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Audio (click 'mp3' to download, or 'stream' for popup player - make sure your browser will allow popups from this site. Longer tunes may take a few minutes to appear, depending on your connection):
download all tracks in one zip file (46 meg) (many thanks to fellow RPM artist Alice for providing the space) |
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| (illustrations by Peter Severis, "engraving of Trepanation for Handywarke of surgeri", 1525) | |
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Background:
Recorded as part of the RPM Challenge, which tasks musicians with writing and recording an album in the month of February. I took part in 2007 with Chinapainting, and this year thought I'd strike out on my own. This is the first full-length solo recording I've done that makes use of cassette tape loops. I've been using this technique for seven or eight years, utilizing a cassette tape loop in a four-track machine. (Here's an article I wrote for Looper's Delight about this process). For this recording, I also employed a "dictaphone", or microcassette office dictating machine, in the effects loop of the four-track, loaded with a standard tape. No other effects are used; all the nasty distortion comes from creating a feedback loop between the two machines and overdriving the inputs. All of the pieces were improvised live, but before beginning, I created a concept for the recording and wrote most of the song titles, matching them up to music after the fact. A number of the pieces, particularly "Bad Blood" and "Gavage du Jour", contain instances of potentially damaging frequencies, please be careful when listening at high volume. | |