Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Born Light
Featuring Stolen Light [pa] rescued by Borft [se] completed the night of Beverly's car horn disturbance, March 2006.MP3
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Sound sources by If,Bwana [ny]
Open Ear Tap
monobrain headhunter [nl]zwarre [se]
guerroeterna [pr]
dnasnow [nl/ky]
jorge castro [pr]
chilly chill [la]
MP3
Frisky Edge Core
tricky little number this onelots of variety
featuring harlan lyman and my next door neighbour jason schooling
27 Porch Lap
zan hoffman and kris abplanalp recording live on the front porch of 1213 Baxter Avenue in Louisville Kentucky one rainy Saturday afternoon in April 2002.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Sauntering Sugar Betty
an adventure featuring sugar bettyaka ISC20+ "betty"
from december 2001
the 49th release of the year
the 61st zanoisect work
and the 5th release zanoisect of 2001
60> Mantra Milkies
The first collaboration at ZH27 with my new French contact Yann of UltraMilkmaids comes from the fall of 2001. There are two mixes available of this 30 minute work:1) Graduate School of ADD Mix
2) University of Paco Mix
The former is quite active and restless and the latter is sublime and extended richness.
photo by bc hall
Museum of Frenzy
Recording Equipment:Panasonic RQ-L30 portable cassette deck
GE 3-5367 portable cassette deck
Aiwa CS-P500 portable stereo radio cassette recorder
All sounds gathered by zan + zurich in and around the smithsonian museums in washington d.c. on labor day 2001.
remixed at contorted studio using the equipment listed above
EQ and stereo modifications done on computer all else is analog sound gathering and processing with no effect units or equipment. The next D.C. Z
From EldRichPalmerZine
ZANOISECT's "Muzeum of Frenzy" is the effect of operations on the field recordings made "at various museums of the Smithsonian Institution on cheap portable tape recorders by zan hoffman & jeff surak". In regards to the sound source, the recording is not revealing, but quite interesting nevertheless. The guys concocted a decent collage, consisting of three parts. The first, mixed by Zan, is genuinely a noise one, but the other two, mixed by Jeff, are definitely more varied. The sound seems "broad" and "deep", there is less of noise and more of "noisescape" to it. To the last part, the term "noise" is hardly applicable, and the input material of the field recordings seems least treated and mixed. As a whole it is quite intriguing, the first track being slightly inferior to the other." was created just using portable tape decks, gathering sounds, with my buddy Zurich, in and around the museums on the mall downtown. These in turn were processed and finally composed for the 59th Zanoisect work of frenzied lovelyness.
100 Percent Organic Poison
Then the first of the D.C. noise releases 100% Organic Poison utilizes all manner of recordings made with portable cassette decks and composed and encrusted digitally. This work hails from late May and is the 15th release of the year at ZH27, recorded after a hectic Memorial Day where I digitized and coverted to cdr and then mp3 formats 18 recent Zanoisect masters!MP3
Must We Be Kind?
The silence in May 2000 was broken by the latest collaboration with Kazuhiro Ohtsuka, who is keeping me on my toes. Must We Be Kind is a release that puts the "noise" back into Zanoisect!Charvaka Enters Hastinapura
Charvaka:A wicked Rakshasa who fought a battle in the Mahabharata and entered Hastinapura in triumph. However, the Brahmins discovered he was an impostor so they killed him with a deadly ray from their eyes.
Hastinapura:
The capital city of central India in the days of the great war of the Mahabharata.
Rakshasa:
an evil spirit, a demon
Mahabharata:
The great Hindu epic of the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, which is composed of (a stunning) 220,000 lines.
I was thinking about this as i first dreamed of what i could do with it... so i guess in the long run i acted on my initial impulse... and i felt the release could yeild hours on end of stuff because it’s intense and saturated. i wanted to not simply allow the jorge castro tape to play from one end to the next unaltered... that would be yesterday’s answer, mix it with something else... i was thinking it needed this and that added to get to where i wanted it to be, but that was a blind alley. so i disected it instead.
the results sound like Charvaka hacking his way to victory - entering Hastinapura in celebration only to be destroyed by the deadly eye rays.
50> Tinder of Landmarks
The next work Tinder of Landmarks is a nice an cruncy sometimes noisy othertimes murky venture. Soundings coinciding with the Kentucky Derby Festival kickoff event.MP3
Trial in the Valley of Decision
My good friend Kazuhiro Ohtsuka and I have been trading again and he sent a new collaboartive recording in April which I treated and am calling Trial in the Valley of Decision. Mostly his sounds and noises but then there are some zan voices of old which he layers on top of which creates a real interesting effect.MP3
Sweet and Condensed Sizzling Bacon
This was followed by an expiriment in pure sound mixing and executing called Sweet and Condensed Sizzling Bacon.MP3
Obsessive Niave Questions
A new source cdr from my comrage onq in italy inspired the next release. Onq and his friend Marlo created a one-off work which I sampled and expanded upon for delightful new work "Ongoing Niave Questions".
14 Incidences to Injury
This was followed by a very gnarled and wicked release featuring sounds by simon brown of 'impulse to injury' or noisy and varied pieces called 14 Incidences to Injury, featuring 14 tracks, imagine that!
zinking masses
Then in a brutal flash came zinking masses using sounds of peter zinken and brian noring.
Day Fills Night The Way I Walk
Another split tape with Bryan Day's label gives us the wonderful Day Fills Night The Way I Walk.
Of Shivering Timbre
With alarmingly quick response time I created the forty-first zanoisect tape in reply to a request for a 30 minunte split tape with a canadian label. Of Shivering Timbre uses a new wireless studio technique that's all crazy and stuff!MP3
40> Making Distant Subject
Making Distant Subject from November is the fortieth Zanoisect release and come is two part. The first crunchy and the second numbing.MP3
Crippy Tump
Using some leftovers from Zanstones LXII sessions I've produced a nice, varied work Crippy Tump late May, after returning from my Memphis visit.
