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Shear Planes

by Richard Skelton

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Third in the Moraine Sequence, an ongoing series of recordings influenced by research into glacigenic landforms, Shear Planes features two longform works that must comprise some of the most caustic recordings in Skelton’s extensive catalogue.

In the study of glacial rheology, ‘basal shear stress’ is the cumulative force directed upon the ground at the base of an ice sheet or glacier. The underlying bedrock can therefore become deformed due to the immense hydrostatic pressures involved. Accordingly, Shear Planes inflicts various deformatory processes upon simple waveforms to create a succession of auditory landscapes that seem to heave under the overwhelming duress of an unseen oppressive presence.

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released October 15, 2022

Released as a white cassette with black on-body printing in a white card enclosure, accompanied by a download card featuring unique verso artwork. Limited to 88 copies.

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"Shear stress = P x sin(A), where P is normal stress and A is the angle of the slope. Maybe some such formula governs the third geological episode in Richard Skelton's might Moraine Sequence. He has taken simple waveforms and subjected them to enormous deformatory pressures, creating a music much darker, harsher and more threatening than previous works. ... Great forces are gathering, in this music, as in the world." (The Wire)

"These swirling compositions are in a state of constant flux, as if multiple time frames are converging. … The edifices Skelton constructs here are immense, but they’re not unchanging. Skelton’s music engages with a nature of volatile processes rather than bottle-able idylls, geological events which become more nuanced the closer you look into them. ‘Shear Planes’ reflects a vast world, but also an impermanent one." (The Quietus)

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