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Live sets:::
Bowery Poetry Club 11-05-05:::
I played in between some amazing bands' sets at the Bowery Poetry Club
on November 5th, 2005. There were six bands. Three of the pieces I played were beats. Since they were performed with the specific function of filling
the gap of time when bands take down and set up their equipment, they run rather long. I hope to edit them in the future, but for now here is one of them
in its entirety.
-Matchbook [Bowery Poetry Club 11-05-05] ~15MB, ~19 minutes
Knitting Factory Old Office 06-26-05:::
Here is my 25 minute set from Sunday, June 26th, 2005.
There is some clipping in the right channel near the end due to recording. Encoded at 128kbps for quicker download and raw "live-like" sound.
Contained within are the following::: dark drones and pretty drones, noise bursts, drum phasing, slow dub industrial beats... Made with a Machinedrum
and an sp-303, with some samples of Oscar P. McClure's drumming that I recorded and manipulated. MP3 file size::: approximately 23MB.
-Knitting Factory Old Office set [06-26-05]
Northsix Basement 07-09-04:::
I played a live noise set at the Northsix basement in Brooklyn, New York on
July 9th, 2004. I used the same feedback loop I had used to make my noise album "Feeding", but fed it through my Machinedrum whose delay effect made for
excellent layering. Almost a half-hour of sound, almost 26MB mp3 filesize. An excellent companion to the studio-bred layering of "Feeding".
-Northsix Basement set [07-09-04]
Balls to the Wall:::
Balls to the Wall Part Four is where some serious musical lunacy took place.
Imagine playing beats for people who are throwing rubber balls at each other. It was a "dodgeball rave", and it spawned this bizarro audio document.
Tracks from Ganglion Rot are played live in mutated guises and tweaked to the fullest on this recording.
The track titles are taken from the Popol Vuh, the Quiche Maya creation story. Here's a blurb written by another party involved:::
"The recording you have here is from a "Dodgeball Rave" in Poughkeepsie, NY. The Brown Moth mixed and recorded this document using a Marantz tape recorder, two AKG 460 condensor mics (one attached to a basketball hoop behind the field of play, one on the bleachers to the side), and one Audio-Technica 825 stereo mic suspended from the rafters 100 feet above. scutopus made the sounds and I processed them and, I don't know, we must have been dropped when we were babies cuz here it is, complete with the fully audible sound of 100 people hurting each other with four-square balls. It doesn't matter if you like dub, techno, gabba, digital hard-core, noise, or field recordings - this document is not normal and it will scare you." - The Jesse Stiles 3000 3/28/03
1. Oher Tzih
2. Council Book
3. Chuua 4,ak
4. Hunahpu
5. The Blame is Ours
6. Axjub
7. ah3ih
8. The Lords of Xibalba: One Death and Seven Death
9. The Light that Came from Across the Sea
10. Cahuleu
Noise:::
Batiscauthen:::
Once again, Epicene Sound Systems has allowed me to foist my noise upon people. Here is what they
had to say about it, on the Epicene Sound Replica page::: "Wendell told me he was in a “drone”
mood. And was he ever. You can almost feel the air crystallizing in yr lungs… the cold
icy shimmer… total control over balance is impossible, no footing on the ice… you stumble and slide along, the glacial glare of the sun blinding yr
vision, and all at once you misstep and you suddenly sink into the sea. Drowning as you descend to the bottom." I'd like to add that the green artwork
rules!
For your pre-listening pleasure, check out a sampler of short segments of each track on the tape. The last segment in the sampler is a snippet of the 28-minute-long track that takes up side two of the tape.
Batiscauthen is $6 postage-paid, and is a little under 60 minutes of audio. Click below to purchase.
Side A::: Batiscauthen Suite (about 29 minutes)
Side B::: Liminal (28:21)
Feeding:::
Feeding is my first noise album. All the source material is from
a stereo feedback loop I engineered between a damaged tape deck and a mixing board. Due to the high frequencies and odd stereo nature of the recording,
it makes for rather difficult listening. The track titles are names of parts of an aplacophora's digestive system.
This album was released by Epicene Sound Systems on their limited edition, CD-R sublabel
Epicene Sound Replica. Their description of the disc is as follows:
"The sounds of drowning radios and crushing tape decks. Serious squeal and nastiness that gives you the canine head tilt.
Totally nauseating, totally great. Found paper photo copied and wrapped in vellum then sprayed with a hefty dose of chrome.
Hand numbered and limited to 50 copies."
Aversionline.com has reviewed "Feeding", as has Disagreement.net. Both reviews do a good job of describing the album.
