Okay, a long time ago MySpace deleted my bio & I haven't ever put it back up. Basically Small Life Form is about sound & the nature & manipulation of it. Currently Small Life Form is more active live than on recordings because the nature of the sound manipulation is a bit about the individual room it's in & not only loses a lot to being recorded, but especially when listened to through headphones. Current sound sources for a Small Life Form performance may include voice, microphone feedback, copper pipe, melodica, optical theremin, super simple synthesizer, tape violin, pan pipe, triangles, pitch pipe, large pieces of metal. Sound sources are generally processed & interact with loops & the sound in the room. Sometimes the music is a massive wall & other times an elegant melody.
Here's the story from my website:
It should come as no surprise
that Small Life Form (aka Brian John Mitchell, head of Silber Records)
is the distillation of everything Silber has stood for since its birth
nearly a decade ago: stripped down, unadulterated sound exploration.
- Nathan Amundson, Rivulets
About Small Life Form
Small Life Form is about nothing
if not sound. Sound as escape from life. Sound as a medium to penetrate
and affect the human body. Sound as both creation & destruction. Sound
as an entity meant to be concentrated on, not casually listened to.
SLF's process, theory and
sound draw from influences of the post-WWII avant-garde. In this way, SLF
and Silber offer us another bridge between post-rock music & serious
experimental composition, equal influences Gyorgy
Ligeti & Cindytalk.
Small Life Form's debut release
One
was released in late 2003 on Silber. All tracks on One are
meant to be played simultaneously and looped continuously. This can be
achieved on your computer with Windows Media Player 6.4.09.1128.
Small
Life Form discography
Lost
Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny DVD 2009 | Silber 073
10 cartoons (plus three
bonus bits), about an hour
$12
This is true & funny
material ina day & age when the two worst adjectives your work can
have are "true" & "funny." ~ Dave Sim, Cerebus/Glamourpuss
Well, it's finally here,
a collection of cartoon versions of the first ten issues of Lost Kisses.
It even includes a special making of thing & cartoons of Worms 1 &
XO 1. The DVD includes a psychonautic electro-acoustic drone soundtrack
of new music by Small
Life Form. Lost Kisses tells snarky stories of life's perils
with self -deprecating humor. So check it out & spread the word.
alive MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 071
3 tracks, 21 minutes
free download from Archive.org
2007 marked Small Life Form’s
live debut & over the next year the style refined, abandoning real
horns for a piece of copper pipe, replacing organs with melodica, &
vocals with feedback manipulation. Alive is collected from two live
recordings in 2008. They are massive structures built from scratch
using a loop pedal, distortion pedals, & reverb units.
one CD Album 2003 | Silber 030
7 tracks, 48 minutes
$12
“A time is envisioned when the world was not, only a watery chaos (the dark, indistinguishable sea) and a warm cosmic breath, which could give an impetus of life.” - Rig Veda
I loved your comics, I thought they were both very meaningful and humorous at the same time. I will definitely send your name around my friends because I know your music is the kind that they like.
:) christine it was fun at the art show!!! keep up the great work!
really don't know if I already commented this but I just wanted to say that I really like your music. Although honestly only two songs are working right know they blew me away. Nice work, keep it up.
Imagine for a moment a garden. Imagine that this garden is unlike any garden you have ever seen on this earth. Imagine this is a garden full of flowers and trees, of brilliant sights and sounds, of sparkling diamond water and clear emerald forests. Imagine a garden characterized by unbelievable fertility and bounty. Imagine that in this garden, life flourishes in peace, love, and joy. In this garden there is nothing but contentment, bliss, and happiness. Call this garden The Garden of Eden or Shambhala or Heaven if you like for indeed it was like all these places and more. Call it utopia and imagine it a place of pure light. Then, when you have imagined all these things, put them together and you will know what The Garden was like.
Perhaps it goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway. In this beautiful, utopian garden, everything was perfect. In The Garden, there was abundance and joy and nobody went without. Nobody experienced pain for very long. Nobody went unloved and this was all good because that is the way the people who created The Garden wanted it. You see the garden people, the Lightwalkers, were beings of pure light and love. These people were all beauty, perfection, light, and glory and in their garden they created nothing that was ugly or distasteful. Truly, the Lightwalkers were like shining, glorious suns of creation. They were brilliant and blinding to behold and when they created The Garden, they created it as a reflection of their perfect, light-filled nature. In The Garden there was no suffering or want. Each heart’s desire was fulfilled and that’s just the way everybody wanted it.
Read more [http://www.michaelsharp.org/ParableOfTheGarden/]
It should come as no surprise
that Small Life Form (aka Brian John Mitchell, head of Silber Records)
is the distillation of everything Silber has stood for since its birth
nearly a decade ago: stripped down, unadulterated sound exploration.
- Nathan Amundson, Rivulets
