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Why? And for whom?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subject of numerous thinkpieces, hullabaloo, and general derision, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/3067073/musics-weird-cassette-tape-revival-is-paying-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return of the cassette tape\u003c/a> seems, at first glance, to be little more than \u003ca href=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UIIOE03bff0/WLU3M0XwB2I/AAAAAAAAUtE/KlYL-JkjI-gCzxeDJnUHequMq2xLg9FJQCLcB/s1600/Grandmer.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bad joke about hipsters made manifest\u003c/a> in corporeal form. For those old enough to remember when cassette tapes were the de facto standard, there doesn’t seem much to celebrate about their return: cueing a particular track involves a good deal of guesswork and repeated mashing of rewind and fast-forward; their artwork (or “J-card,” in the vernacular of the cassette otaku) is small and mostly insignificant; and worst of all, every cassette tape player seems prone to occasional bouts of cannibalism, eating the very tapes they were designed to play, enacting a vicious blood price for the mere enjoyment of music. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649344\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/GN.gif\" alt=\"Jacober's 'The Grey Man,' released on cassette-heavy label Geographic North.\" width=\"500\" height=\"766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13649344\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacober’s ‘The Grey Man,’ released on cassette-heavy label Geographic North. \u003ccite>(Geographic North)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless, after nearly a decade into their return, they don’t seem to be going anywhere. Why, you ask? The answer was succinctly stated by our dynastic philandering former president William Jefferson Clinton a full quarter-century ago: “It’s the econom[ics,] stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply put, cassettes are a boon to artists, offering a cheap and easy way to release music on a physical medium for an increasingly tight-fisted audience. Some facts and figures, courtesy the Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report for 2017: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Total audio consumption, which Nielsen defines as individual album sales plus TEA, or “track equivalent album” (10 song sales = 1 album sale) and SEA, or “streaming equivalent album” (1,500 streams = 1 album sale) is at 235.5 million units, a +8.9% change over 2016. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Streaming — that is to say, music consumption which listeners generally do not pay for — is growing at an enormous rate. On-demand audio streams are clocked at 184.3 billion units, a +62.4% change over 2016. Taking both audio and video streams into account, total on-demand streaming is clocked at 284.7 billion units, a +36.4% change over 2016.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Meanwhile, album sales are dropping precipitously. Album and TEA sales were clocked at 112.6 million units, a -19.9% change from 2016. Digital album sales clocked at 35.1 million units, also a -19.9% change from 2016; physical album sales clocked at 46.9 million units, a -17.0% change.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>To wit: More music is produced, released, and consumed than ever before in history, but fewer and fewer people want to pay for it. And while a new record on vinyl commonly costs between $20–$30 these days, cassettes are still often around the $10-or-under range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-800x328.jpg\" alt=\"With free streaming on a perpetual rise, listeners are less inclined to pay $20 for an album.\" width=\"800\" height=\"328\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13649701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-800x328.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-768x315.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-240x98.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-375x154.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-520x213.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With free streaming on a perpetual rise, listeners are less inclined to pay $20 for an album. \u003ccite>(via Nielsen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years ago, I conducted an interview with German electronic musician Uwe Schmidt, best known as Atom Heart or Atom™. Active since the late ’80s, he has released hundreds of records across three decades, and summed up the present-day conundrum: “Today, you either go full commercial or full underground — there’s not really anything in between. In the ’90s and most of the ’00s, until 2008 or so, there was still a middle ground. You could make underground music on an underground label and still sell 5,000 copies, doing something really weird. That doesn’t happen anymore. In the ’90s, it was much easier to to make music and make a living.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Producing vinyl records isn’t cheap. Pressing 500 black vinyl records in four-color shrinkwrapped sleeves at Southern California’s Erika Records (to pick a random example) will cost in the neighborhood of $2,300 shipped to your door, or $4.60 per unit. (This number could swing up or down based on a number of factors, of course.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At U.S. cassette duplicator Cryptic Carousel (another random example), producing 500 tapes with J-cards and cases is roughly $1,275 shipped, or $2.55 per unit — nearly half the cost. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell.jpg\" alt=\"Low duplication costs for cassettes make the medium attractive for small runs.\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13649345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell-375x244.