Örö Tape (Fieldtrips of the Damned), by Amy Cutler

Örö Tape (Fieldtrips of the Damned)

by Amy Cutler

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

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"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 4, 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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