Lines, by Core of the Coalman

Lines

by Core of the Coalman

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1.	Line 1_Fault 04:29	buy track
2.	Line 2_Slip 23:37	buy track
3.	Line 3_Fracture 27:13	buy track
4.	Line 4_Black 10:19	buy track
5.	Line 5_thirteen 04:41	buy track
6.	Line 6_AsGlass 12:39	buy track
7.	Line 7_Cousin 10:02	buy track
8.	Line 8_Bleeder 11:34	buy track
9.	Line 9_Fossil 17:35	buy track
10.	Line 10_Overgrown 16:11	buy track
11.	Line 11-Carbonized 35:42	buy track
12.	Line 12_Miner 06:51	buy track

about

I’ve never set out to do anything linearly, but lines happen anyway.

Around 2011, my friend Jakub and I, with other friends and colleagues, would regularly visit the house his grandfather built by hand in Všenory, in the Czech Republic, for art making, discussing, and hanging out, usually around a fire. I began to use a small rectangular basement passage full of tools and firewood as a little studio on these visits. The ceiling was low, so I sat on a small stool on the floor where I could bow, and played sustained sounds with feedback, and also sometimes using my voice or a harmonica, until the whole place felt like the inside of a vibrating string.

I recorded some of these continuities, slowly, and after moving to the UK in 2014 I started to edit and mix them a little bit, and eventually they separated themselves out and became the Lines on these four cds.

Jake Blanchard has created a lovely release for these with custom, hand-made linocut prints for each of the cds for his release on Tor Press.

For me, these pieces resonate strongly with my thinking about other forms I experience in the environment. These aren’t lines that separate anything from anything else, but openings, like a deep valley in a landscape of contrasting texture or a mountain range seen from above.

Maybe they existed in the viola strings, the wires, the harmonica reeds and the shape of the basement space just waiting for all these things to come together. Maybe the sound here is the sound of that basement space, like the way a mineral crystal or fossil might emerge from some liquid filled hollow in some other form. But I think that they also spill out, push forward on their own, and take on their own shapes like young versions of rivers that will later meander across the landscape, shaping it.

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released May 6, 2022

Jorge Boehringer
Core of the Coalman
Tor Press, Todmorden

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Core of the Coalman UK

Sound Artist, Noise Fanatic, Amp Worshiper,
Environmental Experimentalist, Music Composer:
(installations and ensembles or soloists
(with or without electronics [and/or computers])

Experimentalist exploring spatial listening, phenomenologies of temporality, and interaction with information and instruments in everyday life and dreams. ... more

jorgeboehringer.com

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