Various Artists - Classwar Karaoke - 0011

Artist: Various

WTF Album: Classwar Karaoke - 0011

Tags: experimental avant-garde electroacoustic electronic experimental electronic jazz musique concrete noise poetry prepared instruments tapeism

WTF Quality: A diverse selection; each track has its own unique sound, within the overlying unity of the tags above.

Lifespan: 2010 -

Country: Various




Collaboration is key.

Classwar Karaoke compiles the works of many artists into 22 tracks of twists and turns, something fresh and new at every corner.

You will hear -

sound sculpture
contemporary chamber music
abstract beats
ambient drone
environment sounds
percussion realm-scapes
collage musique concrete
audio images
journeys through vibration fields
noise painting
glittering rays of harmonic pulsation
synthetic clouds
outer spaceways
primordial howlings
transcendental fabric
time sway
cyclical winding
broken circuit transmissions
electroacoustic textures
anti-jazz
psychedelic spree
electroacousticism
digital experimentation
distorted thoughts
twisty tape
prepared technique extensions
microscopic moments in sequence
neoclassical ruins


This review is timely to coincide with the household objects marathon on wtfmusic, as many of the performers on here, yup, make music with objects.

This music is not the highest on the WTF meter. It ranks mid-level. What we call "experimental" these days has become familiar to many with a taste for new expressions in music. Without fucking our minds too much, the music is nevertheless forward looking, not backward, adventurous, bold, and at many points, highly strange. As a whole it is a nicely packaged work, very satisfying to listen to, tasteful, never offensive. It definitely belongs on this site because it is still well outside the realms of what is normally considered normal. And we like stuff that is not normal. This is the 11th volume(I think); having been informed of CK volume 10 by another wtfmusic member and understanding the quality of music put into these, I will be sure to check back next time a new one is compiled.

Since there are 22 tracks, I will now undergo the task of briefly introducing each artist featured in this volume of Classwar Karaoke to curious readers and listeners. The Classwar Karaoke site can be found here:

http://classwarkaraoke.bandcamp.com/

A brief summary of each track is provided. I have dug up some extra details and links for each of these artists to create a mini profile for each. In the process of doing so I noticed many connections between them via various labels and groups.

These artists are all basically European and American, representing improvisational and electro-acoustic composition styles of western music, each with a unique personal flavor.


6 or 7:
Hopek Quirin from Berlin plays drum machine and radio. A member of avant-garde chamber trio ABQ, whose music superimposes noise with tonality.
http://www.reverbnation.com/abq#
http://www.myspace.com/hopekquirin



Akoustik Timbre Frekuency:
Ritualistic dark electroacoustic haunting landscapes, influenced by H.P. Lovecraft and Aliester Crowley.
http://www.akoustiktimbrefrekuency.com/



Ambient Fabric
From Norway. I think their name says it all. Download albums straight from their myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/ambient.fabric



Ampersand
A Band from London playing improvised meditations on found and broken objects, all acoustic, or electroacoustic. Interesting website.
www.ampersand.tv



Anton Mobin
From France. A sound artist, working with field recordings, objects, sound diaries, sound documentation.
http://antonmobin.blogspot.com/
audio blog: http://audioblog.arteradio.com//ANTON_MOBIN/frontUser.do?method=getHomePage




Aunt Benny
Aunt Benny is a member of this thing in Northern UK called zooligic, or zoologia, not sure which. At the mud-pat-farm. I don't know, all I can say is mysterious. Very mysterious. The video is from these two guys, David Cunliffe and Adrian Beentjes, credited on the classwar karaoke site. Very strange myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/zoologia



Autotistic
Also from England, "a noise sensation of pure guitar abuse."
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/saramik/
http://autotistic.blogspot.com/



Ayato & Anton Mobin
These two play together as "Crash Duo" ... Anton has already been mentioned, Ayato's page is below. They are "Both active members of the collective H.A.K. LO-FI RECORD" also linked below. France. Use of tape, radio, and strange rarities of archaic technological sound devices.
http://h.a.k.free.fr/htmlFolder/KREW/AYATO.htm
http://h.a.k.free.fr/



