Artist: Sally Golding
Tracks:
Pictures In Your Mind (2min 45sec) & See and Hear (2min 15sec); 33 ½ rpm; 2016
Production:
Direct lathe cut embossed recording on silver foil. Recorded with Master Sound System Recording lathe cut by Edward Nowill. Mixed by Spatial.
Release:
Special edition of 4, for LaborBerlin, Germany
An experiment in primitive direct lathe cutting, embossed recording on silver foil.
Using a vintage home record lathe cutting machine, tracks created in the studio from playful combinations of amplified light and voice were cut onto thick adhesive silver foil. Made by embossing with wide grooves lubricated with bicycle oil, the needle also plays back the friction of the amplified surface as another layer of noise. Golding’s own sampled spoken words shift form and meaning, underpinned by her choice of opti-sonic noise devices bringing forth the impasto of electricity.
LISTEN
Listen to the tracks on Soundcloud - Pictures In Your Mind & See Or Hear
Image: See or Hear silver lathe cut edition, courtesy of the artist
Image: See or Hear silver lathe cut edition, courtesy of the artist
Image: See or Hear silver lathe cut edition, courtesy of the artist
Image: See or Hear silver lathe cut edition, courtesy of the artist
Image: Lathe cuting, courtesy of the artist
Image: Lathe cutting, courtesy of the artist
Watch a video of the lathe cutting
Artist:
Sally Golding
Track:
Cosmic Diatribe, 3min 18sec, 33 ½ rpm, 2015
Production:
Hand lathe cut recording on silver foil, lathe cut assisted by Edward Nowill
Cosmic Diatribe is an experiment in lathe cut audio recording which takes original vinyl ephemera, and translates it as a new hand cut object.
A playful individual listening experience for the gallery or home. Deleting large parts of the original recording of astrology readings– leaving behind only the comments perceived as negative– a new discourse of personality interrogation is formed, highlighting the sense of vitriol dialogue reminding us of what is commonly experienced in the online domain. Using a home record lathe cutting machine, the sound was cut onto thick adhesive silver foil found in the skip of a glass manufacturer. Cut with a wide groove and lubricant, the sound is embossed onto the foil, the needle also playing back the friction of the amplified surface.
EXHIBITION
Exhaust, Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2015
Photo: Cosmic Diatribe lathe cut silver disc, courtesy of the artist
Photo: Installation view, courtesy of Contemporary Art Tasmania
Photo: Cosmic Diatribe lathe cut silver disc, courtesy of the artist
Photo: Cosmic Diatribe lathe cut silver disc, courtesy of the artist
Track:
Sally Golding – Milk Thistle (1:34mins)
Studio Production:
Spatial
Album:
The Folklore of Plants Vol. 1 vinyl LP, booklet, leaf and seed compilation
Label:
Folklore Tapes, UK
A special vinyl release and seed pack by the brilliant and esoteric Folklore Tapes, UK.
Researched and executed by 31 x artists. Thirty-one track twelve-inch vinyl and download code. 40 page A5 pamphlet includes plantlore and illustrations from artists and herbal medicine section by herbalist Zoe Naylor. 28 page pocket A6 booklet Oak, Fern and Daisy: ‘The Folklore, Culture and Magic of the Plant Kingdom’ By Jez Winship. Link to the 16mm film ‘Pattern of Light’ by Mary and David. All contents housed within a unique plant relief printed hand numbered manilla sleeve. Contains seed envelope harvested by FT group.
PURCHASE OR DOWNLOAD ALBUM
Get the release - listen to a condensed version and read an extract from the booklet Oak, Fern and Daisy: ‘The Folklore, Culture and Magic of the Plant Kingdom’ By Jez Winship on Folklore Tapes.
LISTEN
Play Milk Thistle by Sally Golding on Soundcloud
Image: The Folklore of Plants compilation, courtesy of Folklore Tapes
Image: Track listing, courtesy of Folklore Tapes
Image: Milk Thistle by Sally Golding to accompany track in Folklore of Plants booklet
Artists: Sally Golding and Spatial (Matt Spendlove)
Release: Capacities
Label: Broken20, Glasgow, UK
A hybrid sound, image and text release by Spatial-Golding, out on Broken20, Glasgow, UK.
Capacities is (Spatial-Golding’s) first audio release together, comprising two pieces. Onkalo spans a host of moods and textures in its 17 minutes, building from brittle and intricate flutters to strident, full-blooded bass pulses while maintaining a degree of minimalism throughout. Much like Spatial’s audiovisual feast ‘Primitives’(Broken20 12", DVD, data CD, 2015), it’s a masterclass in dynamic sound design. – Broken20
MEDIA
More about Spatial-Golding’s release on the Scottish label Broken20 here on Boomcat
PURCHASE & DOWNLOAD
High quality card A5 print of a new text by Sally Golding to accompany the audio by Spatial with contributions by Golding, and a glossy 7×5 photo print of found objects by Dave Fyans. Includes unlimited streaming of li_series 10 : Capacities via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Listen/get it here on Broken20
Cover Image: Courtesy of Broken20, photographic art by Dave Fyans
Inner Sleeve: Glossy 7x5 photo print of found objects by Dave Fyans accompanies each physical release
Track:
Ghost – Loud + Strong, Sally Golding
Album:
HFF Vol. 1 triple vinyl 180g LP compilation, 2014
Label:
Psyché Tropes
Contents:
Each HFF Vol. 1 [TROPES001] release comes with a 12 inch colour 16mm print with optical soundtrack, created by Sally Golding
Created as a ‘darkroom composition’– sound recordings were reformatted as optical sound waveforms through the process of recording into on a 16mm Auricon sound camera, hand processing the film, and contact printing the resulting waveforms into a composition– created in ‘one take’ through a meticulous manual system of photochemical printing. This long form esoteric composition was mixed in real time with an accompanying film loop and minimal intervention from amplified electronics including a strobe light. A material investigation into the possibilities of re-working the optical soundtrack area of the industrial film sound system as a site for psychoacoustic radio play.
In Ghost – Loud + Strong, Sally Golding deftly exploits precisely that flapping and buzzing embedded in the media that mutates, as it transmits from format to format, into recognisable sounds such as the swelling of a thunderstorm, layering in an impasto of noise. This is a sound artwork that began life as expanded cinema (its debut performance was at the 2012 Hackney Film Festival), yet its sonic textures originate from a found flexidisc inscribed with a voice narrating a woman’s past life regression, as it alternately emerges from and is obscured by the fog of multiple layers of reproduction. – Stuart Heaney, 2014
MEDIA
Ghost – Loud + Strong is also a live expanded cinema performance
ARTISTS FEATURED ON ALBUM
Sculpture / Will Ward / Some Truths / Spatial / Scanner / Tom White / Sally Golding / Merkaba Macabre / Dave Draper / Mark Peter Wright / Richard Pike / Audio Dependent / Matthias Kispert / Aboutface / Synthetics
ABOUT PSYCHÉ TROPES
Psyché Tropes is the label from the creator of Hackney Film Festival dedicated to exploring the synaesthetic intersections between sound and its visual counterpart.
Cover Image: HFF Vol.1, Courtesy of Psyché Tropes
Image: Film strip showing sections of Ghost - Loud + Strong printed to 16mm and included in the LP pack
