Tracklist
1 | 1 | Slow Reading Club – LEARNING pt. 1 | 20:11 | |
2 | Slow Reading Club – LEARNING pt. 2 | 30:31 | ||
2 | 1 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (1) | 1:01 | |
2 | Charlie Usher – Return (1) | 0:00 | ||
3 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (2) | 1:00 | ||
4 | Charlie Usher – Return (2) | 0:30 | ||
5 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (3) | 0:16 | ||
6 | Charlie Usher – Return (3) | 0:45 | ||
7 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (4) | 1:00 | ||
8 | Charlie Usher – Return (4) | 0:59 | ||
9 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (5) | 1:00 | ||
10 | Charlie Usher – Return (5) | 0:30 | ||
11 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (6) | 0:22 | ||
12 | Charlie Usher – Return (6) | 0:38 | ||
13 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (7) | 4:47 | ||
14 | Charlie Usher – Return (7) | 0:43 | ||
15 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (8) | 0:30 | ||
16 | Charlie Usher – Return (8) | 0:58 | ||
17 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (9) | 1:00 | ||
18 | Charlie Usher – Return (9) | 0:31 | ||
19 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (10) | 0:15 | ||
20 | Charlie Usher – Return (10) | 0:31 | ||
21 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (11) | 1:00 | ||
22 | Charlie Usher – Return (11) | 0:30 | ||
23 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (12) | 0:29 | ||
24 | Charlie Usher – Return (12) | 0:16 | ||
25 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (13) | 0:30 | ||
26 | Charlie Usher – Return (13) | 0:30 | ||
27 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (14) | 0:30 | ||
28 | Charlie Usher – Return (14) | 0:30 | ||
29 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (15) | 1:00 | ||
30 | Charlie Usher – Return (15) | 0:30 | ||
31 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (16) | 0:15 | ||
32 | Charlie Usher – Return (16) | 0:30 | ||
33 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (17) | 3:00 | ||
34 | Charlie Usher – Return (17) | 0:15 | ||
35 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (18) | 1:00 | ||
36 | Charlie Usher – Return (18) | 0:40 | ||
37 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (19) | 0:15 | ||
38 | Charlie Usher – Return (19) | 0:35 | ||
39 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (20) | 1:04 | ||
40 | Charlie Usher – Return (20) | 0:28 | ||
41 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (21) | 0:30 | ||
42 | Charlie Usher – Return (21) | 0:20 | ||
43 | Charlie Usher – Attachment (22) | 2:56 | ||
44 | Charlie Usher – Return (22) | 0:12 |
»LEARNING« is a cover version of Cornelius Cardew’s choral piece »Paragraph 7«, from »The Great Learning« (1971). It is performed with text from »The Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto« (2008), by Aaron Swartz. »LEARNING« was rehearsed by a choir of amateur singers at KASK school of the arts in Ghent, Belgium - as part of a collaborative exhibition of Slow Reading Club and composer Charlie Usher, that took place at BOEKS, Ghent, in spring 2024.
Disc one of this edition holds the recording of the choir in the hallway leading to the school library. The long architecture of the space moves the singers into specific positions, creating unexpected clusters of tones.
Disc two is a work by composer Charlie Usher. In 44 radical edits, the composer shuffles moments from the process that led to Disc One—samples of rehearsal bits, location recordings, practice instructions, et al. In this magical story we find ourselves in scenes that could come from Fellini’s Prova d’orchestra, and in random events surrounding the rehearsals.