| As a general statement I
would say
that my approach to these sound works is the approach of a collage
artist.
I first began making collages regularly in 1983. I have always had a
strong
interest in music and have always been tempted to pursue musical
composition
but always felt that composition was too much of a group project since
works of music need to be performed. However with the advent of digital
technology and the internet it has become possible to think of music as
a form of collage making by chopping up, manipulating and fusing
together
various sound files without the need for or reliance on instumentation
or live performance. In short, I am able to maintain the pattern and
privacy
of being a studio artist but expand my artistic expression into audio.
The following
compositions were constructed
from sounds garnered from the internet from other composers and artists
then manipulated in some way, usually beyond recognition (I hope) and
then
mixed together. I am also incorporating my own recorded sounds using a
mini disc recorder or a microphone on the computer
- Massurrealist
Meditation #01
- mm01.mp3
[1,204
KB] - Has some middle eastern voices, piano, strumming, a female voice
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Meditation #02 - mm02.mp3
[3,106 KB] - had some middle eastern voices, drums, instruments collage
together to make a kind of mesmerizing piece finnishing with a piano
that
is of a completely different nature altogether
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Meditation #03
- mm03.mp3
[3,027
KB] - computer sounds, John Lenno's voice, some snippets from an old
WW1
recording of a guy on a ship being attacked by a German plane
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Meditation #04
- mm04.mp3
[1,720
KB] a piece of a middle eastern horn being played over on top of itself
with a drone undertone.
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Meditation #05
- mm05.mp3
[3,253
KB] deep tones that sound like a boat motor with a faint bit of 1930's
music by Marleena Ditrich, some jazz, and what sounds like a train
going
by. It kind of sneaks up on you and then some cricket kinds of sounds
with
a kind of tiger growl.
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Meditation #07
- mm07.mp3
[1,308
KB] an electronic cavernous sound environment with some echoing voices
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Meditation #09 - mm09.mp3
[778 KB] - some bubbling mouth and breathing sounds made using a cheap
mike on my computer
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Meditation #11-b
- mm11-b.mp3
[2,546
KB] Some tubular bells slowed down with a lot of weird clanking noises
and a child's voice and high pitched sonic noises and vibrations.
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Meditation #12 - mm12.mp3
[850 KB] - what it might sound like to be kind of crazy and hearing
voices
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Meditation #13
- mm13.mp3
[436KB]
another spooking sounding one with some frantic piano music
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Meditation #14 - mm14.mp3
[2,462 KB] - starts out with some snoring and harmonica sounding
screams
and possibly some Kurt Schwitters and a crowd of people talking in the
background
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Meditation #15 - mm15.mp3
[2,255 KB] - some dada performance recordings combined with a lot of
electronic
noises, whistles and granular stuff
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Meditation #16
- mm16.mp3
[1,442
KB] a cacophony of voices and drum beats and cymbals - a real hubbub
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Meditation #441 - 441.mp3 [2,886 KB]
- Repugnant
Josephson's Chocolate - from Book Three:"Refuse to be Decieved into Thinking"
(collage poem using a text to voice program)
Chochos.mp3
- [36KB] - This is a sound made by rolling a small homeopathic pill in
a large metal bowl
Dumdeedumbum.mp3
- [663KB]
granny14-18.mp3
- [343KB]
hithere.mp3
[542KB]
pwaaphu.mp3
whistle43.mp3
yeahok.mp3
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