We were just bumping down three scores from Stan Brakhage’s short films with sound when we started to investigate Rick Corrigan. It turns out that he’s playing in a group called the pickPocket ensemble and the label IMMINENT FREQUENCIES is releasing a cassette of the three scores Corrigan composed. The scoop on Soundtracks for Brakhage:
Three electronic soundtracks by Rick Corrigan composed for films by the visionary filmmaker Stan Brakhage. During the mid 1980’s Rick Corrigan was part of the Colorado-based experimental ensemble Architect’s Office when he befriended local film legend Stan Brakhage. In the years that followed they would collaborate on numerous film projects and live performances in and around Boulder, Colorado. The three soundtracks presented here were made between 1990-1992 and were composed on a variety of synthesizers and electronic instruments. Over the course of each piece Corrigan uses various techniques to create a wide range of otherworldly sounds. Layers constantly shift in texture and tone forming an aural mosaic. Never redundant and thoroughly genuine, these are the sounds of an amazing electronic synthesis. Transferred from the original cassette masters and featuring artwork created from Brakhage’s original 16mm films.
Radical, no? Also, it’s limited to 150 copies so sleep not. Here’s a preview care of DSCRMNT:
We also gotta’ endorse two other Imminent Frequencies releases: Dawn Widow by Michigan ex-pat STEVE KENNEY and Waves by the mighty EARTHEN SEA (1, 2, 3) which you can currently only snag via AQUARIUS RECORDS in SF.
We’re giving away fifty (50!) eggs this Wednesday at Bar 355. There will be a great number of hand decorated eggs for eating, a slew of fake eggs with money inside, and another batch filled with secret messages. Resident Oakland Whip disc jocks, Lloyd & Forest, will be playing records all night.
Here’s a mix by Forest recorded live to mono tape cassette at last month’s WRETCHED LOOKS bangalang.
DOWNLOAD: FOREST JUZIUK – LIVE @ WRETCHED LOOKS
EGGS FOR DAYS • 25 April 2012 • 10PM • Bar 355 • 355 19th St, Oakland, CA • FREE • FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/HV9VMW
PBP & SSW PRESENTS: VOLTRON • Feat: SUN ARAW, DIVA, M. GEDDES GENGRAS, MATTHEWDAVID, MAGIC TOUCH & FOREST JUZIUK • 31 March 2012 • 5:30PM-3AM • Peralta Palace • Photos by ERIN NICOLE BRATKOVICH
EVERYTHING FUGGIN’ SUXXX! But not really, it’s actually all pretty good. HOTT LAVA is returning to Michigan to host EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE for a second round of DOGGIE WOGGIEZ! POOCHIE WOOCHIEZ! We screened it on two(!) screens in Oakland & it was genuinely ridiculous. Yes, there are many elements of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 masterpiece THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, a ton of painfully dumb dog movie clips, and then there’s EIT with a live show that trumps previous shows. So good yet so bad & right back around to good again!
Ann Arbor, you wonderful town — we’re so excited to see you! We’re back at the always wonderful Yellow Barn and Forest J will probably play some records. Join us, won’t you?
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE… DOGGIE WOGGIEZ! POOCHIE WOOCHIEZ! • 5 April 2012 • 8PM • Yellow Barn • 416 W Huron, Ann Arbor, MI • $10 • FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/H91lIL
