover by Hanna Sjögren.

Max Wainwright is a composer and performer of experimental electronic and acoustic music, often involving free improvisation, adapting to complex systems, and making+using terrible instruments. He does solo and collaborative performances, installations, sculpture, radio pieces, chamber composition and video work.

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