archive / method / residue / low fidelity
Phone Dub
Phone Dub is a sound method using smartphone recordings as the only source material. It brings together memory, imperfection, and transformation through recordings of piano, environment, voice, and noise.
Archive in Progress
The Phone Dub archive is developing as a map of source material, fragments, and leftover matter gathered across years of recording and composition.
It will eventually include zones for raw voice memos, unused debris, instruments, drones, ambiences, piano recordings, and other traces that sit between document and composition.
Method
Recordings made on a smartphone are treated not as sketches to be replaced, but as the primary musical material.
Piano, environment, and noise are recorded and transformed into instruments, textures, percussion, drones, and compositions. The method values compression, limitation, and the emotional residue carried by imperfect capture.
Note
An interactive archive map is in development.