Energy Fields, by John Atkinson

Energy Fields

by John Atkinson

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1.	Spiritual Electricity 06:51	buy track
2.	Black Thunder 13:56	buy track
3.	Casper 07:31	buy track
4.	World Wind 07:36	buy track

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On Energy Fields, John Atkinson uses his distinctive treatments of warped, microedited, and tuned field recordings to evoke our turbulent transition from fossil fuels to renewables in an era of climate change.

All of the album’s sounds were recorded during Atkinson’s September 2019 residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming – the largest coal-producing state in America as well as a burgeoning hub for renewables and carbon capture. These sounds of electrical hums, shuddering coal mines, roaring refineries, and gently clanking wind turbines, along with groaning bison, chattering cranes, and other wildlife, are reshaped into four tracks of heavy drone that veer from anxiety to awe, and from anthropocentric to transcendent.

$2 from each album purchase will go to Terraset, a nonprofit that allows donors to directly support promising startups removing carbon from the atmosphere. Terraset supports companies using scalable technologies to remove and store carbon for centuries (or millennia) in a verifiable, permanent way. Wyoming has emerged as an early leader in this area, seeking to use its incredible geological gifts to bury and store carbon - even as it simultaneously unearths it through continued fossil fuel extraction.

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released March 15, 2023

All sounds recorded and processed by John Atkinson
Mixed by Jeremy Scott
Mastered by Andrew Weathers
Artwork & Layout by Francie Chang
Photography by John Atkinson

Thank you to the UCross Foundation for the space, inspiration, and journeys. Thanks to everyone that helped along the way, especially Allison who lent me the tent for my travels, Andrew for inviting me to perform an early version of this material on his pandemic livestream series, Jeremy for the patient ears to listen to and work with my endless revisions, Reiko for giving me confidence in the vision, and Rinat for the support always in all ways. And thanks to all those working on the energy transition, and everyone doing their part for climate action, whether in their work or in their everyday life.

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John Atkinson Brooklyn, New York

I build electronic music out of processed field recordings from natural and urban environments. Prior work in Brooklyn's Aa (Big A little a).

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