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Lockdown #4

by United Isolation Ensemble

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about

In March of 2020, for the first time since its inception in 2008 Leicester's monthly Quadelectronic improvisation session at Quad Studios had to be cancelled due to hitherto unique and unprecedented circumstances: the public's enforced lockdown against contamination from Covid-19. As a nearest achievable alternative, Quadelectronic's "ringmaster" Chris Conway had the idea of doing it remotely via contributed solo recordings which could then be mixed into intuitive combinations. This album is the fourth installment in the series.

June 2020 is the twelfth anniversary of Quadelectronic. For previous June sessions participants would introduce a quick game, improvising altogether but under certain constraints, namely that each person would have no more than X chances to make sounds lasting X seconds within an X-minute piece, where X is the number of the anniversary. As lockdown was still in effect, the game was transferred to the remote setting: each participant (in this case everyone except John and Victoria) submitted twelve seconds of sound twelve times and Jim stitched it all together into a twelve minute piece. A couple of tongues well in cheek here, hence Jim's decision to reflect the humour with the cover artwork, a recent drawing by his five-year-old daughter. Dedicated to all parent musicians who slap their kids' doodles on their album covers and not give a toss what anyone thinks :)

credits

released June 28, 2020

Alan Bellamy - speech
Victoria Bourne - synthesizer, vocals, found sounds
Chris Conway - keyboard, theremin, Roland SH-32, Tokyo field recordings
Jez Creek - iPad, Teenage Engineering OP-1, Yamaha MODX, Chirper, Vector, Ambika, effects
Steve Escott - bass, iPad
Alan Freeman - laptop
John Hinks - laptop with keyboard
Jim Tetlow - laptop
Michał Wojciechowski - Korg Volca Keys, Korg Volca Sample, effects

Conceived by Chris Conway
Assembled, mixed, compiled and mastered by Jim Tetlow
(track 2 mixed by Victoria Bourne)
All spoken texts written by Alan Bellamy

Design by Jim Tetlow
Drawing by Lucy Tetlow

Produced by United Isolation Ensemble, June 2020

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United Isolation Ensemble Leicester, UK

The United Isolation Ensemble was born when Covid-19 lockdown forced Leicester's monthly Quadelectronic nights to be put on hold. Rather than live group improvisation, the concept is for solo performance material sent via online transfer and combined into interesting and unexpected combinations. The project has been so successful that it continues wilfully oblivious to the ups and downs... ... more

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