Sonic Circuits VII
(Innova) Used CD $8.00
“Jose Halac’s ‘The Breaking of the Scream’ (emotional exorcism through Argentinean folk song), Mario Verandi’s ‘Figuras Flamencas’, Thomas Gerwin’s ‘Rollenspiel (which turns your head into a roulette game), and the cavernous ambience of Christina Agamanolis’ Aftermath’, Mark Applebaum’s ‘Dead White Males Remix’ (a ProTools hatchet job on Applebaum’s existing orchestral work), Mike Frengel’s ‘Long Slender Heels’ (a Zorn-worthy slab of post-rock foot-fetishism, Timothy Oesau’s ‘Angola du Sons’ (to be played “at a volume slightly below permanent damage”). From 1999
Sonic Circuits V
(Innova) Used CD $8.00
Orchid Spangiafora’s ‘Radios silent’ (raw and untreated, spliced and looped radio broadcast samples), Michael Schell’s ‘Jerry Hunt: Song Drape 2’ (taped telephone conversations), Katharine Norman’s ‘Hard Cash (and small dreams of change)’ (snippets of taped interviews juxtaposed with other processed sounds), Lawrence Fitts’s one-minute spoken text by Australian sound poet Chris Mann), Colby Leider’s ‘Veni Creator Spiritus’ (heavily processed Hilliard Ensemble source material), Robert Normandeau’s ‘Le Renard et la Rose’ (drawing on vocal samples of the actors from Odile Magnan’s radio adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince), Eirik Lie’s ‘112 Par Sko (112 pairs of shoes) and Beatriz Ferreyra’s ‘Soufle d’un petit Dieu distrait’ (giving the impression of voices embedded within) and Beatriz Ferreyra’s artificial electronic sound. From 1997