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See Public works perform at these venues:
Friday April 11, 8 pm at the CSPS
NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
CSPS, 1103 Third St SE, Cedar Rapids IA -- Tel. 319 364 1580
SONIC CIRCUITS: A dozen Iowa
artists bring a smorgasbord of new and experimental music--by composers
from around the world--to the historic stage of CSPS. Related performances
take place before and after the concert at outdoor sites on and around
Third Street. Featured musicians include Bob Paredes and Matthew Marth
(Rude Revue); Peter Hart and Robert Rumbolz (The Buccinators); Jennifer
Masada; Mary Means; and Lloyd Dunn
and Ralph Johnson (Public Works). Tickets $9, $7 for
students.
Saturday May 10 at ARTISTS
TELEVISION ACCESS
992 Valencia St, San Francisco CA -- Tel. 415 824 3890
Sunday May 11 at the PACIFIC
FILM ARCHIVES
2625 Durant Ave, Berkeley CA -- Tel. 510 642 1124
Wednesday May 14 at VENUE
NINE
252 Ninth St, San Francisco CA -- Tel. 415 626 2169
>>>>> PUBLIC
WORKS: A STATEMENT
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Pictured at left is the cover of our new CD,
Matter,
a rollicking digital effort
that plumbs the depths of the public psyche, and then shares its findings.
The techniques used are similar to those of their archetypes, The Tape-beatles; the work falls somewhere in the crack between music and audio
art. We complect a soundtrack using looped samples which are subtly varied
to maintain the listener's interest, while at the same time maintaining
a steady-state chaos of arresting rhythm. Over this, we layer various effects
and spoken texts from other sources, which say what they mean, or are made
to say what they are not saying, but nonetheless we think they really mean.
Digerati? It
is by turns, heady or visceral, funny or grand, somber or danceable, grave
or uplifting. It was just released on the Dutch label Staalplaat (January 1997); it's all New; trust Us, it is
worth your getting. |
Click here to see the Matter
booklet, re-cast for the web in
lurid color! (Warning: page loads slowly!)
Send $15 (postage paid) to: Static Output
/ P.O. Box 8832 / Iowa City IA 52240-8832 / USA |
| Music with Sound, a magnum opus by the new group Public works, is an exercise in
archaeology. In its previous existence, Music
with Sound took the audio art world
by storm, quelling any thirst for a labored and perfunctory "newness."
As a completely Plagiarized® work, Music
with Sound was in turn itself plagiarized.
The tired inevitability of the cliche of redundantly stealing stolen work
is only barely matched by the bone-headedness of the act. It bears witness
to an only dimly (or not at all) comprehended sense of Music with Sound's crystalling
moral imperatives.The best way to fix this dismal situation is for the creators
of Music with Sound to steal it from themselves. This, thankfully has happened
at long last with this release. We one-up the ante by replacing one track
and adding two other unreleased and undocumented ones. |
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Send $15 (postage paid) to:
Static Output / P.O. Box 8832 / Iowa City IA 52240-8832 / USA |
CONTACT US
[31.03.1997]
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