tektonik - music for earthquakes

by Stephen Parsick

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	1.	tektonik 12:00
	2.	geothermik 07:32
	3.	subduktion 10:14
	4.	basalt 05:15
	5.	seismik 14:13
	6.	rhyolith 07:50

about

the first recordings for "tektonik" came into being in early september 2004, shortly after i had moved from herne to werther. at some point i was toying around with some new tools in my new studio and suddenly the track "subduktion" happened. i found myself listening to it over and over again and i immediately had some idea of continental shelves grinding against each other, one slipping underneath the other. i tried to go down as low as possible and create some of the deepest drones and rumbles i had ever done, using my trusty old arp 2600 synthesiser, among other things. shortly after that, during the same week, i recorded the tracks "tektonik" and "seismik" but i felt the album was still a little incomplete so i put it aside. in december 2004 a disastrous tsunami struck south-east asia, and i felt somewhat terrified by my own music which clearly dealt with those geological phenomenons of continental drift which, in the end, caused the death of more than 250,000 people.

in january 2006 i found myself working on a series of ambient recordings which utilised new electronic equipment i had acquired in order to replace some of the analogue synthesisers i had been working with for the past eighteen years. i soon realized that some parts of these recordings would nicely knit the three earlier tracks of "tektonik" together. i slightly remixed and edited the earlier recordings to make them fit with the rest and i soon had the finished album which you are now holding in your hands. the remaining tracks formed the basis of "gronland", the sibling of "tektonik".

credits

released 01 March 2008
all music composed, performed and produces by stephen parsick between september 2004 abd january 2006.

recorded at the bonemill werther and at zwischenraum.

edited and produced at zwischenraum, werther.

all rights reserved.

stephen parsick: electronics, atmosherics, loop devicese, feedback systems, sampling, processing, treatments, chimes, giant oil tanks, canisters, processed electric pianp