Beentjes Donovan Johnco
Colin Johnco is a member of Dr. Drone, from Paris, and he also has his own record label. Again we have Adrian Beentjes from the very strange and mysterious zoologic thing. Anthony Donovan has a solo project called Murmurists which incorporates music, film, writing, and visual art.
http://www.myspace.com/esoterian24skidoo
http://colinjohncorecords.free.fr/
http://murmurists.blogspot.com/



Bryan Lewis Saunders & Audra Dawn Fleming
Bryan lives in Tennessee and is a kind of intense cathartic performance artist. He makes a self-portrait every day.
Audra may or may not be the keyboardist for a Rock Band from Portland Oregon...
http://www.bryanlewissaunders.org/
http://www.myspace.com/drunkenprayer



Chevo Légé
strange music from France. Yes!
http://www.myspace.com/chevolege



Connor Donovan Packer
Anthony Donovan has been mentioned. Neil Packer plays guitar and objects, and was a member of Psychiatric Challenge, on the Electronic Musik label run by Ian Simpson, a member of this site. Will Connor is a percussionist and member of the Vultures quartet, a London based Improv / composition group (Donovan is also a member). He also plays many objects. Another of his solo projects is called seesar.
http://www.myspace.com/psychiatricchallenge
http://www.myspace.com/justvultures
http://www.myspace.com/seesar01



Denis McCarthy
Denis mc carty, from Lyon France, makes "*Unschool Hip-Hop* *Experimental Noises* *Alternative Poetry*"
http://denismccarty.blogspot.com/



EHEIM 1000.220 & PAS
Germany. Solo electronics, audio-visual work. Conceptual.
New York. PAS (Post Abortion Stress) specializes in sound + video, now active as a collective collage unit.
http://www.myspace.com/eheim1000220
http://www.myspace.com/postabortionstress



Gurdonark
"Ambient. Weirdbient. Chill." Also this person seems to be a nature lover. His hame is Robert Nunnally, he is from Texas, and he shares his music freely with the world.

http://www.gurdonark.com/



Jonas Ruchenhever
Tags: sound art experimental music minimal ambient noise drone
From Belgium
http://www.jonasruchenhever.be/



Juan Antonio Nieto
Spanish composer who uses the name Pangea, creating rich textures from rough sounds.
http://pangea-juanantonionieto.blogspot.com/



Kalistongue
UK psychedelic artist.
http://www.myspace.com/kalistonguemusic



Lezet
Experimental Serbian artist with 37 albums released from labels around the world.
http://lezet.blogspot.com/



MaCu
Her name is Susanne Hafenscher, she is an Austrian solo ambient artist.
http://macu1.wordpress.com/



Noise Research
Noise Research has been documented and reviewed here at WTFM:
http://wtfmusic.org/#topic/1280592726



One Minute Wanda
She is from Northern UK, her music is strange! It's like outsider avant pop-beat messed up stuff. Short songs.
http://www.myspace.com/oneminutewanda



Pythagora & Pilectro
Pythagora: Swedish Ambient
Pilectro: Swedish Ambient
they join forces for ultimate double swedish ambient!
http://www.myspace.com/pythagorasspace
http://www.myspace.com/pilectro



Sweetie
UK noise ambient drone
http://www.sweetielovesyou.co.uk/



The Thud Experiment
Virtually no information could be found via the internet on these chaps: Jack Derbyshire, David Cunliffe, and Noel Kidd. Cunliffe is somehow connected with Aunt Benny / zoologic, which remains mysterious.
The Original Thud experiment was an interesting look at whether psychiatric patients can be properly diagnosed as sane or insane... turns out they can't with accuracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment



Tvlasunor
I assume this is from France. I think it's two guys, John Marron and Manel Bigot. They do improvisation with dance and poetry.
http://membres.multimania.fr/partyculsystem/tvlasunor.htm



Zilmrah
Lawry Zilmrah, from New York, plays all kinds of gadgetry, with many different guests.
http://www.myspace.com/zilmrah


In conclusion, a short meditation on the whole of this compilation.
Classwar - a political statement, recognizing the inequalities in society and the struggles of the weak to resist being stomped upon by the elite classes.
Karaoke - music for anyone, average people with no other outlets for musical expression.
Together, a statement for the advancement of culture, not through intelligencia or snobbery, but coming from the ranks of real down to earth people. The promotion and dispersion of the outer unfamiliar fringes of music.

