Edito de Love FluxusWORKING TITLES: ~ american half-life ~ seldom vibrator ~ new years high resolution FRENCH GRASS (green) ~ common only to midwestern prairies, i played in as a child with my sister. ~ this song is for photographers pat graham, mark borthwick, and blair catherine borthwick. TURN OFF THE CENTURY (grey) ~ play on the phrase turn of the century, which in turn is a reference to bruce naumann s use of puns as titles for his work. ANOREXIC COLT HERD (fuschia) ~ anorexic coulter is the play on words ~ D.C. the day of September 11, 2001 ~ musical inspiration: canned heat POLLINATION (black) ~ alternate title was huffers on huffy s. ~ redhead spots is a nod to a female friend s freckles. LOVE FLUX US (pink) ~ sounds like love fucks us. ~ feeling of empowerment via new love. ~ the shine on your ellipsis sounds like the shine on your lips is these are interchangeable and work either way. WATERSHIP DROWN (white) ~ possibility of death at sea LIKE TREES WE FALL (orange) ~ red+yellow=orange, is a metaphor for mating ~ like trees, we fall an obvious death reference, but an allusion to jenny holzer s quote, dying should be as easy as falling off a log SYCHOPHANTS (green) ~ about a pretty, female musician s sychophants and her inability to catch-on or discern between her hanger-ons and her friends HUMAN BEINGS WOW! (beige) ~ stolen from a TV show title in Woody Allen s Manhattan. ~ the duality of human thought and action around earth. IMITATION SUNSHINE (yellow) ~ psychological detachment. ~ draining qualities of the suburban American environment, particularly in its minutia, E.G.: landscaping at gas stations, so-called bigbox stores etc. CLOCKWORK ORANGE AIRPLANE (blue) ~ the title is a mash-up of the celebrated f ilm and an obscure song title. ~ futuristic dystopia ARMIES SIT CALM, ARMY S SITCOM (burgundy) ~ another play on words ~ armies mainly sit calm Designed by Mark Robinson / Teenbeat Graphica. Cover photograph: Mark Robinson. Interior photograph: D. Trevor Kampmann all songs ©d. trevor kampmann published by pulcec (ASCAP) 2007 teenbeat.net 2007 Teenbeat this is Teenbeat 430 INCLUDED: ~ steiff baby grand piano, detuned. ~ silvertone acoustic and electric guitars. ~ gretsch kick drums. ~ maple works snare drums. ~ maxwin mx-400 hi-hat. ~ rhythm ace drum machine samples. ~ linn drum snare #5 and kick # 6 lightly blended with real drums. ~ trilogy by crumar synthesizer, organ, and synthetic strings. ~ casiotone mt-40. ~ tube tech lca2b compressor limiter. ~ laury blue atod dtoa conversion. ~ z-systems eq. ~ tony oxford limiter. ~ tube tech mp1-a mic preamplif ier. ~ neumann, microtech geffel, and shure sm-57 micrphones. ~ neve 33609 compressor limiter. ~ mutliple digital audio workstations. ~ mellotron samples download from international digital information resource. ~ violin found discarded on street in brooklyn. ~ one human voice. ~ one human pair of hands. this recording was made entirely by a single human being. recording took place in brooklyn, manhattan, and washington DC. Lire la suite