Indie Workshop
reviewed by Grant Capes

You get these albums sometimes, and it is like reaching into a black plastic garbage bag without looking. You might reach in and pull out a cute puppy, or a hundred dollar bill. Or you might pull out twelve rusty steak knives, blade first or a huge pile of that same puppy's steaming feces. Thankfully, with Magicicada's newest concoction, I have pulled out a strange but magical machine that seems to creak away on splintered sprocket wheels and projects the dreams of long dead artists onto a nearby wall. Everyone is Everyone is a dense and varied composition of sounds, some juxtaposed to mystify and others melded together seamlessly.
Atlanta mastermind and chief musician, Christopher White, seems to pull these random and disparate sounds from quite a variety of sources, both in the digital and analog world, both from here and now and from before (by way of tape samples and sampling conspirators, Destructo Swarmbots). White makes nine considerable pieces of music, almost filling the limits of a mere compact disc, but never resorts to filler pieces or empty space, unless it is called for in the compilation.
It is hard to imagine this music coming from Atlanta, and not the polar reaches of Scandinavia or the dirty streets of New York. It has so much in common with the works of the sound compositions of Basinski and Branca, as well as the dark rhythmic potentials of the Double Leopards, Mouthus, and Axolotl camp. The beauty in Magicicada's work is that isn't based simply of one or two of these models. It is both alive with change and polyrhythms like the No-Neck Blues Band and yet also content to hover ponderously like Stars of the Lid or Birchville Cat Motel. Look carefully and often for more releases from this amazing Atlantean (?), for I have a feeling he is going to make some big noises in the near future (in addition to this astounding and considerable piece of work).


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Magicicada: Everyone is Everyone

A MIX FOR THE UNINITIATED: RISING FROM DORMANCY

A Brief Moment from the Set : A true 
/həˈlo͞osənəˌtôrē/ evening. Sick with tonsillitis. Body rejecting antibiotics.  Volume to 10. Burnt out distortion. Daniel's Birthday.  A pure malconformation.   Lo.Fi.Fry.

magicicada live mpc, vocals, treatments. Daniel Bailey alto clarinet & cello  Ryan Gregory violin. Recorded live in the room to Zoom H4N by Ben Price.

A Brief Moment : Live at Eyedrum 8.9.13 w. Daniel Bailey on alto clarinet. Ryan Gregory on violin

We Watched It Break

Take These Lies From My Tongue

Excerpt from live recording  at the Firehouse in Birmingham Alabama. Adam Babar on prepared guitar. Christopher White on CDJ, voice, computer, treatments, keys and considerations. 

Live at Firehouse Birmingham Dec 13 2013 with Ada Babar on prepared guitar -  Excerpt

This track was initially released on the album 'OTHER' back in 2010. 
 Remastered by the magical, Ben Price.  Will be uploading the newly mastered and sequenced album this February 

Mother Shipton

Brood0 - We Are the Serpent


You know we are.



Broodø - We Are the Serpent

magicicada & dux recorded at Turner's art opening in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (long live Archibald & Woodrow's!) on 4.23.16. 
re/de assembled in Atlanta.

cicdux1

Took Everything Happy, Again

01 Coso Joru

02 Secret History

03 Wellbelow

04 I Demand My Fucking Cloud

05 Turi'

06 Peach Is Pink

07 Cause

07 Memory of Turning

moad no.1. 
recorded live. 

a misunderstanding of the dance floor etiquette 

Moad 1

Hello. I make music with microchips, magnetics, hardware and brokeware,
 in the southern US city of Atlanta, Ga.


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