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I brewed up some recontextualized Brigitte Fontaine this morning: ReconFontaine.mp3. Sort of has a Morton Feldman Three Voices quality.
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I brewed up some recontextualized Brigitte Fontaine this morning: ReconFontaine.mp3. Sort of has a Morton Feldman Three Voices quality.
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she/he looks totally scary. i'm thinking a very post-vampire-the-gathering kind of thing. help, robert
Posted by: r. | February 7, 2005 12:04 PM
Would be more interested to know what you think of the music.
Posted by: roddy | February 7, 2005 12:11 PM
beautiful.
Posted by: antonin | February 7, 2005 12:43 PM
ok, kiddo. point me to where i can get the music and and i'm totally there...kiss.
Posted by: r. | February 7, 2005 12:50 PM
but you know that i'm all about the three voices shit. if fact, feldman is man main nigga, as you no longer doubt anymore, right?
kiss X 1000,
r.k. duckworth, esq.
Posted by: r, | February 7, 2005 12:54 PM
i know my web-design skills are a little rough around the edges, but... here's the link (again): ReconFontaine.mp3. ;)
yeah, feldman is where it's at, in so many ways.
Posted by: roddy | February 7, 2005 1:04 PM
drink+blog comments=total nonsense :)
Posted by: antonin | February 7, 2005 2:17 PM
I'm a loyal subject of the Queen of the Ile St Louis (loyal enough to realise her most recent albums are just ok pop music because she's old and needs to make money while she still can, after more than 10 years of being almost completely forgotten by everyone except the Japanese, and still...). Did I give you her 1968 (ish) album "Comme A La Radio" ? And her (fab) 20mn track with Noir Desir (on one of their albums, not of hers), "L'Europe"?
Anyway: good stuff, Roddy.
Posted by: Remi | February 7, 2005 4:42 PM
i have and adore "Comme A La Radio" but not the 20 min track w/ Noir Desir... i want it!
Posted by: roddy | February 8, 2005 9:51 AM
I've been sampling Fontaine since 1993, and yes, it was Japanese people (The Poison Girlfriend, to be precise) who introduced me to her. Because she recorded with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and made some pretty fragmented songs, this deconstruction isn't against the grain. I liked the end best, where it gets crispy and much more minimal. In other words, I like where it sounds least like her records.
Check out the sounds streaming from my Hokkaido window box:
http://www.artharbour.jp
I'm quite proud of today's, which is a clip of buzz from a TV commercial thrown through some effects.
By the way, I should send you a copy of the 'Otto Spooky' record. E mail me a mailing address!
Posted by: Momus | February 10, 2005 2:48 AM
These days I'm more and more interested in just using sounds as I originally find them, whether it be the squeaking of my electric heater when it warms up or a vocal sample from an old recording. I'm less interested in "processing" and more interested in sounds' placement in time.
Like the idea on Artharbour of a certain brand of commercials being a primary sound source.
Posted by: roddy | February 11, 2005 7:29 AM