SKLTN in Limbo
Nov 14, 2020, 01:38 PM
Limbo created by Andy Skelton.
"Dante's Limbo contains those souls trapped between two states - neither of sufficient faith for paradise, nor sinful enough for hell. I started thinking about this, and our commonly understood meaning of limbo (ie held in suspension between two possible outcomes).
"Taking inspiration from this, I improvised a piece on shortwave radio receivers. I was careful to record signals that exist between stations, never quite arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. Furthermore, the signals, at times, produced a note that could be microtonally shifted.
"This means that the notes themselves are held in a kind of limbo, filling the space between notes and never fully resolving. The listener should listen out for this. Other than filtering out a degree of excess noise, this submission is exactly as performed and recorded."
"Dante's Limbo contains those souls trapped between two states - neither of sufficient faith for paradise, nor sinful enough for hell. I started thinking about this, and our commonly understood meaning of limbo (ie held in suspension between two possible outcomes).
"Taking inspiration from this, I improvised a piece on shortwave radio receivers. I was careful to record signals that exist between stations, never quite arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. Furthermore, the signals, at times, produced a note that could be microtonally shifted.
"This means that the notes themselves are held in a kind of limbo, filling the space between notes and never fully resolving. The listener should listen out for this. Other than filtering out a degree of excess noise, this submission is exactly as performed and recorded."
Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/inferno