Recorded in a c.1800 Napoleonic military Martello tower overlooking the North Sea. Recorded mostly over two days in winter, real-time abstract responses to observing changing sea states, storms, aerial atmospherics, shipping lanes and fog horns.

Tracks 1 – 6 / acoustic instruments into Pure-Data; live headphone monitoring of microphone signal-processing with two serially-connected looping stereo memory-banks providing complex offset & overlay.
Track 7 / Pure-Data only.

Classical guitar, alternative tuning, Kimbara model no. 76, 1970’s, made in Japan for FCN-London.
D tin whistle, Generation.
Gale-force wind & rain recording.

Diffused in ANAHUACALLI, Museo Diego Rivera, Coyoacán, Mexico City, for the exhibition TITTIPUSSIDAD – NUDS, Sarah Lucas, 20 April – 8 July 2012; and soundtrack to the documentary film ‘About Sarah‘, by Elisa Miller; and the film REALIDAD, by Julian Simmons.

“I thought the fucking door was open … I’ve probably listened to it too much”, Russell Haswell.

“LaMonte Young in Japan”, Angus Cook.

Recorded December 2011 – February 2012.
Released 2012, NUMBERSTREAM0.
Remastered, digitally released 2018, TOWER.
63 minutes.

Album download > TOWER on Bandcamp