{"id":11341,"date":"2017-03-30T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=11341"},"modified":"2021-01-30T23:07:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T23:07:43","slug":"kris-keogh-processed-harp-works-volume-2-provenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2017\/03\/30\/kris-keogh-processed-harp-works-volume-2-provenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Keogh \u2013 'Processed Harp Works Volume 2' (Provenance)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Notes.<\/strong>
\nInfluenced as much by Debussy<\/strong> as Atari Teenage Riot<\/strong>, Processed Harp Works Volume 2 <\/i>is a series of ten micro-sculpted sound worlds, written, played, recorded, mixed and arranged by Kris Keogh<\/a><\/strong> in his home studio.
\nIt was inspired by two simultaneous life-changing events \u2013 the birth of his daughter and the death of his father. Kris describes his feelings at the time as \u201cintense joy and crippling sadness, all combined, all at once\u201d, and he made the album as a way to express those feelings through music. Thus, Processed Harp Works Volume 2<\/i> is an elegy, but also a fantasia \u2013 a gift to anyone needing a space to listen, to reflect in, to escape to.
\nKris notes: \u201cEverything I make is about juxtaposition, about creating something unexpectedly cohesive from seemingly opposing sources, from polar extremes. These extremes are ingrained at nearly every level of this album.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s the contrast of a gorgeous, acoustic instrument with the heavy digital audio processing that it is transformed by. It\u2019s making music that is happy and sad at the same time. And it\u2019s making music that works well as both an ambient background for the casual listener and an intense sound experience for those willing to climb in and really pay attention.\u201d
\nThe follow up to the 2011\u2019s Volume 1 <\/i>(released by New Weird Australia<\/strong>), the album was recorded in Kris\u2019 home town of Nhulunbuy, in Arnhem Land, in Australia\u2019s Northern Territory (1,043km by road from the nearest city of Darwin). It was made entirely by Kris playing harp through \u2018Processed<\/em>\u2019, a self-made Reaktor<\/strong> ensemble, \u201cdesigned by trial and error\u201d over the last ten years. The software is included as a bonus download with the album \u2013 a gift from Kris for anyone interested in mutating and transforming their own musical ideas.
\n\u201cThe glitches marry organically to <\/em>the harps strings, to produce work reminiscent of Japanese electronica pioneer Susumu Yokota \u2026 haunting, beautiful electronic symphonies.\u201d<\/em> Music NT<\/b>
\n\u201cDespite the digital wizardry, beauty and tenderness survive\u201d<\/em> Rave Magazine<\/b>
\n\u201cEvery moment is compelling. Keogh\u2019s sampling gives every moment of disconnectedness a heavy emotional charge\u201d<\/em> Come Into Land<\/b><\/p>\n

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Biography.<\/strong>
\nKris Keogh<\/strong> is an Australian musician and producer from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He is intent making the most beautiful noise possible, any way he can.
\nKris\u2019 classical training sits happily at odds with his 18 years in the electronic underground. His well-loved electro-acoustic project, Blastcorp<\/strong>, spawned five albums of everything from \u201cwashing machine music to acoustic lovesongs\u201d and led to supports with artists such as Diplo<\/strong>, Mad<\/strong> Professor<\/strong> and Regurgitator<\/strong>. The brief but beautiful collaboration Red Plum And Snow<\/strong> was followed by a hard-left turn into bass music, which saw Kris launch the ZZAAPP Records<\/strong> label and his Laptop Destroyer<\/strong> live persona.
\nKris is also a co-founder of Happy Yess<\/strong>, a not-for-profit arts organisation and DIY music venue that exists to support original Darwin music.<\/p>\n

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Tracklisting.<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0Just Before Forever 05:55
\n2.\u00a0Starlight, Splintered and Fell 04:08
\n3.\u00a0Until Underneath Everything 01:27
\n4.\u00a0Stillness 03:23
\n5.\u00a0Dissolved \/ Detached 07:35
\n6.\u00a0Moving \/ Melting 01:31
\n7.\u00a0Never Unknowing 04:57
\n8.\u00a0Breathing, But Breathless 03:18
\n9.\u00a0Lost, Eventually 03:02
\n10.\u00a0Endlessly Undivided 07:28<\/p>\n

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Credits.<\/strong>
\nWritten, played, recorded, processed, mixed and mastered by Kris Keogh.
\nAlbum artwork: \u2018Blood-Crystals of Squirrel\u2019 from \u2018A Text-Book on Physiology: For the Use of Schools and Colleges\u2019, published by Harper & Bros, New York, 1866. Image restoration by Nico Liengme.<\/p>\n

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Catalogue.<\/strong> PR010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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