Seven eveS, by Hello Spiral

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Seven Eves was (and is) an exercise in both recursive processing and alchemy.

My main objective when starting out in 2008 (if I even had an objective) was to make something interesting from nothing. I began by making a 3-minute recording of a silent room via my laptop’s inbuilt mic. I played this back through the speakers on top of my bedroom wardrobe and re-recorded it. I was, of course, inspired by Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room. But I also had no commentary to relay. I just wanted the empty.

I would return to this 3-minute recording of silence frequently over the next 2 years, teasing it out and moulding it, while also trying not to overtly force it to do anything. No personality or statement here. I just wanted to grow something monstrous in a sonic Petri dish.

I am now fuzzy on the details (the track was completed in 2009 and then archived) but the number seven was definitely a factor. Back then, I was also a little bit obsessive about this stuff. I believe this final thing is the 777th iteration of whatever the hell I was doing.

The final form is palindromic, and also very recursive. I folded this audio the way you would fold some labour-intensive pastry.

The burst of white noise about a minute-and-a-half in, and also a minute-and-a- half before it stops, happened when my laptop finally decided to protest at the number of recursive versions I forced it to render. I decided to keep them as my laptop’s contributions to the piece.

I would also like to note that I made and named this piece over the course of 2008 and 2009, so it has no relation to the book by Neal Stephenson. Not to cast aspersions on his quality as an author, because I love his work.

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Joe asked me to write some impressions after listening to Seven Eves. It's a fifty-minute slug of gentle roar. Raging inferno, blasting jet engine, waves of lava...images of overwhelming fullness. From this scraping of audio asphalt, flecks of colour break through. It should be boring, but it's not. Its vast, slow-grown textures roll away indifferently beneath you. Inside its relentless, merciless churn, there's the whine of falling through the air toward certain disaster.

- windlassoup

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released July 16, 2023

Art: hello spiral
Design: patteroverlap
Mastering: IKTS

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