A BASKET OF EARS
"Victorian sound artist B’O’K aka Buttress O’Kneel has been active since
the late 90s, experimenting with sound collage, cut-up political
speech, glitch-pop, mashup and media manipulation. She has created
everything from ‘audio documentaries’ to compilations of damaged CDs
skipping. B’O’K chops, distorts, stretches and mangles popular music in
compelling ways and has gifted Ears Have Ears with a very special
soundtrack called A Basket of Ears, in celebration of our 7 year
birthday."
- Ears Have Ears, FBi 94.5FM, 29 11 18
- Ears Have Ears, FBi 94.5FM, 29 11 18
NOTES ON THE PIECE BY THE ARTIST:
-starts with a simple cut-n-paste, before going into an unreleased breakcore jam.
-about 2:40 in, you'll hear Handel's Messiah turned into a midi file and replaced with piano.
-starts with a simple cut-n-paste, before going into an unreleased breakcore jam.
-about 2:40 in, you'll hear Handel's Messiah turned into a midi file and replaced with piano.
-at about 3 minutes in, the same approach is applied to Freddie Mercury,
but with the backing vocals unaffected.
-about 4:40, it's an improvised CD jam.
-about 12 mins in, it's a pumping mashloop of 212 and Skibidi.
-around 15 mins, the same midi-fuck treatment as earlier, but this time, i just did it to thunder. overlaid over some untreated rain sounds.
-at 16:20ish, to keep with the rain theme, it's just the drum part from the Led Zeppelin song 'Fool in the Rain'. (midi-piano-thunder continues.) stretched strings enter and soar.
-about 20:10, another CD glitch improvisation.
-more stretched strings, plus the acoustic guitar part from an old Yes song.
-then it harks back to the very start of the piece, with a cut-up version of Red Riding Hood. the title of the piece (A Basket of Ears) comes from this section.
-a few isolated layers of I Am the Walrus appear.
-and we're done! eaten by the Big Bad Wolf of time... we disappear.
-about 4:40, it's an improvised CD jam.
-about 12 mins in, it's a pumping mashloop of 212 and Skibidi.
-around 15 mins, the same midi-fuck treatment as earlier, but this time, i just did it to thunder. overlaid over some untreated rain sounds.
-at 16:20ish, to keep with the rain theme, it's just the drum part from the Led Zeppelin song 'Fool in the Rain'. (midi-piano-thunder continues.) stretched strings enter and soar.
-about 20:10, another CD glitch improvisation.
-more stretched strings, plus the acoustic guitar part from an old Yes song.
-then it harks back to the very start of the piece, with a cut-up version of Red Riding Hood. the title of the piece (A Basket of Ears) comes from this section.
-a few isolated layers of I Am the Walrus appear.
-and we're done! eaten by the Big Bad Wolf of time... we disappear.
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