From: The Cassette Mythos, Autonomedia 1990
Alteration. Transposition. Disturbance. Phantom melodic ghosts and harmonies created with processors. Hybrid samples and unconventional instruments. Subtle vocal nuances and gestural moments suggest life substances. Combining and centrifuging mixed feelings are converted into this world of inventive music, self-reflecting. Technical and emotional properties must pair, and preparation is ready for impact.
As a female participant tampered into the interior realm/deeper cores in life gets a place of residence in the experimental picture. Endless profiles include controversial portraits of brutal, wicked, and sexually battered statements. In safer music, abandoned women in style roam valleys of expensive script. Somewhere it doesn't matter where she's been. There lie strange intuitive qualities always present in the art of affecting people from left field. Individual women are appearing from obscured grounds with truthful things to say, leaving behind great philosophical scars. But for everything she does for a production, the assumption for what a woman is instead (including racial expectations), is still anchoring her invisibility and credit is such a rebellious issue. Then when visible, obligation is hidden.
Because it is now so convenient to build one's own music studio at home out of MIDI and computers on even the lowest budget, it gives immediate access to recording. People control their own level of production giving those obscure people a way to learn in self-respect. While those people skilled but misplaced by unknown status go beyond alternative standards, the inevitable dishonesties built through society breaks open a road heading towards personalization and demand for self-fulfillment. This crops up the independent market. Life after politics. A truckload a day of new old-timers unload their ideas as they press RECORD on a witness stand.
All over the world there are small cassette networking companies, a lot of them out of people's homes with mail order catalogs sent to others who put out cassettes or own a label, those outrageous collectors, and people appreciating its raw low-budget form of exchange.
Developmental releases over-saturate your sense of choice and these fractals have infinite variations and personalities. Overseeing this evolution of new schizophrenia, certainly the individuals and personalities will carry its own set of resistance to each other increasingly infected with the urge to differ, yet so networked together to avoid alienation. Women may live in these doorways but I rarely can tell where they are.
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