from website of Cache
This week we post a selection of tracks from Swole, a new album by Brooklyn-based musician Cache. Swole guides us deep into the earth’s caverns where we hear the echoing sounds of pattering drips. Reflective, oscillating, crystalline, in the darkness of the Swole cave there is no direction, only colors, textures, and whispering [...]
Last week, I saw composer and sound artists John Oswald give a lecture at the Modern Museum of Art of Barcelona as part of the Variations. A Showcase of Sound Appropriationism program. John Oswald is the father of the term and practice Plunderphonics, which is based on the transformation of a recording into another singular piece [...]
Check out People Like Us’ take on Daphne Oram’s compositions on the album“Reworking Daphne Oram.” It’s an audio fist-bump spanning generations of ladies on the forefront of creating strange and wonderful sounds…more
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We have just put up some tracks submitted to the Sociotree archive by Brooklyn-based band Curlers, with Tiana Femano and Corey Bauer. Together they make some twisting pips and cavernous howls. Corey Bauer runs the cd-r and tape labelCryptic Carousel.
Here are the tracks:
Walking Torture (hhhh)
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Dissent
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A dual 50 cdr release of both Sociotree and Discos Compulsivos/Luv Luv of Barcelona, Spain, Dead Geography amounts to the collaborative jams of Mir andSummer Recreation Camp over the this past summer. Mostly improvised and essentially without instruments, save samplers, effects, and the human voice,Dead Geography is embodied by dysfunctional melodies, rhythms, and blurbs that never quite come together.
It was a great pleasure [...]
In the past two months we have been putting together the first Sociotreereleases, both limited editions, and have just finally finished them up. Jane Bowles and La Bronke’s Figure Head debut release is an edition of 30 tapes, with a DIY design and cover images ranging from construction to demolition derbies.
Figurehead A side
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Thinking that it would balance things to have a more song oriented artist on the site, I asked Mike Bruno a few weeks ago if he would like to put up some of his tracks . Shortly after I received a couple of cdrs dressed in a black cover. I took them home for a listen [...]
Fucc
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