ringings by nula.cc

In preparation for the project _Beyond sublargo_, I set up a practice of improvising for an hour or two in my home studio, every day when possible, over a span of several months. A backlog of scraps from a period of more than ten years of collecting source material made it possible to reconnect with obsessions from the recent past, and combine some of them with fresher interests. The present release stands as a distilled segment of the results of this practice.

A consistent passion for me has been for the sound of struck metal, a bell for example, and early one morning as the sun was coming up, this came into sharper focus as I pulled in field recordings from last year’s journey to some of the historic monasteries of Russia’s Golden Ring. I reshaped and recontextualized them in ways that sidestep the overtly devotional, hopefully without entirely eliminating their emotional resonance.

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‘Lloyd Dunn unwittingly ”takes advantage of our fascination with the chiming of bells, providing us with four tracks in which the aforesaid sound – more or less treated – is blended with older field recordings. The evocative wealth of the outcome is copious; the mnemonic (and somewhat wistful) implications on the hearer inescapable. Starting with basic rhythmic patterns, the whole unfolds until it becomes a dusty haze with rare chinks of dim light, then turns into a quasi-Niblockian infinitum to close the circle.’ — Massimo Ricci, Beyond the Dust

The project ( nula.cc ) is the brainchild of intermedia artist Lloyd Dunn, a founding member of the Tape-beatles, and editor of the zines PhotoStatic and Retrofuturism. It comprises sound works, photographs, travelogue essays and similar digital artifacts, which often reflect the artist’s frequent travels and esthetic thinking.

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