TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: Pin Points

LABEL: Hydrogen Dukebox

RIPPER: Team RNS

212kbps avg - Electronic
0hr 57min total- 92.3mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-08-30
RIP DATE: 2004-08-17

Great album from Plumbline.  If you
like Orbital, you will probably like

Some blurb from
http://www.hydrogendukebox.com/

Plumbline, aka New Yorker, Will Thomas,
debuted on Hydrogen Dukebox in May 03
with the spellbinding album, Circles.
The piece was a concept album, of
sorts, that took its inspiration from a
roadtrip from LA to New York and the
various geographical and architectural
spectacles encountered along the way.

Pin Points, Plumblines second
full-length, continues with the theme of
maps, locations, and architecture,
although its focus is much more local:
New York City. Will explains how the
album came about: Taking inspiration
from buildings in New York City, I began
making a list of particular ones that,
for me, have a strong visual,
architectural, or emotional connection
with the intent of each building
representing a track on the CD.

Will also sought to explore alternative
ways of gathering sounds to launch the
creative process. Will wanted to find
and capture the auditory experience of
each building. New York City is very
much about movement, so rather than
find the sounds, it seemed logical to
remain still outside each building and
have the sounds come to me. If these
walls could listen, what would they hear?

After the field recordings had been
gathered, Will realised that the music
would be too literal if he concentrated on
the typical city sounds i.e. traffic
noise, construction work, etc.  So I
picked out the smaller, more
interesting bits, like the squeaking of
shoes on an outdoor basketball court,
the voice snippets of passing
conversations, or the clinking of a dogs
collar. I then took those sounds and
edited, distorted, looped and filtered
them so they evolved into a more musical
tone, noise, or rhythmical element. Once
the tracks were complete, I titled each
track according to the buildings
address that had inspired it.

Will also sought to experiment with the
tone of Pin Points so that a transition
from its predecessor was clearly
audible. In a quest for a more organic
nature, cellist Julia Kent and vocalists,
Paulette and Connie Petruk, contribute
in order to add a melodic texture that
blends with the sound of the

Restful, enriching, subtly energetic and
architecturally precise, this suggests
great things to come. The Wire