01. Mike Ewanus: Real Music
Mike Ewanus is an audio artist based in Edmonton. “In 1991 a chance encounter with the CBC radio program Brave New Waves introduced me to the concept of ‘radio art.’ I’ve been hooked ever since. To me, radio is a visual medium—every listener brings their own unique vision to the listening experience.”. His sonic adventures have included a weekly radio art program (Dead City Radio, 1992 to 1996), curating a radio art festival (Radio Unbound, 1995), a CD of audio works (ballet méchanique and other soundworks, 1998), and the odd bit of performance art. He supports his food habit by designing for multimedia and print.”
This is from his cassette “Interferrence” that I rescued from a giveaway box at our radio staion, CiTR.
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02. [sic]: Waylay Lee
[sic] is Montreal based sound artist Jen Morris who, in an issue of VICE magazine, said this about what the current wave of Montreal minimalists would think of her music: “Oh yeah, they’ll hate it! That’s okay, though. To be honest, I’m not a big fan of a lot of the minimal tech-house out right now. There’s this one sound that almost everybody uses. It’s like “waaooow.”
This is track ten from [sic]’s “…and rabbits named Friday” cd. www.squirrelgirl.net
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03. Loathing Robots: Noise Consists of Random Frequencies Heard at the Same Time
From the Worthy Records website – “Fully improvised. Duo playing guitar, bass, analogue keyboards, guitar pedals, moog, organ, tape decks and shortwave radios. Strange 4 tap delay loops and moog sequencing.” Yeah. LR consists of Matt Bourassa and Anne Sulikowski (Label head of Worthy Records and a very busy person). www.worthyrecords.com
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04. Chris Burke: The Devil Wind Watched Her Play
Chris Burke’s 1989 release “Idioglossia” has remained one of my most treasured recordings over the last 15 years. I stumbled across it while DJing at KUPS Tacoma back in ’89, and had been carrying around a worn-out cassette till I finally ordered a copy from Mode records last year.
For it’s time Idioglossia wasn’t particularly trendsetting or groundbreaking. Digital sampling had been going on for some time. But what Burke does with Idioglossia is straddle a fine line between oddball audio-plunder and wonderful melodies. Burke has built up quite a resume since then too. See some of his amazing work at Bong + Dern here - http://www.bongdern.com/bANDd.html
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05. Lex Plexus: Frivilous Contortions
Lex Plexus is Sean Luciw, an audio artist in Kamloops BC, which can’t be an easy life, from my experience out in the BC interior. Sean uses a wide variety of instruments and industrial objects to make this really cool comp of outsider music. This is from “The Tangerine Album” that I received in the mail many months ago for airplay on my radio show. More at www.lexplexus.com and www.ulusulu.com
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06. Value Village People: This is Amway!
Here’s track from the Value Village People’s “Repent” album and this is a remix of the track done live (with Luke and Bleek) at “24 Hours of Radio Art” (http://members.shaw.ca/ecorpse/24hora.htm) which happens every year on January 17th at CiTR, Vancouver and other locales around the globe.
Thanks to new VVP member Luke Meat who supplied the Amway introduction cassette for Bleek to (digitally) cut to shreds. http://www.members.shaw.ca/ecorpse. http://www.worthyrecords.com
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07. Porest: Composition of Sheep
People familiar with this site should know about Porest’s new “Prude Juice for the Heritage Swinger” CD on Seeland records. We play a lot of the “Skin Bitch” and “Fist Dumplings” tracks at CiTR, but there’s something about the mention of animals in this sort of material which always makes me smile. In “Composition of Sheep” the sheep are made of plastic as they have been for thousands of years. Ha! Love it. http://www.negativland.com/nmol/seeland.html
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08. Ted Dumitrescu : A Tribute to the Thousands of Sheep who Gave Their Lives for the Literature of the Middle Ages
There’s not much I can tell you about Ted Dumitrescu except that he sent this CDR to me for play on Exquisite Corpse. The notes included with the disc say that this track was “constructed at Oxford (2000) using a layla multitrack recording system with cubase vst/24.
Like many of the tracks on this disc he sent, Ted uses the effect of silence in an almost unsettling way before blasting the listener with a torrent of angry white noise. This track is a bit friendlier actually, and again, notice the reference to sheep, hehe.
