granular lamb
Posted by Chris on February 7, 2011 at 1:27 pm
granular lamb from Whirring Cat on Vimeo.
spring is coming. lambs get granular synthesised.
granular lamb from Whirring Cat on Vimeo.
spring is coming. lambs get granular synthesised.
one for january. creaking chairs. the tracklist looks like a liturgy…
“one can recognise a great cold, she explains to me, by the bright shining mist that hangs in the air. when a person walks, a corridor forms in this mist. the corridor has the shape of that person’s silhouette. the person passes but the corridor remains, immobile in the mist… here is a wide, low corridor with a distinct, resolute line – the sign that claudia matveyevna, the school principal, has already gone.
if in the morning there are no corridors that correspond to the stature of students from the elementary school, it means that the cold is so great that classes have been cancelled and the children are staying home.
sometimes one sees a corridor that is very crooked and then abruptly stops. it means – tanya lowers her voice – that some drunk was walking, tripped, and fell. in a great cold, drunks frequently freeze to death. then such a corridor looks like a dead end street.”
from ryszard kapuściński – imperium
whirringcat – a great cold [mix]
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I just finished reading Pink Noises by Tara Rodgers, a collection of interviews with women who perform/improvise/produce/code electronic music and sound art. The book is out via a university press (Duke) and features amongst others… Kaffe Matthews, AGF, Mutamassik, Ikue Mori, Elaine Radigue and turntablist Maria Chavez…
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“Records can be ruined intentionally; I’ve had some people ruin records for me, but I really don’t use them very often. I have a couple that I ruined myself that I use maybe once every few months. But the records that I actually use the most are the ones that have been naturally ruined on their own. Because I keep them all in my backpack without the sleeves, so they’re in and out, they move around, they touch each other. So there’s always new scratches. Sometimes I’ll leave them outside or leave them in the car, just so they can kind of mold into each other. Some will stay put, some will warp around it. And I prefer it that way, because it’s organic. Because my needles break during the performance, they break in their own ways. I would hate to have my records have to be manipulated in order for me to play them. I would much rather it be something that happened naturally, so that when I play them, I have a better understanding of what sound is going to happen when this broken needle touches this record warped this way.” (p. 98)
Maria Chavez was born in Lima and raised in Houston. She now lives in Brooklyn. There’s an interview with her here…
Needles are dropped and skimmed across spinning vinyl, broken and replaced they do their best to grip splinters of records. At the time of above interview (2006) the setup was one turntable and a mixer with a 3 band EQ…
“I knew [improvised music] was there, and I’d listened to it, but I always felt that there was some kind of inside story going on that I wasn’t understanding. But when I went to that show [Joe McPhee and Trio X], I understood that there wasn’t – it was just what it was. And I really appreciated it for that.” (p. 95)
merry xxxmas. the shortest day and a menstral moon mark the end of a year of global slowdown. a screwtape for you and you alone. words from tom mccarthy whose new book is fattening stockings even as this robot types. cross posted to DuttyArtz…
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….context we don’t do
4 year old synth tracks we do
ruff sqwad – forwardish (instrumental)
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and up to the time….
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AGF and Gudrun Gut combine as Greie Gut Fraktion. in case you don’t know about AGF try the search bar or even, better, go to her website and get free things, like her cover of disturbia. Gudrun Gut has had a lot of records out over the years and runs monkia records/enterprises. the lead track on their album is a version of deutsch new wave band Palais Schaumburg’s “wir bauen eine neue stadt” (we build a new town). there’s a few different mixes floating about, but this alva noto one is my favourite. there’s a level of high-end digital clarity here that would probably have surprised Palais Schaumburg in 1980. we built a new town that sometimes hurts our eyes.
Greie Gut Fraktion – Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt Alva Noto Remodel
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