Description
The intention behind this project was to create an album that, despite undergoing extensive manipulation, emanates a sense of human warmth and soul. All the source sounds were recorded live or processed through reamplification and manipulated live in a studio setting before being edited at home. The recording sessions took place during spring, summer, winter, and fall, capturing a broad spectrum of moods without deliberately seeking catharsis. The aim was to remain emotionally open and avoid excessive direction, in a superstitious attempt to capture something of the human condition writ large. Rather than pursuing personal emotional release, the goal was to embrace the human experience more generally and avoid individual emotional states. The logic is that creating music that resonates with universal feelings and sentiments is more challenging than producing work that is solely introspective and self-referential. In this way, the artist sought to be a conduit of the human condition rather than a “writer.” In both method and aspiration, the artist seeks to listen for what is already transpiring within us, between us, around us, rather than risk drowning it out with an idea of what should be.
Unknowable.
It is hoped that through Void Pusher, something of the human
experience has been captured. — Point of Memory
credits
– All selections composed by Point of Memory at American
Incrementalism, Philadelphia, PA, May 2022 – April 2023.
– Sequenced and arranged in collaboration with Geoff Tick.
– Recorded at S.A.N.S., Richmond, VA, in March, May, June, August, and November 2022.
– Recording Engineer: Jon K.
– Assistant Engineer: Geoff Tick
– Performer: Point of Memory
Additional Details:
– All sounds performed live through amplifiers, PA systems, or
acoustically and captured with room microphones.
– Some sounds created at home and laundered through amplifiers and PA systems via playback and reamplification.
– Percussion phenomenon created by inaudible sub-bass played in the amp room to make snares, bells, and guitars sympathetically resonate.
– Additional musician: Filippo Tramontana – French horn (Pro-Dread)
– Samples: Eric Trude: digital strings (Pro-Dread)
– Carried by Ravens, Void Pusher, Ballad of Myopic Triviality, and Most of a Murder all mixed and edited in collaboration with Geoff Tick.
– Mastered by Brent Lambert at the Kitchen Mastering in NC on April 24, 26, and 29, 2023.
– Photography by Phil Rodriguez