Disquiet

The SoundCloud of Peoria, Illinois”“based act Infirmary is a study on a willfully narrow theme. Tracks bear tags such as #noise #darknoise #harshnoise. There is even one for #noisesounddesign, which could apply to everything here, because everything here at a low volume lends artful dread to whatever is happening around you, whether you’re sitting in an office alone listening on a stereo system, or sitting on a bus with earbuds. The motoric energy is grinding and hard, the white noise effect is dense and restless, and there come and go these underlying drone-like qualities that tease at individuality in a genre that often can seem to aspire to belligerent style-less anonymity. (That’s in contrast with contemporary country music, which is not much less anonymous than noise music but makes claims for strong personal individuality.) It seems more likely that this piece’s title, “Live at Strip Club Decimation,” is a scenario-setting phrase, not a report of where and when it was actually recorded, but either way the name seems fitting. Set it on repeat and let the noise wash over you.

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/infirmary](https://soundcloud.com/infirmary/infirmary-live-at-strip-club-decimation-excerpt). More from Infirmary at [capturethecobra.bandcamp.com](https://capturethecobra.bandcamp.com/).

This piece of music, nearly three minutes of aggressively if slowly layered strings, appears to be a track from a forthcoming *AR album, *AR being the name for the collaboration between Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton. The track title, “Diagrams for the Summoning of Wolves,” brings to mind their 2011 collaboration, *Wolf Notes* ([aeolian.bandcamp.com](https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-notes)), which at the time of its release was described as “Music for the landscape, place-names, flora and fauna of Ulpha, in Cumbria, northern England.”

This new piece was posted with no additional information — aside from it being described as an “excerpt” — at the SoundCloud account of Corbel Stone Press yesterday, a full half year since the previous Corbel track posting. The extended bowing of string instruments is heard here in a dense accumulation, that density balanced by the length of the individual lines, and enriched by both the texture of the strings themselves and some evidence of additional static and noise. The result is like a dervish whirling in slow motion.

Here is the earlier album *Wolf Notes*:

“Diagrams for the Summoning of Wolves”track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/c-s-p](https://soundcloud.com/c-s-p/ar-diagrams-for-the-summoning-of-wolves-excerpt). More from Skelton at [richardskelton.wordpress.com](https://richardskelton.wordpress.com/). More from Corbel Stone Press at [corbelstonepress.com](http://www.corbelstonepress.com/).