Thursday, 17 July 2014

Stephen P. McGreevy

Electric Enigma: The VLF Recordings of Stephen P. McGreevy (1996) ...

"Electric Enigma is a double album on which California-based artist Stephen P. McGreevy has documented recordings he made of Natural Radio - electromagnetic emissions in the very-low-frequency band caused by massive discharges and their after-effects in lightning storms and by the solar wind buffeting the earth's magnetic field, visible as Aurora Borealis and Australis." ... archive.org


 


"It's rich stuff; the thing I like about it most is how effortless it all is: Electric Enigma naturally achieves what electronic composers have been trying to synthetically do for the past 50 years. McGreevy, in a perfect Duchampian gesture, simply reveals to us what has always been there. Folkies, New Agers, and other dowdy "naturalists," constantly insist that the more electronic the culture becomes, the more estranged we are become from nature. Electric Enigma thankfully refutes this idiotic stance by showing us that electronics are and always have been a large part of our natural environment." ... wfmu.org

New York Press, 1998

http://www.spaceweathersounds.com/

Pdf of CD booklet...

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