44m 50s is an EP by Cameron Picton that I picked up in Dash The Henge, a record shop in Camberwell, while working on this project. While I was in the store, I had two CDs in hand but wasn’t sure which to go with. After briefly sharing what I was listening to on my way over with the friendly guy behind the counter, he pointed at the at the black paper sleeve with the white scribble on the front and said “Oh yeah! Definitely that one, you’ll love that one! Can’t find that anywhere online.”
Since listening to it on my late night bike ride home, I feel my relationship with music to have changed dramatically—I slipped the disk into my walkman, pressed play and before the end of the first track I knew I was in for something special. The EP plays with the temporality of sound, consisting of one 44 minute and 50 second track within which songs, loops and field recordings blur, ebb and flow between each other. If your favourite track is at 35 minutes, then I hope you like the 34 minutes that come before. I really appreciate this choice as I am have no option but to engage with each of the songs in this piece and as a result my relationship with the project is deeper. I already know that this CD will serve as a invaluable source of inspiration for me going forwards, even in terms of knowing what is possible to achieve outside the streaming framework.