Or a meaningless title that just sounds cool. Doesn't matter - just listen.

-Jeemobon

http://www.classwarkaraoke.com/

Death By Horsecock - 5-MeO-DMT

Artist: Death by Horsecock WTF Album: 5-MeO-DMT Tags: psychedelic, drone, noise, space, ambient WTF Quality: metaphorically speaking, a heavy trip on a powerful drug Lifespan: 2010 - Country: France The three long track offering known as 5-MeO-DMT from a most absurdly named band, Death By Horsecock, is full of mystical, wonderful, strange and terrible sounds which slowly eat into your cortex and open up all those bound up receptors. Obviously the title of the album is a powerful drug, one which induces profound journey into consciousness experiences. The band name, I'm not sure. But to listen to this music in the background is totally different from fully immersing oneself in it. Take a little dive, and get into the realm of "psychedelic." Now I'm not talking about fuzz guitars, or day-glo paint, or tribal space jams. Have a look at this list and check out some of the artists listed here: http://www.terrascope.co.uk/OurMusicPages/ourmusic.htm If you didn't bother to check, just know that it begins with Acid Mothers Temple and ends with Zombies. Fuzz guitars, sitars, songs about dreaming and the mind and flower girls, and day-glo are all in there. And yet psychedelic is much more than that, and the list includes many esoteric items, such as Six Organs of Admittance, Pelt, and Shalibi Effect (which has been recently removed as the list is ever-changing). And Horsecock could fit right in line with this music. What makes something so quintessentially psychedelic, that it can incorporate rock songs, folk melodies, instrumental ragas, free noisy drones, jazzy funk, and so many diverse sounds? Drugs? Maybe drugs. Listen to the music and agree that it is well suited for an acid trip, and perhaps that is all that is needed to pass the test. Or the musicians themselves were tripping. The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή (psyche, "soul") and δηλοῦν (deloun, "to manifest"), translating to "mind-manifesting" The term was first coined as a noun in 1957 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy. Seeking a name for the experience induced by LSD, Osmond consulted Aldous Huxley. Huxley suggested the term "phanerothyme," from the Greek terms for "to show" and "spirit." In a letter to Osmond, he wrote: To make this mundane world sublime, Take half a gram of phanerothyme To which Osmond responded: To fathom Hell or soar angelic, Just take a pinch of psychedelic Back when psychedelic drugs were becoming widely used in the US, they were all stoned out and all like, dude, we can take this modal free jazz stuff and space out on it with these blues rock riffs, and get into this mantra trance thing and totally transform the consciousness of the nation with this stuff. They were on LSD. Horsecock is a much heavier trip. Although the effects are very short term, the peak experience is extreme and pronounced. Listen really carefully my fellow traveler. Are your ears taking in all of the sounds? Can you hear the past and the future? Are you feeling fucked up? The trip is constantly taking us deeper and deeper into the seed of consciousness, unfolding until our frame of reference has shifted and the music stops. Characteristic of each of the three tracks is a core drone, a vibration around which all else circles and fluctuates. However it will slowly change imperceptibly and subtly. It doesn't even seem to be there. But as we are listening closely, that center is gravity holding the chaotic and sporadic outer frequencies in their orbits. Expanding and contracting, solidifying and liquefying, mutating, leading, driving, rolling in endless cycles, fragmenting outward and inward, beaming with the eternal. But each of our experiences is unique, each of us is a distinct lens through which the universal consciousness shines. I cannot put this feeling, this transcendence into words. It is for you to find, in the dark, with your own ears. -Jeemobon Download the full album here : http://www.mediafire.com/?1gxjyj3mmlj Buy cdr from french label Et Pourtant Ca Avait Bien Commencé : http://etpourtantlabel.blogspot.com

