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dp shit 2022

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a short excerpt off new hour long piece of  ringing singing piercing insect psycho acoustics

about:

the main insect featured here is the first one that drew me to another world, through its sound. a piercing high ringing frequency that seems to go on and on, often alternating with a slower, winding kind of motion, until the sound rises, peaks and drones again. some of these cycles are short, a minute or two a round, others seem to go for an hour, their winding down phase often partly silent; many play in 10 to 20 minute cycles. their song can differ from one region to the other, like dialects. their sound can be heard for miles. it’s ear-splitting loud when you’re close.

i’ve been wanting to do this piece for a long time, maybe since i returned from my first half year in thailand, early 1995. one recording herein is from then.

mostly i don’t see these musicians. many locals all over south east asia told me that these are cicadas. a few others gave other names. i never verified any further. i hear individuals and tribes, not really species. besides, there are all sorts of sonic individuals in these recordings, and i don’t think they care much about what we call them.

recorded in thailand, vietnam, indonesia and south africa, most of these are daytime sonic activities, one is nocturnal. all play in hot climates, frequently during the hottest time of day. two are desert inhabitants (kgalagadi), the others live in the humid heat of tropical rainforests.

i often wonder what goes on in these creatures when they’re playing. when they sing or stridulate, or whatever you want to call it, it’s vibration, it’s ongoing, repetitive. it’s being in the very immediate here and now. the common scientific explanation is “mating call” (another scientific favourite is “territorial call”). this may explain one of many reasons, but reasons apart from “functional” ones seem excluded.

i could imagine these singing ringing cicadas create trance states. like being high on life, ultimately immersed in the present moment and their immediate surroundings and celebrating it. maybe their sound creates altered states of consciousness also in other beings.

immersion - to be part of something

assembled jun ’21 - jan ’22 in zug and brugg, switzerland
dedicated to the most important beings on this planet - insects
alternate headphone listening is recommended
www.davephillips.ch

cicada trance (excerpt)

(excerpt) 

watch https://youtu.be/Z7NGRka3rrQ

audio released as 10” lathe cut in a printed sleeve wrapped in a lokta, numbered edition of 40, released by muzamuza

https://muzamuza.bandcamp.com/album/un-chien-andalou-2 
https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/un-chien-andalou

all sounds by dp except car crash by gx jupitter-larsen. recorded sept - dec 2021 in brugg, switzerland. mastered by riccardo mazza.

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“un chien andalou” is a 1929 surrealist short and the first film by luis buñuel and salvador dalí. without a plot in the conventional sense, the film uses dream logic as a narrative, a free association presenting a series of tenuously related scenes. 

the institute for incoherent cinematography (IOIC) is a zürich-based association whose mission is to support silent movies as well as their setting to contemporary live music. 

in october 2021 the IOIC asked dave phillips to set music to “un chien andalou” as part of the 23rd edition of “videoex”, a zürich festival dedicated to experimental film and video creation in a cinematographic setting. 

www.davephillips.ch

un chien andalou (soundtrack) 'vers trois heures le matin/seize ans avant'

excerpt of an 8 hour 41 minute live set, recorded in geneva in june 2022.

based on the "mutations" concept, this sleep concert uses slowed down field recordings.

slowed down field recordings play with time-space dimensions. related to the size of most of the creatures recorded, this game arises: ‘how would i hear insects if i were an insect?” this quickly expands to “how would i hear/perceive the world if i were an insect (amphibian, avian etc)?’.
time-space plays with relations and perceptions of size, speed, frequency, light, sound etc. imagine being an ant in a forest. or a beetle in a desert. or a fish in the ocean. or you in relation to the universe. and how that sounds.

these are starting points. just changing dimensions, suggesting different possible parameters.

perception changes through immersion - being part of something.

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thank you daniel maszkowicz and bamba triste

listen & buy

sleep concert (excerpt)

off "NOISE AS CONNECT. SWISS & CHINESE NOISE COMPILATION"
LP - released by baoyin
curated by junky/torturing nurse in shanghai, featuring exclusive tracks by rudolf eb.er, nikola mounoud, dp, torturing nurse, mei zhiyong, sanctimonious. edition of 300 in red-black-green splatter vinyl. artwork and mastering by lasse marhaug.

https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/noise-as-connect-swiss-chinese-noise-compilation

menshite

rave music broken down to vibrating walls and distant echos. and how would a culture dying sound?:
picture a club, an event of contemporary dance music. you’re outside the main room, in the toilet, in a corridor, upstairs, in the cellar, or maybe outside. sound comes through walls and round corners.
these are some of the ‘other rooms’.
other beings are in these rooms, playing, maybe interacting, coexisting. some other rooms inside that outside are you inside, and rooms inside you. how a body hears through other senses than the ear. the room between how something sounds and how it first feels, and then. the room between inner perception and outer reception.
some rooms are derelict. some remain closed. rooms morph. a third mind or third person objective looks at yourself from the outside. maybe observing your species from the outside. these are starting points. perception levels. game options.

edition of 40 transparent, numbered 10" lathe-cuts, handmade in silkscreened covers, released by nazlo records / digital.

https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/inside-outside-other-rooms
https://nazlorecords.bandcamp.com/album/inside-outside-other-rooms

inside outside / other rooms - xcrpt

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50 limited copies
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Produced by Yolek
Mastered by Lastrack
Artwork & Design by Hajj
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sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience, a consciousness. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life, to activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of this crumbling civilisation. inviting rumination, encouraging intervention, endorsing catharsis & environmental e/quality, touching sentience, cleansing. audio de/construction, psycho-acoustics, sound rituals, sonic activism, humanimalism; ritual protest music to heal homo sapiens out of its infancy.

solo works since 1987. 
part of SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE (with Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, Marc Zeier, Daniel Löwenbrück etc.) since 1991.

projects present and past include OHNE, dead peni, perverts in white shirts, PK, ketsu no ana, fear of god & more;  collaborations with G*Park, Francisco Meirino, Randy Yau, Hiroshi Hasegawa, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Chris Galarreta, Masonna & more; ScHimpfluch Associates label with Rudolf Eb.er etc blablabla

contact/booking dp@tochnit-aleph.com

sleep concert (excerpt)

dave phillips

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