from the cassette release on The Geography Trip records
credits
from 2017 (1),
released February 13, 2017
Rowan Forestier-Walker is a sound and visual artist based in West Yorkshire, recording and performing under the name Embla Quickbeam.
Within the field of deep listening her work explores the sonorous qualities of objects, resonant spaces and environmental sound; creating immersive sound worlds using synthesis, tape process, field recordings and home built sound making devices.
She has released an amalgamation of limited edition vinyl and cassette, and performed at Fort Process, Colour Out of Space, Cafe Oto, SuperNormal, Freize and ICA London.
Breathtaking work. A category of its own, where words like "beautiful" or "ugly" (and all similar words) are meaningless.
This just ís. Sound. Breathtaking. Overwhelming.
iptamenos3
Who would have imagined Federico Durand as an appearance here (Third Dream)? The collaboration is enchanting.
Federico has a way with abstract but deceptively simple, nearly melodic single note patterns. That combined with Stephan’s multilayered drones…it just works at every level. Richard Erickson