Apprehension Engine – The Murmuring | The Silence Collective

Apprehension Engine – The Murmuring

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This is a LIMITED RELEASE, special edition of the first ever live group performance featuring the SILENCE COLLECTIVE and the APPREHENSION ENGINE, a brilliant new analog instrument created by Canadian luthier Tony Duggan-Smith for film composer Mark Korven. All sounds on this album were live-generated in a group-composed instant composition setting over the course of two sets played at Silence, the independent community artspace and music venue in Guelph, Ontario.

WARNING: Many sounds on this album have NEVER been heard (or made) before.

Includes a four-panel Digipak with an 8-page funky insert designed by Lucas Duggan-Smith and loads of extra information.

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SILENCE COLLECTIVE

Matt BRUBECK (cello); Gary DIGGINS (trumpet, santoor, conch, water wheel, voice, didgeridoo); Daniel FISCHLIN (guitar [by Tony Duggan-Smith], flutes, monotron); Mark KORVEN (Apprehension Engine); Lewis MELVILLE (pedal steel, banjo); Joe SORBARA (percussion)

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Barcode Free Music promotes alternative forms of musical cocreation that are community-based and socially-engaged––bringing these projects to a wider audience.

BFM is an artists' and musicians' collective that advocates on behalf of regional musicians who are extending the boundaries of their creative process.

BFM focuses its energies on intergenerational musical projects that have a strong sense of social justice and on music that:

• nurtures intercultural encounter(s);

• that encourages all ages and diverse communities to cocreate;

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• that emerges from and fosters public commons spaces;

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• that resists commodification;

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1.	Eerie Non-Happenings 02:21	buy track
2.	In the Shining Sphere 03:38	buy track
3.	Oppose Unthought Norms 06:35	buy track
4.	A Unity of Misfits Sings 03:32	buy track
5.	Songs for a Mater Dolorosa 04:03	buy track
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11.	And the Everywhere of Afterlives Is 05:20	buy track
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13.	Murmuration 1: Between Was and Is 09:40	buy track
14.	Murmuration 2: The Sound of Ancient Now Is Here 04:35	buy track

about

Spawned by the imagination of Canadian composer Mark Korven and a trail of musical exploration going back over a thousand years, the APPREHENSION ENGINE was “birthed” in 2016 by instrument maker and musician Tony Duggan-Smith—the result of a two-week lockdown in a small Toronto workshop following the mantra of ‘what if’ and ‘why not.’

This recording captures highlights from the three sets that were played by the SILENCE COLLECTIVE, a group of experienced improvisers who, meeting for the first time with Mark Korven, and completely unrehearsed, improvised the music heard here featuring an unprecedented new Canadian-made instrument that has received international acclaim.

The performers sat facing the audience and in front of a screen playing an experimental film created by Guelph musician and multimedia artist Jeff Bird. The film was based entirely on images taken by Duggan-Smith of his 92-year-old mother before she died, a living memory of a remarkable woman that the musicians were invited to respond to as an inspiration for the evening’s improvisations.

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released August 15, 2018

SILENCE COLLECTIVE

Matt BRUBECK (cello); Gary DIGGINS (trumpet, santoor, conch, water wheel, voice, didgeridoo); Daniel FISCHLIN (guitar [by Tony Duggan-Smith], flutes, monotron); Mark KORVEN (Apprehension Engine); Lewis MELVILLE (pedal steel, banjo); Joe SORBARA (percussion)

Produced by: Tony Duggan-Smith, Daniel Fischlin, Lewis Melville
Recording Engineer: Lewis Melville
Mastering: Philip Shaw Bova
Cover Art, Design, Graphics: Lucas Duggan-Smith, Joan Duggan-Smith
Photos: Tony Duggan-Smith, Mark Korven, Daniel Ap

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