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b/art's Playlist for Friday, 26 November 1999 (22.58 - 00.19)
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| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Pendulum Mesmer Wreck ID #0123mm.96 (see the outside edge of the record) | |
| Radio Emits Itself vol. 1, exc. 1 | B/art vs Black Sifichi [2] |
| Densilly Outward | Rhythm & Sound [2a] |
| + Vaduz | Bernard Heidsieck [3] |
| Chain Reaction | Vladslav Delay [3a] |
| + Your Unconscious Mind Can Work to Your Healthiness | Dr. Nap |
| + Aceeeeept Whaaat Youuuu Neeeed | Reverend Ike |
| Fatal | White Heat [3b] |
| Radio Emits Itself vol. 1, exc. 2 | B/art vs Black Sifichi [2] |
| It's Enough | Bit Tonic [4] |
| Flamps | Freeform vs Bit Tonic [5] |
| Meng | Freeform [6] |
| Fennesz Plays 1 & 2 | Fennesz [6a] |
| + Yodeling on an Empty Brooklyn Street | Shelly Hirsch [Haiku Lingo] |
| Pendulum Mesmer Wreck ID #0123mm.96 (see the outside edge of the record) | |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Bit Tonic [7] |
| Wee Wee Mademoiselle | Thomas Fehlman [7a] |
| At The Golden Circle, Stockholm | Farben [8] [ |
| Raum Zwei | Pole [9] |
| + Place: Concerning Its Concept & Measurement | m/s [10] |
| "Tanje" Mix | Subtropic [11] |
| We Want Reggae (Because it Makes Me Feel Sexy) | Polish Au Pair [12] |
| The Small Music | si-{cut}.db [13] |
| Beyond the Hills | Rootsman [14] |
| The Wreck This Mess Story (Black Sifichi with Matthias Shauffhausser) #03a12wtm99 | |
| [1] The Triple X Festival of interesting music(s) got cancelled because of a lack of attendance here in Amsterdam. It has been successful before so we will just have to say this one was an aberration. Wrong time of year, timing, competing with the Documentary Film Festival and other festivals. In any event it was a disappointment for those who know that difficult music can also be entertaining. Among the labels at this moment that straddle (or leaps from one side to the other side of) this prickly fence between fun and serious, curiosity and consumption, investigation and aesthetic indulgence there is the very active Sprawl label. I was to meet Iris [Bit Tonic] at 9 pm at L'Affiche, a cosy cafe on Amsterdam's west side near the Radio 100 bunker / studio. But like some screwball comedy, there we were at separate tables, waiting for the other one to show of this sonic blind date. Finally at 22.10 we both figured out that I must have been him and she must have been her. Radio 100 is an open forum, a bastion of clandestine inventiveness and secure enough to insure that all interesting investigations into subworld sound do not drown in a shallow putrid sea of commercial drek. There she had free seismic reign and this is what came out of it = radiomaking at its most impulsive and freewheeling, recalling the original meaning of interactive. | |
| [2] Radio Emits Itself = Self-referential radio, psycho-radio-graphies, deep statical archives, radio hypnosis and unconscious radio dérives ... Radio refers to itself by emitting its own sounds in a collage format of overlapping radio references, voices and noises using one cassette, a cd player and an old radio that fedback and funneled its broad bandwidth - itself - back into the frequency 97.2. Listeners heard a river of non-linear sound produced by a strategy of controlled happenstance. The hope: to create a radio equivalent of Zen Satori or an instant of aural surprise that leads to a flash of illumination... Radio Emits Itself (REI) #1, broadcast in March of 1999 on Radio 100 in Amsterdam. It included radio sounds from various parts of the world as well as musicians such as John Cage, Holger Czukay, Francis Dhomont, and Ryuchi Sakamoto (and countless others) who use radio sounds within their own compositions. A second (3-hour) show was featured during the first day of the N5M3 (Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Conference) in Amsterdam in March 1999 and performed on Radio Patapoe. This program featured not only hundreds of pre-recorded radio samples but the use of an old dial radio which was plugged into the soundboard and used in a freeform/chance manner, using random Amsterdam radio sounds as a musical instrument. Thereafter, the recorded-version was placed on auto-pilot (continuous auto-reverse on overnights) at both Radio 100 & Radio Patapoe in the days/weeks following the conference. And it continues to be periodically rebroadcast to this day. In April of 1999 I took these tapes to Paris to be remixed and mastered by DJ/producer, Black Sifichi. Here further incursions of freeplay sampled sources, shortwave and Paris radio signals were mixed in. The resulting 3-cd set, REI #1-3, are remixes by Black Sifichi & b/art. In September 1999 Sifichi produced volume 4, a variation on a theme. | |
