Slow Reading Club and Charlie Usher
LEARNING
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2025
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Tracklist
11Slow Reading Club – LEARNING pt. 1 20:11
2Slow Reading Club – LEARNING pt. 2 30:31
21Charlie Usher – Attachment (1)1:01
2Charlie Usher – Return (1)0:00
3Charlie Usher – Attachment (2)1:00
4Charlie Usher – Return (2)0:30
5Charlie Usher – Attachment (3)0:16
6Charlie Usher – Return (3)0:45
7Charlie Usher – Attachment (4)1:00
8Charlie Usher – Return (4)0:59
9Charlie Usher – Attachment (5)1:00
10Charlie Usher – Return (5)0:30
11Charlie Usher – Attachment (6)0:22
12Charlie Usher – Return (6)0:38
13Charlie Usher – Attachment (7)4:47
14Charlie Usher – Return (7)0:43
15Charlie Usher – Attachment (8)0:30
16Charlie Usher – Return (8)0:58
17Charlie Usher – Attachment (9)1:00
18Charlie Usher – Return (9)0:31
19Charlie Usher – Attachment (10)0:15
20Charlie Usher – Return (10)0:31
21Charlie Usher – Attachment (11)1:00
22Charlie Usher – Return (11)0:30
23Charlie Usher – Attachment (12)0:29
24Charlie Usher – Return (12)0:16
25Charlie Usher – Attachment (13)0:30
26Charlie Usher – Return (13)0:30
27Charlie Usher – Attachment (14)0:30
28Charlie Usher – Return (14)0:30
29Charlie Usher – Attachment (15)1:00
30Charlie Usher – Return (15)0:30
31Charlie Usher – Attachment (16)0:15
32Charlie Usher – Return (16)0:30
33Charlie Usher – Attachment (17)3:00
34Charlie Usher – Return (17)0:15
35Charlie Usher – Attachment (18)1:00
36Charlie Usher – Return (18)0:40
37Charlie Usher – Attachment (19)0:15
38Charlie Usher – Return (19)0:35
39Charlie Usher – Attachment (20)1:04
40Charlie Usher – Return (20)0:28
41Charlie Usher – Attachment (21)0:30
42Charlie Usher – Return (21)0:20
43Charlie Usher – Attachment (22)2:56
44Charlie 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.