SUSAN HAWKINS – LONG
DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 10 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)
For the tenth
interpretation of their tracks, LDWR has again looked towards Australia for
their mechanic. Susan Hawkins is a
composer that used to be one half of Imaginationandmymother who were an
incredibly unique avant garde partnership seemingly intend on disturbing people
passing by. With this work she is
“primarily concerned with exploring the conspiratorial relationship between sound,
music and image in creating a platform for thought and reflection.”
Her interpretation
opens with classic orchestration before what sounds like the menacing rattle of
snakes begins to enter proceedings and disrupt things. It opens like a symphony, albeit one being
distracted and attacked by insects.
Then it seems to submerge.
Track two occurs
equally nocturnal sounding like the dark of night as first an electronic howl
calls in the distance before a popping sound of fake footsteps makes way for a
random beacon of pleasure and hope. It
feels like a dark optimism taking shape.
That and perculation.
Huge haunting piano
notes massively amplified welcome in a series of frenzied whispers into track
three as the glistening accompaniment of the original track caresses the motion
and offers up baby like (Christ like) visions of harmony and beauty that
equally could resemble death. Its all
the same thing reflected.
Similarly the final
track echoes equally juvenile sentiments sounding like a toy and rendering the
listener a child playing on the floor in their room. For seventy seconds it is a magical thing.
Then with that Hawkins
is done. She genuinely weaves a wicked
sense of magic over the piece and raises the bar of the project to a new level
of slanted beauty.
Thesaurus moment:
bouncer.
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