Tament is a personal translation, an audio diary of sounds created and heard. Glinca calls it “the audio of the everyday.” The timbre is warm and welcoming: the tenderness of thumb piano, music box and chime set against the click-clack of rail lines and the blur of unfocused conversation. One walks through this life as if it is a dream, or as the cover photo suggests, the memory of a life. On “Swoq,” one hears what seems to be a modified clock. The gorgeous Fluid Audio packet includes survey maps, slides, prints and photos, travel tickets and reel-to-reel snippets. The combination of material objects and collected sounds creates a hazy glow, suggesting that the pleasant feelings of the past can be recreated, or at least re-experienced, in the present.
