Fig. 13 Make Ready, 128/ ‘Energy Transfer (Slight Return)’
Recordings of all kinds exist as a sequence of capture, storage and release. The content is gathered and arranged, is charged or amplified through the physicality of the medium. Ink on paper, light emitting from a screen, speaker cones pushing air, an object in space later releases this delayed experience. In the process there is conversion, and some loss, and of course our perceptions will change over time.

Fig. 15 Make Ready, 8 ‘Unlearning’
I’ve become convinced that drumming is the transfer of energy: about how you hit the drum to push the air across the room so the listener feels some of that energy too.