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| | | antiopic (usa) #an 001 cd need thomas windham “employment patterns” compact disc - five untitled pieces (52:51)
| the first release on the antiopic label, a solo recording from 2002 by the founder of table of the elements “act” presocratics (which i believe was a duo with jon philpot, now recording as “bear in heaven” on scott herren’s easter developments label.)
a razed landscape of shortwave radio crackle & hum, occasional eruptions of what sound like pine cone needles thrust skyward, their descent captured with light-sensitive diodes fed into white noise generators before landing on strips of wax paper connected kitted with contact microphones (although it’s most likely just shortwave static.) |
| | antiopic press release... |
| need thomas windham: heathkit short-wave radio | rmi electric piano | tascam 388
brad kendrick: short-wave radio (1, 3, 4)
andrew burnes and jon philpot: brule tandem guitar (4)
“the debut solo release by need windham, founder of concrete agit-prop duo presocratics (ex-table of the elements). a subtle new tape work constructed solely from the critically hated and rejected parts of presocratics compositions, employment patterns places itself far from the reserved monochrome of its contemporaries, distinguished, with a sly nod to morton feldman, through terse probing of tonal degree and compositional identity. need windham's fluid pop sensibility glares through the work's structure; indeed, the piece positively emotes -- frustration, joy, shame -- a true political and personal agenda emerges in abstract.” |
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