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low duplication costs for cassettes make the medium attractive for small runs. \u003ccite>(Cryptic Carousel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, because pressing vinyl involves a good deal of up-front, preparatory labor before a single record can be pressed, most pressing plants require a minimum order of 500 units, either ignoring smaller orders altogether or assigning them a surcharge, making smaller runs even less cost-effective. Tape duplicators have no such surcharge, making them well-suited to runs of 100 or 200 units — perfect for unconventional, unusual music. And then, of course, there’s the \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/514623/what-most-music-fans-dont-realize-about-record-store-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long wait time from overburdened record pressing plants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Atlanta-based record label Geographic North, who release left-field music of all kinds, tapes provide flexibility to promote untested artists. “Initially, we were drawn to tapes as a cost-effective way to experiment in a format other than vinyl,” says Bobby Power, one of the label’s co-founders. “Tapes let us devote a fraction of the production costs we’d typically need for a vinyl record, which then allowed us to take bigger chances on newer or less well-known artists,” he explains. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, for Geographic North (and dozens of labels in similar positions), cassette releases aren’t treated as lesser productions than vinyl releases simply because they are cheaper to produce. “The artists we work with put everything they have into their music, and we want to put that same level of love and attention into the final product, both in terms of audio quality and packaging,” says Power. “We put just as much time into working each and every release, no matter the format.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-800x499.jpg\" alt=\"Liquid Asset's 'Inviolate Light Being,' released on Jacktone Records.\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13649420\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-800x499.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-768x479.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-960x599.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-240x150.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-375x234.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-520x324.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liquid Asset’s ‘Inviolate Light Being,’ released on Jacktone Records. \u003ccite>(Jacktone Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For bicoastal Detroit-Berlin label Jacktone, which primarily releases tapes and focuses on emerging artists, vinyl is a risky proposition. “If you’re a small label trying to provide a platform for new artists with each release, releasing on vinyl is a hurdle, and you most likely won’t recoup the costs that go into producing the record,” say label proprietors Melissa Maristuen and Darren Cutlip. “In many cases, tape releases pay for themselves — the return on investment is much higher with tapes than with vinyl.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final analysis, tapes simply offer a listening experience that vinyl doesn’t (and can’t) match — not “better” or “worse,” but noticeably different. “Because the turnaround time on tapes is so much faster than vinyl, you’re hearing an artist’s current vision — what their sound is like right now,” according to Maristuen and Cutlip. For Bobby Power, “tapes are endlessly fascinating: the portability and durability, the small but scrappy format. They fit in your pocket and can hold 90 minutes of music. And as a consumer, you can drop $5 or $6 on a tape at a show or direct from a label, instead of $15, $20, or $25 for an LP. It’s a great way for music to get in the hands of more people.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With accessibility like that, don’t expect listeners to hit “pause” on cassettes anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In an age when fewer listeners than ever actually buy music, cassettes aren't just a hipster fad — they're easy to make, inexpensive to buy, and here to stay.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705030073,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1280},"headData":{"title":"Why the Cassette Resurgence Isn't Going Away | KQED","description":"In an age when fewer listeners than ever actually buy music, cassettes aren't just a hipster fad — they're easy to make, inexpensive to buy, and here to stay.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Why the Cassette Resurgence Isn't Going Away","datePublished":"2017-07-13T15:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T03:27:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13634049/why-the-cassette-resurgence-isnt-going-away","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“Cassette tape resurgence” — it’s a phrase whose very utterance seems to beg several questions: How? Why? And for whom?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subject of numerous thinkpieces, hullabaloo, and general derision, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/3067073/musics-weird-cassette-tape-revival-is-paying-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return of the cassette tape\u003c/a> seems, at first glance, to be little more than \u003ca href=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UIIOE03bff0/WLU3M0XwB2I/AAAAAAAAUtE/KlYL-JkjI-gCzxeDJnUHequMq2xLg9FJQCLcB/s1600/Grandmer.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bad joke about hipsters made manifest\u003c/a> in corporeal form. For those old enough to remember when cassette tapes were the de facto standard, there doesn’t seem much to celebrate about their return: cueing a particular track involves a good deal of guesswork and repeated mashing of rewind and fast-forward; their artwork (or “J-card,” in the vernacular of the cassette otaku) is small and mostly insignificant; and worst of all, every cassette tape player seems prone to occasional bouts of cannibalism, eating the very tapes they were designed to play, enacting a vicious blood price for the mere enjoyment of music. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649344\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/GN.gif\" alt=\"Jacober's 'The Grey Man,' released on cassette-heavy label Geographic North.