The Strangest Audiobook Ever Made - B'O'K releases cut-up masterpiece

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cut up from 9 different audiobooks, Buttress O'Kneel's latest release is a surreal plunderphonic dada adventure through a ruined city, suspicious hospitals, demon doorways, dilapidated hotels, and magical realms, as Detective Sergeant Candy Blank tries to solve the crime of who milked Ronny Gladstone - and why.

created from hundreds of phrases and words cut from a diverse collection of audiobooks, this masterwork is equal parts nonsensical experiment and dream-like surrealism, a cut-up odyssey into crime, fantasy, and occult perversion.

is it really an audiobook?  does it actually make sense? or is it just a bunch of words arranged in a sense-like order?  you be the judge.


from the artist:

"follow the adventures of Detective Sergeant Candy Blank, as she descends down a messy, sticky, confusing rabbithole of intrigue and dream.

source material was collected from a bunch of audiobooks:

That Empty Feeling
The Bell Jar
Rattle
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
The Soft Machine
Queen of Air and Darkness
The Dark Lake
Twilight
Silent Music

they were more or less selected randomly. several of them were basically crime-fiction, and several of them were trad fantasy stuff. i didn't actually listen to them, but just grabbed a few chapters at random from each and went through them stealing samples. overall, the finished audiobok is a lot more "storylike" than i
ever thought it would be - although of course it really isn't.

another thing i noticed was that, even in a sentence spoken by eight different readers, my brain would somehow still pay more attention to WHAT was being said than WHO was saying it - the brain searches for meaning, even when it's totally conscious that there actually is none, and when the deliverer of that "meaning" is so clearly fractured and fragmented. interesting!

this took so many obsessive hours to create. i hope you enjoy it."






 

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