Preservation - LP & Artist Book
Preservation is a multimedia collaboration between artist Tracy Maurice and composer/drummer Tommy Crane. The project explores the ever-evolving understanding of nature as a word, a concept, and a relationship by juxtaposing analog and digital; live and recorded; raw and mediated art forms.
The artist book features photography by Maurice that leverages analog techniques and dark-field microscopy to capture the transformative, mercurial movements of water-based chemical reactions and soap bubbles. This material exploration is juxtaposed with dance choreography that ruminates on time, space and mortality, all of which is explored through the primordial potentiality of movement. The book is also in collaboration with singer-songwriter/writer Juliana Daugherty and graphic designer Frédérique Gagnon. Daugherty contributes an enigmatic collection of original poetry inspired by the music and visuals, touching on themes of mortality and consciousness. Her poetry allows the reader to easily and freely drift between text and image, soundscape, and the moving image—traditional boundaries dissolve. Gagnon’s graphic design compliments Maurice’s photography and is a natural extension of the project, her exploration of the liminal spaces found in nature and how they intersect with the mercurial, ethereal essence of language.
The score, written by Crane is an exploration of texture and tone, analog and digital, and all the spaces in between. Lush, open, instrumental, and electronic —the details, only heightened by this particular format in this particular place in time, are simultaneously anticipated and unexpected. Taking you from a slow, vast, cosmic introduction into a world of forward momentum and energetic tempos that cut through ambient soundscapes, the unique blend of rhythm and texture leaves one delightfully untethered. In addition to Crane, the record features performances by Colin Killalea (Ex-poets, Albert Hammond Jr.), Eliot Krimsky (Glass Ghost) and Greg Chudzik (Steve Reich). The record is mixed by Grammy award winner (Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs) Mark Lawson.
Artist Book — Features Photography by Tracy Maurice, Poetry by Juliana Daugherty, and Graphic Design by Frédérique Gagnon.
Size — 7” x 11.75” x 4mm spine, 50 pages, matte soft cover with black foil stamped title & black gilding.
Vinyl — Eco-friendly printing, 100% recycled stock, 150g black vinyl record, Includes Digital Download card. Album written, performed and produced by Tommy Crane with additional performances by Colin Killalea, Eliot Krimsky, & Greg Chudzik.
Limited Edition of 150 copies, hand numbered.
Preservation is a multimedia collaboration between artist Tracy Maurice and composer/drummer Tommy Crane. The project explores the ever-evolving understanding of nature as a word, a concept, and a relationship by juxtaposing analog and digital; live and recorded; raw and mediated art forms.
The artist book features photography by Maurice that leverages analog techniques and dark-field microscopy to capture the transformative, mercurial movements of water-based chemical reactions and soap bubbles. This material exploration is juxtaposed with dance choreography that ruminates on time, space and mortality, all of which is explored through the primordial potentiality of movement. The book is also in collaboration with singer-songwriter/writer Juliana Daugherty and graphic designer Frédérique Gagnon. Daugherty contributes an enigmatic collection of original poetry inspired by the music and visuals, touching on themes of mortality and consciousness. Her poetry allows the reader to easily and freely drift between text and image, soundscape, and the moving image—traditional boundaries dissolve. Gagnon’s graphic design compliments Maurice’s photography and is a natural extension of the project, her exploration of the liminal spaces found in nature and how they intersect with the mercurial, ethereal essence of language.
The score, written by Crane is an exploration of texture and tone, analog and digital, and all the spaces in between. Lush, open, instrumental, and electronic —the details, only heightened by this particular format in this particular place in time, are simultaneously anticipated and unexpected. Taking you from a slow, vast, cosmic introduction into a world of forward momentum and energetic tempos that cut through ambient soundscapes, the unique blend of rhythm and texture leaves one delightfully untethered. In addition to Crane, the record features performances by Colin Killalea (Ex-poets, Albert Hammond Jr.), Eliot Krimsky (Glass Ghost) and Greg Chudzik (Steve Reich). The record is mixed by Grammy award winner (Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs) Mark Lawson.
Artist Book — Features Photography by Tracy Maurice, Poetry by Juliana Daugherty, and Graphic Design by Frédérique Gagnon.
Size — 7” x 11.75” x 4mm spine, 50 pages, matte soft cover with black foil stamped title & black gilding.
Vinyl — Eco-friendly printing, 100% recycled stock, 150g black vinyl record, Includes Digital Download card. Album written, performed and produced by Tommy Crane with additional performances by Colin Killalea, Eliot Krimsky, & Greg Chudzik.
Limited Edition of 150 copies, hand numbered.
Preservation is a multimedia collaboration between artist Tracy Maurice and composer/drummer Tommy Crane. The project explores the ever-evolving understanding of nature as a word, a concept, and a relationship by juxtaposing analog and digital; live and recorded; raw and mediated art forms.
The artist book features photography by Maurice that leverages analog techniques and dark-field microscopy to capture the transformative, mercurial movements of water-based chemical reactions and soap bubbles. This material exploration is juxtaposed with dance choreography that ruminates on time, space and mortality, all of which is explored through the primordial potentiality of movement. The book is also in collaboration with singer-songwriter/writer Juliana Daugherty and graphic designer Frédérique Gagnon. Daugherty contributes an enigmatic collection of original poetry inspired by the music and visuals, touching on themes of mortality and consciousness. Her poetry allows the reader to easily and freely drift between text and image, soundscape, and the moving image—traditional boundaries dissolve. Gagnon’s graphic design compliments Maurice’s photography and is a natural extension of the project, her exploration of the liminal spaces found in nature and how they intersect with the mercurial, ethereal essence of language.
The score, written by Crane is an exploration of texture and tone, analog and digital, and all the spaces in between. Lush, open, instrumental, and electronic —the details, only heightened by this particular format in this particular place in time, are simultaneously anticipated and unexpected. Taking you from a slow, vast, cosmic introduction into a world of forward momentum and energetic tempos that cut through ambient soundscapes, the unique blend of rhythm and texture leaves one delightfully untethered. In addition to Crane, the record features performances by Colin Killalea (Ex-poets, Albert Hammond Jr.), Eliot Krimsky (Glass Ghost) and Greg Chudzik (Steve Reich). The record is mixed by Grammy award winner (Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs) Mark Lawson.
Artist Book — Features Photography by Tracy Maurice, Poetry by Juliana Daugherty, and Graphic Design by Frédérique Gagnon.
Size — 7” x 11.75” x 4mm spine, 50 pages, matte soft cover with black foil stamped title & black gilding.
Vinyl — Eco-friendly printing, 100% recycled stock, 150g black vinyl record, Includes Digital Download card. Album written, performed and produced by Tommy Crane with additional performances by Colin Killalea, Eliot Krimsky, & Greg Chudzik.
Limited Edition of 150 copies, hand numbered.