To the Cooling Tower, Satsop

[chris delaurenti]

Hi everyone,

"To the Cooling Tower, Satsop" is the second compact disc in the "Improvisational Architecture Series" from NY-based label GD Stereo.

The disc documents my journey beneath an aborted nuclear power station. No flashlights, just my ears guided me through a subterranean tunnel.

A 7 minute excerpt for listening & download, along with short essay:
https://soundcloud.com/delaurenti/to-th ... op-excerpt

Presence becomes performance; my movement through the tunnel's architecture co-composed the soundscape. The tunnel is a giant resonator; sounds near and far echo, reverberate, and smear.

The CD was manufactured in an edition of 250 and packaged in a handsomely tactile, die-cut sleeve printed by Middlepress in Brooklyn. It's available here:
http://pogus.com/gds.html via GD Stereo - http://www.gdstereo.com/

From Vital Weekly 281:
"...There is a fine build-up in this piece, which works very well. No doubt an untreated recording - or perhaps with some excellent fades throughout more source material, but otherwise an untreated sound recording. A fascinating trip for Delaurenti, no doubt there, but it's also, as an outsider, a listener, an excellent piece of music. Very spacious, in the most literal sense of the word. A nice letterpress package finishes of this great release. Take it outside and do a playback in an empty hall."