The Seattle Phonographer's Union Building 27 WNP-5

Personel : Perri Howard, Steve Peters, Toby Paddock, Doug Haire, Jonathan Way, Dale Lloyd, Pete Comley, Christopher DeLaurenti and Steve Barsotti.
Description : "On this LP, the SPU improvises inside Building 27 and WNP-5; these two remarkable acoustic environments not only transformed our field recordings, but guided these live, unedited improvisations. A decommissioned aircraft hangar at the former Sand Point Naval Air Station, Building 27 melds our sounds with audience footsteps and murmuring, along with, in quieter moments, birds, and nearby water. The unusual skittering slapback echo heard in WNP-5, part of an unfinished nuclear power station, results from gradually narrowing walls and tile-like surfaces inside the cooling tower; sound spirals upwards to the sky." Taken from the liner notes, by Christopher DeLaurenti. Bio : The Seattle Phonographers Union convenes to explore the ways of recognizing, differentiating, mapping and navigating sonic environments. They move beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign; to explore what they hear and relearn what they know. Some sounds will be familiar; others less so. Both novel and familiar sounds will be juxtaposed in ways unique to each event. They investigate and enrich both their intuitive and analytical relationships with sound. The goal is not to excite, confuse or entertain per se, but to attend to the world, which is much more detailed and diverse than any one person's perception of it. Edition: 250.