4 Track Mind
...or how to seek transcendence through electronics.
First and foremost, these are experiments. Not dee-jayed, mashed-up, artistic statements, although I’ve been known to make them now and
again. These tracks are the result of spontaneous action recorded onto a 4 track recorder.
"Indeterminacy" is a word I should use here, but that would align me with John Cage, which is correct, but along with it comes a lot of
unnecessary baggage. And speaking of baggage, (and this is not to slight John Oswald) can you say, "Plunderphonics" ? I bet you can.
I’m more interested in what suprises lay around each dangerous curve of a spinning turntable, tape reel, or disc of burning gel.
I tried not to push the mix in any specific direction, however I did allow myself a few indulgences. "Bacrrack" for instance, is nothing but an orgy of ecstatic indulgence.
All levels on playback were set at "unity gain" and the pans were set to allow the mix to "breathe on it’s own". And voila. "It’s alive, alive!!!!" Snapping, crackling, life.
[Dan Willems]
