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The Rube Goldberg Variations

Mesmers is Algofrag and Mesmo.

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Mesmers

Constructed using samples of broken instruments. 
Editing, processing and mix by Mesmo.

“Sound Nation, in collaboration with Symphony for a Broken Orchestra, meticulously recorded the sounds of over 800 of broken instruments in an effort to inspire the public to ‘adopt’ these instruments and raise funds to repair and return them to public schools throughout Philadelphia. For these recording sessions, we invited great musicians from around Philadelphia to improvise on damaged horns, flattened fiddles, splintered double bases, padless saxophones, leaky clarinets, and busted-up snares and created a sample library of hundreds of ‘wounded’ but magnificently unique instruments.”

See: http://symphonyforabrokenorchestra.org/press/

A tip of the hat to Mat of ‘No Mates Ensemble’!

bRoKeN oRcHeStRa

Steambird

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Blunderosa Whizzerene

Poleyix Quillingole

Oldiesite Techyon

Quarksate Doomingum

Daultide Minglesip

Text, processing and mix by Mesmo.

Bigger Than Life

I came prepared.
I have a script.
I’ve written the text.
I practiced reading it.
And this is it
And so it goes.

I took some dice
And I rolled them thrice.
Snake eyes times three.
So that’s how it’s gonna be!

Well,
I am half-eagle and half-buffalo.
I wrestle grizzlies and pumas for fun
And once I licked the Sun
(But boy did she burn my tongue)!
I’ve defeated all of the presidents at the game of chess
(Ain’t that a mess)!
I never brag nor exaggerate.
My talents are not hyperbole.
I write symphonies in my sleep 
And I swim with the denizens of the deep.
I’ve been known to lasso a tornado 
From the back of a moving train 
And I am sustained
By lightning and rain.

I’ve known pleasure 
And I’ve known pain.
Yours is my treasure
And never will it be the same.

Bigger Than Life

Kenopa Silverar

Analog source sounds -
Paul Beaver and Bernard Krause - “Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music”
Digital manipulation, construction and mix - Mesmo

01 End Of Summer (2009 - 2022)

A remix of https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails

Muterial - Off The Rails (Mesmo Meta Mix)

Eyeryn Dyerome

Invokesate Pensiveip

Kosare Tweakix

Lamaom Slantedole

"Spontaneous Confabulation" is a work from 2010 incorporating processed sounds from sources such as trains, cello, artillery, water and the human voice. - Mesmo

Spontaneous Confabulation

Noxpox - Patt (Mesmo Mix)

Unloadiq Riftopa

Flingsen Syphonir

Isker Pestle

Processing and mix by Mesmo

Sound sources used in “Serresule Masseen”:
Air Escaping Balloon
Bicycle Air Pump
Blowing Through Tube
Crumple Aluminum Foil
Crumple Copper Foil
Crumple Newspaper
Crush Kiln Brick
Crush Thin Foam Board
Dripping Water
Drips From Watering Can
Glass Bottle on Ceramic
Marbles Dropped in Glass Vase
Resonant Wood Tap
Sawing Styrofoam Cup (fine-toothed)
Sloshing - Big Plastic Container
Sloshing - Glass Vase

Source sounds courtesy of the Sound Events Database (http://www.auditorylab.org/)  Copyright 2008, Laurie M. Heller. Funding provided by NSF award 0446955.
 
Copyright 2008, Laurie Heller, Ph.D. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for any purpose other than its incorporation into a commercial product or transfer for compensation is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies, that Dr. Laurie Heller of Carnegie Mellon University and the support of NSF grant 0446955 are acknowledged in all publications and documents as the source of the material, and that the name of Dr. Laurie Heller not be used in endorsing any product resulting from the use of the material without specific, written prior permission.

Serresule Masseen

Sleeping House is Limited Bob (@bob-bowden) and Mesmo

See: https://soundcloud.com/mesmo1/sleeping-house-haunted-by-industry
for more Sleeping House

Sleeping House "Wonksime Cleveric"

Geishaula Tongside

Text and Voice: Professor Daniel Robinson (Oxford)

Janesate Dosesex

Yachtsaz Clutchedat

Samples: Peter Cook 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cook) 
and 
“It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/)

Xopox  Brainedule

Sleeping House is Limited Bob (@bob-bowden) and Mesmo

See: https://soundcloud.com/mesmo1/sleeping-house-haunted-by-industry 
and https://soundcloud.com/mesmo1/sleeping-house-wonksime-cleveric
for more Sleeping House

Sleeping House “Unpluggadopa"

12 Validana Capturear

10 Tranceera Mikease

09 Lotus Eaters

08 Quadrantir Tuneupyx

Mesmo “Absence and Presence”
Text: James Joyce

Voices:
Leopold Bloom – Ronnie Walsh
Stephen Dedalus – Patrick Dawson

The works Inflowoc, Accraol, Janesem, Rivlinone, Mergerime and Pippinur employ samples from the James Joyce “Ulysses” broadcast which occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatized radio performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic 1922 novel, “Ulysses”, to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882).

