Eleventy-OneEleventy-One - Random Sampling [kpu051] (0)

A few months ago we received a somewhat random email from Steve Chatterton, who goes by the guise of Eleventy-One, who mentioned to us that he was finishing up a new project that was of great interest to us here at Kikapu. The material presented here in this eight-track EP represents an incredibly original approach to an almost academic sound: that of sampling and mixing Bach fugues to the near point of being unrecognizable. All eight tracks are short and precise, and coalesce into one remarkable collection of twenty minutes worth of new music that hardly bears any resemblance to the original source. We think the best way to present these tracks is by including these descriptions straight from Eleventy-One himself:

1. Pull It, Surprize! - The title is what my wife thought the Pulitzer Prize was when she was a kid. The song has a lovingly bit crushed bass woven into a barrage of drum kits & orchestral percussion instruments, lightly frosted with looped micro-samples of the Lost in Space robot.

2. Cock da Glockenspiel - Glock & castanets fight it out over a time-stretched drum kit. This time, castanets win.

3. See Ear Now - I created a sound from a picture of my left ear using BeepMap in Fruity loops. Cut up fine & sprinkle with some electrionic drums.

4. Fugue State - Harp solos against a backdrop of zipper bass, static glitches, and drum kit augmented with a bunch of percussion toys.

5. Melody - Ironically named due to the fact that it is totally devoid thereof, this piece features glitches & scratches in a cage match to the death over a drum kit. Occasionally, a minimalistic track triggers small slices from my vsnares sample library.

6. Tom & Bob - Violin, alternately plucked & bowed, takes the lead. The noise underneath is composited from a Tom Waits a capella sample & a Bob Mould/Sugar guitar sample all chopped up & distorted beyond recognition. The rhythm section has upright bass going through a wah-wah accompanied by drum kit & finger cymbals.

7. The Art of Fudge - Bach's Art of Fugue as you've never heard it before. I threw in just about everything into this one - sound fx, percussion toys, classical guitar, and then some.

8. The Ill-Tempered Klavier - When science & music collaborated to invent a keyboard instrument that could actaully play in tune in every key, Bach wrote a mammoth body of work entitled the Well-Tempered Klavier to celebrate. This piece takes some of that music and treats it in an electronic tip of the hat to John Cage's music for prepared piano.

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