CA01 D.O.R | an occupied house 'an occupied house' is composed of 6 improvisations from Canadian trio D.O.R (Drouin, Olsen + Ruhlmann) Recorded live in Drouin's home on December 14, 2011. Jamie Drouin | analogue synthesizer + radio Lance Austin Olsen | copper plates + objects + floor guitar Mathieu Ruhlmann | objects Mastered by Jamie Drouin Cover photograph: an installation by Stephanie Leitch | It was the beginning of a familiar process nothing much more than that framed by a single noble motive It could also be the last place we really, fully inhabited. From the centre a swarm of little tabernacles emerge motorizing nature's ruins and follies with a sunny optimism. For J. it meant confronting the forces behind the device, all of which were necessarily unreasonable during their formation, like a pair of boxing hares. And there the matter might have ended but for the intervention of granular forms that were the product of benevolence The other was in an unrelenting struggle with a network of copper and bicycle rubber. He coughs and shifts his weight to blur the differences between ones place of birth and their known landscape. The trick was to know how to hold them with a bare thumb. Most of what has been done here was unlikely to negate the roomy contours of motives, though I had to remind myself to maintain it in their company. -mathieu ruhlmann |