Preplacing Cark Prepacking Carl

Running Time: 5:09

Released On: "One Sound Poems" - Various Artists (8 tracks, 1 more & a mix added since)

Label: Ensemble For Sound Poetry And Contemporary Music

Release Date: 4th April 2023

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

Your mission should you choose to accept it; to create a musical work using only one sound. Those that accepted the challenge, we salute you. Our thanks to the EFSPACM group for asking us to put this one together, we've enjoyed it immensely.

Love and kisses, Magic Bullet

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This one turned out to be a challenge in more ways than one. Piotr Szreniawski, one of the main driving forces behind EFSPACM (you may also know him as Pszren from Communitas Volume III), comes up with some delightfully obscure ideas for the group's monthly projects. The concept behind One Sound Poems was to create works that consisted of one single sound, and as if that wasn't challenge enough, Piotr asked me if I could manage this one as he was up to his eyeballs in other stuff. Well, we've thoroughly enjoyed our time with the group, all seven of the previous projects we'd worked on being managed by other members, so there was no way I was ever going to refuse to take my turn at it. Fair's fair, after all. So, first up, I created a piece of cover art in keeping with the theme, e.g. based on one single image (left), then ran the call out post on the group page.

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Then you wait;   t i c k . . .   t i c k . . .   t i c k . . .

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The sheer variety in the responses was seriously impressive, the differing interpretations of the concept, ranging from 10 seconds of a truly single sound, up to 5:22 of playing with variations of the letter 'A'. My personal favourite was Ride by Jamie Awakshidar, which I used as the finale on the original 8 track release, though one further piece from Shaun Robert and a mix by Wilfried Hanrath were added post production.

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For our own contribution, and I realise this sounds quite bizarre, even by our own strange standards, we crumpled up... now what are they called... you know those pieces of coloured corrugated paper you get in the top of a box of chocolates (Forrest Gump would know)? Yeah, one of them, crumpled, sampled, then used this new cross-phasing idea that Skit had come up with for Estrangeiro. Pretty cool, huh? And the title? Again in keeping with the project concept, two anagrams of the same phrase; crackling paper... sorted.

MAN + MACHINE