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01. MARK LYKEN - Dry Sea
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02. MARK LYKEN - Monument
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03. MARK LYKEN - Scar History
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04. MARK LYKEN - Wetland
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05. MARK LYKEN - Sea State Three
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06. MARK LYKEN - Udale
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ARTIST
LYKEN, MARK
TITLE
The Terrestrial Sea
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
IMPORTANT RECORDS
CATALOG #
IMPREC 437CD
IMPREC 437CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/29/2016
Mark Lyken
is an artist, composer, and filmmaker based in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. He creates musical and sound pieces, films, paintings, and installations. The Cromarty Firth is an inlet of the North Sea in the Scottish Highlands. It is an important and protected natural habitat of seabirds and marine mammals, yet it is also an essential berth of the oil and tourism industries. Based in a field station ideally located at the Cromarty Lighthouse, ecologists from the University of Aberdeen study how natural and man-made environmental changes influence the behavior and populations of the Firth's protected species. In 2012 Lyken was artist in residence at the Lighthouse Field Station, where he worked alongside the ecologists and recorded
The Terrestrial Sea
. He returned to the town of Cromarty in 2014 to collaborate on a companion film with award-winning filmmaker
Emma Dove
(this CD includes a link to the film).
The Terrestrial Sea
is the culmination of that work, highlighting the diverse and ever-changing environments that the ecologists are studying through music and film.
The Terrestrial Sea
is deeply imbued with a sense of place. While sonically evoking the drama and beauty of the land and seascapes of the Cromarty Firth it also explores the tensions that exist surrounding the natural and industrial world. The music combines real-world, electronic, and processed sounds, creating a sometimes incongruous soundworld of corroded melodies, percussive clangs, drilling platform drones, pile-driving booms, intensifying boat noise, local voices, the simulated sounds of weather, and the ever-present sea itself.
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