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  This audio work was made in response to section 8 of Allen Fisher's poem-sequence Black Pond. The poem-sequence, in turn, takes a structural cue from one of Morton Feldman’s early indeterminate compositions, Projection 2.
  
  Fisher's Black Pond began as a response to a particular site: a rare raised peat bog at Waun Ddu in Wales. (Peat has a remarkable capacity for absorbing CO2, and the climate crisis is a thread within the poem.) I visited Waun Ddu in March 2020, just before Covid restrictions were imposed. I made various recordings there, using conventional mics, contact mics and a hydrophone. These sounds became the building blocks for the composition. In structure, the piece is organised around various repeating acoustic motifs in Fisher’s poem. These are placed within nine cells that mirror the shape of both the poem and the Feldman score. The result is not an audio translation or setting of the poem, but a work that is both after Fisher and – at a greater distance – after Feldman.
  
  Thanks to Allen for answering my questions and being generally supportive of this project. Purchasers will also get a pdf of one of Allen’s Black Pond paintings, Black Pond 1.3 (2016; photograph by Paige Mitchell).
  
  Mastered by Al Jones at Laminal Audio.
  
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  Brian Olewnick: "Two really lovely, deep and enjoyable recordings, Montgomery's 'After Black Pond' and his collaboration with Carol Watts, 'Inoculate Me'. The latter is one of the best field recording/voice melds I've heard; both content and delivery of the latter work beautifully. While the former is just a deep, immersive dive into a peat bog, with Feldman as a reference point! Do check them out." ... more
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