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Taylor and Cooper discuss the first chapter of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death (1976), The End of Production.

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Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 1

Recorded June 2021 at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) with guitar, bass, Moog synthesizer, bells, and various kinds of magnetic tape
Mastered by Rafael Irisarri at blackknollstudio.com
Cover image by me with Polaroid SX-70 film, August 2021

Epigraph

Dark Red

Original composition.  Performed all instruments.

Fifths

Zhea Erose performing Time Remembered solo piano.
May 2nd

Zhea Erose performing Time Remembered

Regular readers of tQ might remember that our friends at MUTEK helpfully had someone handy with a tape recorder to capture Factory Floor's comeback set at the 2024 edition of the festival. Well, we're happy to report that they've done done the same again, this time with one of our favourite collaborative duos – James Holden and Wacław Zimpel. The intense, beautiful and burbling set, with modular synths and saxophone dancing in all the bright ecstasy of a winter mountain stream, can be listened to on our Soundcloud below.  " i remember i really enjoyed this one, it was the first show we'd had for a little while and felt quite flowy, a nice connected feeling," reflected James Holden, and his musical partner agrees: "I really loved it," Wacław Zimpel says, "it's always quite amazing to play again after longer break. Breaks gives a room for new ideas to grow spontaneously." They both praise preceding sets by Yu Su and Valentina Magaletti for setting "a great vibe at the venue," as Zimpeł puts it. It came on top of a fine stay in Montreal for the festival. "We immersed ourselves in the local cuisine – poutine – and then climbed the big hill. at the top a guy with a fluorescent cargo bike and a poodle in (also fluorescent) ankle warmers turned up, pumping 90s house out of a Bluetooth speaker. We felt like we'd completed Canada, achievement unlocked."

James Holden & Wacław Zimpel live at MUTEK Montreal 2025

VIDEO HERE:  https://youtu.be/gtz-NmuYUHc

This is my first collaborative video, or co-vid.  Wrote this last week and sent it to my friends, who recorded their parts and sent them back to me.

Thank you for your spicy guitar work Trevor, and thanks to my killer quarn section: Scott Agster, Riley Helgeson, and Lu Sarmiento.  Turn it UP!  Stay safe.

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©2020 Jordan Hedlund

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