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August 11, 2004
Records I bought as a teenager,
even the bad ones, are burned
into my brain; they've become They are not quite
a backdrop of trash melody and as overwhelming as
lyrics that pattern my life. television theme
music however.
The music I listen
to most often now IMP_PERVERSE Including that one
seems much less insidious theme
infectious... that plauges my
internal aural
Is that because it's landscape, whose
inherently lacking in title I will spare
the mannered you for now...
structural "hooks"
that pop music is (Annoy me not,
engineered with? or I will speak
the dread name
Or is it just a function of power.)
of economics: I have access
to more recordings now,
hence I lavish less attention
on each one.
Alternately, it could just
be the calcification of age,
the youthful mind soaks up
it's surroundings, the adult
mind is less porous...
This musing suggested to me
an experiment in listening:
I would choose a recording
that I liked a lot that was
extremely obscure, and much Obscurity is important here:
unlike any form of pop music.
(1) I'm unlikely to hear
it from other sources)
If I listen to it
repeatedly, (2) To add something to my
intentionally bedrock consciousness
overplaying it, as that's different from
bad or worse than everyone else carries with
any top-40 them.
station's
playlist...
What would happen?
I chose something from the
"Limited Sedition" label, The philosophy of the
which does CD-R releases label is to treat the
in numbered editions of music as ever-changing
around 100: and ephemeral.
P.I.S.S. So I chose to lavish
attention on it, and
Perkis - electronics/samples fix it in place.
Ingalls - clarinet
Shiurba - guitar
Sperry - stand-up bass
And now, I am happy to report that
I can recall to mind at will many of
the blips and burbles of clairinet or
electronics that dominate this CD. A little while back I was
listening to a live
performance of a small
ensemble including three
performers on laptops,
including Tim Perkis.
The experiment goes on.
I continue to listen.
It dawned on me that I
could recognize the
electronic signature of
The next stage might Tim Perkis, even
be to expand the group against a background of
of test subject beyond two other muscians
just myself. using similar
electronics...
PLONSEY_IN_THE_OCEAN
I could do a series of
radio shows where I
play the same P.I.S.S.
track every third song.
What other experiments
in listening might there
be?
What other experiments
in general?
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