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"Airships Fill the Sky" is the debut solo album from Morgan Packard on Anticipate

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“Airships Fill the Sky” is the debut solo album from Morgan Packard on New York City based Anticipate label that comes packaged with a DVD called “Unsimulatable” – an audio-visual collaboration between Packard and Joshue Ott. Joshue is multi-disciplined media artist and designer using his superDraw software to explore the idea of storing animation within a single line.

Image source: “Airships Fill the Sky” cd artwork and superDraw screen capture by Joshue Ott

superDraw presents more or less a simple line drawing application created in/ported to Processing, but the visual aesthetic of resulting forms and animaions is truly worth a closer look and listen. Especially in interaction with Packard’s sound – that is marked by a well-balanced interplay of acoustic and electronic elements – the visual patterns and shapes are unfolding their unique charm und particularised perfection. A preview of resulting audio-visual compositions is available at the Anticipate website.

“…The collaboration between Ott and Packard (which includes almost exclusively different music from the CD) is the culmination of two years of playing live shows together and consistently honing their interaction and the means by which their computers can communicate with each other. Though individual scenes can be devised beforehand, neither program allows deferred creation, so no editing is possible and the entire piece had to be recorded live in one take. …”

Read more at Anticipaterecordings.com.