OCF 07 – Glass Aspiedel
Shearwater Records is pleased to announce the seventh in a series of weekly – more or less – releases in their virtual seven inch “OCF” series.
Glass Aspiedel is a one-off mail art collaboration between Timaru’s Glen Farmer and Australian producer Simon Bell. Farmer’s work consists of chopped and screwed manipulations of track from sound effects cds, and he has contributed to several key works from the Timaru scene, including Twelve Dollah’s ‘12Bux’, Moley’s ‘Buttercamp Don’t Melt’ and Smith vs Brown’s ‘Breath of the Volcano’. Simon Bell is best known as the only member of the charmingly named suckcore group MONG who doesn’t have Down Syndrome – their two albums, ‘Men Of New Guns’ and ‘My Only Night Garden’ are possibly the most fucking unlistenable things I’ve ever heard, like Hanatarash on crack. His solo work, on the other hand, is extraordinarily pretty, huge fields of Max/MSP loveliness.
Farmer and Bell met through an on-line gaming forum, and OCF 07 is the result. Farmer’s contribution will possibly be familiar to Shearwater Records aficionados – another version is a component of Smith vs Brown’s ‘Another Time, Perhaps’: an industrial nightmare of railways and factory noises, fucked up and dubbed out on an old four-track so that the trains seem to run across the ceiling, Escher-wise. (As a side-note, I assumed when I first heard this that it was an allusion to ‘Étude aux chemins de fer’, but to our mutual surprise, when I brought this up with Farmer, he’d never heard of Schaeffer. A quick point to ubuweb sorted him out nicely).
Smith then disorientates the listener further with three successive iterations of granular synthesis, abstracting the final product increasingly far from its original source. Apparently it’s inspired by the time lapse interludes in ‘A Zed and Two Noughts, and it’s terrific, finely detailed stuff, a study of the beauty of the processes of breakage and decay.
Available for free from the DivShare link below. Size: 13.7 Mb.
This and previous releases are archived at http://shearwaterrecords.blogspot.com/
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