Non Mountain

Cherniwchan, Chrystal; Tattersall, Craig; Carlyle, Angus

Abstract

Following on from ‘grass folded and pressed’, 'Non Mountain’ is a collaboration with Angus Carlyle, Craig Tattersall and myself which initially began as a response to source material created by Angus for two films with Chiara Caterina, ‘Il Vertice’ (2013) and ‘Into The Outside’ (2015), part of his larger project ‘In The Shadows of Silent Mountains’. The soundtracks have been reworked and responded for ‘Non Mountain’. The below excerpt from Mount Analogue, was a starting point for this project:

"For a mountain to play the role of Mount Analogue, I concluded, its summit must be inaccessible but its base accessible to human beings as nature has made them. It must be unique and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible". (Daumal 1952/2019: 43)

Through Daumal’s writing and quoting on previous work that Angus created, a mapping started to unfold, built around layers of interpretation, iteration and visual/sonic construction.

Collaborative responses with text, photographs, sound, and objects form an 84 page perfect bound book with a gloss laminated cover and uncoated paper stock with a selection of inserts. Together with the book is a 10" vinyl album ( 2 x 14min sides ). These form a limited edition of 50, individually numbered by hand, and shipped/housed in a screen printed mailer.

It has been released by Umbrella-Publishing and there are a few copies available on Bandcamp and Boomkat.

Daumal, R. (2019). Mount Analogue (R. Shattuck, Trans.). Exact Exchange. (Original work published 1952).

• Physical Artefact Type: Other
• Online Publication Date: Nov 24, 2023
• Publication Date: Nov 24, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jul 14, 2025
• External URL: https://umbrella-publishing.bandcamp.com/album/non-mountain