Rift Patterns is about the psychogeographical exploration of places and how they impact on our identity and feelings. Psychogeography has historically been associated with the exploration of our cities and the ‘drift,’ and has been described by Joseph Hart as “a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities… just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.” In Rift Patterns, Monty Adkins uses found objects from the many locations visited, placed in the piano to prepare the strings and produce strange sonorities.

Enhanced E-Book Edition: As the music was being completed Adkins invited the writer Deborah Templeton, video artist Jason Payne and photographer and graphic designer Stephen Harvey to respond in their own way to the music, the ideas behind it and each other’s work. The result is an E-Book containing music, text, photography, and film.