\" width=\"500\" height=\"766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13649344\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacober’s ‘The Grey Man,’ released on cassette-heavy label Geographic North. \u003ccite>(Geographic North)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless, after nearly a decade into their return, they don’t seem to be going anywhere. Why, you ask? The answer was succinctly stated by our dynastic philandering former president William Jefferson Clinton a full quarter-century ago: “It’s the econom[ics,] stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simply put, cassettes are a boon to artists, offering a cheap and easy way to release music on a physical medium for an increasingly tight-fisted audience. Some facts and figures, courtesy the Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report for 2017: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Total audio consumption, which Nielsen defines as individual album sales plus TEA, or “track equivalent album” (10 song sales = 1 album sale) and SEA, or “streaming equivalent album” (1,500 streams = 1 album sale) is at 235.5 million units, a +8.9% change over 2016. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Streaming — that is to say, music consumption which listeners generally do not pay for — is growing at an enormous rate. On-demand audio streams are clocked at 184.3 billion units, a +62.4% change over 2016. Taking both audio and video streams into account, total on-demand streaming is clocked at 284.7 billion units, a +36.4% change over 2016.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Meanwhile, album sales are dropping precipitously. Album and TEA sales were clocked at 112.6 million units, a -19.9% change from 2016. Digital album sales clocked at 35.1 million units, also a -19.9% change from 2016; physical album sales clocked at 46.9 million units, a -17.0% change.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>To wit: More music is produced, released, and consumed than ever before in history, but fewer and fewer people want to pay for it. And while a new record on vinyl commonly costs between $20–$30 these days, cassettes are still often around the $10-or-under range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-800x328.jpg\" alt=\"With free streaming on a perpetual rise, listeners are less inclined to pay $20 for an album.\" width=\"800\" height=\"328\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13649701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-800x328.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-768x315.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-240x98.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-375x154.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen-520x213.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Neilsen.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With free streaming on a perpetual rise, listeners are less inclined to pay $20 for an album. \u003ccite>(via Nielsen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years ago, I conducted an interview with German electronic musician Uwe Schmidt, best known as Atom Heart or Atom™. Active since the late ’80s, he has released hundreds of records across three decades, and summed up the present-day conundrum: “Today, you either go full commercial or full underground — there’s not really anything in between. In the ’90s and most of the ’00s, until 2008 or so, there was still a middle ground. You could make underground music on an underground label and still sell 5,000 copies, doing something really weird. That doesn’t happen anymore. In the ’90s, it was much easier to to make music and make a living.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Producing vinyl records isn’t cheap. Pressing 500 black vinyl records in four-color shrinkwrapped sleeves at Southern California’s Erika Records (to pick a random example) will cost in the neighborhood of $2,300 shipped to your door, or $4.60 per unit. (This number could swing up or down based on a number of factors, of course.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At U.S. cassette duplicator Cryptic Carousel (another random example), producing 500 tapes with J-cards and cases is roughly $1,275 shipped, or $2.55 per unit — nearly half the cost. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell.jpg\" alt=\"Low duplication costs for cassettes make the medium attractive for small runs.\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13649345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Maxell-375x244.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low duplication costs for cassettes make the medium attractive for small runs. \u003ccite>(Cryptic Carousel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, because pressing vinyl involves a good deal of up-front, preparatory labor before a single record can be pressed, most pressing plants require a minimum order of 500 units, either ignoring smaller orders altogether or assigning them a surcharge, making smaller runs even less cost-effective. Tape duplicators have no such surcharge, making them well-suited to runs of 100 or 200 units — perfect for unconventional, unusual music. And then, of course, there’s the \u003ca href=\"http://flavorwire.com/514623/what-most-music-fans-dont-realize-about-record-store-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long wait time from overburdened record pressing plants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Atlanta-based record label Geographic North, who release left-field music of all kinds, tapes provide flexibility to promote untested artists. “Initially, we were drawn to tapes as a cost-effective way to experiment in a format other than vinyl,” says Bobby Power, one of the label’s co-founders. “Tapes let us devote a fraction of the production costs we’d typically need for a vinyl record, which then allowed us to take bigger chances on newer or less well-known artists,” he explains. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, for Geographic North (and dozens of labels in similar positions), cassette releases aren’t treated as lesser productions than vinyl releases simply because they are cheaper to produce. “The artists we work with put everything they have into their music, and we want to put that same level of love and attention into the final product, both in terms of audio quality and packaging,” says Power. “We put just as much time into working each and every release, no matter the format.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13649420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-800x499.jpg\" alt=\"Liquid Asset's 'Inviolate Light Being,' released on Jacktone Records.