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from Indirect Collaborations by Ed Devane

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown, a number of things aligned to make this project come together. One, loads of music makers I know suddenly had more time for making tunes than usual, and two, I was researching remote collaborative methods as part of a virtual residency with Science Gallery Dublin.

As an experiment I posted a link to a shared folder containing ten audio samples, a mixture of field recordings, electronic and instrumental sounds. I asked the music makers in my facebook network to do something with these samples, if they had time, but not to spend too long at it. I know how it is being asked to do stuff for free - if it's going to chew up a bunch of time I could be spending more productively, I won't do it, so why expect anyone else to? For me at least, the first hour or so of starting a piece of music is the most exciting: the possibilities are wide open, and you let your musical instincts and technical abilities take over in order to chisel out a rough form. Much of the rest of the time is spent refining and tweaking, which I really don't enjoy. I wanted to capture some of these moments through the work of others, composing in isolation to each other and everyone else.

Instrument and interactive installation building is what takes up much of my time these days, and I'm always fascinated by the multifarious ways in which people can be creative with the simplest of instruments or materials. An instrument is after all a set of restrictions as well as a set of possibilities. How it's played is the important part, and it's the same when it comes to assembling a track with digital audio.

So here you have 30 pieces of music, mostly made in the space of 1 week, from practitioners based mostly in Ireland and surrounding areas like the UK and Netherlands. Some approached this from a very purist perspective, using only the sounds given them, while others incorporated them into their own sound. Others again made only very abstracted reference to the source material, and that's equally as valid.

Artist names come first, followed by the track title where given. Many of the artists have links and materials worth diving into, so be sure to check out their other work.

A massive thank you to all the artists who took the time to work on this.

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from Indirect Collaborations, released June 18, 2020

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Ed Devane County Donegal, Ireland

Sound artist, instrument and installation designer, very occasional music performer and producer. Based in Donegal, Ireland.

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