Epicene is sold out of "feeding", but I still have a handful. Email me at scutopus at gmail dot com if you are interested, or to get one with paypal click the buy now button below.
1. Midgut Sacculations
2. Ventral Salivary Gland
3. Anteroventral Radular Pocket
4. Radular Membrane
5. Distichous Radula
6. Odontoblast
7. Suprarectal Commissure
8. Glandular Digestive Diverticulum
9. Radular Sac
Please note that the MP3s are encoded at 128kbps, which makes for some interesting aliasing in the high frequencies. Also note that this aliasing is not indicative of the original tracks' sound.
Techno:::
Scutopus Pegasus Unicorn Tiger:::
This is my second techno album. It
is burned to CD-R and packaged, ready to be mailed to you! The artwork was done by Liv Rodriguez, and has a very cool, gritty, DIY photocopy flavor to it.
The covers are printed on card stock and are two-sided, the sleeve has that new vinyl scent, and the cd-rs are Taiyo-Yuden, which equals quality.
The CD comes with two inserts: one is the intentionally-difficult-to-read tracklist/info sheet, and the other is a cut-out-and-color
Scutopus Pegasus Unicorn Tiger ornament, both by Liv. There are four different versions of the cover--two different photocopy drawings, two different
colors of card stock. The yellow picture is one example of the art style, which has some depth to it from the photocopy layering.
I made less than
100 of these--once they are gone they're gone. Unless, of course, a label picks it up, but I bet it'll have different packaging!
Around the edge of the tracklist insert reads: "Recorded on the Ocean Floor 2004, except Flirt 2003. All sounds - Machinedrum and Sidstation. Tapagh leibh! [Scottish Gaelic for "thank you all!"] scutopus.com"
~20 second MP3 excerpts [LAME VBR encoded]:::
1. Jaunt
2. Follow
3. Fraggle
4. Goombaturtle
5. Pertwee
6. Captain
7. Apparel
8. Flirt [a series of excerpts from different sections of this 20-minute track]
9. Purr [cd-r only bonus track]
"This music is, for me, a perfect combination of mind and body,
intellect and sense, and it never slips over the edge between the two,
which causes a wonderful tension to hold things in place."
--Jan Meissner.
Once again, Pascal from Disagreement.net has done an excellent job of explaining what a potential listener will hear when listening to the album in full. Go read his review.
To acquire a copy of Scutopus Pegasus Unicorn Tiger via Paypal, click the buy now button above. For payment via personal check [cd won't ship until check has cleared], and VERY VERY VERY well-concealed cash at your own risk [I am not responsible for cash lost in the mail] email me at scutopus at gmail dot com for more info. The price is $6 [postage included], and the early buyers will also get a free gift [hint--it is music-related]. If you want me to personalize the cd before mailing, let me know what to write on the back of the tracklist insert.
Liv agreed to do the artwork if I named my album after her favorite imaginary animal, the pegasus unicorn tiger. I asked if I could add scutopus in the animal mix, and she said yes. If you are lucky, you may spot a scutopus pegasus unicorn tiger in the artwork of your copy!
Ganglion Rot:::
Ganglion Rot is the first "techno" album I made, with the Machinedrum and Sidstation synths
from Elektron. The music was created from summer 2002 through winter 2003. It's raw and viceral, which fits how I was feeling at the time.
I combined what I like about rave music [repetitive phrases, propulsive beats] with more experimental elements such as using tones to
hint at melody, and making variations in a track's rhythm structures. My techno has been termed "uncomfortable comfort music", where the comfort of
predictable rave music structures are disrupted. However, some of these tracks stomp like crazy. "Bog Tooth" and "Slow Go [Trunk]" are my favs, with
the latter hinting at the noise project I would undertake shortly afterwards and the former making me feel like a monkey.
1. Hit Juice
2. The Fixx (Drugs and Alcohol)
3. Scutopower
4. Strapper
5. Bay of Fundy
6. Bog Tooth
7. Brackish Finger
8. Slow Go (Trunk)
Older Works:::
Here are a few of older scuto tracks from around 2000 (and a tad later) in alphabetical order:::
-Agraph, a noisy d-n'-b-like track.
-Beatrix, a pretty, ambient track I made by feeding the radio through a Sidstation's filter.
-Chide, made around the same time, this is Quabbin's prettier but more awkward cousin.
-Grain Mill, samples JTS3K's "Song from Work (Bathroom)", my track "Mulch", and Todd Jones' lyric from
"Yes G_d".
-Mulch, a beat workout, plain and simple.
-Quabbin, a Scorn-influenced/sampled track I made with a K2000RS.
-Yes G_d (Scutopella), a Todd Jones lyric fed through a Sidstation's filter and a delay.