Archival Recordings: Primal Image / Beauty by Alan Lamb
Alan Lamb who passed away in April, 2025 was an Australian audio visual artist and a sound sculptor. He had a background in neurophysiology, subject he studied as a young man at Edinburgh University. He is famous for large aeolian harps set in different parts of Australia but also a very interesting body of work which Room40 led by Lawrence English in Brisbane, remembers by putting this cd.
His music is a lesson both in attentiveness and learning how to be a humble listener in a sonic landscape created by ingenuity, resonance and seeing opportunity for sound.
Primal Image/Beauty was recorded respectively in 1981 and 1983 and it is a document of Lamb's ongoing research in sonic adventures.
Primal Image is the first in turn to be completed by Aland. He recorded it on the Faraway Wind Organ, which was a long stretch of abandoned telephone line located on his families farm close by the Fitzgerald National Park in Western Australia.
This track was one of the first ones to prompt his ongoing interest in wires and how they can be used in composition. Long, droney composition that is somewhat both haunting and lies on the verge of field recording and a modern composition - where both the instrument and the landscape play crucial role.
Beauty is a study in harmony and the unique details that it can possess - when you think of means to convey and generate it. An edited almost 17 minute piece from an over 20 hour session invites us to transport our mind into a vast, unbound terrain of imagination. It is like field recording in a space of its own.
Recorded and edited by Alan Lamb between 1981 and 1988. With the exception of slight equalisation, no additional processing was used during these sessions.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Design by Traianos Pakioufakis
Very special thanks to Darrin Verhagen
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