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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)

song about a bad relationship i was in

lyrics-
you made me cry before
maybe a hundred times
it was bad it made me want to die

i lied to you before
i cut open my thigh
it wasn’t in the fall it was last night 

please don’t
don’t yell at me
don’t make it all turn around on me
i just wanted to believe
you’d never wanna hurt me

at night my eyes are sore
i wonder what i’ve done
that was so bad to make you call me dumb

the hillside was alright
except for times when you
you blew up on me and spit you blew a fuse

please don’t 
don’t call me that 
don’t make me the victim of your act
i just wanted to believe
you’d never wanna hurt me

get away from me

stop calling me

mountain 74

This track was written in 2016 for the Ambient Online Compilation Volume 7, and I planned to release it sometime in 2020. As usual, things didn't go according to expectation. I hope that this will make it to a Whatsisname album in late Summer 2023. The track was my musical response to the scam and incompetency cultures which seem to be taking over everything recently, and reflects my disillusionment with this state of affairs.

The 2022 remix was concerned only with EQ/levelling and panning tweaks, and the mastering was performed using my "non-ambient" chain.

The original version may be found here:-

https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/disproportionate

E tenebris oritur lux

Disproportionate

Buy at Bandcamp

Disproportionate (2022 Remix/TRackS5 Master)

datafruits番外編　ブギーアイドル　音楽より遠く（第63回）

datafruits番外編 ブギーアイドル 音楽より遠く（第63回）

i think things are going to be okay

Original Track:
https://soundcloud.com/qubik/fields

Qubik - Fields (Senglar Campo Version)

From "SZMELC": https://chlk1.bandcamp.com/album/szmelc

SZMELC

Szmelc

Plenty Troubles For You

Tinatella

Stream.
qluuzo - frostfall

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bAbk7tSKReaFWdqtgRbnU?si=anJwI0JVT9qrahOAceomFA

frostfall

STAR SHOPPING x "I CANT LIVE IN YOUR BOOK ANYMORE" (Slowed + Reverb)

Trying to reconcile love for old-school Prog-Rock with more modern approach to instrumentation and composition. Hopefully the results of this unlikely fusion will yield some level of success.

Great website, specialising in Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock … http://makeyourowntaste.com

Collaborations with other musicians:

http://smp3030.bandcamp.com/

Other artists that you really ought to listen to............

http://www.soundcloud.com/happy-hooves
http://www.soundcloud.com/polyslax
http://soundcloud.com/2ndmouse
http://soundcloud.com/sonic_arts
http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe
http://soundcloud.com/smp3030