Album Live at Parking Lots [2024, Nicholas Maloney & Yama Yuki]

1.Occurence 02:40

2.Solar Reflectance

3.Impervious Surfaces 07:10

4.Vacancy

5.A Radius of Action

6.Behavioural Acoustic Field

Turning to woodchips, farming equipment, sticks, stones and rubbish as instruments, Nicholas Maloney and Yama Yuki transformed carparks in Tokyo, Bologna and Nashville into performance venues to produce this unlikely album of gestures and textures.

Performing alone mainly at night, the pair produced these pieces from simple actions of scratching, walking in circles, vibrating and striking the asphalt and gravel surfaces of their carpark concert venues.

Electromagentic tones too are explored, as the two scratched, scrunched and scuffed along to the vibratory emissions produced by the lights which dimly lit the empty car parks within which they moved.

In re-purposing these empty venues Maloney and Yuki have produced a strangely hopeful album. One in which creative practice haunts the most unlikely of locations, finding new possibilities amid grease, gravel and spluttering lights.

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Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist based in Nashville, TN. They create concrète compositions from field recordings under their given name, fluid ambient music as Blanket Swimming, and are 1/2 of the experimental music duo, Picture Rather Muted. Maloney works with field recording, guitar, synthesizers, and a variety of… more

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releases October 4, 2024