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AURICLE ARCHIVE - RARITIES 2 available as... duration:
57'35"+ 1.
Region 5 - Kara
Ki 3'20"
All
tracks recorded in the living room, at our flat, St. Stephens Road,
Highfields, Leicester (January-March 1983). Recompilation, mix and editing by
Alan Freeman, in my bedroom (1-9 December 2007), largely from the
"Multum In Parvo" compilation. Volume 13 of the Auricle Archive series, inc. CD-Rom. Back in our real early exploratory days, before we had any
instruments, we issued a number of pretty low-fi and/or crudely produced
cassettes that are best left in obscurity. In fact many of those tapes are
now lost altogether. Of what remains, much of the best was issued in the
original Auricle Archive, excepting a largely very good "various
artists" album called "Multum In Parvo" (Latin for "Many
different things in the same place") and two other such samplers
"Illuminated Pleasures" and "A Breeze Of Time", all of
which contain excellent material undocumented elsewhere. "Multum In Parvo" was a c90 cassette, and has
remarkably survived 24 years with very little decay. Largely a pretty good
example of our primordial experimentation, I decided not to do a straight
reissue, as some material on side 2 of the cassette was a mite too crude to
be worthy of inclusion. Also, as one of the Region 5 tracks had serious
drop-out (and a version of that is documented elsewhere) and a couple of
others I could edit down to much more cohesive works, I decided on this
release, also featuring Peter Harrison's very nice spot on the Inkey$ 8
cassette magazine. Listening back to this old material nowadays, I'm
surprised to realise there is a continuity of single-mindedness in the way we
have made music over the years, with certain collage techniques still being
key to the way we make music today. Back then though we had no instruments.
All the electronics were done with an old ITT cassette recorder, wiring the
inputs to the outputs via our hands! Yes, depending on how hard you grabbed
the wires, how loud the levels and tone controls were, and how much you were
sweating (!) it all had an influence on the sound produced, resulting in
weird chugging and whirring sounds mostly. Also, home made cassette loops,
tapes at wrong speeds and played in broken machines that would stutter. Blatant plagiarism was also part of our art, with hand
wound turntables a favourite instrument of the time. Actually, all the
material involved in the early Region 5 recordings is from LP records,
obscure bits of synth music, bits of weird library records, etc. Amazingly
all this was done without any mixing equipment, by recording to one cassette
recorder and then playing that back together with a second layer, and so on.
So, if you recognise anything in the recordings on this disc it could well be
what you think it is. Most obvious are bits of Stockhausen's HYMNEN and the
flute of Bob Downes. Alan Freeman (11 December 2007) Versions... |
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