Persistence of Sound

Persistence of Sound is a British independent record label celebrating musique concrète, field recordings and the sounds in between. Founded in 2019 by composer Iain Chambers, the label is a recognition of the place field recordings have found in our culture, both in their raw state and as compositional material.

London

persistenceofsound.co.uk

contact@persistenceofsound.co.uk

10 titles

Rubbish Music
Fatbergs (CD)

2024

forthcoming

The second album by Rubbish Music (Kate Carr and Iain Chambers), the duo upcycling waste into immersive electroacoustic music.

Kate Carr
Midsummer, London (CD)

2024

Midsummer, London by one of the world's leading voices in field recording explores the different accents, musics, and other sonic phenomenon of London at locations tracing the river Thames, moving from the outskirts in the west to the outskirts in the east.

Natasha Barrett
Reconfiguring the Landscape (CD)

2023

~~16.50~~ 13.50 €

An artistic research project led between 2019 and 2022, investigating how 3-D electroacoustic composition and sound-art can evoke and provoke a new awareness of our outdoor sound environment.

Langham Research Centre - Six Hands at an Open Door (CD)

Langham Research Centre, John Butcher
Six Hands at an Open Door (CD)

2023

The concrete, electronic sounds of the Langham Research Centre (here Iain Chambers and Robert Worby) combine with the acoustic qualities of John Butcher's saxophone in an extended improvisation session.

Richard Orton
Hemlock Stone (CD)

2023

Persistence of Sound celebrates the British composer Richard Orton (1940-2013) with a selection of electroacoustic and computer music from across his career.

The London Sound Survey
From Dusk Till Dawn (CD)

2023

The posthumous album of naturalist field recordings from The London Sound Survey: a sound-journey through the dark in East Anglia, roaming across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk to places whose sounds have a precarious existence outside the crowded realities of modern everyday life.

Natasha Barrett
Heterotopia (vinyl LP)

2022

Persistence of Sound publishes the new solo record by Natasha Barrett, known internationally for her intense explorations of the movement of sounds through space.

Mark Vernon
A World Behind This World (CD)

2022

Persistence of Sound presents a new album from one of British sound art's most original voices.

Beatriz Ferreyra - Souvenirs cachés / Innermost (vinyl LP)

Beatriz Ferreyra, Natasha Barrett
Souvenirs cachés / Innermost (vinyl LP)

2021

A split LP from two leading voices in electroacoustic music.

Beatriz Ferreyra
Huellas Entreveradas (vinyl LP)

2020

This vinyl record brings together three pieces that play mischievously with the voice as a sound source, narrative source or diverted object: "Huellas Entreveradas" (2018), "La Baballe du Chien Chien à la Mé-Mère" (2001) and "Deux Dents Dehors" (2007).