See: https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-Audiobook-Merged/

07 Pippinur Shoneay

06 Mergerime Stripesoc

05 Rivlinone Minteve

04 Navalux Boughtenen

03 Janesem Clubsone

02 Accraol Rockediva

01 Inflowoc Bochesef

'Mesmers' is algofrag and mesmo

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Mesmers "Wicked Cities"

Mesmers "Patrol Zone"

Collage / Electroacoustic
Numerous text and audio sources.
Processing and mix by Mesmo 2009.
Several samples are from Ken Hollings' excellent radio series "Welcome to Mars."
See http://www.archive.org/details/Welcome_to_Mars"
Highly recommended.

Mesmo
“Public Method, Private Life”

0.	“One, nine, O, one, five, six, double four,eight, double four. The one who is most successful today will win...
1.	“I will come and heal him.”
2.	“Holding his head to her shoulder.”
3.	“She was unkempt and wild-eyed.”
4.	“Unaware of the shadows on her path.”
5.	“So that direct control changes may be made.”
6.	“Direct psychic communication.”
7.	“And the direct building of a new personality is possible.”
8.	“Using whatever chemicals, whatever techniques will work.”
9.	“The mind’s eye fills in the visual details.”
10.	“Machines that were encroaching more and more upon the suburban household, that were there in the living room, in the kitchen, in the bathroom.”
11.	“And it is this passivity / in the face of machines.”
12.	“The thought that he was being toyed with.”
13.	“There really was a machine for putting the food into your mouth and pushing it down.”
14.	“Electronics hadn’t really been that good to him.”

15.	“Wit.” 
16.	“Wit.” 
17.	“Wit and observation.”
18.	“Rather than ask the question.” 
19.	“It also explains the teachings...”
20.	“... of impermanence.”
21.	“... and observation.”
22.	“But actually they’re kind of surly depressed bunch, they’re sterile, they drink, they take pills, they’re not really much fun to be about, and finally enough, they don’t like dogs either.”
23.	“That all the brilliance of wit and observation was there from the start.”
24.	“The great Mind has spread. The battle for the mind is being waged at this time. It is a big pulsating red mass that’s coming to get us.”
25.	“To believe is to see.”
26.	“And then there’s the brain eaters.”

27.	“Now this is a message in other tongues.”
28.	“The future died at the wheel of a station wagon.”
29.	“The thought that he was being toyed with by minds far superior to his own.”
30.	“The future died / at the wheel of a station wagon.”
31.	“How then can we be so cocksure about our world?”
32.	“By minds far superior to his own.”
33.	“HAPPEN.”
34.	“To believe is to see.”
35.	“Dropping LSD and having conversations with God while he is playing golf and the good news is that God  says we are doing very very fine and should just keep it up.”
36.	“If we are to control this planet, we have to control the space around it.”
37.	“Moist with the dew of decay.”
38.	“The future died at the wheel of a station wagon in Dade county Florida on April the twentieth, Nineteen Fifty-Nine.”
39.	“Teachings / of impermanence.”
40.	“Another kind of suburban dysfunctional fantasy.”
41.	“Rather than ask the question.”
42.	“Or tell a parable of impermanence.”

Public Method Private Life

Mesmers "Sunoileous"

Zibble

Other Tongues

An Electroacoustic / Collage piece from 2011
Spoken word samples: Weegee, circuit-bent 'Speak-n-Spell' and Ken Hollings
Music sample: martial music from 'found' flexi-disc
plus processed copyright-free sound effects.
Processing and mix by Mesmo.


Squidgette (Parlor Dream)

"Mesmers" is algofrag and mesmo

image: Aldous Huxley, author of 'Brave New World'

Mesmers "Now You Listen to Me"

Dridgular

05 Keyturn

04 Celltron

03 Orcbrok

02 Volon

01 You Know You Lie

Vibroxium

“Mesmers” has arisen from the ash pile of history and triumphantly announces a new year of collaborative creation! 

“Mesmers” is Algofrag and Mesmo. 

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Mesmers "Hypnosis"

“Mesmers” is Algofrag and Mesmo. 

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Mesmers "Listening to the Enemy"

Mesmers is Algofrag and Mesmo

Samples taken from the KGIL Radio 1260 - San Fernando Valley / Los Angeles broadcast on February 9, 1971 and featuring the voice personalities of: Jim Martin, Frank Bingman, Howard Culver, Dick Spangler, Stan Brown, Bruce Payne, Chuck Southcott and Bill Smith.

Mesmers "List of Days"

Mesmers is Algofrag and Mesmo.
"Verge" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uteEiYVHwU8

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Mesmers "Verge"

Mesmers "Out of Nowhere"

Flypaper

From 2013. Processed banjo and synthesized sounds.

For my sister Kathryn, may she rest in peace.

Janob

Mutant Blue

There's Always the Waiting

Paperfly

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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