\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13649420\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-800x499.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-768x479.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-960x599.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-240x150.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-375x234.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone-520x324.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/Jacktone.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liquid Asset’s ‘Inviolate Light Being,’ released on Jacktone Records. \u003ccite>(Jacktone Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For bicoastal Detroit-Berlin label Jacktone, which primarily releases tapes and focuses on emerging artists, vinyl is a risky proposition. “If you’re a small label trying to provide a platform for new artists with each release, releasing on vinyl is a hurdle, and you most likely won’t recoup the costs that go into producing the record,” say label proprietors Melissa Maristuen and Darren Cutlip. “In many cases, tape releases pay for themselves — the return on investment is much higher with tapes than with vinyl.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final analysis, tapes simply offer a listening experience that vinyl doesn’t (and can’t) match — not “better” or “worse,” but noticeably different. “Because the turnaround time on tapes is so much faster than vinyl, you’re hearing an artist’s current vision — what their sound is like right now,” according to Maristuen and Cutlip. For Bobby Power, “tapes are endlessly fascinating: the portability and durability, the small but scrappy format. They fit in your pocket and can hold 90 minutes of music. And as a consumer, you can drop $5 or $6 on a tape at a show or direct from a label, instead of $15, $20, or $25 for an LP. It’s a great way for music to get in the hands of more people.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With accessibility like that, don’t expect listeners to hit “pause” on cassettes anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13634049/why-the-cassette-resurgence-isnt-going-away","authors":["11317"],"series":["arts_1718"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_13649343","label":"arts_1718"},"arts_13437201":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13437201","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13437201","score":null,"sort":[1497557094000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"caught-in-a-funk-new-local-releases-from-the-underground","title":"Caught In a Funk: New Local Releases From the Underground","publishDate":1497557094,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Caught In a Funk: New Local Releases From the Underground | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1718,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Signal From Noise is a bimonthly column from DJ, experimental music aficionado and writer Chris Zaldua. This week he brings us a roundup of new and notable records from Bay Area artists. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marbled Eye, ‘EP II’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melters Records; Bandcamp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since discovering \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/music/somethoughtsofacertainsound/top-five-parties-week-plus-notable-local-parties/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their first cassette tape last year\u003c/a>, I have been blathering on about Oakland’s Marbled Eye to anyone and everyone who will listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I may exist in a bubble, musically and otherwise, but it’s difficult for me to imagine anyone hearing Marbled Eye’s music for the first time and not falling in love as quickly as I did. Marbled Eye write post-punk, in the long (and perhaps clichéd) shadow of Joy Division and co., but they do so with such a natural ear for catchy, poppy flair that even listeners who are not heavily tattooed nor clad in black will find themselves enthralled: rarely is post-punk simply so much fun to listen to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of \u003cem>EP II\u003c/em>’s four songs run longer than four minutes, which means it’s over in a flash, just like their cassette. And just like that tape, \u003cem>EP II\u003c/em> works best listened to on repeat. Repetition makes apparent an underlying tension in Marbled Eye’s music, in which the staccato, rigid, almost Germanic rhythms of the bass and drums (punctuated by the delightfully monotone vocals) are set against searing guitar work whose emotional resonance belies the band’s punk roots. Punk as this music is, it’s anything but mindless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Marbled Eye put together a debut album as fine as these two EPs, it’s not hard to imagine this band’s star rising well beyond the Bay Area. If you aren’t already clued in, now is the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2065268537/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3744247341/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sepehr, ‘Step One’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Black Catalogue\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepehr Alimagham — or just Sepehr for short, pronounced seh-PAIR — has for many years commandeered San Francisco dancefloors, DJing Detroit techno and raw acid house with zealous, infectious fervor.