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Silophone 2 20030621

by Distant Hum

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Movement 1 04:41
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Movement 2 15:05
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Movement 3 04:41
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Movement 4 18:52
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Movement 5 08:07
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Movement 6 01:17
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Movement 7 06:44
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Movement 8 11:59
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Movement 9 08:52
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Before Distant Hum met in person to make our collaborative sound collages, we did a few collaborations online. Expect these online sessions to be often loud and noisy, sometimes quiet and creepy, sometimes unintelligible, sometimes humorous. Most of all expect tons of natural reverb.

These recordings sound the way they do because we played them through the Silophone, an AV project in an abandoned grain elevator in Montreal: www.undefine.ca/en/projects/silophone/

Our entire "performance" was via the Silophone website (now defunct –although there is a microphone and speakers at the physical site in Montreal, which Greg later visited). Using the clunky RealMedia interface, we essentially took over a building that was 3000 miles away for a 2 hour concert.

From our respective homes in San Francisco, Amy and Greg each uploaded sounds and music that then played back (several seconds later) into the silo. The amplification of those sounds – plus any that other Silophone visitors might contribute – would create an immense natural reverb in the silo and the resulting stew of noise was then streamed back to our ears (and onto tape).

The delay in playback and the unpredictability of the total sound made improvisation quite a challenge. Once the sounds were triggered, there was no stopping them or changing them. Some harried coordination happened over instant message (download the transcript with the album to have a laugh), but it may have been these difficult early attempts that taught us how to perform together with a minimum of planning and coordination – how to perform intuitively, embracing serendipity.

Note: this recording was digitized from an old cassette tape. Artifacts from age, recording, and/or restoration may be heard, although we have tried to minimize them.

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released June 21, 2003

DJ Greg Rose, Amy Conger

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Amy Conger (CA), Andrew Hutson (AZ), and DJ Greg Rose (WA).

Live, improvised, collaborative music and sound collage performances.

Nothing is coordinated ahead of time. We prepare individually in private then come together to make these pieces.

The result includes many moments of synchronicity of the kind that happens when you have long-standing creative partners that you know and love. ... more

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