PROGREDERE: NOTES ON TWO MOVEMENTS

Vinyl Release

" It maybe leans in to my fascination with time as a circular entity, that it moves in a ring like quality.”

Two Movements

Progredere is a record about time, and how sound can hold it, stretch it, bury it, or return us to it. Each side (Intervīvium and Movere) came from very different places, but somehow they’ve found each other here. Together they sit quietly in dialogue, sharing an interest in listening as an active, durational thing.

Side A: Intervīvium

Originally composed for the 2021 theatre production If The Bull Won’t Come, Intervīvium emerged from a close collaboration with choreographer Adi Weinberg and dramaturge Cat Gerrard. Premiered at Fabrik in Potsdam, Germany, the work was conceived as a sonic counterpoint to the body, a score that is a document of the conversation between choreography and sound.

Here it's stripped of the stage, and in many ways, Intervīvium now moves differently. To me it holds tension, breath, pacing. Its fragments of tone and texture suggest, each one an invitation into spatial awareness. In this context, the piece takes on a second life as an installation-like listening experience.

Side B: Movere

Movere is perhaps a result of an archaeological mind set. It was composed from recordings and improvisations spanning nearly a decade (2010 to 2018). The work/explorations was never intended as a single cohesive piece. I guess it was a palette, a sketchbook, a scattering of sonic thoughts and moments. But in late 2024, perhaps charged with new perceptions and wisdom, I (more than ever) began to solidify it in way that I hadn't experience before. And what once felt like a scrapbook of moments and ideas, began to look like a destination. It still feels strange to me, but it definately feels complete.

I guess there’s a quiet unfolding here. Movere plays with impermanence, tape hiss, outdoor air, room tone. It’s a work shaped by accretion and erosion. By listening again, by re-entering material long set aside, the piece finds form through a returning motion. What was once fragmentary became whole, its unresolved history became it's meaning.

Format

Releasing these two works as a vinyl record is very intentional. A spinning disk, etched phyically with an imprint of sound does, in it's very nature insist on time and presence (yours and mine). It also leans in to my fascination with time as a circular entity, that it moves in a ring like quality. A vinyl record holding this work can't fully replicate circular time, but it does move in a way that, to me, symbolises it. Like time, it needs to be held: presence, patience, attention to decay.

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