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Vinyl LP pressing. Mute are pleased to announce the of Simon Fisher Turner and Edmund de Waal's A Quiet Corner in Time. The album began life as a sound work created by composer Simon Fisher Turner for renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal's installation at the Schindler house in Los Angeles. Fisher Turner and de Waal's collaboration is a metamorphosis of that work into a standalone album . The album represents the first time de Waal has collaborated so closely with a musician, and draws Simon Fisher Turner's past into the present as it references his early sound work for Derek Jarman's films. A Quiet Corner In Time brings together Fisher Turner's field recordings collected with de Waal in Vienna and LA, alongside placed materials and architectural interventions porcelain vessels, furniture, and vitrines. This huge soundworld combines elements of de Waal's own history, detailed in his 2010 memoir The Hare With Amber Eyes; the Schindler House itself; it's former resident John Cage, along with sounds swapped with Ryuichi Sakamoto. A Quiet Corner In Time is a meditative drama, poised between action and stasis, mischief and grace.
