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b/art's Playlist for Maandag, 17 April (17:30 - 19:05)
Guest, Brandon Labelle, Sound Scrapings & Situationist Dérives | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Beaten Up By Something Strange - WreckThis Mess Mix #.11.w.23t.97m-00 | |
| Five.133.00:04:38,63 | m2 [1] |
| Born of a Wet Dream & Dead Before Morning | Undo [2] |
| Chemical & Easter Bunnies | Richard H. Kirk [3] |
| Weary of Pleading An Incomprehensible Cause | Undo [2] |
| Pas Dans Un ventre Non Plus | Undo [2] |
| Fake Realism | Crawl Unit [4] |
| Inbet We Enno Ise | Brandon Labelle [4a] |
| Ancient Evening | Robert Charlesworth [5] |
| #2 Green Tree Close | Gas [5a] |
| Tuning Fork | Ai Watanabe [4] |
| Tramsong (from 'Swasdee') | Carl Stone [4] |
| Le Grand Dome | Biosphere [6] |
| A Vocabulary A Cacography | Brandon Labelle [7] |
| + Smich Snatch | Iva Bittova [8] |
| Stepping Into The Night | Penumbra [9] |
| + Water-Music-Saliva-Word | Brandon Labelle [10] |
| + | English Lessons |
| Piano Writing . Brandon Labelle [10] | |
| Paz Hazard / Amazing Loop SOS Deep | Black Sifichi [11] |
| Clausterphonic | Pantunes Music [12] |
| Col's Fish [exc ] + Loletta [exc] | Salmonella Dub [13] |
| Sensitive Chaos | Hildegard Westerkamp [14] |
| Going Off Duty Outro WTM | |
| [1] "Squaremeter.14id1610s" on Ant-Zen www.ant-zen.com. Described as a "scientific bridge between sinetone minimalism and sonic mega-sampling ... digital ambient." Very interesting ventures into electronic marginalism where pure tones and clicks and hums collect into speculative critical mass. It is as if someone has discovered an entire new range of jazz instruments in some forgotten closet in an abandoned space capsule. | |
| [2] "Un Sperme Qui Meurt..." on Sperm Fucker, I think, out of Montreal with Avatar recording sound producer, Christof Migone and someone else. Sorry, I don't have the disc in front of me since my guest brought this disc of voice generated noises - and took it back with him. The sounds are as if a geiger counter and an electrocardiograph were competing to monitor and document the human body's hidden languages. | |
| [3] "LoopStatic [amine beta ring modulations]" on the venerable Touch label www.touch.demon.co.uk which will soon be celebrating its 20th anniversary of championing the unusual musics of the world. They began as a cassette label. This Richard H. Kirk's new soundings of the sinister heart of the political and social state. Former Cabaret Voltarian has taken the scannerisms further beyond mere titillating voyeurisms into speculations about political and spiritual malfeasance. | |
| [4] "Clear / No Name" on Effe effe@mpd.biglobe.ne.jp is a Japanese label of noises and soundings also includes Carl Stone, John Hudak, M5BR, Sukora, Toy Bizarre and others. No ABBA. | |
| [4a] Labelle relates that in some obscured coastal part of England there is a big concrete 'ear'. This concrete 'ear' was used during WWII to hear / monitor incoming Nazi planes. This concrete structure would harnass any sound like a prosthetic extension of the human ear and send it into an electronic monitoring device which a man with very good ears would listen to while waiting for suspicious sounds. It is here that Labelle went to get soundings. | |
| [5] "All the World In an Egg" on Universal Egg http://wobblyweb.com/ueindex. Is a compilation on a good label. Includes many people who are hotwiring dub to other genres of music. This cut is pure loveliness - piano + ambience. Compilation also includes Tassilli Palyers, Bush Chemists, Power Steppers, Extremadura . | |
| [5a] "Pop" by Gas or "Gas Pop" or is it all by Wolfgang Voigt ? Well, I finally went to the minimal MP site and discovered that it is Gas = artist, Pop = title. In any case it is on the excellent Mille Plateaux www.mille-plateaux.com and it is an incredibly beautiful cd with almost NO info on the cd itself but it does not matter. It is pure trance-mantra-like electronic waves and rhythms ala Rapoon. Mellifluous as if the machine is inducing spiritual states. Perfect veg-out. It calms without dulling. A current disc I keep returning to as I try to focus a hectic life on the words I am trying to put one next to the other and have them make sense. | |
| [6] "Cirque" on Touch www.touch.demon.co.uk biosphere@tromso.online.no is a great disc from a great generator of beautiful sounds. It is pure northern sound which to me is the 'polar' opposite of say, Berber / Moroccan / Sahara music but in many ways the stark meditative waves and horizontals come back to the point where they are very similar. Apparently Biosphere = Geir Jenssen who rejected the acclaim he was receiving for previous discs and chose the hermetic over hype or 'mountain climbing over train spotting'. What is beyond ambient, well, speculative. Music that not only rides and caresses a surface but penetrates it until we get some sense of what its dimensions and intentions are. It is about exploration rather than mimicking. Anyway, it is inspired in part by the story of Chris McCandless who "in April 1992 hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness, only to be found dead 4 months later have ing made a tragic error with his food supply." | |
