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Jim Kaiser tribute, Information Overload, 5 January 2017

Preamble to '10 Stations' post 2: Ambiguous Effluvia

Leading up to the release of the next irr. app. (ext.) album '10 Stations' I'll be posting a series of tracks related to the construction of the album. Some posts will be actual excerpts, but most will be alternates & variations made during the development stage, or a combination of different elements used (and sometimes ultimately not used) to work out arrangements & ideas.

The second 'preamble' post is, again, not an actual track from the album, but an audio digression built on some of its raw elements that I thought might be interesting in a different context. The basic idea was to put together an improvised trio of boiling oatmeal, freeform drumming and stumblebum guitar. A few other elements were added in for atmosphere & variety, like the sound of the legendary Ragebox being stimulated by a small, battery-operated fan. I've also posted a 'reduction' version of this track with most of the guitar and some of the drum elements removed (for those of you who are unable to appreciate the queasy and harmonically-inconsistent approach to playing the guitar that is put to use here).

Ambiguous Effluvia

this was live at the first church of the buzzard at a 21grand(RIP) benefit

OE22 opens its throat

(Title may change for release)
Source Material:
Human Voice
Arp VST
ANS VST
Monotron Delay

Recorded and Mixed in Los Osos and Gillette.

Astral Tectonic Shift (For RK Faulhaber)

Charlie Martineau: Moog Mg-1, Microbrute, Yamaha rx15, guitar cable, akai headrush, mix.

Scorpio-Erzulie

Exclusive track for Hal McGee's "Cheap And Plastic" compilation, Aug. 2012. Magic Tits were on this occasion Puma Algorithm (W.A.Davison), Cheese Rhapsody (C.Hinz), and Onion Armadillo Cigar (J.Bailey).

Magic Tits - Trimammaphilia

This work was created to give voice to the so-called Pictish stones, carved stone balls dated from the late Neolithic to possibly as late as the Iron Age, mainly found in Scotland and over 400 in the Aberdeenshire. A wide range of theories have been produced to explain their use or significance, without any gaining wide acceptance. 
In this composition I imagined they would be ritualistic objects, used as keys to gain access to a magical multiverse. The used method is the one I call “sonic movie”: is a linear narration made of scenes and shots. It starts with a call from the dawn of time, throat singing voices open the cloud of time and transport the listener to an ancient daily routine on the banks of a stream and there’s a woman singing (in Celtic - I couldn’t find Pictish singings). Then something happens and the daily routine magically fades: the previous organic and random sounds start to have a rhythmic pattern and the voice is being convoluted into the river. The ritual of the mankind merging with nature is happening and the stones, as keys, start to open different worlds. Then a series of scenes follow one after another, with far voices coming and going, universes open up, at some point evil forces come in and the ritualistic music made with bells and drums block their way into our world. Then everything fades.
The used sound material ranges from field recordings of nature and voices - both convoluted into each other or with other samples, as a throat singing with a spieluhr, or various throat singing voices convoluted with roars of animals, meaning the ritualistic merge between humans and nature - to instruments samples and various kinds of synthesis, all effected in complex ways.

Ambiguous Effluvia

irr. app. (ext.)

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