A tribute to my favorite sound on my favorite drum machine, the Roland CR-8000. Sadly, this is the closest I will likely get to making a bounce record... If you want a pin send me your address and I will mail you one.
A set of five 10" acrylic records, each with two lathe-cut locked grooves. The spindle-hole position varies with the length of the groove: a long groove that takes up the full diameter has its hole in the center, a 5" diameter groove has its hole 1" off center, etc. Each of the 10 sides of the records contains a section of a very slow piece of music for quijada and drum machine (hand-clap sample): Judges 15:15 meets Big Audio Dynamite. Aria was commissioned by choreographer Michelle Ellsworth. Her request was for a score that the dancers could 'perform.' So, the records will be played live on two turntables and will be flipped and changed by the dancers throughout the piece.
Small booklet printed for a tour of the U.K. with Tamio Shiraishi, Ikuro Takahashi, Denis Wood, and myself. Booklet includes the first publication of Wood’s essay Shadowed Spaces: In Defense of Indefensible Space and an introduction that I wrote. Letterpress cover and hand-stitched binding. Published by Arika, Scotland.
Letterpress Print
Pictogram of echolocation as used by bats, whales etc. Letterpress print using black ink on very black paper.
Letterpress Folio
Intended to be consumed in the same manner a recording is listened to. Field Recording Vol 3 is a collection of letterpress printed matter ranging from graphics that imply sound and composition to fictitious quasi ethno musicological reports and typographical expolorations into sound. When used in concert with the viewer's ideas the piece can suggest and shape a silent listening experience. Good for parties.
j-card and cassette shell documenting the intentional loss of a recorded cassette. Includes legal notice of its missing-ness.
The image, front and back, of 5 cassettes found in various parts of the world printed by letterpress onto chipboard and packaged as a boxed set.
Dérive artifacts
A boxed set of four cassette-like objects each housed in a cassette shell. They are intended to be used in the way recordings are, but within the listener’s imagination, rather than ear. Made in homage to King Tubby.
Composition for woodblocks. Score is screen printed on top and the instructions on the bottom of a specially constructed maple wood block.