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09. Skoweyajeed: Nard Hok Phiall
Michael Thomas Jackson is Skoweyajeed and this is another sound-artist who sent a CDR to Exquisite Corpse radio. Jackson has a long list of collaborations and releases and Skoweyajeed is just one of the projects most notably centered around the “plunderphonics” genre.
There’s lots more info at http://www.microearth.com/jackson/
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10. People Like Us, Wobbly, Jet Black Hair People: Pet Goldfish
I know Vicki Bennet needs no introduction to many of you, I just can’t get enough of this track though. This could be the most played track on Exquisite Corpse and it makes me laugh every time imagining the singing goldfish. This is from the wonderful People Like Us, Wobbly and Jet Black Hair People album “What’s the Use?” Vicki and I are secret lovers, but don’t tell her. http://www.peoplelikeus.org
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11. Ergo Phizmiz: Come to Debbie
From “Ergo Phizmiz Plays Aphex Twin” comes Ergo’s version of Aphex’s “Come to Daddy”, but if you thought the original was way over the top of the sanity barometer, wait till you groove to this one. www.ergophizmiz.com
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12. Steve Fisk: Break on Thru
An oldie to me and a few of you, I’m sure, but I think enough time has passed to the point in which this has left the radar screen and I wanted to put it back on, yo. Legendary Seattle producer and member of Pell Mell, Pigeonhed and Cut-Out, Fisk got me through a lot of tough times with his album “448 Deathless Days” and limited release cassette “One More Valley”. You’ll also notice that Fisk’s track “Further Demo of an Assist” is the backing track for Negativland’s “Michael Jackson”. This of course is a cover of the Doors’ song. Wow, what a website! stevefisk.com
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13. Macha/Bedhead: Believe
Notice a Trend? Yes, another cover song! From the posthumous Bedhead teamed with Macha, Their album Macha loved Bedhead concludes with this hidden track that doesn’t appear till about 80 some tracks of repeated nonsense. Worth the wait, and the rest of the album is brilliant too. I assume they had no permission to cover this Cher song but I could be wrong. http://www.jetsetrecords.com/bands/macha/default.asp
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14. Squeakbox: Sensual Gargage
I’ve tried repeatedly to contact Squeakbox but to no avail. Previously known as Tampax Twin in mock tribute to Aphex Twin, this current or previous (?) Vancouver woman named Paula released a series of interesting electro-acoustic tracks which I play from time to time on the radio show. There’s only a few mentions online in which I could gather any more info and nothing too informative either except that she’s a huge David Bowie Fan and likes to work in Flash as of recent. www.squeakie.com
This is a track from a cassette (“ssspecial edition”) I rescued from the give-aways box at CiTR. I gave this a different EQ and got rid of a lot of hiss and made it sound a little more shrill. Oh well.
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15. Connect-icut: Deathless
This is my friend Sam, an English progressive young-ish man residing in Vancouver. Sam & I used to co-host a radio show at CiTR but that’s another story. Sam made a couple of CDRs as Connect-icut and played some live gigs as well as one hour at 24 Hours of Radio Art. I think he’s given up this project at this time however but there’s more projects on the way I’m sure.
Sam has many talents and hosts a yahoo group called Off The Wire with sparse input, so hop on.
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16. I8U: Cattail Furnace
Another Woman sound-artist that I’d like to hear more of. Toronto’s Exclaim! Magazine had this to say about her live installment at the Send + Receive festival in Winnipeg last year:
“Montreal’s I8U fashioned expansive electronic tones, forming spellbinding textures that resulted in a very impressive set. Frequencies gradually and adeptly reached tall crests of sound before descending to subterranean reverberations. Shifting from lulling minimalism to resonating noise, I8U sculpted sound with the utmost precision and talent.” – http://www.i8u.com
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17. Meat: Battery Acid
My closest ally in the outsider music / plunderphonics field. Luke Meat is a new member of my weirdo sound-art project Value Village People. He hosts the radio show right after mine called Anoiz on Wednesdays. www.citr.ca
This is a track from meat’s “quiet quandary” CD we produced from his solo material created at 24 Hours of Radio Art, using 2 turntables and a few delay pedals. A transcendental experience and a perfect closer for this compilation.
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