Bleed Through performed by Dan McKay
One of the highlights of our 2018 Melbourne Guitar Festival was this performance by Dan McKay of this innovative work "Bleed Through" by Melbourne based composer Sam Smith.
Sam has this to say about the work: "In 2011 I interned with the audio preservation department at the National Film and Sound Archive. I was fascinated at the time by how beautiful these now-obsolete technologies became, the more they had deteriorated. Ageing Magnetic Tape often creates a phenomenon known as Bleed-Through, which occurs when the magnetic signal prints (or bleeds) across to adjacent layers of tape. The result is a ghostly prediction and recollection of the original signal, itself now significantly diminished. Conceptually, it conjures a certain nostalgia; a memory of a signal since deteriorated, recreated by echo and prediction."
This performance was recorded by Dave from Old Skool Audio (www.oldskoolaudio.com.au) at the 2018 Melbourne Guitar Festival, Melba Hall.