Editorial Reviews Of the Artifice of Stasis: fountains flow from accoustic spaces between compressed crystals and metal, diaphragms and water, vessels and pumps, airless circuits and field recordings: trashcans, metal tubs, tap water, PVC tubing, over sealant and mats, beneath black polyethylene and waterproof tape, through speakers and headphones at three minutes and ten seconds of track one stereo is a representation of identity; while in discreet channels, identity - though not specificity - subsides and noise becomes this plaza of unnamed and future into a new fountain. This is not of waves, nor ripples on the surface; but on top of that: the foam, the embellishment." -- Kenneth Atchley
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About the Artist
"Long time sound installation artist from San Francisco debuts (finally) with this beautifuly packaged CD. Booklet contains various pictures of the "Fountains" exhibit that was used to make the recording. "These fountains were formalized over a period of 4 years: reading J. Antonio Maravali's The Culture of the Baroque; glossy fashion magazines, British dance journals; books of folds, multiplicities, architecture, the lives and deaths of poets and painters; listening to CDs and radio Handel, various Bachs, F. Couperin, Schubert; all for hours by fountains in the temporary clarity of nicotine, sitting absorbed in the white spray of water, in audience of street opera, traffic, office buildings; deafening sound of patrons and music in overly designed ephemeral restaurants; bass of automobile sound systems doppler along sycamore lined Grand Avenue; rain falling in alley outside my apartment; contemplating Kelly, Rothko and geometry of public spaces; drinking wine slips ! from glass through conversation to fountains down water steps and steep office canyons study and sink into catalogs of monochrome paintings and years torn from elegance and noble materials by speed of blur of noise of mid-air contemplation of The Moment Poised.
Album Description
The production on this record is as pure as Vermont Spring Water. Atchleys microphones capture the soul of the leaky faucet, revealing the usually irritating source of insomnia as song. The crispness of each recording shows both immense talent and extreme care. Atchleys Fountains is new music that succeeds where other such excursions fail. He attacks his source from all angles, covering a wide range of hydro-electric sound previously unchartered by his contemporaries. It should be mentioned that Atchleys Fountains were created for urban spaces and the use of headphones (in this writers opinion) actually subtract from the pieces power. Instead, shoot these sounds through a hi-fi sound system, with the volume around 5, and allow Atchleys garbage-pail shower to slowly fill the room. Water on the brain never sounded so nice.