time, ferocious by bleed Air

Concepts of time, in (tape) music.

Time as physical quantity, the nature of time as defined by general relativity, the resulting model of spacetime (German: Raumzeit) and ripples therein caused by gravitational waves. Time dilation, time offset, time measurement. Present, future, past.

An attempt to approach the complex subject of time and spacetime sonically, using devices that allow time manipulation (somewhat): Analogue tape recorders, effect pedals with ‘time’ knobs.

All instruments were recorded to and with (mostly half broken) tape machines on looped reel to reel or endless cassette tapes. On some tracks, these machines were also used as tape echos, mostly by exploiting their saturation, warm overdrive and noise capabilities.

Instruments and sound sources and tools used: Field recordings (Star City Tserkov' Spasa Preobrazheniya church bells; Mbira, Kalimba, Acoustic Guitar, electric bass guitar, cello bows, human voice, found reel to reel audio that came with used tape recorders I bought), synthesizers.

In a way, this album concludes, albeit in a somewhat noisier, abstract and sometimes deafening way, what I started with the ‘Ogehiko/Yahiko’ cassingle.

Thanks for listening!

— bleed Air

Tracklist

1.	Proper Time	1:20

2.	Time Offset	2:09

3.	Time Dilation	3:09

4.	Clock Hypothesis	7:39

5.	Timing Variation Method	4:01

6.	Hypersurface of the Present	5:29

7.	Raumzeit (Tserkov' Spasa Preobrazheniya)	6:57

8.	The Past (Part I)	2:54

9.	The Past (Part II)	6:46

Videos

Credits

released October 1, 2021

All sounds A1-B2 by bleed Air. Found sounds on ‘The past’
by unknown artists.

Image: Artist impression of the pulsar PSR J0348+0432 and its white dwarf companion, by Luis Calçada/European Southern Observatory ESO, licensed under CC BY 4.0, 2013.

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.