Underwhich Audiographics Series ◆◆◆
Richard Truhlar & Steve McCaffery - Manicured NoiseEdition of 110
1981
Side A:
Weather (Or Not?) In Akron
Homage to Gerald McBoingboing
Four Lives (les chimeres)*
Chasmosaurus The Ceratopsian
Saving the Text
Side B:
Isaiah Among The Giants*
Kinderfunken**
White's Journals*
TC Function*
Concerto For Dead Politician & 214 Dissidents
*Text by McCaffery
**Text by Truhlar
A kaleidophony of text-sound compositions: language disintegrations, metamusics, libidnal acoustics, and non-cortical operettas.
“This collection is best used as a practical instrument of palaeolithic modernity to figure against our own personal beliefs as to what noise, sound, text, signal and tradition are.” — Carl Santos
“Sound my dear Philo, is simply that which we do not see.” Plato
Manicariations:
Steve McCaffery — soprano, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones; scaccia pensieri; penny whistle; harmonica; MXR flanger; typewriter; voice.
Richard Truhlar — Korg MS 10 synthesizer; MXR flanger; music boxes; analog delay; voice.
All compositions were recorded between March & June 1981 in the studios of the Toronto Research Group.
Released in a hand-numbered edition of 110 copies.
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