| [2a] "Density Outward" vinyl single on Basic Channel mail@basicchannel.comRhythm & Sound without vocalist Tikkiman. "Autobahn" and "Berlinerstrasse" by Coco, Steel & Lovebomb with mind-altering substances on the dash | |
| [3] "Vaduz" by Bernard Heidsieck on Alga Marghen was Composed June to December 1974 and recorded on a Revox A 700 at author's studio. This soundpoem was comissioned to celebrate the inauguration of the Art Foundation in Vaduz, the capital of Lichtenstein. Before there was John Giorno and before there was multi-track sampling and poetry based on repeated lines etc. there was Bernard Heidesieck, who is a prim experimenter in the realm of presence of a Bowles or Gysin but he is an amazingly entertaining sound manipulator working with old reel to reel tapes which he accompanies with live readings. If you want to hear or see where modern spoken word comes from I would look out for this Swiss [i think] businessman drop-out turned bohemian avant gardist. | |
| [3a] "Chain Reaction" by Vladslav Delay is from the disc "Huone" on Basic Channel mail@basicchannel.com Dance in the techno house of dominance. whiplash beats. | |
| [3b] "Fatal" by White Heat is from "Instant Balm #1" /Nic Endo / Digital Hardcore Recordings www.digitalhardcore.com | |
| [4]
"It's Enough" is by Bit Tonic or Iris Garrelfs off the "Female Of The
Species" compilation on Law And Auder
PEarle@compuserve.com | |
| [5] "Flamps" by Freeform vs Bit Tonic is from the "Minimalism" compilation with vocals by BitTonic on Law And Auder http://ourworld.compuserve.com.homepages/PEarle/lauauder.htm. This piece is a synthesis of a warm siren voice negotiating a series of beats and blips - warm and human playing off cold and technologically geared. Freeform aka Simon Pyke has supported Autechre and participated in Warp Records nights around Europe and America. Popsters U2 have sampled his 'Fane' from a Skam release for their No1 single 'Discotheque'! Since his first release in 1995, he has recorded for Warp Records, Headphone, Worm Interface, Law & Auder, and others. | |
| [6] "Me Shape" by Freeform on Sprawl www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ is a composition that utilizes the soundings gathered with a tape recorder from the urban intrusive ambience + rhythms of less-ambient noises. This is the strategy of revenge which turns the virus of everday noise back upon itself. And proves that something beautiful can be made of the ever invasive nature of unrequested ambience. | |
| [6a] "Fennesz Plays 1 & 2" by Fennesz on Mego info@mego.at www.mego.at | |
| [7] "Counterintelligence: Subproject 01" on Electro-Chemical Research www.noisemail.com The "recent" phenom of soundings, of allowing the surrounding air and elements to do the talkng for awhile. Includes Aube, Dandy, Voltaic, converter, Mimetic Field, si-{cut}.db, Bit Tonic (this lovely piece) and others | |
| [7a] "Wee Wee Mademoiselle" by Thomas Fehlman on R&S Records www.flowing.de/ info@rsrecords.com | |
| [8] "At The Golden Circle, Stockholm" by Farben featuring the Dramatics at The Golden Circle, Stockholm vol.1, 1965 / Farben on Klang Elektronik www.mad-net.de | |
| [9] "Raum Zwei" by Pole on BMG / Ufa is a great sound sort of what Kraftwerk would sound like had they just gotten started in the 19900s and all they had to work with was pops, static, clicks and hums. | |
| [10] "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. M/S or Minoru Sato is a sound artist and physicist from Japan and p0resents here the perfect minimal radio signal of relaxed distress from a planet not yet named. | |
| [11] "Chinese Whispers" on Sprawl Imprint www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ is a conceptual circle jerk or exquisite corpse of sound where the original samples of a Stereolab piece are taken and stretched and crunched and warped by succeeding producers such as Sons of Silence, Ultramarine, Freeform, Subtropic who take Sterolab and others further and further afield then re-re-re-remixed at the end. It also resembles the game of telephone. great conceptual fun. | |
| [12] "We Want Reggae (Because it Makes Me Feel Sexy)" by Polish Au Pair is from their "Restaurant Tracks" Patrik Pulsinger/Cheap info@cheap.at This is a hilarious single in the best tradition of Ann Magnuson, Meryn Cadell, the Raincoats, Bush Tetras. Sulty sarcasm as a tool to save one's dignity. | |
| [13] "Behind You" is si-{cut}.db's 2nd cd. This one is an email collaboration with noise-Bedouin and sonic-voyeur, Scanner. http://home.arthlink.net/~efrans/benford. | |
| [14] From his excellent "Realms of the Unseen on his own Third Eye Music www.screen-style.com/thirdeye | |