\u003cem> Step One\u003c/em> is his first vinyl record, courtesy of Detroit label Black Catalogue, and it proves that his years of experience DJing have taught him well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the record’s tunes are comprised of potent, bassy kick drums, a few spare melodic elements, and barely-there vocal samples, just legible enough to register as speech but not so much that they reveal themselves — and little else. (Fine techno can often be reduced to a single maxim: Less is more.) “Caught in a Funk” winds itself around ascending synth chords while its vocal waxes lyrical about the Roland TR-909 and Juno-106, a drum machine and synthesizer indispensable to techno producers; “Step One” features a squirrely acid riff, the kind that gets stuck deep in your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acid house specialist D’Marc Cantu’s remix of “Step One” amps up the original’s intensity, but loses some of its elemental magic in the process. Nevertheless, Sepehr’s two original works sell this record on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3003167256/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=260321832/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jim Haynes, ‘Electrical Injuries’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aussenraum; digital edition forthcoming via Bandcamp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rarely does an artist’s personal statement sum up their work as accurately as Jim Haynes’: “I rust things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Haynes has operated within, and contributed to, the nebula of Bay Area experimental music. True to his statement, his work is bound by entropy, capturing the sound (or the sight, or the feel) of decay across various media. Morbid as that may sound, Haynes discovers creation within destruction, and builds entire worlds within things falling apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> is Haynes’ latest LP, and like all of his musical works, it is entirely built on texture, atmosphere, and the manipulation (and corrosion) of raw sound. (A cursory reading of the album’s press release, and its passage titles, suggest that ice and electricity are primary sound sources.) Unlike many of his previous works, which could understatedly be described as “calm,” \u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> is intense, thrilling, and caustic. But it speaks to Haynes’ maturity as an artist that not once does it suffer the fate which befalls most noise records: a tendency towards juvenility, towards aggression for aggression’s sake, and a complete disregard for subtlety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find none of that here. \u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> is fierce and uncompromising, but it’s judicious in its furor; Haynes knows precisely when to pull the throttle and when to ease up. In fact, \u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> reminds me of another American artist whose whispered susurrus and blistered drones evoke potent, uncanny sensation: David Lynch, whose soundtrack (or “sound design”) on the rebooted \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> is a noise masterwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any listener interested in experimental music, or simply interested in exploring the limits of their own listening, would be wise to seek out this superb record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/325648889″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Only Now, ‘Elements’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>POLAAR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Now is the alias of Kush Arora, a Bay Area-based artist and percussionist who explores the intersection between Indo-Caribbean rhythms and experimental music: think dub, dubstep, dancehall, bashment, bhangra, and beyond, all filtered through a techno-industrial lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Elements \u003c/em>is his latest work, a four-track EP released by French label POLAAR. Like all of Arora’s work, it is a collision of textures, styles, and sounds, operating in an expansive fashion; what’s so compelling is how it makes explicit underlying connections between seemingly disparate scenes, borrowing as much from the sleek techno designs of Detroit and Berlin as it does the tangled polyrhythms of Lagos and Lisbon. The end result feels futuristic in a particularly prescient way, as though Only Now is the soundtrack to a diaspora we do not yet know exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record’s opener, “Dirt,” is deliriously cacophonous, a percussive hailstorm. Remarkably, it doesn’t sound overcrowded, a testament to Arora’s skill as a sound-weaver. “Factory Ghost” loses no drummed momentum, but sounds relaxed in comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flip the record over for \u003cem>Elements\u003c/em>’ eponymous track, my favorite of the bunch. Here, syncopated beats, the cocking of a gun bolt, and ghastly chanting intertwine, sounding like a post-apocalyptic club scene in a William Gibson short story. “Tribute to Detroit,” as its title suggests, is the record’s most overtly “techno” tune, and it’s gorgeous, built around shimmering synth chords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My only qualm is that it’s over too fast; some of the tunes, as frenetic as they are, could have benefited from room to breathe. No matter: Only Now is building a sonic world of his own, and sounds quite unlike any other Bay Area artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3369073679/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=307325775/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Our underground electronic music columnist rounds up a rash of recently released records. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705030329,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2065268537/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3744247341/transparent=true/","https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3003167256/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=260321832/transparent=true/","https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3369073679/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=307325775/transparent=true/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1203},"headData":{"title":"Caught In a Funk: New Local Releases From the Underground | KQED","description":"Our underground electronic music columnist rounds up a rash of recently released records. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Caught In a Funk: New Local Releases From the Underground","datePublished":"2017-06-15T20:04:54.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T03:32:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13437201/caught-in-a-funk-new-local-releases-from-the-underground","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Signal From Noise is a bimonthly column from DJ, experimental music aficionado and writer Chris Zaldua. This week he brings us a roundup of new and notable records from Bay Area artists. