"Dismantle the Sun... is clammy and crumbling like old concrete. Rather than just sound recordings of these events, Coldwell somehow captures tangible residues of them, like a projector slide shining light through grit and grime and dust" The Wire

"The live performance of ‘Dead Air’, which runs for an album-length headline performance is superb. It’s testing, but it’s also magnificently executed... for all its vastness, Music for Installation is quite a dense, claustrophobic experience at times – and it’s a quite remarkable experience, too." Aural Aggravation

This new retrospective is certainly not your typical album. Each track is almost an album in its own right! The material sees CC at his most experimental, stripped back, noisy and immersive. Following on from last year's Music for Documentary Film, this collection gathers together some of Michael C Coldwell's sound art work and music written for exhibition and gallery contexts.

The Remote Viewer (2018) was a multi-screen video installation for Light Night exploring the lost landscapes of Leeds, through rephotography, archival plundering, projection and field recording. The ambient sound design aimed to capture and defamiliarize the real sounds involved in bringing these views back to life: field recording from the many photography expeditions around the city is mixed and processed with the internal sounds of the cameras, scanners, computers and projectors used to digitise and reanimate the crumbling old magic lantern slides. The original work lasted several hours with each element looping at a different rate so the experience was always different. A long excerpt of the original audio is presented here.

Dead Air was a live performance at the Residuum exhibition at Left Bank in 2017. This improvisational piece was created using three broken radios, a sampler and delay pedal, all played and recorded live in a former church. It was composed in response to several installed video works by the artist including the full video version of his AM album. Originally planned for release on Crooked Acres records, as a follow-up to AM, the live recording appears here for the first time.

Also on this album are re-releases of the music for video art pieces Dismantle the Sun and Alternating Current. Dismantle the Sun was a video work designed to be projected onto condemned buildings from 2015, while Alternating Current was a video piece created for the Conflux Coldwell album of the same name (2013) and which appeared as part of the video installation called Lumen, Beaconstruction & The Space Between, at Beacons Festival 2014.

Music for Installation closes with one of Coldwell's early time stretch experiments. This one was created for a video installation on the philosophy of time called How Long Is Now? While this piece never saw the light of day, the visuals and sound were re-purposed as part of Coldwell's documentary on the same topic, Punctum Temporis (2014).