Re: [microsound] bovine life/social electrics

[philippe petit <philippe-petit@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I downloaded all of the collaborative MP3 files for both Social Electrics
> projects several months ago and liked them very much; the set turned out to
> be quite a diverse collection, all gently experimental and quite enjoyably
> listenable as well.  I believe the CD collects much of the previously
> posted material, and I will be looking for it shortly.  It is nice to see a
> web audio project getting well deserved wider recognition.

thanx joshuaa
glad you like it, basically "social electrics" offers some of the songs you had
downloaded + some more recent compos and collabs. Here is complete info +
tracklisting.
have a  nice week-end
philippe


bovine life : social electrics

01 tired but wired  01:46  bovine life
02 oj simpson   03:14  bovine life vs nathaniel chief forrest
03 the smiles of god  02:39  bovine life vs nathaniel chief forrest
04 now we are traffic  02:48  bovine life
05 aether works pt 1  04:52  bovine life vs Third Eye Foundattion
06 sweepea   02:32  bovine life
07 maeow   03:11  bovine life vs duodecimo
08 aether works part 2  02:59  bovine life vs Third Eye Foundattion
09 sevumpteen    04:59  bovine life vs kohn
10 dusseldorf girl  02:07  bovine life vs smyglyssna
11 slate stone glass wind 02:28  bovine life
12 atay atae   02:59  bovine life vs octorock
13 trigger finger   03:22  bovine life vs m.c. mccooch dog
14 aether works part 3  03:03  bovine life vs Third Eye Foundattion
15 alku heartbeat  04:13  bovine life eats alku
16 weak latte symphony 02:07  bovine life
17 homeostasis  01:30  bovine life vs kohn
18 vida torpe   01:02  bovine life vs yituey
19 dog day cicada  03:03  bovine life vs janek schaefer
20 now we are light  02:16  bovine life


BOVINE LIFE and international friends broadcast the phenomenon of SOCIAL ELECTRICS

Award winning UK film maker / digital artist Chris Dooks was known for his film work
on musicians in Britain - directing documentaries on all sorts of luminaries from
SCANNER for The South Bank Show, to tiny bedroom labels in the middle of nowhere. The
fuse to his film career was lit and burning brightly in the nineties?

However, Chris became ill with a dibilatating disease in 1999 and he put film making
on hold and that?s where this story should have ended.

Never one to give in, give up, or surrender, he got himself a pseudonym ? BOVINE LIFE
- as his hobby of electronic music making was starting to become a bigger deal. The
fuse to his music career had been lit ! He used the internet as the conduit for a
series of solo excursions and collaborations that eventually formed the result of
this fantastically eclectic release from www.bip-hop.com

His exclusive soundclashes with artists such as Köhn, the label Alku and Mego and
Plug Research alongside three tracks with Matt Eilliot (formerly the Third Eye
Foundation) are included on this 20-track release. There?s also solo Bovine workouts
and lesser known talents from Puerto Rico, Sweden and California on the disc. Bovine
Life has not met any of these collaborators in ?real life? as most of the music was
constructed with mp3 dialogues when Chris was fit enough to make it to the keyboard.
This is truly protest music ! Protest at being unwell !

If you've ever been put on hold, you'll know that the tune they play down the
telephone is a waste of telecommunications ! Not so with Chris?s modem adventures.
Bovine Life has been jamming through the modem, speaking in electronic tongues,
secreting sounds that vary from being immersed in amniotic fluid, right through to
searing bleeps that would make any nation stand to attention !

This enhanced CD also features a six minute film that Chris directed just prior to
becoming ill and was unable to market as a consequence. Chris also scored the
soundtrack. It?s rare that artists are able to straddle more than one discipline, but
Bovine Life?s output is full of such wonderful variety that we at bip-hop cannot
predict where it will explore next !