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dawn, always new, often superb, inaugurates the return of the everyday

by Kate Carr

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This is an album which begins with a London roundabout in its exploration of connections, lost rhythms and new beginnings. The pandemic has underlined that what we thought of as the every day, is actually something quite specific and special. I made this album on and off through the lockdowns of 2020-21 and now as we hopefully emerge into something else, I have found myself asking what type of every day this new dawn will bring.

This record takes as its starting point the connections, vibrations, uses and history of the Bricklayers Arms roundabout in Bermondsey, London. A historic gateway into London this roundabout is named for a coaching inn which serviced wagons entering the capital, and has existed as an important junction and stop off point for more than 600 years. Today it connects Tower Bridge Road, Old Kent Road, New Kent Road and Great Dover Street and serves as an important linkage within London, but also more broadly connecting directly to Dover, a major port to the EU.

The album was not originally conceived during either the pandemic or Brexit, but as I composed it over the last 18 months its meditations on linkages and the rhythms of public space took on new meanings. What was once a bustling, thrumming junction, fell silent, and its connections within London and beyond took on new significances and vulnerabilities.

In making this album I composed primarily with vibrations captured by a specialised geophone, and contact microphones which I used to record vibratory repercussions in grates, lamp posts, walls and drains, caused by the passage of cars, pedestrians, cyclists, and buses through the roundabout. It also draws on recordings taken (between lockdowns, and just after the final implementation of Brexit) in Dover itself, the frictions where the sea meets the shoreline, the rumble of lorries passing through, and ocean winds hitting coastal fences.

I offer it as a re-valuation of the every day, and a tribute to the links we continue to hold onto and the importance of hopeful beginnings even in the most difficult of circumstances.

Kate Carr, London, June 2021.

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dawn, always new, often superb, inaugurates the return of the everyday was commissioned by Forma Arts to mark their relocation to a new building on the Bricklayers Arms roundabout.

Album title and track titles 2,3,4,6,7,8,9 taken from spatial theorist Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis, a collection of essays which address the rhythms and patterns involved in the everyday use of public space.

Slices of field recordings were converted by Graham Dunning into rhythmic samples which were used throughout the album. Time and space the cyclical and the linear contains a percussive sequence entirely programmed by Graham.

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released July 28, 2021

All tracks by Kate Carr, except track 9 which additionally features percussion by Graham Dunning
Additional percussion, and percussive programming by Graham Dunning
Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering
Concept and Design by Louise Mason at Sawn Off
Lathe cut + engraving by Bladud Flies
Commissioned by Forma Arts.
Special thanks to: Graham, Chris, Mat, Louise, Rachel, Simon, Tanya. Henri + Forma Arts.
This release was made possible via funding from Arts Council England.

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Kate Carr London, UK

“Probably the most significant field recordist of contemporary urban Britain…” - The Quietus.

Kate Carr’s practice explores the textures and technologies of field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which emphasise interactions and shared experiences within them.
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