Check out our ad in the current issue of Providence’s weirdo rag Mother’s News. Aight.

Wow, found this cool article and album online courtesy of the Just Not Normal netlabel.
“My name is Marietta Cashman” A teenager’s recordings w/ Brandeis University’s Buchla 100 Modular Synth (1967-70). I studied at Brandeis in the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS) and I remember that Buchla synthesizer fondly. I took intro and advanced electro-acoustic music classes! For our graduation concert, we performed an improvised set using many of the lab’s electro-acoustic instruments but the Buchla is too big to move so we set up a separate audio and video feed (not a simple feat in 2004) so that my friend Dan could perform with us even though he was in a different room outside of the concert hall.

Anyway, check out the post and listen to the tracks. Music by a 14-year old Hannah Shapero, daughter of the then-Director of Brandeis’ Electronic Music department, Harold Shapero. The tracks are collections of sounds arranged into a song. Reminds me of firing up that machine and plugging in patch cables sans computers and listening to the hiss, crackle, bloops of the machine.

Slobba Ranks is a relatively new project by LT, mostly featuring slopped-out and screwed trashy remixes of tapes from west african, eastern europe, southeast asia and who-knows-what-all electro etnic musics. Expect a longer mix soon. This track is a remix of a song with no credit/information off a nigerian tape acquired in Philadelphia, PA in January.

I just got back from a 10-day trip to Kommune Karmitz, which I blogged about on my personal blog here. While there, I made several field recordings. Below you can find a recording of chickens eatings, ducks and cats walking around while I’m chopping firewood to heat the house. The second recording is of me washing dishes at Karmitz. I’m trying to record my dishwashing everywhere I stay, perhaps for a small release next fall. By the way, when not listening to the sounds of dishwashing the soundtrack of the Kommune largely consisted of cascadia black metal, rage, old punk, a little electro-wave, and swedish sing-songery stuff.

Hello, Lee T here. I’ve been traveling for a month so far, from London to Paris to Amsterdam to Berlin. I’m visiting lots of artists, some musicians, squats, concerts, pirates, secret kitchens, graff artists, open source netizens, video game museums, and even the odd curryworst bar.

I’ll be in Berlin another month. I’ve been doing some recording, but unfortunately my iphone was fried last weekend and I’m still figuring out what to do. This’ll have to hold you over.

Dishwashing at Marie D’Issy, Paris

Dishingwashing in the Jordaan neighborhood, Amsterdam

Tram 13 field recording in Centraal Amsterdam

Fade Sunshine is playing a show with Aaron Roche and some other cats on Jan 18 at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn. Show starts at 8PM. Probably will have a few guests playing too TBA. Come through. Philly concert details and flyer forthcoming.

I was going to write about the beauty of finding untoward amounts of (millenia of) sound on the internet and the beauty of having access to so many different kinds of experimental music. But that doesn’t need to be said. Of course, some physical artifacts can be beautiful and add to the pleasure of enjoying the music. Case in point: the recent Find A Way 10-parallel groove vinyl slab with the blank silent groove on the B (the “Double A?”) side.

But maybe you want more. Lots and lots more. Here’s links to more online music by the musicians on Find A Way.

Lucky Dragons

hair_loss

QUILTZ

J Bachman

Aaron Roche

And the Bandcampers:
DemonSlayer

David Lackner

And Chattr and Conscious Summary are decidely oldskool on myspace

Enjoy!

Today’s mini-mix comes courtesy of Prefix Moniker (nee Jason Carr), a versatile DJ and laptop battle performer from Philly by way of Detroit. Prefix Moniker performs for various Philly crews including Inciting, Broketronica and Rizumu. This 11 and a half minute excerpt from a larger mix starts out with gorgeous full throat japanese zen buddhist chanting and sspprreeaaddss oouutt as the blips and beats of hair_loss’s “Salon In A Funk” stab through the sweet mess with snatches of Weak Stream, Demon Slayer and who-knows-what-all. Carr re-ups with Quiltz’s minimal untitled sketch looped and groped before being overtaken by Weak Stream’s Hammerheadache guitar doodling. Following this morass is some sampling of Walter Carlos’ classic Switched-On Bach and as slowly as it starts the mix drops out, leaving you hot and bothered and ready for more.
Photo Credit: Inna V. Spivakova

Grab it:
Find A Way remix by Prefix Moniker/Jason Carr

In honor of the new Jewish Noise 7″ vinyl release, we’ll be presenting some refixes and mixes using the new Find A Way comp/weirdo album as source material. The original features 10 tracks on parallel grooves on the A-side and silent grooves on the B. More info on the original album on the Releases page. Today’s Way Slurred Down mix is by Fade Sunshine and features trks that are buffed-out, decayed, 206%-slowed-down, with-slop-noise-introduced. Free below. Check the original album for the original tracks and maximum vinyl stimulation. Download here.

News flash: I, Lee T, have started a major new phase of life. I have left Southern California and am traveling around the world for the next 10 months working on art projects, music projects, curating and visiting artists, curators, interventionists, pirates, etc doing contemporary urban creative projects in the public sphere. I’m writing this from Seattle now. In the following year, I will be traveling in the US, Europe and Asia and working on temporary, mobile art projects and JEWISH NOISE will stay very much alive. Visit LeeTusman.com to stay up to date with my many non-Jewish Noise projects, or keep it locked on this site for all my audio projects. There’ll be some shows on the east coast for the next two months (slay tuned) and probably a ton of field recording, crunky, junky, cell phone audio, web albums, mix cds, bootlegs coming soon.

Recent Jewish Noise and otherwise-related phenomena below:

Conscious Summary performs at The Luggage Store in SF

Weak Stream and Demon Slayer playing (with Quiltz off-camera) at the Find A Way record release party x Vanagallery

Berkeley

Fuck Sunshine met up and recorded music with AlienSlang (of Nerfbau) in Oakland

Visited pirate radio station Radio Valencia in the Mission district of San Fran with Alien Slang.