Day + Night was the lines community remix project (or LCRP) for the spring equinox of 2019. The goal of LCRP is to celebrate collaboration and the creation of art between members of the community. Each LCRP offers a new method of collaboration and creative focus.
For Day + Night, participants were asked to submit a field recording, taken either during the day or night. They were then asked to create a piece of original music utilizing the recording, as well as another member’s submitted sample (recorded during the opposing time to the one they recorded). There were no specific directives to follow a particular genre or utilize a specific set of tools—rather, the only guidelines were to use the two samples in combination, and in the words of the community member who defined the project guidelines, Marc Weidenbaum (disquiet), the goal was thinking “in terms of balance, about forces that keep each other in check, about halves that complete a whole”.
There are a number of interesting ways in which the members of the community took to this challenge. As you listen, I’d encourage you to explore the ways in which certain sounds perform a call and response (either across the stereo, frequency or transient spectrum), how particular sound sources and spaces morph into others, and the way the tonalities of “day” and “night” move about (both in time and out of time).
If you are interested in learning more about how a particular track came to be, please feel free to strike up a conversation in the thread for this release. And for future LCRPs (which happen seasonally around the equinoxes and solstices), participation is open to all.
John Mitchell (midcentury modular / jlmitch5 on lines)
credits
released May 20, 2019
Art and layout by Olivier Creurer
Mastered by John Mitchell
Special thanks to Jason Wehmhoener and Marc Weidenbaum for their help in facilitating, as well as all those who participated.
1. samarobryn - "desynchronosis"
Using the night sample, "first night", accompanied by the day sample, "Morning Routine" from GoneCaving.
2. Jet Jaguar - "The Other Night"
Using the day sample, "Village on Santo, Vanuatu", accompanied by the night sample, "first night" from samarobryn.
3. Szuumm - "Cathemerality"
Using the night sample, "Bethnal Green", accompanied by the day sample, "Village on Santo, Vanuatu" from Jet Jaguar.
4. dansimco - "Three Months Rain"
Using the night sample, "evening storm", accompanied by the day sample, "24 Floors Above the Texas Capitol" from TPH.
5. kurodama - "gorgar the greek"
Using the night sample, "koskinou, mysterious rustling and other sounds", accompanied by the day sample, "gorgar at asheville pinball museum" from midcentury modular.
6. jasonw22 - "frogs, accompanied by guitar, organ and church bells"
Using the night sample, "Some human and frog neighbors", accompanied by the day sample, "Dailybells" from Dailybells.
7. Jet Jaguar - "Daytime Fireworks"
Using the night sample, "Fireworks, Wellington, New Zealand", accompanied by the day sample, "grove" from samarobryn.
8. TPH - "rodaja de naranja"
Using the day sample, "24 Floors Above the Texas Capitol", accompanied by the night sample, "Orange Line" from Alanza.
9. how the night came - "Bach at the Chicken Shack"
Using the night sample, "Wind Through Window Frame (with reverb)", accompanied by the day sample, "A Barnyard Moment" from jasonw22.
10. dansimco - "Greyland"
Using the day sample, "Naples Train Station", accompanied by the night sample, "Fireworks, Wellington, New Zealand" from Jet Jaguar.
11. samarobryn - "a dark grove"
Using the day sample, "grove", accompanied by the night sample, "140610_03_01:44" from ermina.
12. Eventuate - "Grey Earth"
Using the night sample, "Frog Choir", accompanied by the day sample, "Traffic to Tokyo" from how the night came.
13. how the night came - "Rains, Trains and Automobiles"
Using the day sample, "Traffic to Tokyo", accompanied by the night sample, "Front Step Rain And Train February 6" from BellyFullOfStars.
14. GoneCaving - "Train Station Barista"
Using the day sample, "Morning Routine", accompanied by the night sample, "Bethnal Green" from Szuumm.
15. Alanza - "dis/flow"
Using the day sample, "Broadsheet Cafe", accompanied by the night sample, "evening storm" from dansimco.
16. jasonw22 - "pollo con ancas de rana"
Using the day sample, "A Barnyard Moment", accompanied by the night sample, "Frog Choir" from Eventuate.
17. dnealelo - "Long Night's Journey into Day"
Using the day sample, "Abq suburban sunrise birds, excerpt", accompanied by the night sample, "Wind Through Window Frame (with reverb)" from how the night came.
18. midcentury modular - "untitled"
Using the day sample, "gorgar at asheville pinball museum", accompanied by the night sample, "Some human and frog neighbors" from jasonw22.
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