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fly pan am (glitch in music)
i bought the eponymous fly pan am cd on the montréal label constellation
(home of godspeed & various semi-related projects). the reviews i saw
namedropped sonic youth, velvet underground & faust & i can't say
they're too far off (it's actually a good record for the few on the list
who are into that :). but what's interesting is alex st-onge's
contribution: intricate near-silent glitch for almost the entirety of
the 17 minutes the third song lasts.
anyhow, that's only in one song, but the results were convincing
enough. i am curious to know if anyone has heard any actual 'hybrids'
between the glitch aesthetic or sound & the worlds of rock, jazz or any
other sort of music whatsoever. i think it's common with jazz actually
~ flanger, supersilent... i hear of the dat politics, often described
as a 'live band' though i haven't heard them... so who else?
totally off-topic, but i'm listening to alejandra salinas _home tapes_
10" (on lucky kitchen) which goes like a part-electroacoustic,
part-electronic trip through the hiss of childhood tapes & the
mysterious music & dialogues it contains. frankly awesome. with the
added bonus that side one gives a fresh perspective on narrative audio
art, side two being the one where all the reconstruction takes place,
reinventing the piece with surprisingly limited means. as a means of
comparison i would say it's more 'musically constructed' than _the
children's record_ (with underwood) which sat more on the 'sound art'
side of the auditive art fence (which is fine, because we do need sound
art.)
~ david