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Michael Thomas Jackson - Brained By Errant Plastic

from EC Split 11 by Walter Wright / Michael Thomas Jackson

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(3rd ) – completed September 19 2020

This work-in-progress was conceived of, and recorded during, the month of January 2017. The idea is that the fundamental material be subjected to a sort of generational degradation by means of processing, media transfer, amplified performance, or any combination thereof. This material was culled from phonograph and compact disk sources with no regard for copyright infringement (and I offer no apologies to the Marshfilm Enterprises, Inc., as their apparent opinions on labor, drug use, and ‘getting off on the right foot’ differ wildly from mine).
The first performance was the following month at the Winston-Salem, NC, USA, venue Test Pattern. It was a lively and rather crowded venue, which prompted me to perform the material at the maximum volume that was allowed (I was using the ‘house’ sound system). Split into two stereo tracks, the material was subjected to live independent waveform clipping and various editing/mixing techniques that degraded the material and hopefully made for an enjoyable listening experience. It is never my intention to antagonize anyone (unless, you know…).
For the current version, I am using as a mix template a digital image provided to me by Walter Wright. Something about this image is evocative of this work that I otherwise have not even thought about in over three years. There’s no distortion this time around and that basic material should be a bit more comprehensible which hopefully conveys a certain ridiculousness about consumer culture. I have a difficult time conveying my political beliefs through what seems to be abstract music, but believe me this is the most wretched and disturbing that my native country (USA) has been in my lifetime of 50 years; and I thought that in the mid-late 1980s as well. Plastic to me is, at least symbolically, anti-everything. Avoid it. Fight it. Love in spite of it! It is our medium.

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from EC Split 11, released October 10, 2020

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