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marbled Eye, ‘EP II’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melters Records; Bandcamp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since discovering \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/music/somethoughtsofacertainsound/top-five-parties-week-plus-notable-local-parties/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their first cassette tape last year\u003c/a>, I have been blathering on about Oakland’s Marbled Eye to anyone and everyone who will listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I may exist in a bubble, musically and otherwise, but it’s difficult for me to imagine anyone hearing Marbled Eye’s music for the first time and not falling in love as quickly as I did. Marbled Eye write post-punk, in the long (and perhaps clichéd) shadow of Joy Division and co., but they do so with such a natural ear for catchy, poppy flair that even listeners who are not heavily tattooed nor clad in black will find themselves enthralled: rarely is post-punk simply so much fun to listen to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of \u003cem>EP II\u003c/em>’s four songs run longer than four minutes, which means it’s over in a flash, just like their cassette. And just like that tape, \u003cem>EP II\u003c/em> works best listened to on repeat. Repetition makes apparent an underlying tension in Marbled Eye’s music, in which the staccato, rigid, almost Germanic rhythms of the bass and drums (punctuated by the delightfully monotone vocals) are set against searing guitar work whose emotional resonance belies the band’s punk roots. Punk as this music is, it’s anything but mindless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Marbled Eye put together a debut album as fine as these two EPs, it’s not hard to imagine this band’s star rising well beyond the Bay Area. If you aren’t already clued in, now is the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2065268537/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3744247341/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sepehr, ‘Step One’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Black Catalogue\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepehr Alimagham — or just Sepehr for short, pronounced seh-PAIR — has for many years commandeered San Francisco dancefloors, DJing Detroit techno and raw acid house with zealous, infectious fervor.\u003cem> Step One\u003c/em> is his first vinyl record, courtesy of Detroit label Black Catalogue, and it proves that his years of experience DJing have taught him well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the record’s tunes are comprised of potent, bassy kick drums, a few spare melodic elements, and barely-there vocal samples, just legible enough to register as speech but not so much that they reveal themselves — and little else. (Fine techno can often be reduced to a single maxim: Less is more.) “Caught in a Funk” winds itself around ascending synth chords while its vocal waxes lyrical about the Roland TR-909 and Juno-106, a drum machine and synthesizer indispensable to techno producers; “Step One” features a squirrely acid riff, the kind that gets stuck deep in your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acid house specialist D’Marc Cantu’s remix of “Step One” amps up the original’s intensity, but loses some of its elemental magic in the process. Nevertheless, Sepehr’s two original works sell this record on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3003167256/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=260321832/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jim Haynes, ‘Electrical Injuries’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aussenraum; digital edition forthcoming via Bandcamp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rarely does an artist’s personal statement sum up their work as accurately as Jim Haynes’: “I rust things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Haynes has operated within, and contributed to, the nebula of Bay Area experimental music. True to his statement, his work is bound by entropy, capturing the sound (or the sight, or the feel) of decay across various media. Morbid as that may sound, Haynes discovers creation within destruction, and builds entire worlds within things falling apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> is Haynes’ latest LP, and like all of his musical works, it is entirely built on texture, atmosphere, and the manipulation (and corrosion) of raw sound. (A cursory reading of the album’s press release, and its passage titles, suggest that ice and electricity are primary sound sources.) Unlike many of his previous works, which could understatedly be described as “calm,” \u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> is intense, thrilling, and caustic. But it speaks to Haynes’ maturity as an artist that not once does it suffer the fate which befalls most noise records: a tendency towards juvenility, towards aggression for aggression’s sake, and a complete disregard for subtlety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find none of that here. \u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> is fierce and uncompromising, but it’s judicious in its furor; Haynes knows precisely when to pull the throttle and when to ease up. In fact, \u003cem>Electrical Injuries\u003c/em> reminds me of another American artist whose whispered susurrus and blistered drones evoke potent, uncanny sensation: David Lynch, whose soundtrack (or “sound design”) on the rebooted \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> is a noise masterwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any listener interested in experimental music, or simply interested in exploring the limits of their own listening, would be wise to seek out this superb record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/325648889″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/325648889″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Only Now, ‘Elements’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>POLAAR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Now is the alias of Kush Arora, a Bay Area-based artist and percussionist who explores the intersection between Indo-Caribbean rhythms and experimental music: think dub, dubstep, dancehall, bashment, bhangra, and