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Asteroid 2012 DA14

by AKASHIC RECORDS

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Asteroid 2012 DA14 part 1 47:34
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 part 2 48:01
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 part 3 36:11
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 part 4 52:02
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 part 5 39:40
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 part 6 29:39
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 part 7 31:01
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On October 3rd, 2019, I introduced these sounds for the very first time to a public audience during a live quadrophonic performance at Murmurans Mundus Conference in Usti Nad Labem in the Czech Republic. Although deployed only in the first 10 minutes of a 32 minute set, they caused some stir since the delivery system was more than adequate, the sub-woofer rumbling under my feet, until a gentler sound of Black Sea waves over-lapped me, them and the shores of the ears of listeners.The sounds collected in the original files slept for nearly 6 years.

News Flash: On Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, the asteroid named 2012 DA14 passed extremely close to Earth. While NASA scientists concurred a year earlier, when it was discovered, that it posed no risk of impacting our planet, it's nearness caused an emotional and imaginary impact, especially on deep space enthusiasts and star-gazers. It was said the asteroid might even be visible in backyard telescopes if one knew precisely when and where to look. When... was not the problem... if the published time frame was accurate. Where? "Here" was the simple reply. But I wanted to "hear" it more than see some light bounced back from a distant stone through a telescope (which I didn't have anyway).

Having been a follower of Thomas Ashcraft's (www.heliotown.com) radio-telescopic tracking of space dust and forward meteor scatter using radio noise as a medium in which to observe atmospheric disturbances. I began to learn how to detect in common radios various kinds of ionic and electro-magnetic impulses, such and his forward scatter antennae array in New Mexico might catch. I learned what solar flares and lightening disturbances should sound like in the radio spectrum. With respect to then on-coming Asteroid 2012 DA14, I went in for an amateur experiment tuning 3 radios (short, mid and long wave) to position between stations. My not-so-very-vast array was composed of 10 meters of copper wires in a spidery web attached to the iron balcony and whatever looked like it would capture radio signals including the old piano's sound-board.

I recorded live for 4 hours applying an Audiomulch down-pitch filter at 7 octaves, 4 octaves & 2 octaves (respective to each radio), hoping to capture some traces of the passage of the asteroid as radio interference. I used smaller cuts of this panorama in various projects over the next years while never seeing any convenient way to share the whole opus. Finally I tried an upload for the whole to soundcloud but after several close but no cigar attempts, I resigned myself to splitting the files into several more digestible ones for streaming and perhaps later re-production. The reason for all this work will become apparent when one listens, perhaps. To my ears it is a rather unusual kind of drone which is neither dark nor light but some mixture of both. A phrase from Thomas Ligeti comes to mind: "a brainless burning beacon". Is it only my imagination that is sounds like the void of space itself? I can't be certain what it is but that the mood induced is both fascinating, frightening, or in any case spooky.

Jeff Gburek
Poznan, October 2019

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released October 16, 2019

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Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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