Cupar Grain Silo

The vinyl does not have any matrix / run-out etching. Tracks A6 and B5 are not present on the digital release, and are preceded by a long pause on the vinyl. Supported by New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland In 2014, the Resono project was set up to study a number of highly reverberant locations around Scotland, with the aim of exploring and experimenting with the sonic qualities and possibilities offered by each. Research for the project took place in spaces including a water reservoir, giant sea caves, oil storage facilities, an abandoned munitions factory, an early 19th century ice house and a cathedral. Among them was a 200 feet tall disused concrete silo, built in 1964 by the British Sugar Corporation to store sugar beet, but abandoned just eight years later. With the exception of a brief revival in the early 2000s for grain storage, the structure has remained empty. The extreme acoustics exhibited by Cupar Grain Silo are an accidental artefact of its ambitious industrial architecture, with a reverberation time approximating 36.5 seconds. Using impulse responses made within the structure, bespoke music was produced, sympathetic to these acoustics. These compositions were then reamplified back into the space in front of a live audience on Saturday 21 May 2016. Reverberation time: 36.5 seconds Audience: 2pm: 34 4pm: 32 6pm: 31 Loudspeakers: Meyer Sound UPJ-1P Compact Loudspeaker x2 Meyer Sound UMS-1P UltraCompact Subwoofer x2 Meyer Sound VX-1 Stereo Program Equaliser Supplier: Apex Acoustics Recording: Microphones: Neumann KM184 x2 Microphone configuration: stereo X/Y Microphone preamplifiers: Focusrite ISA 110 AD/DA: Lynx Aurora Resolution: 32 bit/96 kHz Instrumentation: Modular synth system Roland Juno-6 Polyphonic synthesizer Bowed UFIP 22' Dark Ride cymbal JrF contact microphones Vinyl specification: Direct metal master 12" 180g Virgin PVC 45 RPM Lathe: Neumann VMS-82 DMM