Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: blocks recording club, fake albums, free music archive
Halfway through designing the CD sleeve for what was going to be my second, mass produced release I stopped and thought: something about this does not seem all that interesting. I used to make CDs as art jokes. That said, I took those jokes seriously and I remember the pain and fun of hand cutting and gluing Digi-packs together and building a home shrink-wrapping unit all just to see how far into real existing culture I could hurl these things. With the shrink-wrap, surprisingly far. (I’m looking at you Wired and Pitchfork.)
As well, these are live recordings of instrumental sound works. Over the last couple of years I’ve been making art jokes in front of actual people, in galleries and performance spaces. That is far more satisfying than anything else I’ve done and putting it on a CD and then sending it off on its way to navigate the increasingly brutal waters of music retail would be myself losing track of the joke. So where do I go? Death-spiral artisanal irony, like releasing an 8-track cartridge, or something not even an object at all?
So thanks to the Blocks Recording Club, who are promoting this as much as a physical release (okay, stop giggling) and to the Free Music Archive for creating the tools to make this a very easy thing to do.
