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Blog : Incidental Misspelling And Career Advancement

Incidental Misspelling and Career Advancement

The Incidental Amplifications cd compilation receives a review from Vital Weekly(below)

Worth pointing out that Joe's surname is Musgrove not Mushgrove (Mushroom Grove...mmmm tasty!) and that I have not risen in the ranks of Room40 to become a co-owner with Lawrence - merely a co-curator of the CD and Installation.

INCIDENTAL AMPLIFICATIONS (CD compilation by Room40)
Day and night we are surrounded by sound, and most of the time we don't
want, or at least: we wouldn't choose this to be. Worst of all sounds
is music that we hear in the supermarket: muzak. Muzak tries to hide the
unwanted sounds, or what the owner of the supermarket thinks to be
unwanted sounds. Room40 owners Lawrence English and Lloyd Barrett invited a
whole bunch of sound artists to provide them with a piece of music that
was used in a spatial sound installation in a variety of urban shopping
areas in Brisbane, Australia in July and August 2005. Like with film
soundtracks, it's hard to see the music separate from the installation,
and in case you didn't see that, just like me, it's hard to relate to
these music pieces. I guess we could also treat the music pieces for what
they are: music pieces, somewhat loosely dealing with field recordings
and muzak. In that respect it's quite a 'normal' compilation with
sometimes highly unnoticeable pieces of music and sometimes great
pieces, such as Daniel Blinkhorn's piece of sampled electro-acoustica and Terre
Thaemlitz' playing around with notions of popmusic, fighting the muzak
with it's own means. And sometimes pieces are just too dam soft to be
noticed, such as Brandon Labelle's piece. Also included are Chris
Watson, Domenico Scianjo, Le Grand Jeu, Camilla Hannan, Joe Mushgrove, Aaron
Ximm, DZO, M. Rösner, Mathieu Ruhlmann, Blake Stickland and Thembi
Soddell. Quite a nice bunch of field recording artists, who deliver a
varying degree of sound processing. (FdW)

It's available from www.room40.org and most cool music stores.

Added by skon on 30 March 2006

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