roachboy

ami yoshida is kinda hard to classify really--she's got astonishing vocal chops and works in that curious space between contemporary classical and experimental voice...there are alot of vocalists out there who do this sort of thing, but i don't know anyone who has her range/technique. youtube only has 2 clips of her, both seemingly from the same living-room performance. she has at least one cd out on improvised music from japan (the label) and that is pretty amazing.

the other 3 are phonography or field recordings. found sound in the last of the last 2, and a performance involving that curious metal tower in estonia.

none of this stuff has any particular place in commercial markets--personally, i dont care--it's interesting. for example--phonography pushed you toward wondering what exactly is the boundary that distinguishes music from noise--personally, i think that anything you record is music because recordings make sound repeatable--and that was the function of making scores back in the day. folk just haven't caught up with this yet--goes to show you that new technologies do not necessarily trigger any particular change in habits of thinking.

that said, there's no requirement that because anything you record is strictly speaking music (it has a structure, that structure is its duration) that you have to like it. i dont like bluegrass--but its still obviously music. i just dont like it. i like recordings of ants running around the surface of a contact mic--not only would most bluegrass heads i know not like it, they'd go further and claim it isn't music. that's where the fight would start.

a couple of clips inspired by la monte young:





here's a cool robin rimbaud/scanner piece:


and another lovely thing:


and now and now and now



yes yes but this is all so serious



the vegetable orchestra

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite