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Future Animal

from Common Electric Glare by Timothy Fairless

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This song is made with cat, vocoder, and other more common things. This song is slow but snarling. The song has hints of ambient, but twisted.

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Common Electric Glare was produced during a period of intense global and personal upheaval. It speaks to a realisation of profound absence. Absence via prolific distraction. Absence through disengagement and apathy. The stage is set, the lights are on, but no-one is actually dancing.

It began as a somewhat impersonal, observational comment on contemporary fascinations with technology and the thinning of human bonds that happens when our attention is consumed. But as the work progressed my commentary turned inward, exploring the part played by diverted attention and infinite distraction on my own relationships, processing of death and grief, and disconnection from the linearity of my own narrative. It became deeply and at times excruciatingly personal.

Common Electric Glare is built from rich soundscapes, layered and processed field recordings, and angular sonic textures. It represents a key development in creative process and an emergent individuality in its execution. Diminished is the reliance on recognisable musical instrumentation and harmonic structures. Championed here is figure, form, and the metamorphosis of sound sources into emotional and physical hooks. I'm still playing piano, just not in a way you’ve heard before.

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from Common Electric Glare, released August 27, 2021
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Timothy Fairless plays prepared piano, plucked piano, Hohner Pianet T, synthesizers, & lap steel guitar
Includes a performance by deceased house-cat Jasper processed through a Roland vocoder

Produced, mixed & mastered by Timothy Fairless

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Timothy Fairless Brisbane, Australia

Timothy Fairless is an Australian composer & multi-instrumentalist who processes acoustic, electronic and environmental sources to near oblivion, but combines them with enough familiar musicality to keep things friendly.

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