Audio excerpt from Instant Gratification, a 3 hour edited
recording of Eric D. Clark's Caribic Residency
On
the 18th and 19th of December 2009, we invited Eric D. Clark,
musician, performer, producer, song-writer extraordinaire.
Based on memories of listening to tape recordings of parties at his parents house, in which he would hear the conversations and activities of people, mixed in with the changing music in the background and occasionally someone singing along unaware of being recorded, Eric decides to spend his two days in Hamburg recording the entire time.
Throughout the space we arranged surround microphones that recorded at a distance, the conversations, background music, movements and silences that occurred during 48 hours. As a result Eric edits the material down to a shorter version. This process of editing brings us closer to the usual format that he operates in his music production and makes the final sound piece distinct from the original live recording.
The title is Instant Gratification and in Eric D. Clark’s own words ‘is basically a recording of a place in time, detached from its visual stimulae’.
