Second Site: 27° 37' 35" N 77° 13' 05" E

~ Release by Paul Schütze (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

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CD 1
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1First Prologue.
recording of:
First Prologue.
composer:
Paul Schütze
1:01
2The dial is only visible by starlight.1:16
3Every day at noon the sun shines through these apertures for the space of about a minute.0:39
4The image of the sun indicates the sun's position as it passes through a hole in the concurve surface.1:16
5There is a brass pointer fitted with sights and pivoted to the centre of the circle by which altitude observations are made.0:49
6The chamber is no longer accessible to visitors.1:00
7Access to any part of the engine is by steps which offer vantage points for various readings.0:50
8Suspended in the hum of history.1:10
9Originally cross wires stretched across each hemisphere, East to West and North to South.1:17
10The ramped stair to the North of the two drums vanishes at thirty-two feet.1:03
11These steps enable the observer to see all aspects of the brass calibration below.0:40
12There is a huge calibrated sundial on each of its sides.1:00
13This chamber is filled with garden tools and broken furniture.1:00
14The mosaic of starlight slips back like the lid of an opening eye.0:59
15This engine is primarily a calculator, though altitudes may be observed using the sighting bar fitted to the back.1:00
16It is inscribed with concentric circles, at the centre of which lies a pointer.1:01
17The calibrated parts are raised on three-foot pillars.1:00
18The pink masonry charges the twilight with a faint sound.0:59
19Another slope with stars for the reading of figures.1:00
20This engine is now only visible in twilight.1:00
21Here is an immense brass circle suspended vertically from stone supports.0:49
22Two hemispheres representing the sphere of heaven comprise the two halves of this engine.1:11
23This wall describes accurately the North/South meridian.1:00
24There are pillars at the centre of each circular wall each open to the sky.0:50
25First Memory.
recording of:
First Memory.
composer:
Paul Schütze
1:10
26The sky has shaped this place.1:01
27Here I find a central iron pole with hooks facing to the North, South, East and West.0:59
28A shadow is cast to the West before noon.0:59
29The shadow can fall in the vacant sector of a drum.1:02
30Days and nights are measured here, and in the measuring seem longer, suspended somehow.1:00
31The whole brass circle can be revolved around its vertical diameter so that altitude observations can be taken of any object at any time.0:59
32A lofty but narrow chamber is contrived in the thickness of the walls and access is gained from a door opening from the masonry platform on which the engine stands.0:37
33A further series of steps is only visible during the vernal equinox.0:23
34Hold the machine in the vertical plane.1:00
35Visible portions of the celestial sphere are represented by this map which has a movable elliptic which pivots at the point representing the pole.1:02
36To move through these structures is to set them in motion.0:59
37The altitude of the body observed is given while observing the vertically hanging bar through the two brass rings.1:00
38A shadow is cast to the East after noon.1:00
39These calibrations are no longer clearly visible.1:00
40Another flight of observation steps and the sense of quiet rotation as I ascend.1:01
41I study the vaults of a shell in which we float.1:00
42Twenty-seven degrees, thirty-seven seconds.1:00
43The roofs of the enclosed drums are implied by shadows.1:00
44The floor and walls are calibrated to read altitude and azimuth.1:00
45These are the cool engines of celestial map-making.1:01
46Here is the Supreme Engine.1:00
47The sun seen through the pair of brass rings is used by the bar to indicate the time from sunrise until sunrise.1:01
48A pointer indicates on three arms: West, North and East.1:00
49Here was the Supreme Engine.0:59
50The engine of amplitude has a function which is no longer known.1:01
51This engine is a rectangular brass plate.1:00
CD 2

Credits

Release

khene and pi:Clive Bell
percussion and steelpan:Paul Schütze
spoken vocals:Päivi Björkenheim
part of:Ambient (Virgin Records) (Virgin's Ambient series, 1993-1997) (number: AMBT23) (order: 23)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/328170 [info]
ASIN:UK: B000005RRD [info]