scissor shock - psychic existentialism

Artist: scissor shock WTF Album: psychic existentialism Tags: frantic, progressive, collage, hyperactive, atonal WTF Quality: non-idiomatic uncategorizable music using fairly simple sounds that rolls and rolls round and round and rarely repeats itself Lifespan: 2003 - Country: USA welcome to psychic existentialism, a 13 course 32 minute discourse on the secret techniques of mind warping, neuron juggling, wave honing, future reading, phantasm bathing, rock hounding, and exotic tastes. In the first course you will be escorted by swami E. Gulzaiye into the isolation hydroponic chamber where mental beams protruding from cyclopean driblet dispensers sprinkle creamy Kegel sauce upon your law of thermodynamics. Following your initiation into the basic fundamentals of the training procedure, you begin the introduction of the hypnotic trance.  From January to February 1817, San Martín led the Army over the Andes in an audacious move that turned the tables on the royalists. The salad is divine. Breathe and feel the one-ness. Students should understand the following issues: quick panning meta-poly-morpho-rhythm diving atmosphere habitats the capitalist system goes from a complementary symbiosis to a parasitism that kills the host audial hue Connoisseurs who have ridden the Puma concolor through the realm of the "shrine of salvaged junk" should be well familiar with some of the taste waves on display. These are made by obstructing the glottis (the space between the vocal cords) or oral cavity (the mouth) and either simultaneously or subsequently letting out air from the lungs. This time, attention has been paid to the minute details of p-branes, wooden mallets, 10 year bond yields, hard protein called keratin, ad infinitum. Be prepared for increased rainfall, rising sea levels, and tropical cyclones. A Pâté made from dinosaur fossils, giant millipede legs, squid ink sac, and rubber tree butter will be served on a dish of very delicate porcelain in the style of the Ming emperor Chenghua. Upon mastery of these techniques the initiate will be forced to consume sugarcane to stimulate vomiting and defecation, as a way of internally cleansing their body. We survey some aspects of the theory of the integrated density of states (IDS) of random Schroedinger operators. Therefore: • Fire setting • Hydraulic mining • Reverse overshot water-wheels Learning Objectives: 1. guitar 2. here kitty kitty kitty 3. Hawaiian alphabet 4. cut Variations in the exploratory behaviour of Great Tits (Parus major) have been found to be linked with a gene orthologous to the human gene DRD4 (Dopamine receptor D4) which is known to be associated with novelty-seeking behaviour. Specific Tasks Accomplished: 1. Students will demonstrate a mythical union between a lion and a human princess 2. Students will demonstrate establishment of decentralized guerrilla commands 3. Students will demonstrate catalytic purification by hydrodemetallisation (HDM), hydrodesulfurization (HDS) and hydrodenitrogenation 4. Students will demonstrate dictus autem Monoecus vel quod pulsis omnibus illic solus habitavit Grading Policy: a.  crack cocaine 25 % b.  pastrami 75 %  Total Snake  100% It goes beyond good times into the meta-critical point concerning the normative conditions of possibility for theorizing the critical-emancipatory project which concerns the addressees of and participants in processes of theoretical and practical enlightenment for dessert, utensils. http://www.mediafire.com/?b28upiail4y5a57 -Jeemobon

Emmanuel Lorien Spinelli - Lands and Genotypes

Artist: Emmanuel Lorien Spinelli

WTF Album: Lands and Genotypes

Tags: Ecoutism, Objects, Electro-Acoustic, Sound-Collage, Acoustic-Ecology, Interview/Text-Based-Material, Found-Sound, Environmental, Sound-Scape, Live-Electronics, Contemporary-Composition, Acousmatic

WTF Quality: Using people as subjects to create music with, finding musical qualities within human speech, extended use of objects and field recordings, unique editing techniques

Lifespan: 1998 -

Country: UK

Links: http://www.emalorien.com / http://www.myspace.com/emmanuellorienspinelli / http://www.myspace.com/blankimprov



I'm very proud to introduce a fascinating artist, a treasure hidden in the depths of London: Emmanuel Lorien Spinelli. A man of intriguing stories and unique approaches in unraveling them.
He's involved with various musical projects but today I would like to look at one specific project of his: "Lands and Genotypes".
With this particular project he combines soundscapes using objects and field recordings with the musical qualities in the inflections of speech to get to the heart of the perception of identities and the problems that are involved.
"Lands and Genotypes" is an act of voyeurism. Or as Emamanuel prefers to call it, "Ecoutism" - voyeurism with your ears.

