A Moment's Ornament, by Tim Coster

A Moment's Ornament

by Tim Coster

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1.	Note 00:28	buy track
2.	Bit 02:00	buy track
3.	Lesson 00:39	buy track
4.	Change 01:14	buy track
5.	Cafe 01:32	buy track
6.	Age 02:12	buy track
7.	Record 01:11	buy track
8.	Moves 00:48	buy track
9.	Switch 01:38	buy track
10.	Song 01:10	buy track
11.	Midnight 01:00	buy track
12.	Tides 02:07	buy track
13.	2008 00:39	buy track
14.	Practice 01:12	buy track
15.	Call 01:27	buy track
16.	Dawn 01:03	buy track
17.	November 01:36	buy track
18.	Cloud 01:20	buy track
19.	Sunday 01:30	buy track
20.	Second 01:22	buy track

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Tim Coster’s A Moment’s Ornament is music experienced in miniature. A collection of 20 short vignette style modular synthesis works – the edition gently stakes out his claim in the realm of contemporary electronics.

Informed by a rich tonal base Coster – who originally hails from Auckland – creates spacious sonic motions that flutter and arc with what can only be described as ‘casual intent’. Never fastidious or overwhelming, he seeks a more understated quality to his compositions – interested in subtle variation and uneasy coalescence.

Recorded at his current home in Melbourne, the work draws its title from an alternative name for Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth; (the manuscript had originally been titled "A Moment's Ornament), a reference to the Wordsworth's poem 'She was a Phantom of Delight'. It also draws heavily on Coster’s approaches to his current live performances, dwelling on the temporal nature of his output to date.

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released November 12, 2013

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