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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 12 November 1999 (22.57 - 00.03)
#56: Fibrilating Tweeters | ||
| Cut | Artist | |
|---|---|---|
| The Wreck This Mess Story #031299 | ||
| Ascencion | Alejandro Iglesias-Rossi [1] | |
| Horns / The Matthew | Steffler & Wherry [2] | |
| Fractions Sur Le Temps: Part 3 | Urban Sax [3] | |
| Song of the Steel Cello | Robert Rutman [4] | |
| Ouir Only Inuit Forza Mon Nez | Un Drame Musical Instantanee [5] | |
| The Sky Against Which it Stands, Filled With the Noise | Brandon Labelle [6] | |
| Sights Specifics: Santa Fe | Steve Peters [7] | |
| As Falls Snoqualmie So Falls Snoqualmie | Zoviet France [8] | |
| Place: Concerning Its concept and Measurement | m/s [7] | |
| It's just a constant state of psychic tension | Alan Watts | |
| Pendulum Mesmer Wreck ID #0123mm.96 (see the outside edge of the record) | ||
| Shrouded | Foehn [9] | |
| LSD's State of Mind is Similar to the Most Extreme States of Out-of-Control Schizophrenia | Croiners [9a] | |
| Marche Arriere: Zone Satie: A Comme Analphabetique | Christof Migone [10] | |
| God, A Red Nugget! A Fat Egg Under a Dog | Osymyso [11] | |
| Daedelus 7 | The Grief [12] | |
| Welkya (Night Tawny Owl | Theodosii Spassov & Kaval [13] | |
| Mesmer Variations | Drome [Touch] | |
| First Chord | Jeffrey Roden [14] | |
| Short Sound Experiments 27 | Foehn [9] [Fat CAt Amsterdam Gig Promo] | |
| Cosa Nostra | Johnny Thunders [15] | |
| For No Good Reason at All (half the world are nuts & half the world are squirrels) | Ukele Ike | |
| Twilight Sleep | Friends of Dean Martinez [16] | |
| Sleep Walk | Santos & Johnny | |
| Pendulum Mesmer Wreck ID #0123mm.96 (see the outside edge of the record) | ||
| Te Lapa (Phosphorous) | Mike Cooper [17] | |
| [1] "Travels of the Spider" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm Is a compilation of 7 new electroacoustic musical compositions from 7 Argentinian musicians. Rossi is a classically trained musician and creates an interesting blend of new classical, ecclisiastical and avant garde exploration. Some very interesting blends of Latins themes and avant garde explorations. Cromberg has composed a piece that deals with the marimba's origins utilizing new techniques of "virtual percussion" which helps it tread the lines, crossing back and forth between traditional and avant garde. Formerly known as Sound of Pig, at the 80s avant garde of the cassette music revolution. | ||
| [2] "Harbor Symphony - Music for Ships" A harbor full of ships playing compositions which sounds like the bleatings of the largest tubas in the world. Also includes a composition by John "Plunderphonics" Oswald. | ||
| [3] "Fractions Sur Le Temps" by Urban Sax on EPM Musique is an amazing record. Imagine 40 saxaphonists dressed in white spacesuits floating down the river on a white barge playing the music to an imaginary post-Popol Vuh Werner Herzog film that was composed by Glenn Branca or Rhys Chatham. | ||
| [4] "1939" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm is a stirring blend of electronic and indigenous sounds. Here on this live track from Berlin, it is as if the cello is allowed to speak for itself. No story, no plot just the complaints and brags of a cello. This label seldom fails to deliver the very edge of experimnetation but that doesn't mean unlistenable. Challenging can also be enjoyable. Formerly known as Sound of Pig, at the 80s avant garde of the cassette music revolution. | ||
| [5] "Kinder Lieber" by Un Drame Musical Instantanee on GRR. This is one of my favorite orchestra of pranksters. Imagine high concept Zappa plus Spike Jones and you are getting closer. Imagine the electronic experimentations of the late 90s placed in the "primitive" early 80s - no sound and noise can't be used in their repertoire. Extending Stravinski via the Marx Brothers. | ||
| [6] "Maps of Tenderness" by Brandon Labelle otic@earthlink.net on Selektion, a German label is an aural companion to the Situationist strategy of Dérives. The wandering that would use the imagination of a divining rod to redraw the cities of the world according to more humane needs. "Sound-making extends the perceptual process of listening..." Beautiful pacakage, very interesting concept which is not boring to listen to. | ||
| [7] "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 & Jeffrey Roden. This is a very ambitious package of writings and musical investigations on how sound defines space and vice versa. It also 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. Theoretical and engaging. 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." Steve Peters (with unidentified female narrator) makes music in New Mexico that are soundings which define the relation between us and the landscape. M/S or Minoru Sato is a sound artist and physicist from Japan. | ||
