Remix project from London Concrete and Dave Phillips
London Concrete
Formed in January 2006, London Concrete are artists Seth Brignell & Dee Bowen. London Concreteâs improvisations utilise plunderphonics, field and concrete recordings, reclaimed objects and hacked electronics, instruments, voice, contact microphones and manipulated technologies such as jumping speakers and pick-up coils.
In juxtaposing everyday and alien sounds and recontextualising found texts and visual art sources they create unique collaged recordings and performances.
London Concrete provide an alternative perspective of contemporary sound art and experimental music, injecting into it more physicality, humanity, chance and play; away from tightly controlled laptop and digitally-driven composition.
Their evolving and exploratory approach to sound making has included work for theatre, radio, dance and live performance. They have also worked directly with performance artist Anne Bean, Joel Cahen (Wetsounds/Scrap Club), poet Mark Anthony Pearce and dancer Lizzie.
www.myspace.com/londonconcrete
Dave Phillips
1986 - 1988: founding member of Fear of God, hardcore-thrash/grindcore-quartett - a few releases (many bootlegs), a few concerts and short tours. since 1987: solo-works as dave phillips (dp); animalism, humanism, bruitism, voice, body, musique concrete, field recordings. bunch of releases and constantly touring. since 1991: member of Schimpfluch-Gruppe, a collective of bruitists and performers dealing with psychophysical tests and trainings, at the core consisting of Rudolf Eb.er (also: Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock/R&G), Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) and dp. 1994 - 2004: various trips to Asia for field recordings, especially of insects. 2000 - 2004: founding member of OHNE, with Tom Smith (To Live & Shave in L.A.), Daniel Lowenbruck (Tochnit Aleph label, Raionbashi) and Reto Mader (rm74). since 2004: 'dead peni' one-man-doom/metal/sludge-project. since 2008: bassplayer with Ketsu No Ana. since 1987: live performances and tours (solo and with various projects) in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia, Republic of Belarus, Romania, Canada, USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand.
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Reviewer:Grossabots -
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January 28, 2010 Subject:
hmm
very good
Reviewer:Mark Anthony Pearce -
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December 27, 2009 Subject:
"Go ahead, break a few rules, see if the universe collapses..."
In botany the Rhizome is 'a root stalk' a stem of a plant found underground, that sends out shoots and roots from its stem. Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical concept based on the botanical rhizome suggests a unity, a multiplicity where ideas interact and create a new 'image of thought'.
This release appears to be chaotic and anarchic. Yet I feel the opposite. It promotes the importance of working with people of various disciplines and it celebrates both interactivity and interdependence. While each piece shifts in texture, timbre and temperament, one can understand a peculiar instance of logic.
It doesn't espouse a freedom of expression in the usual sense but rather a dependency, a utilisation of parts formed from an independence of thinking. The choices the artists make are all self motivated, they work with in the confines of a complex network of relationship(s).
Above all it is an experience that is hard to express and I feel it is more important just to listen and to find yourself lost in these sounds.
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