beyond, all filtered through a techno-industrial lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Elements \u003c/em>is his latest work, a four-track EP released by French label POLAAR. Like all of Arora’s work, it is a collision of textures, styles, and sounds, operating in an expansive fashion; what’s so compelling is how it makes explicit underlying connections between seemingly disparate scenes, borrowing as much from the sleek techno designs of Detroit and Berlin as it does the tangled polyrhythms of Lagos and Lisbon. The end result feels futuristic in a particularly prescient way, as though Only Now is the soundtrack to a diaspora we do not yet know exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record’s opener, “Dirt,” is deliriously cacophonous, a percussive hailstorm. Remarkably, it doesn’t sound overcrowded, a testament to Arora’s skill as a sound-weaver. “Factory Ghost” loses no drummed momentum, but sounds relaxed in comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flip the record over for \u003cem>Elements\u003c/em>’ eponymous track, my favorite of the bunch. Here, syncopated beats, the cocking of a gun bolt, and ghastly chanting intertwine, sounding like a post-apocalyptic club scene in a William Gibson short story. “Tribute to Detroit,” as its title suggests, is the record’s most overtly “techno” tune, and it’s gorgeous, built around shimmering synth chords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My only qualm is that it’s over too fast; some of the tunes, as frenetic as they are, could have benefited from room to breathe. No matter: Only Now is building a sonic world of his own, and sounds quite unlike any other Bay Area artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3369073679/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=307325775/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13437201/caught-in-a-funk-new-local-releases-from-the-underground","authors":["11317"],"series":["arts_1718"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_13444433","label":"arts_1718"},"arts_13297489":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13297489","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13297489","score":null,"sort":[1495738832000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"catharsis-in-cacophany-the-necessity-of-a-noise-phase","title":"Catharsis in Cacophony: The Necessity of a 'Noise Phase'","publishDate":1495738832,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Catharsis in Cacophony: The Necessity of a ‘Noise Phase’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1718,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It was one of those quick, bite-size conversations with a friend, rendered casually online with no form or purpose other than providing momentary workday distraction. But it left me with a phrase and concept so sticky that I’ve been running it through my head for months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The noise phase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t remember the context in which it was uttered: perhaps my friend was describing to me an artist he listened to growing up, or a new album from an old favorite. But I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is “the noise phase,” you ask?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s our collective childhood obsession with making an ungodly racket for no reason, the proverbial banging together of pots and pans. It’s Lou Reed’s \u003cem>Metal Machine Music\u003c/em>. It’s Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism. It’s Dada. It’s “Twin Peaks” and its influence on contemporary television. It’s William Burroughs’ \u003cem>Naked Lunch\u003c/em>. It was my teenage insistence on collecting records comprised of little else than rumbling sub-bass, piercing treble, and white European men shouting into a microphone run through a distortion pedal. It’s Kanye’s \u003cem>Yeezus\u003c/em>. It’s John Cage’s entire career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-U3wwXx40Q\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, the noise phase is a phase many if not all of us go through, as both consumers and creators of art, in which we begin to question orthodoxy and reject authority. It’s when we start to push ourselves towards extremity for extremity’s sake, in the hope that so doing will reveal certain truths, or make possible certain sensations that are unavailable through conventional means. I’d argue, then, that it’s healthy. Necessary, even.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Noise” and “music,” both aural phenomena, are closely related — but the line separating one from the other is a matter of more debate than one might imagine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merriam-Webster defines music\u003c/a> as the “science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.” Its second definition, much more straightforward, defines music as “an agreeable sound, euphony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noise is nearly the opposite: it’s a “loud, confused, or senseless shouting or outcry,” or more simply “sound, especially one that lacks agreeable musical quality or is noticeably unpleasant.” (Note the explicit value judgments in the aforementioned definitions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mV2mxjlXv8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Noise” is a distinctly modern phenomenon. Noises have of course existed since time immemorial; the very first noise was — what else? — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/a-brief-history-of-noise/422481/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Bang\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/a-brief-history-of-noise/422481/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the sound of which scientists have attempted to recreate\u003c/a>. But “noise,” as we conceive of it today, with all of its social and even political implications, coincided with the Industrial Revolution, as machines and amplified sound became facts of daily living, especially in populous cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the Industrial Revolution that paved the way for the Futurists, a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wide-ranging group of artists and intellectuals\u003c/a> (primarily Italian but also Russian, Belgian, and beyond) active around the turn of the 20th century, whose works unabashedly emphasized motion, speed, dynamism, spectacle, and industry. And it was one Futurist in particular, Luigi Russolo, who wrote a tract (\u003ca href=\"http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/noises.