TCEX
this is the ultimate time-expansion project.
the first time i did it was for Rainforest IV. (see Tudor, David) i took recordings from my bedroom-studio of various types and stretched them up to 300 times their length without shifting the pitch. it worked quite well for me, i only had to mess with the volume of the cell phone track cos it went on for like 30 minutes at a time at high volume. the rest of it was sporadical if i may say so myself. it was pumped through a gastank and a truckspring which were connected in a figure- eight feedback loop with each other via contact mics.
for Beyond Music i wanted to work with dense layers of broadband noise, but my rig got ripped off right before the show so i had to wing it. i took the home stereo receiver that i've had for 15 years and a pair of fucked up old paper Saab dashboard speakers that are about as old and sent one CD of sound through them that involved some anti-anti-skip technology with a portable CD player. another CD was sent through the house PA and involved gongs and cengceng from Gamelan Tunas Mekar, a Balinese community gamelan in Denver, CO. i also used a new element in TCEX technology: murking, which involves compressing a long sound until it is less than a second and then stretching it back out again, thereby infusing it with chaotic noise elements. it should've been louder, but i was down to the last 15 seconds on that one. also during the performance Stella walked around and let everyone know who the dog was. (tho she shook loudly during this really quiet percussion set. good dog!)
