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Retrospection (2013​-​2017)

by Steve Layton & Sound-In

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Spirit Guide (2015) 08:12
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Jumping Fences (2013) 05:20
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Callin' Little Lydie (2014) 02:47
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Color Wheel (2015) 09:55
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Some Small Shade (2015) 03:54
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From One, Many (2013) 05:04
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The Night is Thick and Wavers (2014) 08:10
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Prairie Sun (2017) 04:55
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Leaves When She Comes and Goes (2015) 05:14
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10.
The Noplace Place (2015) 06:57
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This Desert Town (2014) 05:30
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Snake in the Grass (2014) 04:08
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Jooly's Last Drop (2014) 04:10
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Lead With Your Chin (2014) 03:42
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Ascending into the City of Light (2015) 05:17
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A compilation of mash-ups/mixes created from 2013 through 2017, by Steve Layton from tracks contributed to the weekly worldwide online event known as Sound-In. These are tracks that, for whatever reason or other, weren't included on albums at the time. Most have never been heard since their weekend of creation.

Since early 2009, various musicians around the world have checked in weekly at a web site first known as "ImprovFriday", and later "Sound-In". From Thursday afternoon (US Pacific time) through Saturday evening, any and all are free to share newly composed or improvised tracks, hear each other’s work, discuss and connect.

Part of my own working style these past 30 years is the mash-up, remix, or audio collage. Never being much of a live performer, averse to microphones and limited in the equipment I could call my “studio,” I’ve often resorted to integrating (or sometimes, dissembling) others’ recorded music and sound into newly composed pieces of my own.

Improvisation is often performed solo, but just as often as a group venture. At Sound-In we had many great solo tracks being offered up; yet many times I’d be struck by how sympathetic this artist’s track was with another’s, and would imagine how wonderful if the distance between us became immaterial and these two, three or four could be playing in the same space and time. And well, given that we were dealing with recordings, why not? By using my own expertise and ear I could bring the individual tracks together, bring people into the same “room” as it were, and create wholly new and convincing works in the process.

Few of these tracks were altered in any drastic way, which is why I don‘t think of them as “remixes;” rather, most of the tracks heard here are left largely intact, simply laid over and against one another, with just some fades and general spatial processing applied. To me the process is much closer to ikebana -- the Japanese art of flower-arranging. There’s an abstract element of storytelling at work, too, though the specific story told by the title came only after the piece was finished.

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released July 18, 2023

Contributing musicians: Steve Layton, Benjamin Smith, Kawol, Shane Cadman, Jim Goodin, James Combs, Roger Sundström, Paul Mimlitsch, Glenn Smith, James Bailey, Justin H. Brierly, Bruce Hamilton, Kavin Allenson, Bill Newbold, Chris Vaisvil, Steve Moshier (RIP), Steve Moyes, Paul H. Muller.

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Steve Layton Seattle, Washington

Composer, performer, recordist, connector, facilitator. Editor of Sequenza21.com, a long-running website reporting on contemporary classical music.
Collaborator at ImprovFriday/Sound-In, a weekly web gathering of musicians from around the globe. NiwoSound is an umbrella for innovative art music / art sound. ... more

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