The Making of [ O=O ]
6 poetries and 6 tracks. V6's and mine. 120 cassettes; cut, sprayed, glued, edit with all other verbs you can think of to form this big mama screen-tester for studio c. [O=O] is the brainchild of Bombshelter Studios. The man to thank from my bottomless heart is V6. He did everything to make my dull poetries alive with the 13 bucks mic. Not to mention, sitting through 400 hours(?) of rec-stop-play-ff-rw, enduring the bees and the zoos.
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Hello BigCityB,
Dont have to thank me and its definitely lot less than 400 hours. i really have fun working on the poetry and start to like the poetry more and more when i work on it. Hope you like the results! the whole journey is really fun. lets do a different collaboration next round!
Definitely.
absolutely brilliant!
u just made poetry the dogs bollocks (cool in cockney) rather than some pretentious bullsh*t.
so nice one big city b.
Eugene, Vance
Don't mean to sound cliche on the whole 'fortunate accident' thingy, but look what came after making [O=O]:
19/01, Section 2 of The Star featured a comeback of cassettes.
22/01, Ben emailed me his recent paintings, one of it is about his appreciation for analogue sound.
"The 'Analog Painting' is a big piece (4'x4') that took me eight months to finish. The idea behind it was that I wanted to make a painting that celebrated analog sound, which is the reel-to-reel tape method that sound and music was recorded before digital technology. I like the warmth and the imperfections in analog sound much more than digital, so I wanted to figure out a way to show that in paint. I came up with the idea of taping off thin lines of paint, starting from the top, and for each line I sealed the tape tight on the top edge and left the bottom edge a little loose so that paint would leak a little when I brushed it on. I wanted the lines to be really thin so that the leaks would show up more and be wider than the lines, thereby highlighting the imperfections. When I finished each line, I figured out what place in the line bled the lowest on the surface and started the next line from there. You can see this in the detail image. As a finished piece, the lines kind of cancel each other out and the bleeds and spaces are what you see, i.e. the representation and celebration of imperfect sound."
Has it been there all this time but our eyes were blinded? Serendipity, coincidence, things happening for a reason...however you want to explain this meta-physical (re)occurence , it's one thing that keeps recurring in my life.
It's amazing and frustrating the same time, to kinda know the answer but not know it in entirety.
She moves in mysterious ways...
yamen
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