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Last night during the St Rainbow Show, we performed an homage to the Animist Orchestra. We used only natural materials trying not to purposely make beats or music during this improvisation. The idea is that all the sounds made using natural materials and the sounds made from the environment (wind, cars, birds, chairs squeaking) become a part of the sound and ultimately create a composition of music. Here is the performance in full:

Full Moon Apple Core

Wednesday’s set will be the entirety of the White Elephant Record Exchange Project. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 38 tracks and at least 95 minutes of music (the votes are still out). This project (as is this blog) is hosted and sponsored by Beep Repaired a lovely group of individuals who make and support tons of great music and art in the Seattle area and beyond, many thanks to all of them. Also Thanks to Jason Kopec of noise | order for help developing the idea and putting together the site that is linked here, where all the tracks will remain for free download starting this thursday, 03/20. The cute lil’ elephant is by David Bratton.

The White Elephant Record Exchange Project was
undertaken by 20 individuals in the late part of
January 2008. The project involved sampling,
composition, and ultimately all kinds of editing and
manipulation of various original source material.
Participants were first to find the “worst” and “most
unusable” 12″ vinyl record possible and hand it off to
the curator. Those records were then distributed to
the participants insuring everyone received a
different record than the one they submitted. After
receiving this record, the first goal was to complete
one song.

SONG A
The point of Song A was to compose a piece of around 1
minute, 30 seconds through editing and creative
playback of the record alone. No pitch adjustment,
time stretching, compression, or any digital effects
were allowed in this phase of the project. This meant
that the participant could basicly just cut and paste,
do a bit of layering, and then adjust track levels.
It was essentially an exercise in composition to see
what each individual could create with supposedly
“unusable” source material and very limited
constraints.

Those songs were all finished and then given back to
the curator. Once all the songs were gathered, they
were then redistributed back to the original person
that submitted the 12″ vinyl. For example, if you
submitted Led Zepplin “III” as your album, you then
got the remixed, cut-up piece someone created from
that album. Then the Song B phase began.

SONG B
The creation of this song had no boundaries
whatsoever. The idea was now to allow each
participant total freedom (without the diffcult
constraints of the Song A phase) to create a remix of
someone else’s Song A piece.

Today we are really excited to have Biagio Biondilillo from the local bellingham band All Creatures Of Good Heart on the Corner Pocket Program. Tune in Thursday 2-4pm or Saturday 5-7pm for this performance!

I have known Biagio for years and he is one of the most authentic and genuine people I know. It is often rare to find such warm gems in Bellingham, a city with wind-swept and rain-worn souls. This authenticity comes through in his music, with his soft, breathful crooning voice underlined always by unique and complicated picking style on his acoustic guitar. This set was recorded in his bedroom which only works to make the songs that much more intimate and compelling… Please tune in for our buddy Biagio! You can find his wonderful indie folk band on the ol’ myspace, too:
www.myspace.com/allcreaturesofgoodheart

Levi Fuller’s (DJ Sta-Prest) ‘Basic’ Top 10 of 2007

Antelope - Reflector
Corespondents - Hairy Ghost Pipefish
The Dodos - Beware of the Maniacs
Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog
Menomena - Friend & Foe
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Elliott Smith - New Moon
The Way it Is - Be Still My Beating
Wesafari - Moss Green EP

Joseph Peter (DJ Poor Will) knows he is forgetting some Top 10 Albums of 2007

Adrian Orange & Her Band - S/T
Gregory and the Hawk - In Your Dreams
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - Ask Forgiveness [EP]
Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart
Wooden Wand - James & The Quiet
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
The Pica Beats - All Mysteries Solve Themselves
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs

Amber Morgan’s (Co-Founder of Hollow Earth Radio) Top 10 Local Releases of 2007

Cock and Swan - Marshmallow Sunset
Snowman Plan - The Next Amphibian
The Pica Beats - All Mysteries Solve Themselves
Corespondents - Hairy Ghost Pipefish
Joy Wants Eternity - You Who Pretend to Sleep
PWRFL POWER - Injured Fruits
Webelos - Tour LP
Levator - Jackson Hwy. Barnes Drive
Kickball - Everything Is A Miracle Nothing Is A Miracle Everything Is
Polka Dot Dot - Love Letter To New Zealand

Top Ten noises I heard in 2007 by DJ Kalidoscope

Matty Pop Chart : “the world out there” from Everyone Does Everything on Plan-it-x records
Nana Grizol : “Tamborine Thyme” from their myspace page (myspace.com/nanagrizol)
Karl Blau : “That’s how I got to Memphis” from an upcoming K records 7inch
Tender Forever : “Heartbroken Forever” from Wider on K records
Cocorosie : “Werewolf” from The adventures of ghost….
Woelv : every song on the new album “Tout Seul Dans La Forêt En Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur?” from K records
Trina : The whole album “Diamond princess”
Riskay : “Smell yo Dick” from Amber’s private collection
Beast, Please Be Still : The whole new album rules
Trailer Park Boys : Theme song from the TV show. It has a cat meowing in it

Top 10 Show Attended of 2007 by Kieran (of Hecka Ar)

1.Joanna Newsom and a 29 piece orchestra @Benaroya Hall
2.Dj /Rupture and Filastine w/ Eyvind Kang and Jessica Kinney @Capitol hill arts center
3.”Ugly is a movie” w/ Corespondents @the Rondezvous
4.Dj ’s Fukumup!, Foxdye, Killingsworth, and Novahead vs. Chickentron @thExploding House!
5.Everyone at Ball of Wax 10 release party (hecka ar’s 1st show!)@the Sunset Tavern
6.Corespondents CD release party w/ Unlearn and Curious Mystery @the Crocodile
7.Coachella-Too many to list, I passed out during Konono in a huge crowd from heat exhaustion and beer intake, very wild 3 days-but also a very expensive endeavor.
8.Beep Family Orchestra @that big art studio/photo lab/crazy house in belltown.
9.Sasquatch-Radio Bemba Soundsystem, Beastie Boys, Mirah, Bjork, and many others @the Gorge
10.AUTONOMOUS MUTANT FESTIVAL- Everyone, everyday, until the forest service came and shut us down for fire codes @Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA, Renegade Sound Systems for 6 days.

Favorite most listened to artists in 2007 by Tiff from Dearborn

Crazy For Jane
Brad Dunn
Adam Lipman
Karl Blau
Lucky Dragons
Snowman Plan
Webelos
Cock and Swan
Sweet Potatoes
Corespondents