Bruce Russell: Gilded Splinters (Tapes Work 1995-2005) Spirit of Orr
addition to being one third of the Dead C and half of A Handful Of Dust , Bruce Russell also produces things for myself and with some occasional collaborators. Gilded Splinters is a collection of Tape Works built between 1995 and 2005 and consists of 5 tracks.
Sonatas For Tape Delay And Toy Fire Engine of 2000 is a song recorded on a tape Analog mono ¼ inch, sent a backhand while playing and recorded at half speed. "Sonatas for Toy engine and tape delay" because he used the sirens of fire trucks to his son. In the song
Laury For Bruce Russell Penney using acetate recording of a lieutenant of the 'New Zealand army who sings in Japanese and places it in a background of different guitar sounds and concrete sounds?
In Poison + Lies = Money + Death [version] uses a recording he had made in a laundry room with a Dictaphone, which is then slowed down ... (it was published in 1995 in a 7 ") For this version instead of playing the vinyl with his stereo equipment and records it on a video camera contained in a cupboard. Recording is the sound of the needle on the record that the sound coming from the speakers and elaborates on the computer.
For Canterbury Vignettes # 2 From Space 2003 uses the background as the reverse of the concert recording in 2000 for guitar and electric toothbrush, tooth using the incredible echo of the tunnel and adds two oscillators.
Tunnel Radio was composed in 2001 and is recorded several cars entering a tunnel with the radio tuned to a certain frequency. The noise interference when the signal disappears is recorded. Russell says that every car has a different sound. These recordings are mixed with the sounds coming from the tunnel and also edited a tape similar to ¼ inch.
I read a review in which the writer wonders whether the notes which accompany this work are essential and if it is perhaps better to let the music speak for itself. For a time he revealed the mystery is not the same thing + listen to this album trying to imagine what it sounds or what images or feelings gave him this play. For me, knowing how to proceed increases the fascination. Bruce imagine tinkering with old recordings adding effects to give him a new sparkle is seen as an alchemist at work ... Being there while working ... Bruce Russell is an alchemist of sound, and not only for this work but for all his long pilgrimage sound ...
says Bruce Russell on Gilded Splinters " One of the things I wanted to focus Was tape work, as opposed to documentation recordings of live improvisations, Which Most of my other work has been. [...] ... To Consider my work as a form of composition [...] Was My plan to compile examples of my tape work over the last Few years, as a way of showing the different Developing Methodologies and Approaches That I have employed [...] it's the ideas and Their That Should Be expression of interest, not Merely technique [...] "
