Knot Show

[ateolf]

I think I wrapped up my work on the Luigi Russolo tribute thingie last night. Mostly just compressing individual tracks and tweaking volumes and such and a few sequential nudges here and there. Then Mary Beth and I went up to the Cmplx to see some Indie Memphis-related screenings. It was themed around black women and they first showed a few shorts by a couple local artists, followed by a panel. The shorts were good, one of the artists' were funny and I liked the abstractions in the other's. This all was followed by a screening of Pariah, which I had never seen but was very good. Then there was work today. It's a Friday and it went like a Friday. They did the quarterly "birthday" recognition thing so I got to have some shitty nachos from a nacho cheese machine (I say "shitty" somewhat endearingly). Now I'm home, there you have it!

Comments

[symbioid]

I don't know much about Russolo except that he was a futurist and expressed the idea of noise as sound (and modern machinery as sound - proto-industrial).

I remember reading about an instrument he made, and how Mike Patton has one... (not sure if actually one that Russolo made/owned or just that type of instrument). I know there's a video online of Patton playing with it.

I have Pranzo Oltranzista... speaking of, I should check that out again, it's been ages since I listened. I think now that I'm older I can probably appreciate it more than when I bought it.

What sort of thing are you doing for the tribute?

[ateolf]

So, I "built" six (or twelve depending how you look at is as I did two individual sounds for each one) versions of the Intonuramori (the instruments Russolo created) via patches on the modular. Really just six patches based on what he considered the six families of noises. Recorded each, and put them together!