35DL - Randomworld 2 - Download only

This DL only re-release uses Martin Archer's personal copy of Randomworld Two, and is considered a good representation of the piece as a whole. For the avoidance of doubt - Randomworld Two uses completely different source material to Randomworld One, and was created a year later.

Original sleeve note:

Randomworld is a series of compositions initiated in 2007 and based on an idea by Martin Archer and Neil Carver.  The work is issued in a limited edition of 150 CDRs, cut to order, named and numbered for each purchaser. Although each Randomworld piece occupies an identifiable sound world (e.g. Randomworld 1 always sounds like and is identifiable as that piece), on each CDR various software algorhythms within the composition shuffle the individual musicians' contributions and introduce elements of unpredictable sound processing.

The result is that no two CDRs are alike, and each copy sold is a unique version of the piece - and that's not just slightly or cosmetically different, each new version will be structurally very different from any other.  The finished CDR is packaged in a hand painted sleeve, again no two alike.

This second volume features distinctive percussion and theremin from Sheffield's hardest working improvisors, plus a sonic journey into Hervé's mouth cavity, all adding fine detail to the warped drones, clicks and swirls from the core trio.

Martin Archer - laptop, metronome, nightingales, sopranino saxophone. 
Chris Bywater - astralis, EMS synthi A, processed moog ring mod guitar, dying guitar,
processed electric violin, laptop running ableton, timestretch.
Charlie Collins - waterphone, drums.
Hervé Perez - close mic soprano saxophone.
UTT - turntables, vinyl tracing, processing.
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez - theremin.