Findings

These two have been performing together in the Sydney experimental sound scene for a number of years. In 2006 they were featured on ABCTV's 'Set', and they present that performance here as four tracks entitled 'kept' 1-4. Like many genuine inquiries their findings were a surprise to both of them. Peter's work here revolves around probing the innards of aging audio equipment with their own self-generated feedback, filling the components to saturation point, flooding the otherwise orderly signal paths with puddles of random activity. His role is basically riding that valve between the internal processes and the resulting overflow of sound; spilling from the speakers, but frying in the air. Jim here uses alto sax, but stripped of references to saxophony. He particle-i-zes his sounds, often focussing on 'fibrillations' idiosyncratic to his horn. His sounds are then perceived simultaneously as waves and tiny bits. When tones are employed, they break up into fibrillation or he employs beating vocalized interferences. There are no 'notes' here; no lines. Sometimes in the swarms of sound you can't tell the sax from the electronics. But It's not that they are trying to mimic each other; it's just that each artist is involved in similar investigations, and they mesh their sounds into a seething whole. Recorded early 2006 in Sydney.

Jim Denley, Peter Blamey - Findings (SPL14DD)

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1.		Jim Denley & Peter Blamey - Kept 1	3m 51s
2.		Jim Denley & Peter Blamey - Kept 2	10m 19s
3.		Jim Denley & Peter Blamey - Kept 3	9m 11s
4.		Jim Denley & Peter Blamey - Kept 4	12m 31s

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