I.M. Roy Skelton, 1939-2024

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‘Written within sight of the Old Thrawing Crux, County Galway, and recorded to a Phasic 2½ inch reel-to-reel in September and October of 2023, this series of twelve songs was originally conceived for the ‘Carna’ clavophone, a uniquely chaotic electroacoustic device on loan from the Ryan Marine Science Institute. The reels, however, were later unaccountably damaged and the work was subsequently abandoned. After a 2024 crowdfunding campaign, portions of the tapes were reconstituted using the Punctus E.R.R. immersion system currently in development at Lightford Laboratories. The remainder was interpolated from the original scores. The resulting recordings were mixed at six feet above sea-level by J. Gall Inglis, and final mastering was performed by William Boyd Carpenter at the Wrackrooms.’

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The Old Thrawing Crux is a silkscreened glass-mastered CD presented in an artist-made gatefold jacket with custom CD enclosure. It is accompanied by the album The Preliminaries, which features a series of further experiments conducted at Lightford Laboratories in early spring 2024. This special edition includes an original artwork in the form of a page excised and adapted from The Marine Radio Manual by G.L. Danielson and F.C. Mayoh - a book salvaged from the ‘withdrawn’ stock of the Marine Science Institute’s central library. The cover features one of four paste-on photographic prints, and the edition is completed by a 16-page booklet of photography assembled from a strip of Belmont CRX 17 x 13mm negatives found cached in the spine of The Marine Radio Manual. ​

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​- Artist-made gatefold jacket.
- Two silkscreened, glass-mastered CDs.
- One of four paste-on photographic cover prints.
- 16pp booklet of photographs.
- Music download card.
- Signed by the artist.​
- Limited edition of 100.

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Price €30