"Black Poplar: 89.6 MHz" for 4Ground Land Art Biennial, Franconia Sculpture Park.  By Dann Disciglio. 

2022

Black Poplar: 89.6 MHz

Dev Hynes - Everything is Embarrassing demo

for the Chris Weisman covers compilation on OSR Tapes

http://osr-tapes.com/

Sam Gas Can - "Monet In The 90s" (Chris Weisman)

06 Jacob Kirkegaard - Chasm Chant

In 1952, John Cage wrote a piece called “Imaginary Landscape No. 5” for “any 42 phonograph records.” The piece consists of a graphical score and a series of instructions by which one may make a recorded work, including simple procedures such as the changing of records, silencing or allowing their playback, and making adjustments to levels from “soft” (1) to “loud” (8). The result of a series of chance operations made using the I Ching as a guide, the piece is at times frenetic, with as many as eight records playing within the span of a couple of seconds, and at other times sparse, with one or no records whatsoever playing.

The piece was made for a solo dance performance by Jean Erdman entitled “Portrait of a Lady,” and Cage‘s realization exclusively used jazz records, partly because he felt that the performance “had a character that suggested popular music” and partly to “come to terms” with jazz. Rather than trying (and failing) to repeat history by approximating Cage‘s realization of “Imaginary Landscape No. 5” using jazz records from the 1950s, “A Simple Procedure” features 42 uncompromising new works made specifically for this project by a broad spectrum of acclaimed performers and composers of experimental music and cut onto 7" records via a Presto 6N lathe recorder from the 1940s. The resulting records, transcribed using an antiquated technology whose makers could certainly never have foreseen such a (mis)use, speak honestly to the nature of their translation into the physical world, lying buried under layers of static in a way that harkens towards impossible histories or unlikely uses of time travel.

Estuary Ltd. is making each of these 42 recordings available in single editions on a first-come / first-serve basis (single copies were also made for each of the artists as well as the label‘s archives). All copies feature letterpress printed, die cut and hand numbered sleeves, as well as a realization of “Imaginary Landscape No. 5” on the B side, made by Mark Cetilia using custom software and the A sides of the 42 records themselves. The complete set of recordings, including “analog” and “digital” realizations of the piece (realized using the lathe cut records and digital files, accordingly), are also being made available as 2 CD set, in an edition of 200 copies featuring letterpress printed, die cut and hand numbered sleeves.

Noted composer Alvin Lucier once said “I don‘t think of technology as technology. I think of it as a landscape... and I‘m just responding to the landscape of my time.” Sixty-plus years after “Imaginary Landscape No. 5” was written, the musical landscape is indeed very different, in great part due to Cage‘s contributions. “A Simple Procedure” is a celebration of that legacy, and a re-imagining of the piece through the lens of contemporary musical practice.

“Imaginary Landscape No. 5”  © 1961 Henmar Press Inc.
Sole selling agents C.F. Peters Corporation.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.

All other works © + ℗ 2015 courtesy of
contributing artists. All rights reserved.

Special thanks to Tyler Bisson at Audio Geography.

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Redactions - Excerpt

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Happy 75th Birthday, Bob Dylan! Check out Deakin and Geologist's remix of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right"

See Animal Collective perform on tour (dates below): 
6/3	        Barcelona, Spain	Primavera Sound Festival	
6/5	        Villeurbanne, France	Le Transbordeur	
6/6	        Cenon, France	Le Rocher de Palmer	
6/7	        Madrid, Spain  	Joy Eslava
6/9	        Porto, Portugal	NOS Primavera Sound Festival
7/2-7/3    Chicago, IL             Mamby On The Beach
8/22	Honolulu, HI	         The Republik
9/2-9/3	Stradbally, Ireland	 Electric Picnic	
9/2-9/4	Salisbury, UK	        End Of The Road Festival	
9/3	        Liverpool, UK	        O2 Academy Liverpool	
9/6	        Glasgow, UK	        O2 ABC Glasgow	
9/7	        Leeds, UK	        Stylus	
9/8-9/11	Blackwater, UK	Bestival 2016	
9/20*	San Diego, CA	The Observatory North Park	
9/21*	Santa Ana, CA	The Observatory 
9/23 	Big Sur, CA	        Animal Collective Camping Weekend	
9/24	Big Sur, CA	        Animal Collective Camping Weekend	
9/26*	Eugene, OR	        McDonald Theatre	
9/27*	Vancouver, BC	Vogue Theatre	
9/29*	Calgary, AB	        MacEwan Hall Ballroom	
9/30*	Edmonton, AB	Union Hall Night Club	
10/2*	Fargo, ND	        Sanctuary Events Center
10/3*	Sioux Falls, SD	Orpheum Theatre 	
10/5*	Indianapolis, IN	Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
10/6*	Morgantown, WV	Mainstage Morgantown
10/7*	Pittsburgh, PA	Mr. Smalls Theatre	
11/2	        New York, NY	        Terminal 5 	
11/3	        Baltimore, MD	Rams Head Live! 	
11/4	        Richmond, VA        The National
11/5	        Carrboro, NC	        Cat's Cradle	
11/7	        Tallahassee, FL	The Moon
11/8	        Tampa, FL	        The Ritz Ybor
11/10	        Miami Beach, FL	The Fillmore at Jacki Gleason
11/11	        Orlando, FL	        The Beacham Theatre 	
11/12	        Jacksonville, FL	Mavericks	
11/14	        New Orleans, LA	The Civic Theatre
11/15        Houston, TX            White Oak Music Hall
11/16        Dallas, TX                Bomb Music Factory

+w/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
*w/ WIFE

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