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previous artist: linda aubry bullock		there are 3 titles featuring michael bullock in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: mike bullock

$12.01

back in stock as of
october 15th, 2007

first in stock on
november 25th, 2003

file under:
free-improv
sound-research

chloë recordings (usa) #chloe 003 cd

vic rawlings / michael bullock “fall of song” compact disc

as if the
as the
when the
as in the
about the
wherein the
what if the
as we went to
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mike and vic are two visionary artists who not have not only fashioned their own rube goldberg-lineage kit out of discarded oscillators, guts of mixing desks, old contact mics, etc... but have developed a language to communicate with each other using these means. said language has a wide vocabulary and, at the time of this recording, was at an all time peak.

chloë recordings press release...

vic rawlings : cello, open-circuit electronics.
mike bullock : contrabass, tone generators

“this disc was recorded in an antique wooden gymnasium last winter, where it was so cold we couldn’t feel our hands. vic plays amplified cello and a rack of electronics he (re)built himself out of exposed circuit boards and salvaged speaker cones. mike plays amplified contrabass and a tone generator originally made for scientists. the result is an unbelievably stark sound world utterly alienated from the glib fluidity usually associated with bowed strings. the pieces on 'fall of song' are by turns deep-frozen and blisteringly hot. the rhythms are those of hands moving over a workbench or methodically slashing tires.

after playing in various bands together since 1996, rawlings and bullock first played as a duo in summer 2000. they will be touring france and the netherlands in october 2003 in support of ‘fall of song.’”

$8.82

back in stock as of
december 16th, 2010

first in stock on
march 28th, 2007

best of 2007 !!!

chocolate monk (uk) #choc.144 cd

greg kelley “one hour as something that didn't turn out the way i intended it to” compact disc recordable

one hour as something that didn't turn out the way i intended it to (i’m not anti-music, music’s anti-me)

chocolate monk press release...

greg kelley – one hour as something that didn't turn out the way i intended it to (cd-r)

“another exerise in failure. spring 2003: with assistance from vic rawlings, i fill my room at club awesome in somerville ma w/ electric keyboards, synth, a small organ and set them all for drone. a radio plays static. record to md, output md through my stereo for low feedback. an electric fan is aimed at the microphone for the distorted vintage 78 effect (rpm, not the year). vic bowed a single cello note at some point and a cymbal was scraped. the intent: record in mono for 2 hours, communicate with the dead. after 1 hour, i couldn't take it any more. my intended "two hours as..." is now "one hour as..." i fussed over it for a while. it's kind of boring. i like boring, but...

late winter 2004: i must do something with this recording. i decide to look backwards into the archives...

january 8, 2000: i send out a call to arms: meet me at twisted village records, cambridge ma at 8pm. it's scelsi's birthday and we will play a memorial drone for him. the call was met by oliver alden, mike bullock, james baumgartner, seth cluett, james coleman, david dougan, david gross, tatsuya nakatani, howard stelzer, bhob rainey, vic rawlings. some automatic instruments played themselves. others may have been there, but i don'tremember.and you can't really hear them anyway.

back to late winter 2004: i record a new track onto my 4 track in my bedroom in allston ma. trumpet and radio static. (dj screw's ghost inhabited my 4 track near the end of this track.) then i record a burning guitar solo for the end of my new and improved "one hour as..." the mono drone, the scelsi tribute band, the trumpet/radio track and the hott guitar track are all mixed down from 4 track to md under the influence of samuel smith oatmeal stout. a vocal intro and headphone feedback interruptions are then added. the task is complete. it's a bloodbath. what have i done?”

$13.44

new to stock as of
january 27th, 2012

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition
free-improvisation
analogue-synth
experimental-instruments

songs from under the floorboards (usa) #floor07 cd

michael bullock “mild disappearances” compact disc-recordable

first disappearance (1) (14:42)
first disappearance (2) (1:35)
first disappearance (3) (2:43)
first disappearance (4) (4:33)
second disappearance (23:17)

2011 release ; ... excellent, crunchy bass & “cracked” electronic pieces from mike bullock, recorded in a combination of live-board & in-situ fidelities ...

songs from under the floorboards press release...

mild disappearances
mike bullock

i have known bassist/video artist/composer mike bullock for about as long as i’ve known anyone outside of my own family, and have always witnessed his restlessly energetic explorations with amazement. the guy just doesn’t sit still! in 1998, he was 1/3 of fetish, a confrontational anti-jazz trio with david gross and tatsuya nakatani that managed to frustrate and alienate just about everyone within earshot. they were one of my favorite bands. after fetish parted ways, bullock embraced absurd theatricality, performing entire concerts where he lifted his contrabass over his head and let it feed back brutally. mike’s duo with vic rawlings resulted in fabulously baffling performances of rewired electronics, unstable feedback, and provocatively awkward pauses. subsequent years saw mike embracing video art, computer music, and large group improvisation as part of the bsc (with rawlings, bhob rainey, greg kelley, and more). like i said, the guy is in constant motion.

mike’s latest work pushes the bass even further to the background, though traces of vibrating strings remain. his new album, mild disappearances, finds bullock wrestling with analog and digital synthesis for five slabs of grimy, subterranean rumble.

catalog no: floor7
format: cdr
edition: 100

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