Warm Digits - Interchange '2013

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Interchange is Warm Digits second album - an experimental film and album of
music inspired by photography and illustrations drawn from the Tyne and Wear
Archives, of the 1970s biggest civil engineering project on Tyneside –
the construction of Metro. Invited to investigate the archives to find
inspiration to make some new music, Warm Digits found a selection of photographs
documenting the transitions between the crumbling, decommissioned British Rail
stations of Tyneside and the new, futuristic Metro stations.

These 1970s photographs now carry a powerful aura of nostalgic hopefulness about
publicly-funded civic development and connected communities. Visually, this has
to do with the collision in the photographs of modernist architectural forms and
advanced technology, with the dirt and grind of construction and the demolition
and development of the older stations - what architecture critic Owen Hatherley
calls the outright weirdness of the Metro systems designs, its curious
combination of antique and futuristic. In these photographs, tunnel shells bore
unstoppably through the citys underbelly; boffinish, white-coated engineers are
lifted by crane into half-finished shafts; modernist, abstract geometric shapes
resolve into walkways and overpasses; while on the architects plans, tiny
huddles of theoretical passengers wait as shadows on platforms.

The songs on Interchange, and the accompanying films which use the images as
source material, take and hold on to some of the spirits conjured by these
pictures: of hopefulness for a publicly-funded civic future, of the use of new
technology for change, of the excitement and propulsion of travel.

Tracklisting:
01. Warm Digits - Cut and Cover (7:50)
02. Warm Digits - Working for a Better Future (5:45)
03. Warm Digits - The Connected Coast (7:21)
04. Warm Digits - Tyneside Electrics (7:31)
05. Warm Digits - Office of the Control Inspector (5:55)
06. Warm Digits - Terminus (7:36)

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