Time Vials: Part 1 is the first of four chapters of a larger project, built around a collection of experiments developed over the past two years. The music centres around large textures through expansive, atmospheric pieces. It marks a shift towards harmonic music that focuses primarily on space and scale.

I’ve always been interested in the intersection of technology and art, and how we use technology to extend our current capabilities — including those involving expression. These pieces lean heavily on technology, but they also reach towards harmony as a main expressive force.

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Pat Carroll – To Dream of Substance
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‘To Dream of Substance’ marks a move into a deeper territory of experimental electronic music.

I’ve been feeling a pull into this new musical territory for a while, and with that comes a pull out of some previous territory. I wanted to mark this point with this piece. At its core is the theme of ‘endings as beginnings’. The starting point for making this piece was the idea to create an opening that sounded simultaneously like an ending and a beginning.

From here—and consistent with this theme—the piece is built on feelings of pressure, accumulation, force and catharsis.

I teamed up with Mica Studios, who conceptualised and brought to life these insane visuals to support the track. It was a real joy collaborating with a bunch of talented legends.

This can be viewed here:
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Enjoy,
Pat.
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credits

released April 19, 2024
Written & Produced – Pat Carroll
Mixed & Mastered – Matt Curtin
Artwork – Will Stephenson @ MICA Studios

Video Credits

Executive producers: Will Stephenson, Matt Little & Pat Carroll
Directors: Will Stephenson & Andrew Dempsey
DOP: David Longden
Producers: David Longden, Will Stephenson & Curtis Sweet
Production company: Mica Studios
Artist: Pat Carroll
Production designer: Will Stephenson
Set design: Olivia Thomas
Set build: Seb Palmer, Fogel Watkins, Will Stephenson
Photographer: Curtis Sweet
Edit/colour: David Longden
Fire safety advice: Jack Simmonds
Set transport/BTS: Alex Nicolas
Equipment: The Front
Special thanks: Sonny Costin, Curtis Sweet and the Sweet family

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‘Plight’ was written in mid-2023 up at Macmasters Beach on the NSW central coast, where I’ve written plenty of music in the past. Macmasters is a very special place, as it can be very quiet and allows for plenty of solitude and introspection. The atmosphere always finds a way into the music I write up there.

This piece is really one big process of expansion. I wanted to create something that starts small and gradually grows to envelope the listener completely.

I was interested in exploring the two opposing types of material, the note and the noise, or the tone and the texture.
Specifically, I was exploring how these two elements play roles in creating instrumental timbres, but also can act independently from each another.
(I was very inspired by some of the music of Loscil and Tim Hecker at the time.)

Emotionally, I hear a big sense of release or surrender to this piece; a release from something like frustration or despair. I feel that this piece is one for those harder times, hence the title.

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Pat.
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released January 12, 2024

‘Is Yours, Is Mine’ revolves around a single, simple melody. This is something I’m really interested in in music – how different parts and themes can be painted in different colours to give them these new emotional qualities. What I wanted to do here was to have a melody that the record keeps finding its way back to, but have this melody altered, transformed and presented in different ways. At the start of the record, it is dark and haunting, and by the end it is more cathartic and open.

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released July 28, 2023

‘Earthsea’ is a collection of pieces recorded on the central coast of NSW. It aims to capture a particular sense of stillness and space up in that region. Inspired by the ocean, shore, and birdlife up there, the pieces undulate to create wave-like environments of droning material.

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released June 15, 2023

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Pat Carroll – The Mason

‘The Mason’ was written when I felt a need to create something that mixed the ambient and textural music I love with heavy percussive layers. This type of approach fit well with the time, when I felt an energy returning to everyday life after lockdown, but was still spending a lot of time at home listening to ambient music.

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released February 4, 2022
W&P by Pat Carroll

“211129-211203” is a collection of pieces written during some time away at the end of 2021. The idea behind them was to exercise placing more value on the creative process itself, as opposed to only on the final product. With this in mind, the pieces were approached as reflective exercises: improvisation with the sole purpose of spontaneous, authentic self-expression.

Originally, these recordings weren’t going to be released. However, I grew fond of them and felt that they were a clear reflection of a time and place for me. It was written during a pretty bizarre time in history (the covid pandemic), and inevitably was influenced and shaped by this period. Because of this, I felt it was necessary to contribute it into the pool of music being written at this time.
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211129-211203 was composed using a modular synthesiser, electric guitar and a set of field recordings of birds and rain.
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“Bounty Hill” is an outlet for these types of exercises, and a reminder that sometimes the sketches are enough.

released January 20, 2022

W&P by Pat Carroll.

That Bewildering Energy is a collection of four pieces built around short improvisations on an analog synth. They collectively tell a story of trying to fall asleep when the mind just won’t switch off.

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released April 30, 2021

Performed and Produced by Pat Carroll.
Mastered by Matt Curtin.