Each piece is centered around a person, or a subject (or group of subjects), and built from there.
Interviews of the subject are conducted and recorded to be used as material for the piece.
Field recordings are then made of places and objects that relate to the subject.
Spinelli helps shed some light on this process, "Each sound must have a relationship, in one way or another, to the people interviewed during the composition process, and all these sounds are part of their sonorous environments, their personal soundscape. Prior to the field recordings, I always ask my interviewees to map the different locations where they usually spend most of their time and, when appropriate, sounds they remember from those places. I usually record much more material in those locations to capture other sounds they might not be aware of and seemed less obvious in order to highlight other sound-marks that are part of the sound-subjects' surroundings in a more detailed fashion."

What follows is an interview I conducted with Mr. Spinelli that starts off explaining the editing process of "Lands and Genotypes" - after the subjects and the field recordings and objects have been recorded.
It quickly sets deeper into the mind of Emmanuel Lorien Spinelli and the subjects that make up his music.
It's a beautiful and thought-provoking story and one worth reading.

So, just relax with a cup of coffee and throw on some "Lands and Genotypes" (all tracks available for free streaming here -http://www.last.fm/music/Emmanuel+lorien+spinelli/Lands+and+Genotypes) in the background and enjoy the interview.

onionpalac: Could you run through your approach in constructing your "Lands and Genotypes" pieces?
Emmanuel: Once I've got all the material, interviews and field recordings, I do two things.
I draw a map from memory where actual locations get mixed up with imaginary or sensual concrete sounds. I often use the sort of inside/outside concept. Then I spend most of my time chopping up voices. The objects that belong to the inside, like a gas pipe, air conditioner, kitchen appliances etc. and the subjects' personal objects are mixed with the field recordings of specific locations that carry meaning for my subject, such as place of birth, hang outs etc...
As for the vocal edits, I usually create a bunch of folders organized by themes for example, "ducks" or "visit to Auschwitz" (used in "Anseriformes Twins"). Then I use some randomized playlist like winamp to create random patterns and see what kind of strange associations the different "bits of interview" can convey. This is my basic techniques for editing the voices. I am very influenced by Cut-up, William Burroughs, Antonin Artaud and the surrealists poets.
onionpalac: Do you feel that listeners should understand the background of these pieces to fully appreciate them?
Emmanuel: Yes and no, indeed.
Yes because it helps make sense of what may seem abstract at first glance.
And no because I don't consider people stupid and if they don't to know the story behind it, they can create their own, which is very often even more relevant.
Nevertheless it is an unresolved question.
onionpalac: If you don't supply the background then why go through the whole process that you do? You can make it all up instead, no?
Emmanuel: It is an interesting question.
It is a necessary condition. But the process has to be truthful to have an interest for me.
It is important to me because it is a process that informs myself about myself as well.
onionpalac: Are you a voyeur yourself?
Emmanuel: YES! I am an ECOUTEUR/voyeur!
onionpalac: Do you have a background in voyeurism? Are there other voyeur activities you have been involved with?
Emmanuel: No, not really. Actually to be a voyeur you have to enjoy watching and unfortunately I don't.
onionpalac: Haha - you enjoy listening . . .
Emmanuel: Yep, indeed!
onionpalac: Could you talk about transitions? How one event or scene blends into another.
Emmanuel: Well, it is a difficult territory because I am a workaholic. I can spend up to a year and half to mix the first version of a piece. The "Anseriformes Twins" piece took 3 years.
So yeah, transitions are essentials. I can spend days on a couple of cross fades with a bunch of sounds. To be honest, I can spend a whole day trickling the button of one of my children toys in preparation for an improv.
onionpalac: The reason I ask is because I listen for transitions in music very deeply - and in music such as yours I think it's a key ingredient but you pull it off really well.
Emmanuel: Thanks, I agree. I always pay close attention to this these sort of things in other people's music as well. When a transition sucks, you loose the magic.
onionpalac: Which brings me to ask you about influences.
Emmanuel: I have two kinds of influences: on one side composers like R. Murray Schafer, John Levack Drever, Annea Lockwood, of course Jean Luc Goddard and Tarkovsky for film, and sound poets like Kurt Schwitters, the Fluxus movement, etc...
And on the other side, of course Cage, Merzbow, John Zorn (huge...) and all the free improv freaks - the obscure and delightful!
onionpalac: Do you think of film theory while piecing your work together?
Emmanuel: Not at all. Except maybe Goddard and his schizo-narrative.
The reason I say I don't think of film theory is that I don't think in terms of narrative, story, construction of meaning but in terms of "opening a wound" or maybe "a womb" where
meaning happens no matter what. I just try to highlight the paradoxical, playful, and dark moments that occur during one's self account. I think in musical terms even with the spoken words.
onionpalac: But it's all related to the subject - the person you're wrapping everything around.
Emmanuel: Yes, of course. And that's the magic thing about it. Because all these fragmented elements relate to the same subject (or group of subjects), I don't have to think about narrative.
onionpalac: And that in itself is the narrative, story and meaning.
Emmanuel: Yes, you're right. That is the narrative, in a way . . .
