Dawn Celeste Ashley Sleight of Fox

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Hello YouTube subscribers... you may have subscribed when I was uploading Devo covers, DS-10 tracks or experimenting on my MS-20 or MicroKorg XL. Thank you for subscribing all those years ago but I also understand if you now unsubscribe! This is a new recording that I am rather proud of, I hope you enjoy it. • 'Sleight of Fox' can be listened to, downloaded and purchased via Bandcamp: https://dawncelesteashley.bandcamp.co... • -------------- • All sounds originally recorded August 2023 by Dawn Celeste Ashley for Wei Zhou's exhibition ‘The Unspeakable in Pursuit of the Uneatable’ (CCA, Glasgow – September 2023). Hours of recordings, variations on ideas and loose compositions were created for the project during an intense period of creativity and back-and-forth communication with Wei Zhou. A number of these recordings were used as part of a 30-minute three screen video installation that formed the centrepiece of Wei Zhou's exhibition. The video piece featured disparate forms and overlapping themes employing filmic visual / narrative languages, first-person animalistic skirmishes and AI generated investigations. It explored themes of transformation, fable, night, seduction, threat and mystery; and although the exhibition had many disparate formal languages, underpinning it was an exploration of zhiguai xiaoshuo (early literary tales of the strange), particularly those of huli jing (fox spirits). • Guiding the recording process were ideas of temperature, transformation, alchemy, mirrors and liminal space. Recordings took the form of improvised percussive melodies using Wendy Carlos’ Gamma tuning system (close to 31 TET), field and foley recordings of water, glass, forest floors and fields, as well as synthesized atmospheres and other various instruments and effects. Many of the recordings were made to be layered or played quietly to create an underlying tone that when coupled with the images and narration would suggest temperatures and different mental states. • The creation of ‘Sleight of Fox’ sees Dawn Celeste Ashley re-engaging with the original recordings made during this period; treating them as sound objects to be recontextualised in a new evolving sonic landscape. No additional recordings, equalisation or effects were used in the creation of this new arrangement and the maximum number of concurrent audio layers was set to three in order to maintain the original colour of the recordings. • ‘Sleight of Fox’ is a meditative and evocative reflection told in inhale and exhale, hold and release, hot and cold, storm and calm, reflection and mirror. Sounds flood into one another and pool in the air to be sent away in an exhale. Abstract amorphous noises and temperatures clot together, with melodies eventually piercing through the murk. Textures and pitches scrape and swoon across the landscape before the piece eventually returns to where it began, creating a full overarching inhale / exhale. • credits • released September 16, 2024 • Recorded August 2023 by Dawn Celeste Ashley. • Arranged Aug-September 2024 by Dawn Celeste Ashley. • Original photography by Natalie Marr. • Cover design by Dawn Celeste Ashley. • Many thanks to Natalie, Wei and CCA, Glasgow.

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