permafrost -- the sleep concert edition, by stephen parsick

permafrost -- the sleep concert edition

by stephen parsick

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BUY THE ALBUM TEASER AND RECEIVE THE FULL 200-MINUTE SCORE AS ADDTIONAL BONUS TRACKS IN FLAC FORMAT.

in early 2010, shortly after i had moved to new premises, i found myself recording a series of vast and expansive soundscapes that were heavily based on field recordings i had made the previous winter. those recordings were to capture the extraordinarily cold and long winter season, and i was mainly trying to focus on recording the sound of ice in its various shapes.

the place i had stupidly moved to, and where my recording space was set up, was named "cold furnace" because the central heating turned out to be a nightmare -- right in the middle of the night, it would repeatedly quit working, at temperatures well two figures below zero, so that the place was cold and clammy all the time. what a long and cold winter it was, and worse was still to come...

one evening, after i had fired up the furnace in the basement, i decided to try and record the sound of fire -- i close-miked the hatch through which ashes would drop, trying not to melt the capsules of the microphones when recording a burning fire from underneath. i then processed these recordings and combined them with the sound of ice in order to create a contrast between coldness and heat, a bit like vulcanoes below a shield of ice.

each of the recordings was in excess of forty minutes, and it would have been impossible to release them on one single cd unless i converted them into some kind of inferior audio format -- that's why "permafrost" was originally released as a 75-minute cd-r which sold about fifty or so copies. for this flac download, i took the original recordings in unaltered form, re-combined the order in which they would play back, and ended up with two tracks of roughly 200 minutes altogether.

unfortunately, when trying to transfer the original eight-track recordings from hard-drive to protools for creating a revised and remixed version of the album, the hard-drive crashed and turned out not to be playable any longer -- thus i am stuck with the way i originally mixed down the multi-track recording to stereo. what would i have remixed or revised respectively? well, i probably would have used reverb ambiences differently, and maybe i would have filtered some extraneous noise more effectively.

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released June 1, 2020

all music created, recorded, and produced by stephen parsick at cold furnace bielefeld in february 2010.

this version was re-arranged, produced, and prepared for digital download by stephen parsick at dachgeschoss borgholzhausen in may 2020.

stephen parsick: analogue and digital synthesisers, digital sampling systems, various loop devices, analogue and digital audio processors, processed field recordings, binaural dummy head recordings.

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