Project by AER

‘Project’ began as a film soundtrack for “The Overcoming of Hazard” by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, whose 3 monitor installation piece was presented in the crypt of St. Pancras church in London, August 07. It uses four atmosphere recordings, short wave radio and an organ stop – an attempt to confuse inside and out. Mixed with Mathias Gmachl at Loop.ph using Digital Performer, one side is designed for computer listening, the other for speaker playback. The recording of the 16mm projector was made with the assistance of Al Rees.

AER is the occasional recording name for Jon Wozencroft, art director and editor of Touch.

7″ vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. Today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a “healthy” popular culture. It might seem like another retrograde step to launch a vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and indeed there is an element of “the rear view mirror”…