It is widely assumed that everyone is ‘interdisciplinary’ nowadays, that we all work at the intersections of conventional disciplines. But if being flexible, multi-skilled and polymathic are the prerequisites of survival in today’s world, why do educators and art marketeers still find it imperative to maintain conditions of production that advocate specialist outcomes?

Rural is the first release in the Continuous Tone series of sound works by visual artists. Each project is issued as a one-off heavy pressing 12-inch vinyl record with carefully designed packaging and specially commissioned sleeve notes inserted as an 10-page illustrated information booklet.