Wade, by Adam Pultz

Wade

by Adam Pultz

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	1.	Wade 22:09
	2.	Kammerslusen 10:18

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Wade commences with static arco drones, eventually complimented by a digitally processed enigmatic sound recorded in the Wadden Sea in South-western Denmark. Still unidentified at the time of writing, the suspected culprit of this clicky and bubbly texture is the release of gas by microorganisms living in the seabed silt. Proceeding along through accumulating layers of signal processing, the dense textures give way to the plucked strings of the FAAB—a feedback double bass developed in collaboration with Halldór Úlfarsson. While hovering at the edge of what artistic intervention can control, the feedback-induced self-oscillations of the bass strings merge with recordings from a cemetery and backyard in Berlin, bringing Wade to a close.
Adam’s previous album Dam was mainly recorded inside a dam hall in Bogong Village, Australia. Perhaps establishing a tradition for homages to water management architecture, the second track, Kammerslusen, is named in honour of the Wadden Sea sluice bridge that provides much of the track’s audio. The opening of sluice doors, cars passing over the metal bridge, and a boat engine enter a dialogue with the pulsating string feedback of the FAAB. Feedback, the lively ecology of the Wadden Sea, and the sonic properties of built environments hence shape up as musical allies, the emergent rhythmical patterns of which carve out a collective sonic and performative agency.

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released October 16, 2023

Adam Pultz: FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass), signal processing, field recordings

Location of recordings:
Track 1: Gastric activity of microorganisms: Mandø Ebbevej, Denmark.
Additional field recordings were made in February 2023 at the cemetery “Kirchhof Jerusalem und Neue Kirche I, II und III”, as well as the backyard of Zossener Strasse 48, both locations in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Track 2: Kammerslusen, Denmark.
All recordings of the FAAB done in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Recorded and mixed by Adam Pultz
Mastered by James Ginzburg

All music by Adam Pultz (KODA)

Cover photo by Adam Pultz (ice crystals at Kammerslusen, December 2021)

Thank you to Isabel Bredenbröker, Rosa, Karen Margrethe Pultz Melbye, Henrik Pultz Melbye, Halldór Úlfarsson, Jules Reidy, Paul Stapleton, Simon Waters, and Davíð Brynjar Franzson

Parts of the SuperCollider code used on track 1 (18:39 - 21:50) was written by Rafaele Andrade

The recording and production of this album was funded by work stipends from Musikfonds, Germany, The Danish Arts Council, and the Danish Composers Society

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Adam Pultz Berlin, Germany

Drinks lots of tea.

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discography

Wade

Oct 2023
Subterranean

Apr 2023
Diffractions

Jul 2021
GRIFF

May 2021
Dam

Apr 2020
Measures

Dec 2017
Gullet

Jan 2014

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