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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    lock grooves cut by Graeme Durham
    violin Aisha Orazbayeva
    percussion Sam Wilson
    rubber piano harmonic Mark Knoop
    voice loop Josephine Stephenson
    mixed by David Prior
    additional recording Leo Abrahams
    background collage and design by Chris Bigg
    photograph Wojciech Zamecznik
    with kind permission from J+S Zamecznik/Archeology of Photography Foundation Warsaw

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A lock groove is one cycle of one groove on a record.This is 1.8 sec cut at 33RPM and 1.33 cut at 45RPM.Corker used the cutting lathe currently residing in the living room of The Exchange mastering legend Graeme Durham to experiment with different sounds cut onto acetate and then recorded over different durations back into a computer. The process is similar to print processes in the visual arts where there is a high degree of unpredictability in how the eventual lock groove is recorded and then plays. Also because of the softness of the acetate the lock grooves break down as they are re-recorded causing unexpected effects as the needle carves away the surface of the vinyl. This generative process adds layers of unpredictable noise culminating finally in white noise. These are combined and edited forming frames for performances of violin, percussion and piano. The pieces reflect on the tension between the mechanical and the human gesture/expression and place where they merge.

Whilst in Warsaw Corker discovered the Foundation of Archeology of Photography which houses the archives of many Polish photographers including those working under the Soviet era. There was some resonance between the light photos of Wojiech Zamecznik and the developing tracks and the Foundation kindly allowed some of the photos to be used for the cover designed by Chris Bigg.

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from Music For Lock Grooves, released June 28, 2019
violin Aisha Orazbayeva
percussion Sam Wilsom
lock grooves cut by Graeme Durham
Mixed by David Prior

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