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skindling shad​é​s

from DISCOSPHERE by John Oswald

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(1989) Co-incidentally the composer was gathering recordings of incendiary sounds at the same time co-choreographers Paula Ravitz and Denise Fujiwara were working on a solo of combustible images while using, as rehearsal music, a recording of Igor Stravinsky's "The Firebird". The co-choreographers asked John Oswald to make a replacement to "The Firebird" and he had no intention to imitate Stravinsky. In addition to actual fire recordings, there are similar sounds (the moving of air, the escaping of gases, the fracture of timber), trompe l'oreille and heat noise swarms. This massive overdubbing of a single sound source, which the composer refers to as a swarm, began with "VT" (Track 14). Other examples of swarms are: the final section on "Dab" on the CD Plunderphonic (featuring 10,000 Michael Jacksons), portions of "Still" and "Wili" (used respectively by choreographers Karen Duplisea and Holly Small) "Spectre" (1001 String Orchestra commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, itself a sort of dance piece for musicians). "Amina" (Track 2, little bell swarm) and "Prey" (Track 10, whisper swarm). The long fade out of "Skindlilng Shadés (still a much-abbreviated representation of the embers of a dying fire) recedes to well beneath the threshold of audibility in most stereo systems, in a gradual slope from the maximum loudness of the CD 16-bit format to the CD minimum, digital zero (silence). This is then immediately followed by a similarly prolonged fade-in of the initial sound for Track 2. Depending on how loud one is willing to play, this diminuendo/crescendo could be perceived as a prolonged pause, though digital zero exists for only a fraction of a second between the two.

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from DISCOSPHERE, released December 1, 1991

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Oswald is best known as the the creator of the Plunderphonics genre, an appropriative form of recording studio creation which he began unfolding in the late ’60’s. This got him in trouble with, and also garnered invites from major record labels and musical icons. ... more

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