Singularities (selected recordings 2019-2022)

by Christopher H. M. Jacques

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1.	Dutch elm cul-de-sac (Williamsport 1986) 08:12	buy track
2.	Genessee 03:36	buy track
3.	Idle thoughts on infinities 10:16	buy track
4.	Antiques of the future 02:26	buy track
5.	An ebb in the webbing 03:01	buy track
6.	Nonce 06:05	buy track
7.	Patchwork canter 03:38	buy track
8.	Elegy for Gracie (Movement 1) 02:57	buy track
9.	Elegy for Gracie (Movement 2) 03:43	buy track
10.	Elegy for Gracie (Movement 3) 03:39	buy track
11.	Elegy for Gracie (Movement 4) 05:02	buy track
12.	Restless dawn (For Isaac) 04:03	buy track
13.	Pour over coffee 03:28	buy track
14.	Forgotten codex 04:10	buy track
15.	Another, an other 04:50	buy track
16.	Once 03:28	buy track
17.	Recollections of the simulacrum 09:03	buy track
18.	An ebb in the webbing (reprise) 04:57	buy track
19.	Looking back as the train races forward (Poughkeepsie 2014) 03:23	buy track
20.	Cosmopolis 03:45	buy track

about

Singularities represents work I have done over the past three years. Some of them are drawn from longer pieces, some are recordings I didn't even think of as 'pieces' when I made them. I am slow to call myself a musician; I feel more comfortable with the title of sound designer. And I think the recordings collected here reflect that -- they are sounds designed to draw you in, draw you away, for just a few moments maybe. Singularities of sound.

Most of the pieces are improvised, which means there are mistakes. Things I might have done differently.

My technique utilizes spare instrumentation, asynchronous loops, generative effects, and play within the stereo field. Much of the music originates with guitar or piano, but these are often stretched, distorted, and reshaped into something wholly unlike themselves.

The pieces dwell on repetition, and the changes that occur through it. Although I didn't always know it at the time, the pieces, for me, evoke mental states, particularly conflicted ones, and the destructive renewal of memory, what gets modified and replaced each time we recall some part of our past. The past is never the past (a misremembering of Faulkner). Things I might have done differently.

I would like to thank Matthew Allen, for having confidence in me, even when I didn't have confidence in myself; and Mike Moger, who has been a steadfast compatriot and sounding board over the years.

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released October 21, 2022

Christopher H. M. Jacques -- guitar, piano, synthesizer, voice, sound design

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Christopher H. M. Jacques Charleston, West Virginia

Ambient soundscapes inspired by my Appalachian home and too much time thinking about time.

Fractals by way of tree branches.

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