Unliteral: One is a collection of fragments and sedimentary layers assembled from field recordings, YouTube content, signal manipulations, and compositions for digital instruments. Individually, the tracks are meditations on the various ways humans interact with and impress themselves on the natural world. Collectively, they offer an ambivalent exploration of sound’s capacity to dis- and re-enchant everyday experience.

Unliteral: One is the first in a series of digital and limited edition CD-R releases featuring remastered episodes of the stopGOstop podcast.

 

01: TO OR AT A DISTANCE (10:28) mp3
Repetitive machine churning. A river recorded with a tin plate. Crickets near a highway, with a little bit of scratching. A melody absorbed in an echo. A bowed string also makes an appearance.

02: UNKNOWN MOVEMENT UNDERGROUND (4:57) mp3
The breaking-up and sorting of concrete along with sounds of running water and midi-controlled oscillators. With miscellaneous other tones and feedback.

03: SPRING (9:56) mp3 
A rain shower accompanied by synthesized instruments and sine waves.

04: RUINS OF THE MORNING (5:36) mp3 :
Walking around a pile of concrete shards with a bucket of water; or, Prospero casting a spell to end the Anthropocene.

05: FLUTE OSCILLATOR (12:30) mp3
The digital signal manipulations of flute recordings found on YouTube.

Download the entire album as a single file (43:41) mp3