Re: [microsound] RLW

["toy.bizarre" <toy.bizarre@xxxxxxxx>]

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> concerning:
>
> >
> >RLW aka Ralf Wehowsky
> >
>
> a 5 CD box set is a bit intimidating for newcomers... but he's got a
> fantastic release on Table of the Elements (an otherwise yawn-inducing
> label, aside from the who's-who-of-noise-guitar 7-inches that came out a
few
> years ago; TOTE repeatedly proves my theory that pristine packing can and
> will seduce even the most choosy of listeners [including me]).
>
> The name of the RLW album escapes me, but it's a highly conceptual thingy:
> apparently he mailed some texts (paragraph-length lists, really) to his
> friends (all of them *heavies*, eg. david grubbs, b.gunter, jim o'rourke,
> etc) and requested a recording of the musicians reading the texts (aloud)
in
> two forms:
> 1 straight laced, no funny stuff; and
> 2 offbeat, often w/ instrumental accompaniment
>
> At which point RLW processes all hell out of the recordings. The album is
> derived PURELY from the source material of the *readings*. Amazing stuff!
> Like someone said before, it's sometimes quiet, sometimes noisy, and often
> both. GREAT album, especially when he dissolves the electronics into the
> *original recordings*. Hemispherical!!
>
> and there's clouds on the album cover. looks like a regular Microsoft
screen
> saver.
>
> BOB
>
> nr(eading): Ideology by david hawkes (fan-frickin-tastic!)
>
>
>
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