Quantized Turpitude
Quantized Turpitude is a wonderous experiment which came out quite well, methinks.
The Dream From Endless
Revisiting the 'endless' theme, The Dream From Endless is a soothing sonabulatory soundscape for your listening ease.
Torn About Blows
Torn About Blows is the first release after my daughter was born, and is a blown out winded number of some intensity.MP3
And Appropriation is Thy Name
and appropration is thy name comes from mid Februar, 1999, and takes on a swath of pretentious mid 80's em tapes hoping to make interesting mattter out of turgid dreck. The result is quite interesting. Jan, of Borft Records says "Reminds me about when I was in Disney World/Florida 11 years old, different sounds everywhere, sounds, sounds..."MP3
Ream a ruin
Then from early February, 1999, are two releases created exclusively using new sounds source material sent the previous day by Kazuhiro Ohtsuka. Nerima Run is the first, and fairly cohesive work, and this is followed by they massively dimembered Ream a Ruin.MP3
Victim of Warmth
A beautiful encounter with a set of silver gates on the last day of January 1999. And from this emerge The Point of Frigidity and Victim of Warmth. These two releases have become quite popular... "I like this spooky stuff. Superious" enthuses Jan of Borft.MP3
30> Gnot Loot
Two more from later in the month are my microsonic experiments: Further Breakdown and Gnot Loot.
Her Hei
On January 10th and 11th I made some new releases based on recordings Adam Bohman sent me of modern German religious music from the 70's. The first Found Hair on Sink... is wilder, and Her Hei is sparser, but stilly mighty curious.MP3
Beleaguered Insight
The four new works came out of the 12 tape series I completed in December. Beleaguered Insight and Clear Now from Dec. 31st, and the Faint End of a Stick and tear within dowsed moments dementia"MP3
20> Zon-IO
Leaving this world behind, Zon-IO takes you in and out of temporal concerns. Generously abstract vibrations stretching as far as the ear can see.
Zon-O
Zon-O is a Zanoisect project based on entranced accordion abstractions. A tasty, full spectrum sound configuration moodily shifting, created in the last days of May 1998.
Reign of Fire
Reign of Fire is a fantastic and bleak 60 minute work using sound sources recorded in Chicago at the Viper Pad. It is active, snapping, swarming, delightful space, in an unyielding hour of intensity.
Sounds For Falling Off Logs By
Music For Falling Off Logs By" and Sounds For Falling Off Logs By... are from late 97 and early 98 respectively. These are recordings which I did not think of as releases when I was creating them, but when listening back I found I had something wonderful. "Sounds" is a long awaited ambient work. I had been wanting to do one for quite some time and whenever I tried the result was much too intense (but still great!), and this time I did it without even knowing I was doing it. This was part of a 3 tape session that I did one day, and as I was listening back to each, planning what to do with the pieces, this one refused to take anything else. It was just fine as is.
Asa Nisi Masa File By File
The 499th ZH27 release Asa Nisi Masa ~ File by File is a smothering, unrelenting work with the percolating rhythms of the asa nisi masa project with the streaming, screaming file by file layer squealing away madly.
Boad Snoe Shuvill
Boad Snoe Shuvill from Summer 1997 is a fantastic set of works in texture and ambiance featuring the return of the evil bowed snow shovel.04-04-97
Southern Nights Descending
Southern Nights Descending, the follow-up to the work Northern Lights Ascending (see Tuf), is a soundscape of the sun setting over the cemetery across the street. A subtle and sometimes intense work featuring PBK.Smoldering Embers Ignite
Smoldering Embers Ignite, 'a sound edit sound wave mirage spasm,' is a most in-depth and important musique concrete piece for the 90's. A real intense and lengthy effort using sparse samples from 17 different international and domestic contacts of mine. It is inside-out and upside-down sound treats for the modern world.
Hi-Lo Ice Slam
Zanoisect was reborn with a vengeance in 1994 with three gripping recordings. Hi-Lo Ice Slam is a driving work in two parts featuring Archie Wilson and myself plus some of my drastic rhythms and manipulated Don Campau sound sources.
A Room Full of Broken Toys a.k.a. Mad Scientist Loop Machine
A Room Full of Broken Toys is a joyous relentlessly loopy number which recalls all my favorite loop influences from Non to Croiners and beyond.New Industry
A barn-burning session whose other half became part of Bodycocktial's "Toss Me In the Air, I'll Pay".12-13-93
A Chime Horn and Song for Thou
A Chime Horn and Song for Thou is a lo-fi experimental recording from 1992. Delightful or unendurable? 'Tis for you to choose.
Storming, etc.
Storming, etc. is a one of a kind Zanoisect tape I sent Minóy around 1986. He sent me a dub of it thinking it was early Minóy\Zannoy. It wasn't, but it is a very neat tape using droning noises and peculiar vocal cut-ups. The effect is eerie and emotional, and the more joyous parts tend to be the most disquieting. The title was supplied by Minóy as a descriptive tag for the tape.You Can Eat Dead Moons b/w Crying On the Moon
You Can Eat Dead Moons / Crying on the Sun is two 15 minute compositions recorded in 1986. "Eat" is a smeary dive into the netherworlds with Mystery Hearsay and ECDM ("Anytime, you can listen"). "Crying" is propelled by the magical distorted rhythms of Sismoid and mutated by the curious recordings of T.Diez.The View From the Summit of Zanoisect
View From the Summit of Zanoisect is a real early and eerie noise experiment with slowed down and mutated sounds crawling over each other and strange voices appearing out of the murk.05-03-85
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