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- From: dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell)
- Subject: Re: Some capsule reviews
- References: <1992Dec29.225723.11030@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois School of Music
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:56:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.225723.11030@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Scott Locklin ) writes:
- >Nurse With Wound "A Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table..."
- >I really wish Stapleton would lose his fascination with screeching dissonance.
- >I enjoy the noise fests of various other bands, unfortunately Stapleton's
- >Staple seems to be harsh high-frequency screeches that are utterly
- >unlistenable most of the time. When he is not scratching chalkboards he comes
- >up with some interesting pieces, but unfortunately, it is seems to be easier
- >to scratch chalkboards for the majority of the record. I ain't buying anymore
- >NWW without hearing the whole thing first. I will give this tape another listen
- >(Preferably while heavily sedated so as not to give me high blood pressure)
- >but I doubt as I will find anything new. At least I will pinpoint that one
- >interesting track. Steve Stapleton _does_ paint some really interesting &
- >entertaining album covers, perhaps he should stick to the visual arts.
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- Hmm...this effort was one of the earlier NWW albums, done perhaps some 10-12
- years ago. Judging from the sound of more recent works by Steve Stapleton,
- et al, NWW's gotten a good bit more sophisticated (although "The Sylvie and
- Babs Hi-Fi Companion", dating from that early period also, is 100% unlike
- the above description and is well worth having...it's very early Negativland-
- ish). You might want to look into something of a later vintage by NWW, like
- "Gyllenskold/Brained" or the recent "Thunder Perfect Mind", which is a really
- nice piece of ambient electronics.
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- >
- D.A.C. Crowell
- Computer Music Project/School of Music
- University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
- (dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu)
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