Super Positions by Sam Hamilton

This record spans a particular set of critical and emotional trajectories around music as an apparatus for engaging, sensing, and understanding the broader strokes of nature beyond our anthropocentric limitations. It is a set of trajectories that either began - or at least crucially crystalised - during a 3xmonth period I spend in the Amazon forest over 2007-2008 while listening, recording, researching and thinking about the intersections between sound, ecology, art, and the fundamental structures and construction of existential life.

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TRACKS

1
TIME AND THE HUNTER
21:23 minutes / electric guitar / spring reverb / DFX94 / amp

2
IS NATURE A COMMUNIST
5:33 minutes / miniature pump organ

3
TINY PINE CONES ARE FALLING FROM THE BRANCHES OF THE WESTERN HEMLOCK. A PERSON IS STANDING BENEATH IT. THEY ARE WEARING A SOFT LOOKING SHIRT
9:46 minutes / solo piano

4
MEDULLA OBLONGATA
6:18 minutes / casio keybaord / mixer / phasers

5
THE METEOROLOGICAL METER
6:58 minutes / drum kit / rain

6
THE PEOPLES POLYRHYTHM
1:02 minutes / the relationship between two autonomous floor toms

7
THE PLURAL CENTER OF THE WORLD
34:37 minutes / live strings and harmoniums

8
OIKEIÔSIS
12:44 minutes / bio-acoustic field records from the Amazon

9
NEW RITE #3
6:12 minutes / walking around the circumference of my neighborhood block in the snow with bells.

Tracklist

1.	Time and the Hunter	21:23

2.	Is Nature a Communist	5:33

3.	Tiny pine cones are falling from branches of the Western Hemlock. A person is standing beneath it wearing a soft looking shirt.	9:46

4.	Medulla Oblongata	6:19

5.	The Meteorological Meter	6:58

6.	The Peoples Polyrhythm	1:03

7.	The plural center of the world	34:37

8.	oikeiôsis	12:44

9.	New Rite #3	6:12

Credits

released December 14, 2017

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.