| [7] "Maps of Tenderness" on the German label, Selektion - is a beautiful document which pretty much expresses in sound what would have happened had Rilke and the Situationists had a geiger counter or some kind of method or instumentation or tactic that would allow us to restructure our surroundings based on our psyche's needs. "Among the various situationist methods is the dérive [drifting], a technique of transient passage through varied ambiances." So reads the quote in the accompanying booklet. otic@earthlink.net | |
| [8] "Fajt & Bittova" on Panton #81-0795-2311. I saw them twice while I lived in Prague in 1994. It was a very magical experience to be so close to the point of meeting someone so possessed with/by her art. Her music furthers Ursulla Dudziak and Monk. She at times sounds like June Jetson on LSD. | |
| [9] "Anoraks" by Penumbra Universal Egg http://wobblyweb.com/ueindex psychick meets silver apple. Soundings from another galaxy. Like sounds from an alien force we haven't yet been able to interpret as music. Out of the emerges the manipulated sonic excursions of Penumbra "open spaces of the Northumberland Triangle" presents the work of those far from the pop stage and the auto-destruct of careless vanity and flakey fashion. This work incorporates a diverse matrix of generated sounds, "anything that comes to hand and emits some sound," from lo-fi to alien-fi, found sound and location recordings. Penumbra is a solo venture from a member of zoviet*france, one of my all-time favorite 'groups' or cells of sound. Other offshoots include Rapoon, Horizon 222 and Mark Spybey & Robin Storey. It pursues certain sonic investigations that zoviet france is known for - that magical link between technology and earth, electronics and space. It takes off with the ZF sound but departs from it to exciting new sonic territories. Much of it sounds like the burps and bleeps of an old radio cast adrift like sonic detritus by some careless astronauts. Penumbra has toured all over Europe and appeared many times on Dutch radio [VPRO via Staalplaat] For more information on Zoviet France's many releases contact: Charrm Records by Fax on +44 (0)191-281-4880 or mail to 15 Devonshire Place / Newcastle Upon Tyne / NE2 2NB / UK | |
| [10] "Text Equals" on Errant Bodies otic@earthlink.net from one of the main practitioners of sonic scraping, a process of capturing the earth's natural ambiences and where sound mutates and mutates like crystals and viruses until - be patient - patterns evolve because our own human needs require patterns make something out of randomness. Here Labelle states: "These recordings have been guided by a broader engagement & interaction with textual works produced by a number of writers, such as Roland Barthes, Gertrude Stein & Arthur Rimbaud, whose interests in language lead to broader notions of its inherent expressivity and malleability." | |
| [11] "Marrer Noire: Mix with Oil & Water" Special Limited Edition from BS loops and other manipulations of reality, noise, and voice. Stay tuned for part 3 of the Black Sifichi profile. Also look for our new book[let] WET DREAMS OF THE POPE from Eraserhead Press. The poly-talent in Paris is touring and playing out now. See him live in Paris. blkdix@easynet.fr http://webperso.easynet.fr/blkdix/ | |
| [12] "In Search of the Surface Noise" on Sprawl Imprint douglas@benfo.deomn.co.uk Is an excellent example of how technological music can become emotional and even evocative of contemporary angst or whatever. Very trancey the faster it goes the more you're left with a wide variety of emotions and gut reactions. Not dub nor jaz-tronica nor drum & bass nor acid nor tech house - it forges new ways to get into your ear. | |
| [13] "Calming of the Drunken Monkey" Nice material from this 1997 CD. It is full of great samples, punkiness and the full delight of discovering who you are as a musical unit. andrewpenman@hotmail.com or http://www.cosmosis.gen.nz/salmonelladub/. | |
| [14] "Site of Sound: Of Architecture & The Ear" on Errant Bodies Press www.smartartpress.com is a book/cd edited and compiled by sonic explorers Brandon Labelle & Steve Roden. This is a very ambitious package of writings and musical investigations on how sound defines space and vice versa. It applies the Situationist notion of the dérive which set out to discover the hidden characteristics of a city and redesign a city based on the demands of dreams and intuitive wandering. This is the strategy employed here.Writing & sounds by Alison Knowles, Christof Migone, Hildegard Westerkamp, Leif Ellgren, Toshiya Tsunoda, David Dunn, CM von Hausswolf and other luminaries on the urban outskirts where there are no curbs, no shoulders, no parking spaces, no speed limits to sound. Hildegard Westerkamp, composer, educator, radio artist, is from Osnabruck and emigrated to Canada in 1968. "In the early 70s here ears were drawn to the acoustic environment as another cultural context or place for intense listening." Richard Lerman "has built his own microphones and transducers since the 1970s. Here he used these to record directly from fences between Mexico and Arizona at Gringo Pass & Nacos. | |