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by our faint shadows going before us [All Sky]

by Luke Martin

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by our faint shadows going before us - part 1 28:58
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by our faint shadows going before us - part 2 31:15

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'by our faint shadows going before us' was released in Sep 2023 on All Sky as a booklet + CD. You're welcome to purchase here or on All Sky's bandcamp (they likely still have some books & CDs left too): allsky.bandcamp.com/album/by-our-faint-shadows-going-before-us

Booklet here too: musicallaround.us/allsky.html --> archive.org/details/allsky-2

Description from All Sky:
'by our faint shadows going before us' is an attempt to sustain a correspondence with and for nobody. it holds hope that in doing this it can sustain the conditions under which it may be corresponded to by nobody. this is to say, it holds hope that we can know the soul.

‘nominations’ of a soul which has, so to speak, become momentarily aware of itself are chanced upon, anonymous, and absolute. they carry the Idea of chance. one such nomination is ‘Dorothy Wordsworth’ and her alfoxden journal, on which the text in this booklet is based. another, lodged within wordsworth’s book (itself acquired on a whim), is a blank postcard of ‘Glencoyne Wood’ by the sea in england, which is pictured in the booklet alongside the text.

nominations are the opposite of monuments. they affirm the existence of empty points, blank letters, silences. dorothy wordsworth’s silence, in which for me she appeared as the nomination ‘Dorothy Wordsworth’, began at a particular point in the text. this was then confirmed by a second point, instantaneous with the awareness that her entries were now, as they had already been, saturated with silence. she writes:

‘30th. Walked I know not where.
31st. Walked.
1st. Walked by moonlight.’

the Idea shines through us unseen;
our steps—the moon—
‘by our faint shadows going before us.’

Note on the recording:
this version of the piece is ‘doubled’. we (Short Americans) made two recordings, one outside and one inside—each 45 minutes. we did the outside recording as a quartet and the inside individually. ‘out’ and ‘in’ were then overlaid and offset by 15 minutes: outside, 0’ – 45’; inside, 15’ – 60’.

on Bandcamp the recording is split into 2 parts due to file size limits. ideally the piece should be heard continuously. on the CD it is presented as one track, no breaks.

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released September 1, 2023

Composed by Luke Martin

Performed by Short Americans:
Luke Martin, guitar
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin, cornet
Max Wanderman, accordion
Adam Zahller, guitar

Recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (Spring 2023)

Mixed and mastered by Luke Damrosch

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