Clocks & Barometers - Learning Through Investigation (2025)

Clocks and Barometers is a collaborative project between Dive Reflex Service and Lupo which began in the summer of 2023.

All the source material for “Learning Through Investigation” was recorded in one morning in Lupo’s studio as twelve one-minute acoustic improvisations, then processed that afternoon through granular eurorack units.

The resulting material was then bought to Bristol where over several recording and mixing sessions DRS and Lupo shaped their album ‘Learning by Investigation’ which took just under a year to complete.

The name Clocks and Barometers is taken from a mysterious shop of the same name on the east Bristol/South Gloucestershire border which appears to never be open.

‘Learning by investigation felt like a good title as both myself and Alex were experiencing similar things is our personal lives as we were creating the music. It often felt like we were investigating separately out in the wild and then comparing and learning from our experiences when we worked together in the studio’ Says Lee.

‘The sadness and stillness of the acoustic elements (often recorded on tape) sat next to the hyperreal incomprehensible complexities of the granular processing really resonated with our experience of the world at the time. I think we both feel that this record is the closest either of us have got to making the music that sounds like the world makes our brains feel’ adds Lupo.