DI23
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Cat#: DI23 Artist: Chris Benedetto Madak Title: Bees Removed Date of Release: 6/30/2009 Edition Size: 50 (hand numbered w/ballpoint pen) Materials: C30 (BASF chrome stock in “smoky” 5-screw shell), full-color printed adhesive labels, full-color print on semigloss cardstock, rubber-stamped matte white adhesive label, soft polybox. Availability: Sold out at source. |
Description:
First-ever all-acoustic, al fresco DI sesh, for fans of springtime and the “what the fuck is even happening right now?” aspect of ye olde high concept editions. The backstory is that, when the snow melted in my neighborhood a few months ago, an acquaintance of mine discovered a seriously corroded upright piano rotting on its back in a vacant lot. The material for this tape was recorded on-site, over the course of a week of daily visits, during which the skeletal remains of the instrument were thoroughly rearranged and new techniques and preparations tested and refined.
Bees Removed is, in a sense, the sound of the mangled/distended piano tapes featured on Bee Mask releases such as How Softly Sings the Kettle, How Sweetly Chimes the Clock (Arbor, 2008) unspooled and resituated as experiments toward the assembly of a technical vocabulary in real time, an absurd and open-ended array of stark impact, scrape, clatter, and the barest ghost of the instrument as resonant body, treated with a sensibility not dissimilar to the one found in the outdoorsy bits of Christiansen’s Abschiedssymphonie and throughout the Euro-postflux canon, generally speaking.
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