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Colourfield for Strings

Colourfield For Strings was composed, arranged and produced by Fallows in the context of ongoing research exploring crossovers between sound and the visual arts, and investigating the conditions and potentialities of listening. Fallows creates multi-layered drones of sound, dense with microtones which generate numerous overtones through bespoke tuning to resonant spaces. Colourfield For Strings is a multi-layered soundwork for prepared and treated electric guitars arranged in a sequence of rhythms and structures using Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals as a score, and utilising a dense sonic mix of sustained electric guitar recordings by Fallows (and Sergeant, W. [Echo & The Bunnymen]). Colourfield For Strings was originally commissioned by Tate Liverpool as an immersive sound installation in conjunction with the exhibition Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals (Tate Liverpool, 2009). The sound-installation at Tate explored relationships between sound, space, time and listener via a multi-speaker system configured in relation to Rothko’s Seagram Murals. Further versions of Colourfield For Strings include: music for Red (Logan, J., 2009; dir. Tomory, P. 2012) play about Rothko, with accompanying sound installation at EuroTheater Central, Bonn, Germany (06/12/12-01.13); and one-hour radio programme (ORF Kunstradio, Vienna, Austria 01/12/13) for listeners to experience via three radio sources simultaneously. Colourfield For Strings is recorded as a limited edition (333) artist’s multiple, arranged in four eighteen-minute movements on two-disc 180-gram vinyl. Optional twin turn-table systems can be used to playback both discs simultaneously in various combinations and in vari-speed modes on single or twin turn-table systems. The LP featured in Tate Liverpool is 25, anniversary exhibition (17.05.13-02.06.13); and is in permanent collections including: Tate Archives; British Library Sound Archive; Research Centre for Artists’ Publications, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany; SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts; International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and the Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University, USA.