Örö Tape: Fieldtrips of the Damned

by Amy Cutler

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mikehoolboom Brilliant successor to the early work of Stephan Mathieu, featuring reworked pop tunes, backward hymnals, mixed up with badass field recordings. Punk acousmatics. Let's give a nod to the DJ.

PadraigC I don't have a favourite track from this release...as there are so many amazing tracks on here. The story behind it is so interesting. I'm so looking forward to giving it the time and listening attention it deserves.

sikkema This is such a great blend of old timey recordings, field recordings, haunting music and weirdness that I listened twice in a row and transformed into a lichen-rock-frog-dream.

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Edition of 50 pro-duplicated cassettes with fold-out inlay card and sticker labels. Cassette is coloured translucent green, after the colour of ice illuminated by headtorch on Örö.

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	1.	the winter not quite flush in its frame 04:45
	2.	it came from siberia / almost like a walking machine 02:12
	3.	moth examination station 02:09
	4.	a childish attempt to read the immense ineffable riddle of the world 04:17
	5.	kay, soon your heart will be made entirely of ice 00:26
	6.	fly home to me (tundra sound) 05:07
	7.	vigil for örö (one month of fieldtrip sounds - radar, bird calls, bunker bell system, ice, rust, swamp) 14:21
	8.	riddles of the firmament 09:52
	9.	the gathering cloud 07:41
	10.	red sky in the morning (mix) 13:19
	11.	ghost antler lichen 02:41

about

"And whereas I had before said to myself: 'If now a wave from the Deep has washed over this planetary ship of earth...,' I said now: 'A wave—but not from the Deep: a wave rather which she had reserved, and has spouted, from her own un-motherly entrails...'"

a tape cassette of pathetic fallacy / emotional spectrums of atmosphere / the walk-through or play-through of a “last man” winter outpost / your heart turning to ice as extinction sets in

ÖRÖ TAPE (FIELDTRIPS OF THE DAMNED) is the audio for a final fieldtrip, or vigil, in a world becoming haunted.

SIDE A of the tape is based on a month living on Örö, an uninhabited 2km² military fortress island on the furthermost edge of the Finnish archipelago, from Dec 2019 to Jan 2020. the half-melodies draw on ice, extinction, & isolated fieldwork in sci-fi and the Romantic sublime.

SIDE B is a love letter to the dazed atmospherics of storm systems, 1970s geography trips, & public domain notations of clouds. sky-watchers and storm-watchers of all stripes combine with their different recording-devices-as-time-lapses – the missing link between meteorology and melancholy.

Amy Cutler is a geographer, filmmaker and live artist who works with deconstructed human and non-human testimonies, via ideas of time, science, and high emotion. This is her first tape release. www.amycutler.net

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released June 5, 2020

words incl. from: han kang / 흰 the white book, anaïs nin / under a glass bell, karen blixen / wintergeschichten, anna kavan / ice, m . p. shields / the purple cloud, hans christian andersen / sneedronningen, bashō / the records of a weather exposed skeleton, adolfo bioy casares / la invención de morel, john christopher / the world in winter

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B-movies for humans & nonhumans / creepy pastorals for fieldwork

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