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Alan Dunn - Experimental Volume 1 -
Before The sounds of ideas forming are sound sketches created on the move, somewhere between Liverpool and Kiev, Odessa, Bergen, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Helsinki, Malmo and Valletta. Some were shared with a select few at the time on very limited CDRs, but most remain unheard until now. The loose thread running through them is what I called anticipated sound. That is, constructing a patina of what I thought certain landmark compositions may sound like, based on only reading about them before actually hearing them. Examples in the series include Helikopter String Quartet, Gloomy Sunday/Sunday Morning, Amazing Grace, Love will tear us apart, Christine, Satisfaction, The End, Metal Machine Music and The Lord's Prayer.
Heavily influenced by Guided By Voices' DIY output and Jon Oswald's Plunderphonics, these experimental works began the cantaudio series and form the foundations for the 10xCD opus The sounds of ideas forming (2008-12).