György Ligeti, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Anton Webern, Luigi Russolo, Radiohead, Soul Junk, David Stith, Shara Worden, Béla Bartók, Portishead, Ellen Fullman, Eliot Carter, Joshua Ballard, Edgard Varèse, Nikola Tesla, Pierre Boulez, Autechre, Squarepusher, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Federico Durand, Boris Snauwaert, Aphex Twin, Add N to (X), Krzysztof Penderecki, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Cliff Martinez, Arvo Pärt, Fourtet, Phillip Glass, John Valenti, The Birthday Party (not Nick Cave's Birthday Party), Dan Deacon, Universes (the-yet-to-be), John Cage, Steve Reich, Morton Subotnick, Jack Foley, Mark Hijleh, Emanuel Kant, everyone over at Sine Fiction, et al.
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my name is fred. i write music for both traditional and nontraditional instruments as well as make unperformable recordings. in my recordings i use almost exclusively found sounds and manipulate them to suit my needs. isolate it, reverse it, cut it, paste it, rearrange it, distort it, mix it, pan it, layer it, loop it, combine it, time stretch it, resample it, turn it into a MIDI patch and play it, etc. i don't approach my composition with a diatonic structure or a resultant form in mind, but rather compose how i hear. in blocks of sound structures placed next to and on top of eachother. there is no longer melody or rhythm to speak of that defines form or shape except for those that contribute to an overall texture. a general and presiding aesthetic concept that defines its own tonality determines the stucture and form of each piece on an individual basis. there is an isolating of musical events, much like freezing time, or slowing it to a crawl. real time occurs, but as the exception to the rule. added to that, there are ussually constant rubatos not of passages in the traditional sense, but of fragments of the piece as a whole. in short, i try to explore the infinity that somehow clothes itself within every finite instant of a musical ( or nonmusical ) event. but i also am cautious of the possibility of a purely pedantic approach to composition that results in a dead, emotionless work of music. MUSIC IS NOT MATH. i passionately pour into my music hope, awe, fear, grief, joy, gladful submission, excitement, gentleness, sincerity, love, and wonder. it is my wish that this would be comunicated through the overall pensive and melancholy sound, which i believe is the result of the combination of all these. just listen.
Happy to announce the release of our first EP. ‘Lady of the Wild Things’ is now available on Reverb Worship (UK).
Full track listing and other details in our blog. Limited edition of only 50 copies. UK: 5£ - Europe/USA/ROW: 6£ Order at the Reverb Worship website or myspace.
V/A Bearsuit Records : “Captain Woof Woofs’ Guitar”(2009)
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featuring the artists : port mone / alone together / the artificial sea / kirameki / milenka / taub / whizz kid / per olund band / sadomundo / anata wa sukkari tsukarete shimai / mr fritz and magnitophono / the temple cloud country club / lettelete aka ememe / harold nono and hidekazu wakabayashi
wow. i was just listening to Derek Bailey when i entered your site... and your soundscapes slowily began to take over... in a very coherent Bailey way ! At first I thought he had turned a delay on !
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