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Traces

by Kit Haigh

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Traces came from photographs of trace fossils found in split sandstone roof tiles at Green Croft, on Hadrian’s Wall. They are the marks made by invertebrates as they foraged in the sand around 300 million years ago. This was the Carboniferous period, when huge amounts of carbon dioxide were locked away in the swamps that eventually became coal. Framed without context and lit as if discovered underground, the ancient marks layered with more recent weathering resemble aerial photographs, cave paintings or archaeology. The music is created exclusively from the
sounds of the stones in the pictures. They were recorded using both conventional and contact mics, then digitally manipulated using sampling and granular synthesis. The resulting sustained sounds are remarkably organ-like, in a rough, sandstoney way. To reflect the trace fossils, the original sounds have been silenced in the mix, leaving only
their echoes.

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released February 3, 2021

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