+ industry + aviation + einstürzende neubauten + joy division + aphex twin + sigur ross + casten nicolai + mertzbau + john cage + steve reich + square pusher + autechre + minit + scott walker + mathew herbert + the swans + the weather + the underground + military architecture +
Emerging in the early 90s still stained with the carbon wit of years spent in the dark satanic mills of Dickensian Newcastle, Australia, Contrail members Mark Brown [artist/musician] and Ian Randall [musician] have collaborated on various musical projects.
Contrail explores the transmission of acoustic sound and vibration through solid materials and mediums. We hear the audio results of the transmission or mediation of sound through various materials and structures -Ghost sounds. Digital sampling and layering techniques extract sonic bi-products and sediments. Contrail use industrial steel fixtures in the performance to produce an audio effect, like any digital effect or analogue unit. The mediation of digital signal through steel and fragments of detritus from a particular site brings immediacy and physicality to the sound.
Also using sampling software to manipulate and process sounds Brown and Randall create an ambient condensation trail of stratospheric sound samples flying in formation.
"When in 'transit' inside the projectile, neither here nor there, a receptiveness to the poesis of moments and space can be experienced. Through our digital sound compositions we hope to reinvigorate 'sensors' once honed to the perception of states of reverie and reflection that the chaos of life and work have cauterised."
