Selatangents: Snawklor (Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell) in discussion with Amelia Barikin and Ferdiansyah Thajib

Amelia: I’m interested in the inclusion of field recordings in your live performances and albums. Your use of collected audio material seems to address both a kind of anthropological fieldwork (such as the capturing and preservation of sonic knowledge, Lomax-style) as well as a mode of Musique Concrete, with its attention to background noise, the insistence on “sounds in themselves”. These two strands create a tension between sound as a tool for sociological mapping and sound as an “object” that can be remixed and shaped into new forms. What’s the appeal of field recordings for you...?