Concrete Antenna

Concrete Antenna is a 12” record and an interactive sound installation commissioned to inaugurate the landmark tower at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. It was created in collaboration with Tommy Perman and Rob St. John. The record is available on Blackford Hill, and on Apple Music.

"Crystalline piano, clocks, voices, birdsong, water and resonating electronics create a spring warm sense of place and wonder" MOJO Magazine

“Blending dreamily ambient keyboard melodies with environmental evocations… it offers an attractive distillation of the installation experience. A marker too of rising levels of engagement with auditory histiography in public art” WIRE Magazine

"Alongside sounds derived from the structure itself the trio seamlessly blend in piano, brass, children at play, birdsong and a bouncing pingpong ball in a quietly affecting sculpture in sound."
 THE QUIETUS

"Without a shadow of a doubt, Concrete Antenna is one of our records of the year"
 CAUGHT BY THE RIVER

A five minute introduction to Concrete Antenna – a sound installation and vinyl LP by Simon Kirby, Tommy Perman and Rob St John. For further info on the project please visit: www.concreteantenna.org
Taken from the forthcoming album Concrete Antenna by Simon Kirby, Tommy Perman and Rob St John out September 2015 on Random Spectacular. www.concreteantenna.org
Branch Line is the second single to be taken from the Concrete Antenna LP. This video was shot on Super 8 film by Tommy Perman around railway lines – both abandoned and in use – in North Edinburgh. The track layers and processes field recordings of steam engines and foghorns using manipulated tape loops and convolution reverbs. The developed Super 8 film underwent a second round of processing as it was encased in cement and moss for a month. When unearthed, the film had developed new flares, marks, lines and etchings: the landscape around the Concrete Antenna tower visually altered and reframed. www.concreteantenna.org
An animated interpretation of the Concrete Antenna sleeve artwork by Cameron Duguid. www.concreteantenna.org www.randomspectacular.co.uk
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