onionpalac: It's up to the listener.
Emmanuel: Yes, that's why I call it opening a wound because then the listener has to stitch the whole thing together on his or her own.
onionpalac: What made you come up with the whole Ecouteur and "Lands and Genotypes" idea?
Emmanuel: HA! The truth is I have been a stutterer all my life. When I was younger I used to start a sentence, get stuck, change my mind and say something else. When I started listening to people talking I realized I wasn't the only one and we all do it in a way. I just try to capture that in people. If you have this mental stutter that happens when you breathe, think and talk at the same time, then you're not that different from me.
onionpalac: Because of this you took detailed notice in speech.
Emmanuel: Yes, I had to learn to listen and reproduce.
onionpalac: Are you bilingual?
Emmanuel: Yes, French and English.
I was brought up in France but my mum (who had been brought up in the UK) always spoke to me in English. But she died in 1983. That's partly why i moved to the UK, to know more about myself. Also, she was of Jewish decent, which i didn't know until about ten years ago. So i've spoken both languages all my life but English was kind of kept hidden inside. I often realize that I know certain words without understanding where I learned them from. They're just there inside.
onionpalac: I ask because when learning another language as an adult it can open up the subtleties of speech in one's mother tongue. I wonder if that had any impact on your thinking.
Emmanuel: Yes, indeed. A huge impact. And, in fact, the core of my research is based on the idea of trans-identity in foreigners living in London.
onionpalac: "Learn a new language and get a new soul."  ~Czech Proverb
Emmanuel: Of Course, and it is also having a double conscience. It is a treasure.
onionpalac: So, you would say that the root of your research is from being aware of your uncontrolled stutter and extending that onto how others do it - be it a lot less?
Emmanuel: I guess it's maybe not the root of my research but it dictated a big part of my aesthetic and process. The root of my research is really about the perception of identities, trying to understand what's at play during the process of expressing oneself, and it is about practice. How to use all these elements in order to make music.
onionpalac: So, what is the root of your study in the perception of identities?
Emmanuel: It's a long story but in a nut shell: it all started with a fascination for the stupidity of what I read in the news in France and when I discovered elements of my past that stayed hidden in my family because it was considered shameful. I realized part of my family where spitting pork under the tables at the restaurant to look like everyone else. So, I guess I try to make sense of all this crap and the roots of my research come from the fundamental curiosity and this puzzling experience. So much is hidden in all of us.
onionpalac: How do you choose your subjects?
Emmanuel: The truth is I don't. They are all average Joes.
onionpalac: Don't they ever get freaked out in the process of you in a way stalking them?
Emmanuel: Yeah, sometimes . . .
onionpalac: Yeah - you're getting your nose all up in their business. Has anyone abruptly just called it off?
Emmanuel: Yes, that happens quite regularly but usually early in the process.
onionpalac: Do you have any preferences for your subjects?
Emmanuel: No, not really but I tend to get attracted to people with strong political backgrounds. It gives me something to start with. But it deviates quickly after that.
onionpalac: What are the reactions of the subjects when they hear the final product - the music?
Emmanuel: They are often surprised by the things they said and don't always realize that the whole thing is edited. I guess the best is when they react to the sounds and recognize the places. Some of them get quite emotional, like the old lady who cried when she heard the harbor sounds or amused when the twins heard the sound of the washing machine and the lady from the shop swearing. Their mum was staring in the void when listening to the ducks and said, "You know, I know these ducks." I said, "Well, your sons said their first words at that location." She looked like she had a moment of revelation and she started laughing. She was great, very sweet.
onionpalac: Thats a great story - the after effect!
Emmanuel: Yep, these are often the best moments.
onionpalac: So, you sit down with the subjects for their first listen?
Emmanuel: Yes, I normally bring my laptop, put a big pair of headphone on their ears and play a stereo reduction of the piece . It kind of isolates them so I don't get punched half way through!
onionpalac: How do you approach your subjects to do this? What do you say? I can't imagine . . .
Emmanuel: I don't say anything in particular. It depends on the person. Some are very sensitive and others don't give a rat's ass. Maybe they just think they'll be famous.
onionpalac: Britain's Got Talent!
Emmanuel: Can you imagine!
onionpalac: "Do you mind if I poke around your life and record everything about you?" kind of thing?
Emmanuel: Yeah man, "I'm that freak everyone is talking about! I'm featured in a fucked up experimental piece!"
onionpalac: Haha! Really, I think it's nuts how you get these people to agree!
Emmanuel: Nutters I tell you!
onionpalac: So, would you do it?
Emmanuel: Do what?
onionpalac: Would you be a subject for your own work?
Emmanuel: That's THE question!!
onionpalac: There it is!
Emmanuel: Well, yes i would. Obviously, I can't do it myself.
And yes, I'm terrified to do it.
onionpalac:  You would need a complete stranger to do it.
Emmanuel: You're right, but who? I need someone who understands the work.
onionpalac:  Maybe one of our readers out there can volunteer to take on such as task. You can be sure that we'll be following it the whole way through.
And on that note I believe we can wrap it up.
Thanks Emmanuel, it's been a pleasure.
Emmanuel: Same here. Till next time!



