Though it's called "Part One", this recording has two semi-distinct halves. It starts like a solo session, as taking a long time to get to spastic, hyperactive, or call-and-response-y stages. Shows took place pretty late at night, and you had to really be raring to go to pull off a full two-three hour shift of solid collage and manipulation that felt engaging and interested. My own tendencies, when left to myself, were towards droning, hypnotic fields and slabs of sound. As soon as a second person was involved and playing things alongside me, an interaction began to happen, and this often sounds either more disjointed, or, when it worked really well, like a conversation or give-and-take. This show's first half doesn't get very far past looped guitar buzzes, de-contextualized sound effects--motorboats, welding, trashcans--and way too much Clown Party.
Once the second side of the Part 1 tape begins around the 45 minute mark, things brighten up a little bit, with more vocal fragments, stop-and-start pacing, and twitchy turntable work. It jumps in and out of active and passive modes, ending quite ephemerally. "Surprise Visitor", in this case, could have meant someone who distracted me/us from starting the show off brightly, but I expect it refers to my starting the show alone, and then some collaborator appears to help out for a bit.
- By "industrial" we mean heavy industry
- Dry/unemotional funk breakdown
- Hypnosis using effect pedals
- I can't get my drum circle started
- Clown Party with a knife fight, maybe
- Where is the "bludgeoning" sample when we need it?
- German murmurs, vocal deconstruction
- Jud jud jud jud
- Everyone leaves the room
- Sinister roar and approaching guitar
- It's Monk time
- Confused computer jazz
- Feathered shivering
