Exclusive soundtrack made for Ears Have Ears by Sydney artist, musician, writer and broadcaster Julian Day with his sound project An Infinity Room (AIR).
An Infinity Room (AIR) is a study into the weight of air. Artist and composer Julian Day brings together matching vintage synthesizers to create ‘rooms within rooms’ of highly active vibratory fields. He uses simple algorithmic patterns to generate perpetually shifting drone melodies, modulating the density of the surrounding airspace as a form of ‘turbulent geometry’. Deeply intersecting tones enliven the air to create a deeply embodied psychoacoustic experience, recalling La Monte Young, Phill Niblock and Stars of the Lid. Since 2009 AIR has appeared in New York, London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Prague, The Hague and throughout Australia, supporting Oval, Norman Westberg (Swans), Marina Rosenfeld, Josef van Wissem among others.
An Infinity Room's debut album 'White On White' is is a spacious, ambient listen comprising several works developed on international tours and in the studio. Each unfolds similarly: heavy weights are placed upon the keys according to simple algorithmic patterns, creating a heady and epic unfolding of overlapping long tones. WOW was recorded with Bob Scott in Sydney using vintage 1970s and 80s synthesizers. Out now via Room40/A Guide To Saints. Link:
http://emporium.room40.org/products/573899-an-infinity-room-white-on-white
Julian Day is a Sydney-based artist, composer and broadcaster. His performance and installation work looks to sound’s deeply relational and territorial properties as a series of tensions between abstract and political forces. Day has presented work at Whitechapel Gallery, MASS MoCA, Café Oto, Le Poisson Rouge, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. His music has featured in such festivals as the Bang On A Can Marathon (New York), Spitalfields Music (London), Liquid Architecture, Dark Mofo and VIVID Sydney. In addition to AIR Day co-directs Super Critical Mass, a participatory project in which temporary communities articulate public spaces using dispersed homogeneous sound. His collaborative work Moving Collected Ambience was recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and will feature in the upcoming exhibition Collection Volume Two. Day has also presented and produced many programs on ABC radio.
For more info
An Infinity Room: www.aninfinityroom.com
Julian Day: www.julianday.com
