SR008
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About this release
Completed in February 2005 and mastered in April of the same year.
All up, Son of Science took around five years to write and produce during which time several live performances of these pieces were organised. This included support for Damo Suzuki's first Melbourne performance and Monolake's first Australian gig.
For more information, see the Son of Science Ensemble.
Packaging
Wallet
This release will be printed and packaged by Dual Plover utilising their custom designed Dualplover Wallets.
The artwork by Andrew Thomas of Mr Mo Design.
Booklet
A 4 page, double-sided single fold booklet to be inserted into the wallet.
Text is comprised of the liner notes, credits, acknowledgments and a selection of images from the Son of Science Ensemble performances created by John Power.
Track Listing
- Fossil Species (04:45:00)
- Overhead Obscurity (09:00:00)
- Against the Invasion of Man (06:24:00)
- Lucidity (Garton/Law) (07:42:00)
- Space Radio (06:57:00)
- Terror Ball (06:02:00)
- Supercat (06:24:00)
- Stranger in a Strange (07:23:00)
- Stars and Vermin (08:52:00)
- Son of Science (05:21:00)
Liner notes
You’re holding a CD and reading these words. The CD contains music. The artist named ‘Andrew Garton’ has created the music on the CD. You think you know this already. But you’re wrong. The CD doesn’t contain music. This CD contains sounds. Music is stuff that you know. This isn’t.
This CD contains sounds that are unique, that defy tradition, that can’t be categorised, that challenge the listener. The sounds will make you laugh, haunt you, uplift you and continually surprise you. And they all come from the fevered imagination of a man who does and will not compromise. By producing this CD he is saying to the world: ‘This is what I do, this is what I am – judge me if you can’.
Like science, which can be used for both good and evil, the sounds on this CD are contradictory, containing both beauty and ugliness, obscurity and lucidity, ambience and tough beats – usually all in the same moment. And it is so many things: it’s opera, it’s pop, it’s hardcore, it’s elevator music, it’s techno, it’s this, it’s that, it’s whatever you want it to be. (Talk about getting your money’s worth!)
But best of all: it’s dangerous, it’s revolutionary and it’s really wild. It’s not music made for 20058. It’s party music for 2999. The science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, whose book Starmaker has inspired the creator of this CD, would have been proud.
Warren "Brains" Dusting
Credits
- Composed and produced by Andrew Garton
- Lucidity by Andrew Garton and Steve Law
- Mastered by Simon Polenski
- Recorded at The Starlight Room, Melbourne
- Production + Design by Toy Satellite and Mr Mo
- Original artwork by Mr Mo
- Photos courtesy of the Garton Family
- Andrew Garton: Piano, Jupiter 8, SH-3A, SH-101, Juno 6, SPV-355, PMA-05, SY-77, Fat Controller, Theremins, Guitars, Voice, Frequency Ghost Rig, Cubase, AudioMulch, Ableton Live, KoanPro, FL-Studio
- Steve Law: SH-101. CS-80, ARP (on tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 8)
- Nyck Jeanes: Guitar (on track 9)
- Justina Curtis: Voice (on track 2)
Acknowledgements
Very special thanks to Justina Curtis who gave me the time, support and love to complete this album; Annmarie, my mother who without her support I would not have had this album mastered and manufactured; Ollie Olsen and Steve Law for their unbridled encouragement, love and inspiration; Warren "Brains" Dusting for re-introducing me to CAN, listening to and sustaining confidence in my work; Andy Bagley for his technical assistance, Jupiter 8 (thanks mate) and enthusiastic critiques; "Mad Mark" Tallon who promised to kick me up the arse if I didn't finish it; Paul White for the exceptional conceptual perceptual long nights at the wheel producing the Space Radio video clip; John Power for his astounding vision and highly valued design and production of the Science of Science Ensemble's interactive and 3D screen work; Andrew Thomas for his invigorating graphic design; Grant McHerron for keeping the servers online and me from going spare; Craig Bellamy for keeping my brain ticking and identifying stupidity as the power-base for all that is evil; Rod, Grace, Annette and Shane, my brothers and sisters who have been my creative companions forever; David Nerlich and Robert Iolini for guiding me there; Nyck Jeanes for keeping me there and Ludwig Zeininger, DOODS and Future Eater, Lil Stormer, Beth, BigK, KunstRadio and Small Black Box, Ross Bencina, Chip Wardale and Adrian Symes, The Lambs Go Barrr, David Anthony, Alan Bamford, Paul Abad, Psy Harmonics and Frostwave, Jimi Cheng, Pang, MJKim, Monbasa, KKNULL, Sean Latham, Albert Aitkins, Param, Paul Wilson with whom this journey began and begins again and again... and everyone else I know I will have forgotten but will no doubt meet again.
Dedication
Dedicated to Annmarie Garton-Mesch, Alex Garton and Supercat
Artwork
- Disc (file size: 322 KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- Plover Compact Single Wallet (file size: 375 KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- Booklet pages 4 & 1 (file size: 726 KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- Booklet pages 2 & 3 (file size: 852 KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
Costs
Printing and packaging
Quote prepared by Dual Plover, 25 Feb 2008.
dualplover cd/dvd replication services
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unit price total product
3.17 1585 single wallet inc discs and 4 pp booklets
0.17 85 resealable plastic bags
88 proofs
1758 total
159.8181818 GST component
1758 total $AUD
sale to :
andrew garton
secession records
Comps
- Steve Law x 4
- Justina Curtis x 4
- Nyck Jeanes x 1
- David Nerlich x1
- Grant McHerron x 1
- Ollie Olsen x 1
- Creative Clinic Crew x 3
- Qwartz Music Awards
- ABC Classic FM
