[photos by Lynne Shumow, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, September 2007.]
Influences
“ . . . let us retrieve the lost letter or the obliterated sign, let us recompose the dissonant scale . . . .” (Gérard de Nerval)
Sounds Like
Anywhere Out of the World: The LOST DATA Project's performance at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee can be downloaded by visiting stasisfield.com at the link above.
The LOST DATA Project features the live and processed sounds of original musical instruments designed and constructed by Hal Rammel. Hal Rammel plays homebuilt electroacoustic instruments. Jon Mueller and Jim Schoenecker, in addition to the electronics and percussion they favor in their work with the groups MOUTHS and Collections of Colonies of Bees, improvise with a variety of recordings provided to them by Hal Rammel, then manipulated and remixed through a variety of analog and digital processing.
Beginning as a series of solo recordings by Hal Rammel released by Penumbra Music in 2006 in a set of three 7” singles, the LOST DATA Project has expanded into an ensemble project exploring the manipulation of palette-generated sounds in small group improvisation. Past participants in the LOST DATA Project have included John Corbett (performance at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago in 2006) and Lou Mallozzi (performance at Elastic n Chicago, 2007).
To listen to a side from one of Hal Rammel's 7" singles in the LOST DATA series:
"I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the quasi-souls of lost data."
