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Eamon Sprod Releases Album Foil Void Join Avoid on Sonic Rubbish

publication · 2026-09-16

Eamon Sprod, an Australian field recordist who goes by the name Tarab, has unveiled a new CD titled Foil Void Join Avoid, released under the Sonic Rubbish label and accessible on Bandcamp. Known for his collaborations with Eric La Casa in 2019 and David Prescott-Steed in 2022, Sprod has also worked on earlier projects with Ernie Althoff. His artistic approach merges documentation with intervention, highlighting sonic intricacies and environmental characteristics. The album showcases sounds that have been collected and restructured to defy linearity, focusing on themes of friction and emptiness. Sprod crafts a mental landscape of surfaces and resonances, utilizing silence as a key compositional component, and creates immersive sonic environments that evoke perceptual transformations.

Key facts

  • Eamon Sprod released the CD Foil Void Join Avoid on the Sonic Rubbish label.
  • Sprod is an Australian field recordist also known as Tarab.
  • He has collaborated with Eric La Casa in 2019 and David Prescott-Steed in 2022.
  • Earlier collaborations include work with Ernie Althoff.
  • The album is available via Bandcamp.
  • The work involves collection, subtraction, and recomposition over multiple years.
  • Sounds used are found, borrowed, or stolen and rearranged non-linearly.
  • The composition treats silence as an active element and emphasizes peripheral microvariations.

Entities

Artists

  • Eamon Sprod
  • Eric La Casa
  • David Prescott-Steed
  • Ernie Althoff
  • Tarab

Institutions

  • Sonic Rubbish
  • Bandcamp

Locations

  • Australia

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