In a Hotel at Night: Music for Four Rooms and a Stairway

by Andrew Stones

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1.	In a Hotel at Night, from Cellar to Sky 13:21	info	buy track
2.	Escalera, up and down 03:36	info	buy track
3.	Der Keller 02:30	info	buy track
4.	Kitchen and Dining 03:07	info	buy track
5.	Boudoir, with city view 02:58	info	buy track
6.	Camera alta, open to sky 04:03	info	buy track

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Mixes from a multi-channel musical installation for playback in four separate rooms, on consecutive floors, connected by a stairway.

The installation is for a publicly-accessible building, but was developed during a period of COVID-19 lockdown (2020-21). The version created for this album is shaped around the idea of a hotel, depopulated due to a hiatus in social activity.

Interlocking rhythmic loops emanate from the bottom and top of a stairway connecting four levels. In one room on each level a discrete musical loop plays, audible in relative isolation at the centre of the room, but also bleeding into the stairway. The overall sound in the building increases and decreases in density, bound by a constant pulse. Individual parts circle around each other without falling into a set relationship or coming to rest.

In installation, the visitor mixes the work subjectively by moving around the building. The track 'In a Hotel at Night, from Cellar to Sky' simulates a traverse up the building, taking in all five spaces.

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released August 16, 2021

Written, performed and produced by Andrew Stones.

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