cassette tape recording - mixing sounds live from different tape players. a guitar loop I made, tape recordings of birdsong, drones, a woman singing on the train, Holst - Venus. hearing the sound of the recording process and inteference therein.



Venus

Thank you Bon Iver for releasing all the stems from your latest album so that people can play around with your songs. everyone can play! 
http://www.indabamusic.com/opportunities/bon-iver-bon-iver-stems-project

The original Beth/Rest is a power eighties synth and sax drenched epic ballad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_Mx2xsdbw

I found some nice takes that were not used or lost in the original mix and lured them into my tapey lair and cast grainy spells on them. I wove the strands together by playing them on multiple tapes with lots of tape players, recording the ambient potion on another tape recorder. The residue from this process is a fuzzy dream mush, there is a real sense of the song as temporal, finite and flawed – a beauty is allowed that was perhaps hidden behind the studio gloss of the album’s production.  The porous, impure tape grain and the accidents and serendipities within my improvisation gives the song a depth and texture that is both viscous and airy; like the dense and elusive dreams of drunken sleep.

Paul Samuel White