| [8] "Slumber Music" on Universal Egg includes LOSD, Maeror Tri and Bee Queen and one of my favorite group of sound investigators of all time, Zoviet France. Certainly one of the most interesting and their oldest discs stand the test of time. | ||
| [9] "A Fat Cat Sampler" this cut by Foehn, "drill 'n' bass" solo-project of Debbie Manning 1/2 of the Third Eye Foundation uses horns, creaking doors, motors, radio and tape hiss blending it with atmospheres filtered in from outside. She will be performing as part of the Triple X Festival here in Amsterdam on the evening of 19.11 at the London Tunes event at the Westergasfabriek. MORE INFO: www.triplex.nl [9a] "The Relentless Rhythm of Change" by Croiners on Sound of Pig Cassettes. The prolific avant noise label during the cassette DYI revolution of take back the music from the congloms. One of over 200 cassette releases. Very clever loops of hypnotic and rambuncitous blends which sounded fresh back then and now just sound prescient. [10] "Vex" by Christof Migone on Avatar/OHM is a dense and mysterious tracking and tracing of the ephemeral cultural DNA left behind by Deleuze, Satie, and Artaud in collaboration with Gregory Whitehead, MichelF. Cote, and Louis Ouellet. Impressions lead in and out and away from meaning. Defiantly impressionistic and dense. www.meduse.org/avatar/ | ||
| [11] "Welcome to the Palindrome" by Osymyso on Sprawl www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ is a very very clever assemblage of samples, and intricate collage of sonic snippets which creates a bigger picture of the world as something between a cheeky sham and an insane post-Dada mess. Plus some real palindromes. Very Recommended: In the realm of Curd Duca, Tipsy, Dimitri from Paris ... Who all also manage to take kitsch for a ride. Add to that the early punky sampling naughtiness of Cookie-Puss-era Beasties Boys. | ||
| [12] "Retrospection" is a limited edition collection of some of the Grief's http://www.multimania.com/norscq/ most interesting pieces. This was truly a band that did not get its proper due at the time. It was an interesting blend of bravado and subtlety, of rock energy and intrepid sonic investigation. It was in the same realm as the Young Gods or early Meat Beat Manifesto and Einsturzende Neubauten back in the late 80s. But add to these bands a greater willingness to go off the path of regular beats into something more sonic and frightening. Produced by Norsq who also produced the excellent TICK by Black Sifichi & Negative Stencil. | ||
| [13] "Welkya" on Gega New is on first hearing a kind of Bulgarian free folk jazz. Very eccentric and intrepid. Lots of jamming with echoes of folk themes wafting in and out. The Bulgarian Albert Ayler or Frank Zappa. Courtesy of Nina. | ||
| [14] "Songs For Susan" Jeffrey Roden jgroden@earthlink.neton Big Tree proves that beauty is still a vital piece of sound to work with. It has hints of the cutting edge beauty that John Fahey or Nick Drake or Arthur russell or areas explored by the Durutti Column. | ||
| [15] That's right! Johnny Thunders. An ethereal piece where he whispers "cosa nostra" as the only lyrics. Which just goes to show if he had had a little shove in a different direction he mighta been something other than just a punk/martyr memory. | ||
| [16] "Atardecer" by Friends of Dean Martinez on Knitting Factory www.knittingfactory.com Languishing Western soundtracks to films yet to be made. Ex-Giant Sand members serenade no one in particular under the glow-in-the-dark plastic stars next to electric burning log fireplace. Ry Cooder in a bad suburb. Twang and fuzz and reverb give the music the aural geography of the spacious west. | ||
| [17] "Kiribati" on Hipshot http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cooperia is a beautiful sonic evocation of ecological disaster - an "ambient exotica soundscape" which evokes paradise on the edge of disaster. "The Repubic of Kiribati is an Island Nation State in the Pacific Ocean. During the Summer of 1999 2 atolls in the Kiribati chain disappeared beneath the surface after storms. Although the palms are often 25 meters tall the islands themselves, made from gravel and sand, are only 4 and 5 meters above sea level. A rise in the ocean leve of just 15 cms., as has happened ofver the past 100 years due to global warming, is a disaster." From the liner notes. Mike Cooper cooparia@compuserve.com plays electric lap pedal steel guitar, prepared guitar, electronics, sampler ambient-environmental recordings from Bali, Malaysia, Australia, Italy and percussion. Highly recommended. [upcoming shows: 120 musics in 60 minutes / TRAINS / POPS & PINGS & SCRATCHES #2 / RADIO EMITS ITSELF #4...] | ||