Eamon Sprod is a Melbourne, Australia-based sound artist who releases work under the name Tarab. Today, we listen to his upcoming effort An incomplete yet fixed idea which is due out May 16th via Aposiopčse–a non-profit record label based in France and Belgium. Tarab’s work involves the re-contextualization of found sounds and field recordings, and while he’s been active since 2011, this is his first release for the experimental acoustics label Aposiopčse. Composed of two long-form tracks running just under, and right at, twenty minutes, An incomplete yet fixed idea continues Tarab’s fascination with
“discarded things, found things, crawling around in the dirt, junk, the ground, rocks, dust, wind, walking aimlessly, scratchy things, [and] decay…”
The artist’s sound collecting strategies in the past have reportedly involved the kinds of visceral interactions between Sprod’s microphone and the environment that includes burying it in the ground or scraping it across surfaces, what he might be referring to when he says, “crawling around in the dirt…”; but, beyond that, Sprod also seems to take a very hands-on approach to re-contextualizing the sources through constant processing and recycling of these field recordings. The result on “An incomplete yet fixed idea I“, which you can listen to below, is a psycho-acoustic journey through sound and silence. Blurring the lines between the natural environments of his original recordings and the processing they undergo subsequently, Tarab draws the listener into fascinating acoustic spaces that seem at once familiar and alien all at the same time.
