released September 6, 2023

In yet another odd nod toward useless nostalgia (is there any other kind? dunno, go figure), writing unrelated liner notes.

Once upon a time, perhaps, some notes spoke toward something beyond a critic's need to write stuff, or the notion of a publicist's prose being s setting for the jewel that was the sounds inside the grooves unfolding.

Think I repeat myself if John Cage/ music/Merce Cunningham dancing happenstancial relation to one another (as opposed to strict, on the beat correspondence) mentioned again, but hey, why not?

Neither a fan of nor a believer in "program" music (enjoy your Clair de Lune and Peter And The Wolf records, sure), these liner notes are no stealth entry into these sounds as made or extant. Eh.

Just some sort of verbal sleight of hand. "Oh, music? Look this way."

Something like the images, to bide one's time with while listening. Videos are perfectly fine, but this is more open ended for the "end user" listening to read or view or revisit as wished on the fly.

Again with the John Cage. He was bummed to find out that multitrack recorders (then of the tape variety) were locked together.

Dunno what he'd make of/via the digital multitracks that allow for some degree of re/desyncing of tracks in the mix or other such fun time virtual suites of "decks" that can be run wild together. Don't exactly recall anything like that here, but who can say?

I do love and recommend the app Experimental Noise Room, just 'cause it has a model of mics swinging like pendulums over speakers and other fun stuff one can mess with, like a virtual pedal board and such. Your fun/noise wil likely vary. Sometimes unexpected things happen. Use what you like as you will. Go figure.

Okay, feel free to imagine I have written far more, better things to be read.    Now . . .




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