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This is the work of an audiovisual performance duo. Read the press for more details. I'm just gonna rant about the irrepressible silliness & delights on offer here. There's something cartoonish about this record. It covers a lot of bases in not a great deal of time! The main thing i'm gleaning is a remarkable propensity for blistering sound collage interspersed with experimental analogue-based electronica. Because it's executed in a relatively playful manner, 'Rotary Signal Emitter ' becomes a very listenable record with some highly evocative samples scattered throughout its colourfully underlaid grooves. I think the phrase "plunderphonics" has been bandied around to describe this kind of stuff - that kind of mildly demented vintage electronica mixed with massively unpredictable snatches of delirious sound art. If you like stuff by Radiophonic Wiorkshop, Nurse With Wound's more zany momemts, Bruno Spoerri, Pierre Bastien and the like, there's surely gonna be summat here for you. Another vastly appealling thing about this is the fact that, at 45RPM, you can film the bloody thing with a (quality) video camera & the incidental "film" should appear in front of your amazed peepies! This is the sort of thing that makes working in a record shop double fun!
Sculpture is an audiovisual performance duo from London - electronic music producer, Dan Hayhurst, and animator, Reuben Sutherland. Sutherland 'DJs' with home-made zoetropic discs, intricate concentric rings of illustrated frames, projecting fragments of looping images at 33, 45 and 78 rpm - pre-Edisonian imaging technology combined with a digital video camera. Hayhurst deploys prepared audio material (found tapes, lo-fi electronics, computer programming, and analogue noise) across 1 4" tape loops, hardware sampler, cassette walkman and CDJ deck. The process is important. a kind of unstable modular collage. style. rhythm. spontaneity. input, output, and a bit in the middle called MUSIC (audible and visible) which requires the computer to be switched off. We present here an audio video picture disc by Sculpture called Rotary Signal Emitter. It can be played conventionally or as a self contained film. It is also intended to be reusable as part of future performances. The music: A strange amalgam of found sounds (corresponding perfectly with the found imagery), Plunderphonics, ancient electronic music recalling the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, twisted rhythms (imagine Felix Kubin playing Dubstep), all mixed hands-on on the spot www.tapebox.co.uk PICTURE DISC LIMITED TO 300 ONLY
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