In Immersion : Water Works, Archive gently manipulates and shapes simple field recordings of water in various forms. The concept is straight-forward and the resulting sound is transparent, uncomplicated; there is a purity found here where the natural sounds are allowed to breathe and find their own way even as they wander through otherworlds of digital abstraction.

Often the source recordings are untouched; then they are slowed and filtered into deep, spacey washes of calm, or are sped up, inverted and splintered, panned wildly, creating glitchy fluttering effects.

Always there is a simplicity yet a depth to the work. The sound sources themselves have a sentimental implication (gentle waves lapping at a dock, dogs playing in a river, a man shoveling snow) and as Archive pulls these recordings through various synthesis and digital process, that sentimentality somehow still resonates.

On repeated listenings, I find myself being drawn back to it, the clean quietness of it, the purity of it's atmosphere and the simplicity of it's gestures.