Catalog number: LTD051
Release date: March 20, 2025
Format: Cassette
Edition size: 100
Returning to Lily Tapes & Discs following 2018’s “travels in public” and a long string of fascinating self-released projects in the interim, vierzig skizzen brings us “screening,” a new album drawing on several years’ worth of recording experiments reflecting on ways that sensations of motion and time contribute to a sense of place. As hinted at by its title, “screening” pulls inspiration from the visual language of cinema, as well as from the aural storytelling of mid-century musique concrète – the album seats our mind’s eye in front of a projector, not to play soundtrack to an imaginary film, but to serve as the imaginary film itself. An unbroken chain of scenes, each emptying into the next, narrative in the same way as a long walk through and around adjoining neighborhoods of an unfamiliar city, each detail contributing another segment of a mental map. True to its namesake, “screening” magnifies and draws the listener’s attention closer and closer, slowly filling the entire sensory field. At its conclusion, we exit slowly, squinting as we readjust to our surroundings, somehow both centered and disoriented in equal measure.
Music and imagery by Daniel Stuhr.
Mastered by Andrew Weathers.
Artwork printed using a Risograph SF9450 and size 18pt Spartan Medium Condensed metal type on a Vandercook No. 4 press at Flower City Arts Center in Rochester, NY.