Desert Island Dicks tearing "Love Will Tear Us Apart" apart in plunderphonic style: [
"The first one ("consecutive mix") is assembled collage-style from 104 cover versions of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by other artists, plus the original. The second ("simultaneous mix") features complete versions of the same set of covers, but all playing at the same time."
"Rosenfeld is equally known as a composer for large-scale performances and groundbreaking turntablist. Her sonic palette - entirely drawn from hand-crafted dub plates she imprints with blips of vinyl static, bursts of instrumental noise, conversation, and other audio detritus - evokes both the ecstatic electronic artifice of early electronic composers like Morton Subotnik and the post-punk ferocity of Kim Gordon.
On Plastic Materials, Rosenfeld creates a compelling and dense journey through ringing, magical electroacoustic structures that are carefully overlaid with piano, voice and deconstructed language. Her compositions evoke both the radical poetics of modernism and free improv and, with it's delicate underlay of hiss, vinyl static and other aural signifiers of recording, the unlikely preservation of the ephemeral made possible by vinyl.
Cuz I Cannot Find My Way, Hey, Girl, and I Treated Myself are excerpted from Teenage Lontano, Rosenfelds acclaimed "cover version" for teenaged choir, of György Ligetis 1967 orchestral masterpiece Lontano, premiered by the Whitney Museum in New York in 2008."
- Room40 - 2009.
@amclark2 -yes, I gave Replica a listen a week or two back; it was inconclusive, I couldn't tell yet whether I liked it. I'll give it another go sometime soon. (This is where Spotify is definitely saving me money). I'm tending to find overall that the more likely an electronic album is to be high up on, say, the emusic or pitchfork top 100 the more likely I am to have a hard time getting into it. I'm still not totally sure whether that's some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy based on some kind of subconscious inner snootiness towards the mainstream or whether there really is some shared feature of sound or production that is not quite meeting my ears. It's not a principle I'd argue for, just something in my own reactions that I'm curious about. But Replica did sound interesting.
I hear you on the list thing, but Replica placed well on TMT and Wire, lists too, which for me takes some of the edge off the other lists. I do find it hard to ignore the hip status of it though and just listen - I'm still a little unsureof it too.
In theory I don't mind things being on those lists - I really wish I could actually tell whether my expectations are coloring what I hear or whether there is a certain kind of sound that makes things land on those lists (and that I don't relate to well). Maybe it's some of both.
ETA2: This is really kind of interesting. Not totally sure what to make of it. Sort of like horror movie ambient meets contemporary classical in an ominous but faintly grandiloquent mood and they sit and smoke together while meditating on the end of the world. Rec from skerzo on the other board. Since starting to listen I've already removed it from my SFL and then a little later put it back on there.
Various artists comp, includes Makunouchi Bento, Deaf Center, Svarte Greiner, Marsen Jules, Library tapes, etc.
Having a determined cull of my SFL, using spotify and Mog. Have been asking myself: do I really foresee taking delight in getting to know this recording or do I just covet owning it? Deleting the latter. Culled down from around 100 to 37 entries so far.
"Anonymeye is the nom de plume of Andrew Tuttle from Brisbane, Australia. Tuttles work as Anonymeye reconfigures various organic and mechanic musics within a sonic framework akin to an abstract musical Esperanto. Utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including acoustic guitar, signal processing, synthesisers, and effects units, Anonymeye straddles and blurs boundaries between improvisation and composition, experimentation and song-form, rural landscapes and urban constructions and melody and dissonance."
- http://anonymeye.wordpress.com/
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Craig
- Doing weird things on Youtube . . .
As far as out-of-character electronic detours go, Adore actually isn't half bad as an album and it has a few really good tracks.
Craig
Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials
"Rosenfeld is equally known as a composer for large-scale performances and groundbreaking turntablist. Her sonic palette - entirely drawn from hand-crafted dub plates she imprints with blips of vinyl static, bursts of instrumental noise, conversation, and other audio detritus - evokes both the ecstatic electronic artifice of early electronic composers like Morton Subotnik and the post-punk ferocity of Kim Gordon.
On Plastic Materials, Rosenfeld creates a compelling and dense journey through ringing, magical electroacoustic structures that are carefully overlaid with piano, voice and deconstructed language. Her compositions evoke both the radical poetics of modernism and free improv and, with it's delicate underlay of hiss, vinyl static and other aural signifiers of recording, the unlikely preservation of the ephemeral made possible by vinyl.
Cuz I Cannot Find My Way, Hey, Girl, and I Treated Myself are excerpted from Teenage Lontano, Rosenfelds acclaimed "cover version" for teenaged choir, of György Ligetis 1967 orchestral masterpiece Lontano, premiered by the Whitney Museum in New York in 2008."
- Room40 - 2009.
- Excellent stuff !
ETA: track 7 is also on the free tenth anniversary Room40 Compilation.
Forceful stuff.
Quite lovely contemporary classical with light electronics stuff from a young Argentinian composer. Think very much J
I hear you on the list thing, but Replica placed well on TMT and Wire, lists too, which for me takes some of the edge off the other lists. I do find it hard to ignore the hip status of it though and just listen - I'm still a little unsureof it too.
The last full album I managed to get out of Guvera. All that free music, and I've still never watched an episode of Gossip Girl.
- Excellent, so far. . .
I am SO gonna listen to that Svarte Greiner ! - Nice find, GP. - Thank you very many !
ETA: Ah ! - New feature on BC, high res. covers.
ETA: Apparently Frank Herbert themed.
ETA2: This is really kind of interesting. Not totally sure what to make of it. Sort of like horror movie ambient meets contemporary classical in an ominous but faintly grandiloquent mood and they sit and smoke together while meditating on the end of the world. Rec from skerzo on the other board. Since starting to listen I've already removed it from my SFL and then a little later put it back on there.
Various artists comp, includes Makunouchi Bento, Deaf Center, Svarte Greiner, Marsen Jules, Library tapes, etc.
Having a determined cull of my SFL, using spotify and Mog. Have been asking myself: do I really foresee taking delight in getting to know this recording or do I just covet owning it? Deleting the latter. Culled down from around 100 to 37 entries so far.
ETA: I rather like this one, though.
"Anonymeye is the nom de plume of Andrew Tuttle from Brisbane, Australia. Tuttles work as Anonymeye reconfigures various organic and mechanic musics within a sonic framework akin to an abstract musical Esperanto. Utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including acoustic guitar, signal processing, synthesisers, and effects units, Anonymeye straddles and blurs boundaries between improvisation and composition, experimentation and song-form, rural landscapes and urban constructions and melody and dissonance."
- http://anonymeye.wordpress.com/
A regular early morning album for me