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A1 La Promenade - Bellerive
A2 Pine Beach
A3 Parc Du Bout-de-L'Ile
A4 Natatorium
A5 Allan's Hill Park
A6 Parc Alexandre-Bourgeau
A7 Port Of Montréal
A8 Avenue Fortin
A9 ˆIle Girwood
A10 32E Avenue
A11 Hydro Corridor
A12 Parc-Nature Du Cap-Saint-Jacques
A13 Hydro Québec
A14 Stade Olympique
A15 Parc De Versailles
A16 Lakeview Memorial Gardens
A17 Carrière LaFarge
A18 Rue Hortie / Yul
A19 Parc Nicolas-Viel
A20 Rue Griffith
A21 Parc Arthur-Therrien
A22 Cedar Avenue
A23 Avenue Troie
A24 Centre

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from Montr​é​al Phonographe, released October 1, 2012
180g, white vinyl, one-sided, long playing record
[coastal.01]

RECORDED BY DOUGLAS MOFFAT
TEXT BY DANIEL CANTY
A DIM COAST [coastal_1] / ORAL RELEASE
MASTERING BY JAMES PLOTKIN
LACQUERS BY CHICAGO MASTERING SERVICE
PLATING BY MASTERCRAFT
PRESSED BY RIP_V
DISTRIBUTED by ORAL and THE DIM COAST
design by black sheep design
montrealphonographe.ca

This project begins with a daydream. What would the island of Montreal sound like if it were a vinyl record? If you could somehow place the island on an immense turntable, what textures would be revealed in its surface?

Answering these questions began with the development of an all-terrain stylus that could transduce the textural changes of the ground plane into physical sounds.

The dream of the sound of impossible surfaces is not new. In an essay from 1919, Rainer Maria Rilke wondered what sounds the skull might reveal if only it could be traced by a stylus. A few years later, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy while contemplating new potentials for the phonograph, exclaimed ‘I wonder how your nose will sound? ’

This record continues in this spirit of imagined sounds etched into the polished surface of the record. Attempting to make the impossible tangible, yet never achieving a convincing verisimilitude. Instead, it is hoped that the sounds released here will continue to provoke further sonic daydreaming.

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