The Auricle Archive (2) by Synapse

2D • Music • posted on May 28, 2006

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Some more selections from my CD insert artwork for The Auricle Archive, a series of 12 CDR issues on my friends' Auricle label. My inspirations here were again pretty obscure so I won't go into them, but it was very much a personal response to the music itself. The water visible here is Thornton Reservoir near my parents' home in Leicestershire, England. Thank you for taking a look and your thoughts are always much appreciated :-)

Comments (9)

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erlandpil

3:43AM | Sun, 28 May 2006

Good work from you again

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ACS-001

3:52AM | Sun, 28 May 2006

Oh wow, beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

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Naichan

5:03AM | Sun, 28 May 2006

What a productive weekend we're all having! I don't have this release so I'm particularly glad you posted this. Fascinating juxtapositions here, hinting at the deep currents of the music itself. It was no doubt a way too ambitious project for the lads to undertake though, even taking into account the high enthusiasm and lack of self-criticism of the time :-) Should be some good stuff on this though...

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Synapse

6:02AM | Sun, 28 May 2006

They obviously ran out of momentum on the Pantheon project, what with ZBB and their solo experiments etc. I haven't heard Pantheon for years and I didn't mp3 it to bring with me to Oz, so it'll be a good while before I can listen again. All in good time, the future comes!

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crypticghost

10:14AM | Sun, 28 May 2006

you know what is quite interesting, and you might have done this on purpose of not, but as you may know that Auricle refers to anatomy of the heart, the L, and R auricle, or atria, or atrium, meaning little ears, and being entrance and dump ways for blood into the heart, so with the mouth and the holes on the two bottom tissues, i find this is a total translation of that. as well as the wisp on the bottom right resembling a flow, or even fiberus tissue, and the top could resemble a dog ear, or just that it is flowing, I mean you must have known this, and named it what you have on purpose right? please let me know. As always your work just rocks my friend thanks for more inspiration.

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Synapse

10:37AM | Sun, 28 May 2006

Actually no - Auricle Music is the name of the underground label owned by the brothers Alan and Steve Freeman, which features their own recordings as a duo (under the name Alto Stratus), solo recordings and related projects, some of which include yours truly. Alan's logo is of an ear - based, I strongly suspect, on that of the classic German underground label Ohr Musik. Pantheon 1984 was the name of an aborted project inspired by various deities from international legend. Region 5 was an Alto Stratus project inspired by Stockhausen's "Hymnen" and the strips on that image were directly inspired by those on the old Deutsche Grammophon LP of that album. The wisps and holes were really just graphic devices which I felt appropriate to the aesthetic. If memory serves, I chose the reservoir image for Pantheon because of some water sounds on that album, and the mouth (mine, by the way) was inspired by some of the more demonic deities! So thank you so much for your interpretation, but I very much doubt if any of that had ever occurred to me ;-)

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