Please take time to investigate these engaging pieces of strangers' lives.
Step into the soul of someone through aural transportation.
These pieces are true experiences in themselves.
They can enlighten and cast discovery upon yourself and the life around you.

And while you're at it please dive into the rest of Emmanuel Lorien Spinelli's music from his website. He has a lot of it and it may seem overwhelming.
I suggest his improv unit Blank Ensemble, made up of:

Emmanuel Lorien Spinelli: Guitars, Lap-top, Midi-guitar, Toys & Objects + Live Electronics
Tom Slater: Percussions, Samplers, Folios
Jean-Michel Unglas: Chapman Stick, Handsonic, Objects
Mickey Kirkpatrick: Flutes, Melodica, Objects
Charlie Richardson: Saxophone, Clarinet, Objects

Their album "Small Mechanisms" is a roller-coaster of object sounds mixed with tight free improv.
Find that here - http://www.last.fm/music/Emmanuel+lorien+spinelli/Small+Mechanisms

"Lands and Genotypes" can be streamed and partially downloaded from Last.FM:
http://www.last.fm/music/Emmanuel+lorien+spinelli/Lands+and+Genotypes

You can also immerse yourself with the ideas of the album at his myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/emmanuellorienspinelli

Further discussion of this artist and album can be found: HERE

-onionpalac

Tribalmazoot - Petit à petit l'oiseau bouffe ses petits

Artist: Tribalmazoot

WTF Album: Petit à petit l'oiseau bouffe ses petits

Tags: Circus, progressive, demented vocals, electronic, tribal, noise

WTF Quality: a hyperactive freakout of evil dance carnival music

Country: France



Charles Baudelaire's 8 bit opium dream starts. The Parisian gentlemen practice
their didgeridoos on top of Eiffel tower shaped stilts. Rimbaud's ghost howls
obscenities at the people who pass by. They know better than to talk to him
and instead chase the shadows of their children up the steps of Montmartre.
Photographs are taken and the smiling tourists lose their minds and wallets.
The cafe is full as Hemingway teaches Joyce how to play pong and how to read
"Le Petit Prince" in his nuclear shower. What of my shower head? Cry the
forgotten portrait painters as they try to sell imitations of Cézanne's still-
life scenes.
And all this is accentuated by the music of a strange gentleman named:
Tribalmazoot. He stands on the street corner and conducts his environment
forcing it to make the sounds that he dreams and imagines. The police are not
amused but he turns them into accordions and plays a melody that is both
infectious and challenging. Cars race by as their engines churn out ghostly
donkey rhythms. Whores throw themselves under the vehicles just so the funeral
bands have something to play for. But the band never learned how to play
funeral standards....
The album he delivers is entitled: Petit à petit l'oiseau bouffe ses
petits. What exactly is this album? If one is to seek an understanding from a
piece of art in any medium they will be ultimately disappointed. The same
applies if they expect something from or of it. What Tribalmazoot offers is
simply a large serving of his imagination. It is honest and pure. It sounds
French: but it is far removed from any traditional French music one has ever
heard. It is bold in its style & soaked in the sounds of the artist's culture
yet pushed so far forward it is barely distinguishable.

