Another location
Just when you thought there were too many changes happening online, storage, uploading, downloading, social networking and on and on – the community of new music musicians decides they like Soundcloud. I’ve been using it sparingly for a couple years but I decided to give in to peer pressure and give my account some attention. I intend to use it mainly for my most experimental works and phonography.
Expose Magazine – Safe Passage
Here is a review that’s only in print of Safe Passage. Electroshock Records were kind to pass along the text to me.
“After a long period of what seems like relative inactivity, “Electroshock Records” released at least a dozen new titles in 2010. “Safe Passage” is among the most interesting of those, but also one of the least musical in a conventional sense, being almost entirely made up of samples, field recordings and loops. These works were created by Combs for his “Improv Friday” events that began in early 2009. Quoting the liners: “The event is a venue where Combs and a troupe of new music improvisers and sound artists gather weekly to share their works”. Four tracks in, on “November 3, 2009” we finally hear the integration of a conventional musical instrument by way of some dense synthesizer textures. Following that, on “Abysmal” there is some muted singing that offers a haunting melody through a good part of that track. Later pieces incorporate incidental spoken text, TV samples, random sounds, incidental recordings of mysteri¬ous origins and such, some juxtaposed with synth patterns, samples and drones to hold the pieces together like glue. Every new listen reveals some¬thing new that seemingly was hidden or unnoticed before. Overall the disc explores the notion that sound sampling by itself is a worthy art form. – Peter Thelen (“Expose”)
2011 Favorites – Confessions of a Deviant Machine
I was pleased to find myself and Lee Noyes‘ collaboration, “Confessions of a Deviant Machine,” in the avant-garde net magazine “Spiritual Archives” year-end favorites of 2011. This album is free for download in a couple locations: http://www.archive.org/details/cnv68 and http://www.con-v.org/cnv68.htm.
“Over 70 titles chosen from thousands of discs, embracing a huge range of genres, a good exercise to remember the year that is leaving.” – SA
2011 – Top 100 Netlabel Releases – Confessions of a Deviant Machine
What a pleasant surprise to see my duo, “confessions,” with the talented Lee Noyes in a wrap up year review on the pages of AoS. Released on the netlabel “con-V,” this album is free for download in a couple locations: http://www.archive.org/details/cnv68 and http://www.con-v.org/cnv68.htm.
“Trinity 666 – The Last Train to Hell” – Martian Gardens
Be sure to listen in to Martian Gardens radio (WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. – Max Shea hosts) tonight between 21:00–24:00 EDT to hear “Trinity-666, The Last Train to Hell” from “Safe Passage” (electroshock records). With the magic of the internet, you’re one click away.
“Trinity” is a collage focusing on found sounds, rhythm, the human voice in various languages and, of course, religion with an atheist angle.
Click here to listen online - Max Shea hosts. The program notes are here.
The Mystery Lesson – 2011
“Safe Passage” – (2010 – electroshock) feat. on – The Mystery Lesson – radio show presented by Daniel Spicer. 97.2FM in Brighton, UK. http://mysterylesson.posterous.com/69278784
“Solta a Franga” 2011
I noticed a nice radio segment out of the Netherlands which appropriately features Gary DiBenedetto “Twin Towers” for the coming anniversary next week of the tragedy, 9/11. The second half of the program features almost the complete album, “Safe Passage,” Electroshock Records – 2010. Listen to the full broadcast here.
1. ‘A Question Of Principle’ movement 1, 2 & 3.
2. ‘Self Portrait’.
3. ‘Twin Towers’.
Gary DiBenedetto: “Twin Towers” – 2010. (ELECTROSHOCK RECORDS ELCD 051)
4. ‘Dispatch’
5. ‘November 13, 2009′
6. ‘Abysmal’
7. ‘The Giant Eye Of The 5th Dimension’
8. ‘X503′
9. ‘Unrelated’
10. ‘Safe Passage’
11. ‘Trinity 666 – The Last Train To Hell’
J.C. Combs: “Safe Passage” – 2010. (ELECTROSHOCK RECORDS ELCD 053)
Jane Martin’s Civil Defense at BEAF
Performed at the Bellingham Electronic Music Festival May 7, 2011. Composer J.C. Combs, Choreography/Performance Susan Haines (It Must Have Been Violet Dance Productions)
Confessions of a Deviant Machine – (Review from “Acts of Silence”)
I’ve been doing my best to keep up with reviews, but I think I may have been slipping of late with all the work I’ve been up to. Being an artist of any type with a full-time job makes operating a blog more trying, but I do believe I have enough energy to get by (knock on wood).
Anyway, below is a quote from a very thoughtful review by David Nemeth on the pages of “Acts of Silence.”regarding “Confessions of a Deviant Machine” – Lee Noyes, myself, on the Con-V label. (PS: I shy away from using the term “netlabel” because the “net” part no doubt will become irrelevant in the future in the recording industry).
Maybe the “liking” of various experimental improvisational music is much like Justice Potter Stewart’s recognition of hard-core porn, ” . . . I know it when I see it.” For me, I know when I like a record when I like it, and I really like Confessions of a Deviant Machine. - Acts of Silence (David Nemeth reviewed)
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