Iona Marek

Undercoat

Nine pieces made from recordings of paint being scraped off institutional walls, then played back through the rooms they were taken from.

Side A

¹Ground4:12

²Filled Hole6:38

³Skirting (Kilcarn)3:51

⁴Undercoat I5:04

Side B

⁵Undercoat VI7:20

⁶Screw Hole2:44

⁷Gallery Two, Empty6:11

⁸Repainted5:22

Notes

Recorded over four nights in Gallery 2 of Kunsthalle Kilcarn while the room was being stripped, using contact microphones on the wall itself and a single omni at the far end.

Nothing here is synthesised. The low tone that runs through Undercoat VI is the building's ventilation, which could not be switched off and eventually became the piece.

Mastered by P. Nkemdirim · Cut at Slade Row · Sleeve by Nuala Rennick