- The Importance of Birds

download: http://tribalmazoot.bandcamp.com/album/petit-petit-loiseau-bouffe-ses-petits

Unknown Covers Marathon Radio Playlist and Album Download!

Listen to all the songs from the Unknown Covers Marathon on shuffle in the WTFM Featured Radio playlist.
Simply click on the play button above the Featured title.


These songs are the result of wtfmusic.org's "Unknown Cover Marathon".
It started on June 16th, 2010 and ended on August 1st, 2010.
Anyone could post lyrics to a song without the names of the song-writers or bands, usually somewhat famous, and others would pick the songs they didn't know and attempt to cover them - of course in unconventional and strange ways.
The main thread for the marathon is located here:

http://wtfmusic.org/#topic/1276621890

If you would like to participate in a WTFM Marathon just visit wtfmusic.org and find out what marathon is currently running.

More about marathons in general (rules, questions, ideas) here -> http://wtfmusic.org/#topic/1261887100

Download the  Unknown Covers Album here:
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Ian Simpson - Bacillus / Noise Research

Artist: Ian Simpson WTF projects: Bacillus / Noise Research Tags: Experimental, noise, soundscape, ambient, electronic, musique concrete WTF Quality: deep and sensitive divings into elements of sound Lifespan 1980s - Country: UK One artist, two pseudonyms. Bacillus and Noise Research. In the albums of Bacillus, long sweeping sound panoramas drift on through suspended moments. We travel through oceans and float above the waves we dive through forests, sit in stillness, then run through the trees, zig zag, return, lift up, and rustle through treetops we enter abandoned factories inhabited by ghosts who slowly and imperceptibly wind up the machinery to unleash their rusty groans, the power flickers on and off, wind blows through, rats scurry by we are teleported into alien crafts and hear the telepathic language of beings who exist in the rift between dimensions. Spinning, low glow in darkness, traveling at immense speeds yet simultaneously stationary we watch ages of history roll beyond to the tune of cybotic angels' voices we walk down endless train tunnels, a barely comprehensible woman's voice reading off nonsense through the intercom system fields of crystalline rainbow flowers priest mages in long dark robes, faces shrouded, reciting incantations through the electricity in their fingertips, as they walk in circles foreign planetary habitats In the music of noise research, we enter the sounds, into the realm where sonic vibrations and electricity merge. the sound of pulses cycling through a circuit, different switches, amplitudes, wave forms feedback loops of micro-frequencies the static chaos of twisted frayed wires sending the signal in all directions, back around, splitting, joining, leaping, and dying. a magnetic tape, wrinkled and warped, speed erratic, blurbing through vaguely recorded sounds the synthesizer's guts revealed and subtly prodded radio waves, sent through space, into satellites, bouncing between towers, striking antennae, all in a moment the echoes of deep space emulated in the trans-dimensional winding of strings and quarks You can find Bacillus and Noise Research music here: http://www.archive.org/details/FirstCircuit  First Circuit (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/CollapseEpem073  Collapse EP (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/SlowlyImploding  Slowly Imploding (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/LithiumBurnem074  Lithium Burn (split with Fonik on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/NoiseResearchI  Noise Research I (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/NoiseResearchIi  Noise Research II (on EM) http://www.archive.org/details/noise_research_experiment_III  Noise Research III (on Bivouac) http://www.archive.org/details/emp064  Noise Research IV (on EMP) http://www.archive.org/details/ca347_gdnr  Ocean Epicure (with Graham Dunning on Clinical Archives) http://www.archive.org/details/evoluon_amp045  Evoluon EP (AMP Recs) - Jeemobon