1 Peep Show (9:37)
2 Day For Night (8:05)
3 Zero Day To Zero Night (4:54)
4 Cast (5:05)
5 Roomshine (4:52)
6 Arc Light (1:42)
7 Shade 1 (3:12)
8 Shade 2 (3:33)
9 Nest Of Wasps (6:23)
Day For Night is the culmination of 25 years of recording work by Cusack & Eastley, who have assembled a tapestry of recycled sounds and an archive of environmental recordings for this remarkable disc. While Cusack has spent his career in the studio and in performance groups, sound artist Max Eastley is probably best known for his collaborations with David Toop and Thomas Koner. Much of Eastley’s work is in making audio documents of his kinetic sculptures, meaning that amongst the atmospheric location recordings on this album, there are elements generated by motorised sound installations that give the listener an eerie sense of displacement: the vaporous cymbal drone of the title track gives way to the looped field recordings of campfires and distant squawking birds of its counterpart, ‘Zero Day To Zero Night’. The album closes on the actually rather terrifying ‘Nest of Wasps’, sounding very much informed by early musique concrete. The close-up recording of the wasps’ buzzing and rasping is modulated to the point where they seem to become saw wave synthesizer drones. Unnerving stuff, but a fittingly effective end to a powerful collection of electroacoustic works.
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