What is now and the becoming of what is now

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1.	Double grammars 03:58		buy track
2.	Early Spelke, later Dweck 12:00		buy track
3.	In a prince loyalty, in a merchant faith-keeping 22:52		buy track
4.	The atmosphere here makes one a serf 03:42		buy track
5.	A truly isolated investigator 14:13		buy track
6.	The delegates at Makerere 13:48		buy track
7.	Meanwhile I have come to know all the diseases of understanding 17:08		buy track
8.	Tired utopia 10:35		buy track
9.	A book for burning 08:36		buy track
10.	Threefold function 01:44		buy track
11.	Meanwhile (first reprise) 06:40		buy track
12.	A lion, a moule, a needle 17:22		buy track
13.	Pierre & Loic 10:24	info	buy track
14.	What is now and the becoming of what is now 14:40		buy track
15.	Back to the high fell 09:20		buy track
16.	I too would become immortalized 14:01		buy track
17.	Korte Wegwyzer 18:54	info	buy track
18.	The invisible light that shines wanly within 06:26		buy track
19.	Meanwhile (second reprise) 09:36		buy track
20.	Tired utopia (reprise) 11:21		buy track

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"It sounds paranormal in a friendly way." - Matthew Lobb

I made all these pieces between May and September 2018 to help with my doctoral studies in the sociology of educational assessment. I've used the same technique for all of them: I took a sample, sometimes of my own pieces, sometimes other people's, sometimes other pieces in this collection, put them through a granular synthesiser and improvised. Some of these are first takes with minimal edits, some of them are a couple of takes mixed together with a few minor edits.

The 'What is now...' title comes from a 2015 book chapter titled 'Discourses as Embodied Genealogies' by Mona Livholts. Other titles are mostly taken from or refer to things I've been reading, especially the work of my favourite sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

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released September 30, 2018

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Distant Fingers Brisbane, Australia

Now working alone in a small room, having played a range of instruments in various bands of different kinds since 1999.

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