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Kittie Cooper - gasses (and goldfish) expand to fill their containers

from Stockhausen Serves the Worms by Semibegun

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I chose to work with Kits Beach Soundwalk (Hildegard Westerkamp, 1989) and Pulse Persephone (Daphne Oram, 1965) for this piece, alongside my own field recordings and recordings of my own DIY electronic instruments. I thought that both of these artists have a way with opening things up and looking at their insides, and I wanted to explore that aspect of both works while honoring the differences in the artists’ respective practices.

In one section of Kits Beach Soundwalk, Hildegard Westerkamp creates this beautiful fantasy that underneath the noise of Vancouver are the voices of barnacles—all you have to use to find them are your ears, and maybe a hydrophone and some filters if you’ve got access to them. This section felt especially meaningful once I moved to the city where she made these recordings. I’m starting to have a better understanding of just how much busyness and noise and container ships and barnacles are all cohabitating the messy layers of this place. Trying to dig around for the barnacle sounds has started to feel extra worthwhile.

In my imagination, Daphne Oram spent a lot of hours tinkering and opening up various hatches on the Oramics Machine and moving things around with tweezers or whacking the side of it with a wrench, like a wacky inventor from a movie. When I listen to her work, I feel like I can almost hear her shuffling around all these tiny components and bits of tape, and sticking them back together in strange configurations. I imagine Hildegard Westerkamp doing the same trying to uncover the sounds of barnacles, and I tried to channel that way of working in my reinterpretation of both of these pieces.

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from Stockhausen Serves the Worms, released May 5, 2023

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