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In <a href="http://www.warrenburt.com/journal/2014/11/2/peggy-glanville-hicks-address-october-28-31-2014-annotated-w.html">his Peggy Glanville-Hicks address in 2014</a>, Warren Burt introduced thirteen computer-generated texts as follows:

"Since I am unable to say anything nice about the current political situation, I hereby say:

1) Small Sad Numinous Mid-City Whiffle-ball, Screaming Sphinx Truly Fragrant Jiggery-Pokery

2) No, my Grapefruit, Latent Metempsychosis Manifest Grapefruit to Smooth Koala

3) The Pleroma of Mafia Must Quibble, Refrigerator Have Puking Egg

4) Bar Sonic Transubstantiation, Be the Bottle of Man Pumping Cloth Glossolalia

5) Undertones of Truly Sharp Chocolate Almond Koala to the Revelations

6) Crumbs of my Noospheric Platypus of Ineffable Death of Exclusive Above

7) And Eschew the Highest Harmony of Smarmy Dog of Pumping,

8) In the Mystery Programs, Mid-City Daffodil Grapefruit Undertones Jiggery-Pokery Bessemer Furnace

9) The Fragrant Revelations Latent in Death Button the Glossolalia Noospheric Playtypus

10) The Latent Enharmonic Food-Miles Drive the Small Chicken Woman Disks

11) Beware Studio Corn of the Eyeless Herbaceous Acoustic Entomologist Sphygmomanometer

12) Quibble Micturition Defrauds the Smarmy Bar, Build Famous Bread Glass

13) Clandestine Poodles Inscribing the Sphinx Muffin Must Eschew Heteronormative Screaming"

My piece is a setting of these thirteen texts. The texts are spoken in order by a speech synthesizer, in response to which various absurd noises play. Each speech pushes the previous response into a small simulated amplifier which is placed in a virtual room, where it can be heard along with each new response. This displaces the previous amplifier sound which disappears completely. Finally the amplifier is accompanied by impulse responses from an amplifier, and nothing is left but amplified, absurd noise.

Source material includes "No, It Doesn't Matter", which is my remix of Ben Grosser's "dimbit" which is itself a remix of my piece "Does It Matter", which is itself in part a remix of Bethany Cooper's "Playset". So this is at least in part a remix of a remix of a remix of a remix.

Sphygmomanometer (after Warren Burt)

gin hell

~ a recording of an improvsation for max/msp + dj hero wii controller + square waves

PT34
IMF - Harlem Electronics
Available June 2016
pilgrimtalk.com

IMF - Harlem Electronics (excerpt) [PT34]

Captured during a rehearsal for Hello Blackout.
Andie Springer - violin
Carrie Frey - viola
Leila Bordreuil - cello
James Ilgenfritz - bass
Vasko Dukovski - bass and contrabass clarinets

Keeping - It - All - In

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