Midsummer, London, by Kate Carr

Midsummer, London

by Kate Carr

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	1.	Sunrise on the 35 bus to Clapham Junction
	2.	Amid waterbirds and joggers, Staines-upon-Thames 03:17
	3.	Roadworks in Shepperton 02:51
	4.	One piece of cake (a banana cake), and remembered excavations 01:44
	5.	I met a dog in Hampton who lived on a boat near a gravel recycling plant 03:06
	6.	The bins being emptied somewhere near Twickenham
	7.	Transit interlude (vibrations obscuring conversations)
	8.	A strangely located cafe, echoes of St Paul's and a drain that drew breath as I journeyed into Blackfriars
	9.	Lunchtime for the office crowd, I like the sound of swan rescue
	10.	Crossing the river: I am getting hungry and lots of people are talking about food. Also Jesus loves me
	11.	Transit interlude (the Lewisham station piano)
	12.	A rather wistful stop for noodles (and why is someone singing in this food court anyway?)
	13.	Walking down to the Thames at Woolwich I banged some guard rails; thought about a recording of another station piano
	14.	Trying to find the river at Slade Green; Did that train go to Dartford?
	15.	It has been the longest of days and I am going home

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“Midsummer, London was composed with recordings taken on the Summer Solstice June 21, 2023, as I attempted to journey from one side of the city to the other along the Thames on this longest of days. The journey began in Loughborough Junction with stops at Clapham Junction, Staines, Shepperton, Hampton, Twickenham, Ravenscourt Park, Blackfriars, Deptford, Woolwich Dockyard and Slade Green.”
Kate Carr, 2024

This work is one continuous piece, with named sections.

Boomkat Review:
"Alchemical field recording collagist Kate Carr immerses in the humid soup of London on the longest day of 2023 with an impressionistic travelogue of her city-strafing trip from Loughborough Junction to Slade Green.

One of the best in her field (recording class), Carr’s works always appear to parse curious uncanniness from the quotidian. ‘Midsummer, London’ does just that with Carr’s evocation of London’s vastness and inherent nuance, and on an auspicious day observed by humans across the eons. The city’s rich socio-cultural mosaic and palimpsest of history proves perfectly fertile ground for investigating and articulating her interests in the relationship between people and place through sound.

As someone who moved to the city in 2016 from roots in Sydney, AU, she brings an observant outsider/insider quality to her seamless 46’ collage that we, as outsiders to the megatropolis, who scarcely visit it, can relate to. In a sort of poetically instrumental, deep topographic way, Carr’s work here holds among her evocative best, subtly conveying the city’s unique sort of humidity and barometric pressure with a layered, soupy, miasmic frisson of tones that palpably capture the dynamism of sounds convected in warm air, vacillating passages of street noise with tracts relatively absent of human interference, other than her own.

Far better than any literal, guided tour, to our minds, ‘Midsummer, London’ imparts the sensation of drifting invisibly, ears snagged on overheard conversations or singers oblivious to one’s presence, hopping on/off the city’s snakes ’n ladders of transport networks, intoxicated by the weather and smells, and slipping from street noises to pockets of natural tranquility and mindlessly playing street railings like a carillon. Quite the lush experience, if you ask we."

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releases June 20, 2024

Music by Kate Carr
Mastering by Nima Aghiani
Design by Matthew Young and Louise Mason

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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. ... more

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