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DJHDD - I Am Bent : Sound Paintings
This (46mg) ambient DJ mix was inspired by by DJ Food's Raiding the 20th Century and Paul Morley's book "Words and Music". The premise for this mix was the everyday ambient noise around us, traffic, planes, trains, environmental field recordings. It then morped into the history of music, life, death, philosophy & ultimately onto academic wanking. I used the jasonfreeman.net metamix program to achieve some of the palindromes & other sounds were time stretched to infinity. There are way to many samples to list & some like paint itself, have blended into it's own colour. Some of these samples are so far in the background they are indistinguishable. Like for instance Steve Reich's Music for 18 musicians has blended so much into the Diga Rhythm Band & Deodato's 2001, that you need to strain your ears to hear the one lone marimba player, who keeps hitting the same note over & over. In another painting the Autobahn gets congested, not with traffic, but with all 3 bands, playing the seminal Kraftwerk track at the same time. Brian Eno is painted backwards to become One in Music 4 Modern Elevators & time becomes a loop before exploding into a small history of modern music. This radio play aired on Sydneys 2MBS FM 7th July 2005.
Narration by - Bert Tenzer | Ken Nordine
Sound Painting #1 : The Planes of Time
(C)(p)ee - King Brian/Cassette Boy : [The User] - Symphony #1 for Dot Matrix Printers : Diga Rhythm Band - Sweet 16 : Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (Coldcut mix) : Deodato - 2001 Space Odessy : The Former Yugoslavia - Slammerkin : The Times They Are A-Changing Dub : Global Communications - 14 31 : Orbital - (Time Becomes) : 808 State - Time Bomb
Sound Painting #2 : John's Car Ride to Heaven
Help - Baroque Interpretations of Beatles : A Clockwork Palindrome - Metamix using the plaindrome mathe formula - (song would take over 4 hours to finish) : Wendy Carlos does Monty Python : Zed Lepplin (DJHDD & ECC edit) : Eurogliders - Heaven (must be there) : Godley & Creme - Consequences (burial) : John Lennon : Autobahn - San Jose Cow Muzak/The Case Managers/The Balanescu Quartet : The Doors - Riders on v Storm
Sound Painting #3 : How To Train a Judas
The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (mu d. vari-speed vers) : Disk Schory - Take v A train : Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa : KLF - Chill Out : It Must Be Obvious UFO : Mongolian throat singing - Hun Huur Tu : Jesus Christ Superstar - Judas Death (where KLF found orginal sample, who would have thought Last Train....was composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber)
Sound painting #4 : Shitting in a Room
I am sitting in a room - Alvin Lucier : The Beach Boys - In My Room : Fraiser Chorus - Anarchy in the UK
Sound Painting #5 : The Dreams of Mr. LSD
The Former Yugoslavia - Dream like that : Mixmaster Morris & Pete Namlook - Dreamfish : Tiny Tim - Welcome to my dream : Everly Bros (dream metamix) : Genesis P-Orridge & Timothy Leary - Thee Spirit Ov The Molecule : John Sebastian - I had a Dream (Woodstock live) : This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Sound Painting #6 : Music 4 Modern Elevators
Fleetwood Mac - Albatros metamix : One - Eno Backwards : Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
Sound Painting #7 : Only One Boot
Bill Hayley - rock arounf v metamix : Organwork - DazAutomatic : Escape From Noise - Negativland : Charles Manson babbles : Fart Spangled Burber
Sound Painting #8 : Fly Bye
Daryl Westfall - A new horizon in music : Psychic TV - Medmenham (Tibetan Thigh Bones) : Buzzin' Fly - Shelleyan Orphan/Tim Buckley : Kung Fu metamix/Kung Fu theme - Jeff Danna : ctephin - Goodbye Cruel Snuggle
Album Cover Art : Front Cover ( 759 kb)
