Scale by Giles Jacobs
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Scale
This album was the result of two sparks combining...
The first was rediscovering an old photograph - now the album’s cover, which I’d taken while cycling in Spain. I love its variations in scale and how this lends perspective and depth to the image, with the human figure acting as a sort of scale key. Just as you might see in a landscape painting, where a figure can be a yardstick, or focal point, rather than the main subject.
Meanwhile, I'd started working with Moog’s Animoog app which not only gave me new sounds, but also an inbuilt 4 track recorder. Meaning that as long as I stuck to four channels, I could quickly capture new ideas, without using the mixing desk. Discouraging any tendency to over-embellish.
All but three of the tracks were created entirely within the app. So that was that - Scale. I had both the motive and the opportunity!
The only question then was where to set the limits of scale?
I could have gone from the subatomic to the bounds of the universe, but I felt this would soon become monumentally self indulgent! So I decided to stick between human scale and the distance between the Earth and the Sun (1au). Or in other words, what the human eye (or the camera) could reasonably see in the cover picture.
This is why the tracks are named as they are (scaling up) from small to large. I’ve mixed the four levels of Spacial Scale with things that relate to, or suggest scale in of themselves. Hopefully this lends an involving and ultimately Googleable impression to the deliberately varied mass of the music.
/Giles Jacobs
Tracklist
| 1. | Landscape / A Dog Lying On Its Side | 1:59 |
| 2. | Rock Pools | 2:12 |
| 3. | Scale 1. Micro / Local | 3:58 |
| 4. | Trig Point | 3:41 |
| 5. | Unlusher | 2:59 |
| 6. | Small / Far Away | 4:27 |
| 7. | Scale 2. Meso / Regional | 3:17 |
| 8. | Curtain Glacier, Tremor Mountain | 4:44 |
| 9. | Scale 3. Macro / Continental | 1:39 |
| 10. | Meanders In The Jet Stream (Rossby Waves) | 3:21 |
| 11. | Scale 4. Mega / Global | 3:41 |
| 12. | Above Blue | 2:33 |
| 13. | 1 au | 3:47 |
Credits
Music, photography and design by Giles Jacobs for the Lime Green Yellow Recording Company and LGY.
Cover image of Pantà de Sau, Catalonia, Spain.
Recorded in The Second Little Studio, November 2022.
Listening consultant Mr Dash Tall.
LGY 028 DL
"This stereo recording can be played with every modern light-weight pick up. The stereo sound, however, is reproduced only when stereo-equipment is used."
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Placement's 'Landscape Music' combines found sounds, fieldtrack and an array of instruments both electronic and otherwise, with tape effects, prepared systems and improvised playing
Our albums are often themed geographically to evoke a particular area or feature and the tracks themselves can vary from large scale impressionistic pieces to more focused and intimate studies..