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Searching for Wist Rec 003… or 004
An analysis:
Rural depopulation due to war.
Rail line and grain elevator closures.
Worthless crop prices.
Mines close.
Farm consolidation.
Land becomes fallow.
Towns become vacant.
______ The Birds Came South Different
In anticipation of the release of “The Liminal Farm Ep” this August, we present a short video for the musical interlude “The Birds Came South Different”. The software used, videoBat, was produced by Ixi Software, a collective of open source fanatics.
See you on the farm!
____Unofficial Channels
In the November 2008 issue of Wire Magazine’s “Unofficial Channels” feature, David Keenan makes the case for legitimizing critical analysis of CD-R or cassette culture, branding them “a mark of artistic seriousness”. He also give us a contextualized view of their importance in relation to the new media world.
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“As downloads operate to destroy music as physical artefact altogether, to give primacy instead to the platform through which it is received and its associated (endless) technological “breakthroughs”, cassettes and (who would have thought it?) CD-R’s keep music physical, tactile, a baton passed from hand to hand. Most of all, it keeps music social.”
Though I realize that it is unlikely to come across a copy at this stage, the Wire offers issues for download and I wholeheartedly recommend taking a look at this issue. Examining issues as the value of whole album blogs, hiphop battle mixes, pirate radio tapes and studio booth recordings, issue 297 is one the most revelatory looks at fringe musical experience.
__The Radio Goes Further
Spreading into the air, into the atmosphere, into space, “The Forestry Lessons EP” is charting on both sides of the (northern) Atlantic.
Ample support from RTE Gaeltachta’s “An Toabh Tuathail”
#8 on CKUT’s electronic chart in Montreal
#8 on CFUV’s electonic chart in Victoria
#7 on CJSW’s experimental chart in Calgary
Can we make it to #6?
In search of Wist Rec. 002
An analysis:
a) A rural house becomes haunted after the introduction of a radio to the homestead.
b) Trapped in Uranium City, Saskatchewan, a woman fears that the morse code signal will not reach anyone.
c) The Steinbeck quote: “This farm was a poem by the inarticulate man.”
