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

Fill Jackson Heights usually has a big A and this is there first foray into the world of digitized music.  The interweb is a scary place for us so we drink and make happy sounds for your ear holes.  Speaking of ear holes GO KNICKS!!!!!!

Roosevelt

The Gold Dust Ensemble plays Stockhausen's "Set Sail for the Sun" at Creative Music in Hapeville, 5/24/14.

Set Sail For The Sun (Stockhausen)

Ritualistic School of Errors...assembled by Gregory Jacobsen
This track appeared on a comp for the Eternal Now podcast on WFMU.

The Ritualistic School of Errors - Lsbsowp

Gage Gilmore performs (and overcomes a dead battery!) at the second "Battery-powered, Mono-Output" show at Poem 88 gallery. 7 January 2015.

Gage - Gilmore 1 - 7-2015 - Battery - Powered - Mono - Output

EP 01: Ice Cold

When life gives you lemons...

Featuring Cloud, Fiona, & Copper.

Martin Blu Across the Web: https://fanlink.to/martinblu

Watch the official visualizer here!
https://youtu.be/vUyLoZOTbOM

Produced by SpydaWebs
https://soundcloud.com/spydawebs
https://www.instagram.com/spydawebs/
https://twitter.com/SpydaWebs

Animation by Marcus Burke
http://www.bzlproductions.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mbizzlepro/

Ice Cold

01 Coso Joru

02 Secret History

03 Wellbelow

04 I Demand My Fucking Cloud

05 Turi'

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


01 Coso Joru

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