The collaborative projects of Austrian experimental double bass player, guitarist, and sound artist Werner Dafeldecker (of Polwechsel) and Australian sound artist, composer, head of the Room40 label, and curator Lawrence English, have consistently concerned themselves with processes of transformation. Their new sound work, Fathom Tides, is made of English’s field recordings collected from diverse coastal environments, with some preparations, later treated extensively by Dafeldecker, who added subtle layers of electronics. This work traces the cyclical, highly nuanced changes in nature and asks what impact we have on the world we inhabit.
Fathom Tides continues Dafeldecker and English’s work on Shadow of the Monolith (Holotype
