Collaborations | Collectress | Different Geographies
Different Geographies is a record named for its a method, in turn a response to the realities of collaboration amidst rich currents of diverse lives. Having scattered from their Brighton origins to new homes across London and the south-east, the band looked for opportunities to create within the separations of time and space. Stolen days at less busy moments of the year took the place of weekly rehearsals. Collectress gatherings were more occasional but more intensive, in the corners of deepest winter or sleepiest summer, and drawn together across a widening map. Reaching towards each other from diverse and far-flung places, from their now scattered homes, from overseas residencies and research projects on all sides of the world from China to Ecuador to the Arctic Circle, from international tours with other groups, and from motherhood, Collectress maintained their deep connection. Quietly the music took form, and Different Geographies was born.
Although the process of making had changed, the beating heart of Collectress’ music remained four musicians playing together in one room. The chemistry between these long-standing creative collaborators lends their music a compelling immediacy. Using both composition and improvisation, the band’s distinctive world of experimental chamber music endures, but this time, with new and added terrains- the singing mists of deep-space planets in the Words diptych; new voices marking time and a lone dog howling against the sea in She Must Shut Her Eyes and In the Streets, In the Fields; wide galloping landscapes and journeying energy in Landing and Roaming Bones? ; and the conversations between classical strings and classic synths in the geometric landscapes of Mauswerkelectronic textures meeting the acoustic and the found in Mauswerk. Different Geographies maintains everything that is unique about Collectress’ sound but adds something more. The homespun and intimate zooms out to greet a broader topography; from scissors and curtain rings, through cybernetic software all the way to galactic glitches and outer space. In making music driven by their search for one another across distance, Collectress have found new bearings, and charted new territory and created a new world.
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Image and Film credit Rebecca Waterworth
Different Geographies is a record named for its a method, in turn a response to the realities of collaboration amidst rich currents of diverse lives. Having scattered from their Brighton origins to new homes across London and the south-east, the band looked for opportunities to create within the separations of time and space. Stolen days at less busy moments of the year took the place of weekly rehearsals. Collectress gatherings were more occasional but more intensive, in the corners of deepest winter or sleepiest summer, and drawn together across a widening map. Reaching towards each other from diverse and far-flung places, from their now scattered homes, from overseas residencies and research projects on all sides of the world from China to Ecuador to the Arctic Circle, from international tours with other groups, and from motherhood, Collectress maintained their deep connection. Quietly the music took form, and Different Geographies was born.
Although the process of making had changed, the beating heart of Collectress’ music remained four musicians playing together in one room. The chemistry between these long-standing creative collaborators lends their music a compelling immediacy. Using both composition and improvisation, the band’s distinctive world of experimental chamber music endures, but this time, with new and added terrains- the singing mists of deep-space planets in the Words diptych; new voices marking time and a lone dog howling against the sea in She Must Shut Her Eyes and In the Streets, In the Fields; wide galloping landscapes and journeying energy in Landing and Roaming Bones? ; and the conversations between classical strings and classic synths in the geometric landscapes of Mauswerkelectronic textures meeting the acoustic and the found in Mauswerk. Different Geographies maintains everything that is unique about Collectress’ sound but adds something more. The homespun and intimate zooms out to greet a broader topography; from scissors and curtain rings, through cybernetic software all the way to galactic glitches and outer space. In making music driven by their search for one another across distance, Collectress have found new bearings, and charted new territory and created a new world.
Image and Film credit Rebecca Waterworth