Southern Feeder

Body Riddle

Springtime Epigram

Alexandra Spence – “Do jellyfish breathe?”

A reworked version of this piece has been released as the album 'a veil, the sea' as a cassette tape or download on the Mappa label. You can purchase a copy here:

https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/a-veil-the-sea

During Sydney’s most recent lockdown I submerged* a 15 minute-long piece of cassette tape in seawater collected from a local beach. The cassette tape contained a field recording of waves, and a recording of my voice offering a (non-definitive, and non-hierarchical) list of things found in the Pacific Ocean.

I’ve been thinking about connection with bodies of water, as well as connections between bodies and water, and how we might reimagine our bodily limitations to examine the things that connect us to each other and to our surroundings. The sea has always felt like home, and having lived on both the east and west edges of the Pacific Ocean it has become a place of connection for me.

I’ve been thinking about the Pacific Ocean as a home – not only to marine creatures and sea currents – but to the obscure movements of global trade, offshore data barges, and sunken satellites deactivated and dumped from space. Vast bodies may seem infinite, but nothing is – the depths hold mysterious, beautiful, and troubling things.

…Bottlenose dolphins, ancient artefacts, Lego pieces, approximately 36 species of shark, underwater mines…

Imagining an infinite ocean has led to overfishing, floating plastic-particle gyres, lost whales (as a result of the underwater din of shipping and naval industries), and an international sense of unaccountability.

“… Do jellyfish breathe?” is a kind of sonic traversing of oceanic layers, exploring imaginary landscapes, entwining and encountering unequal forms, such as breath with wave, fish with fishing line, along the way.

*Submerging the tape in salt water is an expansion of an ongoing project in which I bury tape loops 7-second field recordings on tape loops before burying them in the earth at the location in which they were recorded. I imagine this as a collaboration of sorts — I make a recording and the physical variables of each place and location alter it. While the magnetic coating of the tape retains sonic remnants of the recorded sounds of the place, the physicality of the tape ribbon retains material remnants of the place: sand, salt, other, which, in turn, impart audibly on the recording in the form of crackles, scratches, tape-warp, and hiss.

Alexandra Spence - Do Jellyfish Breathe (excerpt)

Jeph Jerman/Ted Byrnes, Passenger

Flyer

Brick Daz

Track selection from the forthcoming N/A release by Robert Eggplant, "Empty Campground."

Empty Campground

Robert Eggplant - No Moon, No Wave

Audio-collage mixtape by https://soundcloud.com/artistadimerda

including:

Criminal Manne, Dj Oats, Dj Spontaneus, Dj Stizo, Lady Bee, Sólo Los Solo, Dj QBert, Black Mystic, 
Lil Maniyak, Dj Screw, Shawty Pimp, Crucified Click, Pussy Galore, Suicide, Les Biscuits Salés, 
Dj Livewire, Mixmaster Mike, MC Keith E & The Gangstarr Crew, Klick Affiliated, The Holocaust Click, Lil Yo, A.R.E Weapons, Eric Andre,  Dj Paul & Lord Infamous, Viper The Rapper, John Carpenter, Bayonetta & probably many others...

EPIC KILLA MIXTAPE

Artista di Merda - Hyper Rock N' Roll lost and found Song

Opus Vivaldi - Too Cool Games - WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ! (MTV23 Version)

nyapster.bandcamp.com/album/2020-split

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Five years later here it is the PLOM / Meme Vivaldi's '2000 Split' comeback. An amalgam of sketches and ominously epic sound constructions.

Unlistenable anthems for all the family!

Limited Edition of 5 copies
with handmade Art Brut artworks by Pau & Roc
xoxo

2084 (from 2020 SPLIT Cassette by Meme Vivaldi / PLOM)

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2084 (from 2020 SPLIT Cassette by Meme Vivaldi / PLOM)

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