Active since the year 2000, sound artist and loop-wrangler Arvo Zylo returns from several bouts with “drone fever”, to produce two sides of layered field recordings and “real-time samples” collected over several years, merging the personal with the impersonal
“Featured throughout Side A are overlapping field recordings collected from 2016 to present. Most notable to me are the juxtapositions of two particular audio documents:
One in which I was working security at a skyscraper, and can be heard going all the way up to the 56th floor, singing, playing basketball, and especially walking through various states of air compression that exist between ventilator shafts and mechanical rooms. Sometimes I would leave a certain door open a crack, and the air pressure would blow papers all over an office/cubicle area as if it were hit by a tornado. People would show up the next day and think there was a ghost.
In this particular recording, as I came back down to the lobby, I startled someone as I came out of the elevator at about 4am, and he ended up being a thief who had just finished going through and stealing bits of our emergency first aid kit, as well as some minor computer parts from the front desk. The hot pursuit that ensued is not included here…
The other main recording begins with me walking out into the sound of church bells, which lead into the simultaneous demolition of a (brutalist) group home, combined with the construction of a high rise beginning across the street. There is a pummeling sound that was from a steel beam being pounded into the ground from more than a couple dozen stories above. After that sound subsided, I went into a corner store and fielded a complaint about (winter) weather from the clerk. Those two overlapping recordings function as a skeleton of sorts.
On top of that, the arrangement is augmented with a smattering here and there, of water fountains, choir rehearsals, a walkie talkie in the rain, fireworks on New Year's Eve, my coffee pot, and especially my little staticky vintage radio.
As for Side B, no other information is available at this time. “