"Lost Canada": Research Method Seventeen. When we remember that our need for wood is almost as great as our need for food, we begin to think of a value of the forest. So why did these people abandoned their forest home?

For a More Complete Story

"Lost Canada": Research Method Eighteen - Sometimes there is a drifting sound across the prairie... maybe "sound" isn't the right word. Choose from the below list:

a) hope (sounds like crickets in the field)

b) prosperity (sounds like wheat in the wind)

c) content (sounds like a and b)

Build Your Nest

"Lost Canada": Research Method Nineteen: What place is this that they gave 160 free acres to us? We left mother for this? What a bleak frontier.

The Trappings

"Lost Canada": Research Method Twenty: 

Citizen: Hell, why would I buy it locally when I can get it cheaper from a corporate conglomerate which ran the local businesses out of town? 

Jonathan Richman: I can't expect that you're gonna see it my way but you may not know the trees I've known, and I want them to put back my old corner store.

Corner Store, Corner Store

"Lost Canada": Research Method Twenty One: 

From the 1931 Saskatchewan Census: Population of Spinsters: 4,103 (55.3 sq mi per spinster)

Worry in Fertile Valley

"Lost Canada": Research Method Twenty Two: 

Despite insistence that radiation levels in Uranium City are it's lower than in downtown Saskatoon, the industry's effect on local wildlife has been significant. The birds are acting strangely. I can't say much more on the subject.

The Birds Came South Different

"Lost Canada": Research Method Twenty Five:

What others see and what we recognise of ourselves are not necessarily the same thing.

From the long delayed Depatterning release "The Dimmed Homestead".

Crapgras Syndrome & Canada (fragment)

From the forthcoming release "The Dimmed Homestead", an uneasy and fogged recollection of the pioneers of the Canadian frontier.

2 disc set available in May, 1916 (5" CDR & 3" CDR)

Depatterning - The Dimmed Homestead (fragments)

"Lost Canada": Research Method Twenty Three: 

Return for more forestry lessons with Depatterning!

"The Woodlander's Index EP" is a unique release on Wist Rec with all 100 copies being made of a different species of wood, no two alike. Are you a oak man or a yew lass? Hardwood or soft? Should trees be considered a crop?

Each copy of the Woodlander's Index will also contain:

- a 3" CD
- a 3" DVD with foresting videos from Joshua Rogers (HBO, NASA)
- an individualized "woods of the world" fact card
- wise words from Philip Larkin

Not enough? Well, for every copy sold a tree will be planted in the Atlantic Forests of Brazil as part of the Nature Conservancy project "Plant a Billion Trees".

Available in the late autumn on Wist Rec.

www.wistrec.com
www.depatterning.com

Epiphites (sic) fragment

"Lost Canada": Research Method Twenty Four: 

From 1950 to 1970 the Saskatchewan Government undertook the process of naming geo-memorial locations in the northern area of the province, identifying locations with the names of approximately 3800 fallen servicemen.  These locations consist of various lakes, islands and bays spread throughout the region. 

Sam Prokopchuk died in the last days of the war.



Prokopchuk Lake, SK

Garry Mentanko is a Dublin, Ireland based sound artist working in hacked and handmade electronics. Born in the late 70’s in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, his project Depatterning attempts to recall the haze of childhood through electronic interludes, rhythmic decay and the sound of farm equipment. Through exhaustive sound collecting and audio manipulation his goal is to catalogue a sort of “culture of lost Canada” and present it in ways nearly remembered.

“The Dimmed Homestead" the long delayed 5th release will be available early in 2016.  Future releases will continue to feature his work with the m-Log, various circuit bent devices, electromagnetic headphones, shortwave radio, field recordings and a not-so-slow computer.
www.depatterning.com

www.wistrec.com


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