Label: LAAPS

CD版にのみ3トラックを追加収録。The Humble Bee & Playersのメンバーであり長年メディア・アーティストとしても動くBill Seaman、写真家のStephen Spera、UKの音楽家Tim Diagram、この三者が共同で制作したアンビエント/エクスペリメンタル・アルバム[The World Was Turning Before]。有機的なライブ録音とサウンドスケープが繊細に流れるコラージュサウンドを形成、レイヤー及びテクスチャーの美しさが視覚的な変化としても表現された11作品。







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• Glass mastered CD
• Digisleeve : white cardboard 300 gm
• Outside : x 2 adhesive glossy paper
• Inside : thick paper card + x 2 stickers
• Hand numbered Limited edition to 200 copies, sealed (like old book)
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Bill Seaman, Tim Diagram and Stephen Spera talked about making music together during the composing of the Architectures of Light album which Tim released on his Handstitched* imprint. Over the course of a few months this evolved into the new LAAPS album — "The World Was Turning Before" which focuses on a balance of sound making and collecting processes explored individually as well as between the three. The network of images of sonic imagination started forming into musical sketches— organic live pieces and soundscapes were slowly formed into delicately flowing musical collages. There is a beautiful subtlety of layering here, where images dissolve one into the other forming textures and shifting visions, as well as lovely minimal tonal gestures. This collaged tapestry forms from slightly different sources in each work, giving the album a rich diversity of sound perspectives, yet forms a strong cohesive whole.
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Bill Seaman is a musician, media artist and media researcher. He early on explored interactive and generative music (he calls this recombinant music). He has been working on a series of works that combine elements of ambient, noise, experimental, new classical and more. He describes these works as being alt.genre. He has recorded five solo albums (on Eilean Rec. and Fluid Audio) and a numerous of collaborative albums with some music artists such as Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Offthesky, Rutger Zuydervelt, Stephen Vitiello, between others. Seaman has also often created video works to accompany a number of his solo and collaborative pieces. Seaman is self-taught as a musician and composer, and is a Professor in the Music Department at Duke as well as Art, Arth History & Visual Studies.
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Since 2001, Maps and Diagrams has released over thirty-five albums as a solo artist or as part of collaboration projects, he has appeared on many well-respected labels, such as; False Industries, Static Caravan, Nomadic Kids Republic, Fluid Audio, Time Released Sound, Chemical Tapes – to name but a few. Tim runs the Handstitched* label in the UK which specialises in bespoke, handmade packaging for the more electro-acoustic and drone-like elements of his and other artists work, and he is involved in audio-visual commissions, including art gallery installations and music videos for a global clothing brand. As well as Maps and Diagrams, Tim also records music under the Atlantis name and works in collaboration with Genoveva Kachurkova as Bluhm, with Charles Sage as Hessien, alongside Rob Lyon as Somme & with Arbee under the name Emba.