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On Chorus

by Christopher Steenson

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    180g record, pressed on black recycled vinyl. Made at a pressing plant using 100% renewable energy. Gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeve and 8-page booklet, all made from FSC certified paper.

    Featuring 35mm photographs by the artist and a commissioned text by visual artist Ann Maria Healy.

    Edition of 200.

    A Fallow Media Publication (FR010).

    Field recording, photography and LP design by Christopher Steenson.
    Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering.

    Supported by Iarnród Eireann/Irish Rail, The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Kerry Arts Office.

    Includes unlimited streaming of On Chorus via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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On Chorus is a national public sound artwork by Christopher Steenson that broadcast field recordings of Dublin's inner-city spring dawn chorus across Ireland, using Ianród Eireann's network of train station PA systems. These sounds were played every morning between 8am and 9am, from 16 November to 29 November 2020.

By transmitting the sounds of lockdown, the artwork sought to highlight the use of listening as a connecting act during times of social distancing, as well as using sound as a way of ‘listening to the future’ and imagining new architectures for cohabitation between human and non-human species.

This artist LP collects two field recordings made by Steenson, which document the birdsong being transmitted in two Irish train stations. Side A features a recording from Friday 20 November 2020 at Dublin Connolly Station. Side B features a recording of Dún Laoghaire Station on Sunday 29 November 2020. The LP is pressed on 180g black recycled vinyl, and is housed in a gatefold package designed by the artist.

An 8-page booklet features 35mm photographs taken by Steenson during the artwork's creation, as well as a specially commissioned text by visual artist Ann Maria Healy, which uses the format of an LP lyric sheet to expound on ideas related to potential futures, hyper-reality and communal listening.

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released December 10, 2021

Field recording by Christopher Steenson.
Mastered by Denis Blackham (Skye Mastering).
Commissioned Text by Ann Maria Healy.

A Fallow Media Publication.
© and ℗ Christopher Steenson 2021.
FR010.

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Christopher Steenson

Christopher Steenson is an Irish artist, whose work forges ways of 'listening to the future', by using field recording, photography and writing as his materials. He is primarily concerned with the shifting elements of our environment, such as declining wildlife populations and the climate crisis, and the entangled role of human activity within these changes. ... more

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