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Everyday Dust works out of a Scottish studio called The Arcane Sound Factory.
There, he builds albums from synthesizers, tape machines, and sound that’s been stretched, buried, and pulled back out again.
Some records start wide and narrow down to a single source. Overtones was built entirely from one 200 year old handbell, rung, struck and bowed, then pulled apart through granular synthesis and tape manipulation until the bell stopped sounding like a bell. Resurrection of the Foghorns took the opposite instrument, the sound of a foghorn rolling in through fog, and did the same slow excavation.
The Green Decay leaned into 1980s horror scores and a forest thick with rot, praised by horror author Ramsey Campbell as “decidedly eerie and compelling.” The Principality of Dustland went further still, an invented territory accompanied by a set of black-and-white photographs and a poem describing a journey there by hot-air balloon.
Releases have surfaced through Dustopian Frequencies and, earlier, Norway’s Sparkwood Records. Alongside the albums, Everyday Dust has shared packs of tape texture for other producers to work into their own recordings, offcuts from the same overgrown archive.
The most recent transmissions, Album Without X In The Title and Assemblance X Sessions, gather up what had scattered, deleted tracks, session recordings, half-finished detours, and give them somewhere to resurface. The moss keeps growing. Something usually rises through it.