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Art of Noises\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) that laid the foundation for the elision between “noise” and “music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsflxIkveR0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the Machine, Noise was born,” wrote Russolo. “At first the art of music sought purity, limpidity, and sweetness of sound … Today music, as it becomes continually more complicated, strives to amalgamate the most dissonant, strange, and harsh sounds. In this way we come ever closer to noise-sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this tract, more than 100 years old, Russolo encapsulates the philosophy that I here refer to as “the noise phase.” He continues: “Everyone will acknowledge that all musical sound carries with it a development of sensations that are already familiar and exhausted, and which predispose the listener to boredom … For many years Beethoven and Wagner shook our nerves and hearts. Now we are satiated and we find far more enjoyment in the combination of the noises of trams, backfiring motors, carriages and bawling crowds than in rehearsing, for example, the ‘Eroica’ or the ‘Pastoral.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My noise phase began at a relatively young age, spurred by an early interest in electronic and industrial music. With each successive album I discovered and loved, I pushed a little bit further out, testing the limits of my own listening. Without realizing, I was following Russolo, seeking to “continually enlarge and enrich the field of [my own] sounds … [corresponding to] a need in [my] sensibility … [which,] liberated from facile and traditional Rhythm, must find in noises the means of extension and renewal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noise offered to me an extravagance, a purity of feeling and intent, that I could not find elsewhere. Noise was Bartleby’s “I would prefer not to” pantomimed as music. It was my hand over a candle, held for as long as I could. Noise wasn’t “pleasurable” to listen to, but it was unrelenting, unstoppable, and all-encompassing. In its inescapability, I found escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though it lasted for years, it eventually passed. The cloudy angst of my teenage years gave way to the naïve churlishness of young adulthood, and sooner or later I discovered the wonders of pop music. (Thank you, Broken Social Scene.) My own noise phase coincided with some of my most turbulent years, which in hindsight seems by design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSvrvq9Quo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the noise phase is lifelong. Japanese legend Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow, has spent the last 36 years producing\u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/12551-Merzbow?sort=year%2Casc&limit=50&subtype=Albums&filter_anv=0&type=Releases&page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> just shy of 300 albums\u003c/a>, each one a differently hued rumination on noise. And in America — to choose but one example — \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRRecords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts’ RRRecords\u003c/a>, a record store and label led by inveterate weirdo Ron Lessard, has for decades disseminated and propagated works by noise musicians from across the globe to whomever is willing and able to pay their rock-bottom prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you, dear reader, have never had a noise phase of your own, consider what I have written here. Noise, as difficult as it may be, contains infinitudes within it. In closing I leave you with a quote from a veteran purveyor of noise and a philosopher in his own right, the great American artist John Cage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then 16. Then 32. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Noise, as difficult as it may be to listen to, contains infinitudes within it. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705030538,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1190},"headData":{"title":"Catharsis in Cacophony: The Necessity of a 'Noise Phase' | KQED","description":"Noise, as difficult as it may be to listen to, contains infinitudes within it. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Catharsis in Cacophony: The Necessity of a 'Noise Phase'","datePublished":"2017-05-25T19:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T03:35:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13297489/catharsis-in-cacophany-the-necessity-of-a-noise-phase","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was one of those quick, bite-size conversations with a friend, rendered casually online with no form or purpose other than providing momentary workday distraction. But it left me with a phrase and concept so sticky that I’ve been running it through my head for months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The noise phase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t remember the context in which it was uttered: perhaps my friend was describing to me an artist he listened to growing up, or a new album from an old favorite. But I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is “the noise phase,” you ask?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s our collective childhood obsession with making an ungodly racket for no reason, the proverbial banging together of pots and pans. It’s Lou Reed’s \u003cem>Metal Machine Music\u003c/em>. It’s Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism. It’s Dada. It’s “Twin Peaks” and its influence on contemporary television. It’s William Burroughs’ \u003cem>Naked Lunch\u003c/em>. It was my teenage insistence on collecting records comprised of little else than rumbling sub-bass, piercing treble, and white European men shouting into a microphone run through a distortion pedal. It’s Kanye’s \u003cem>Yeezus\u003c/em>. It’s John Cage’s entire career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/n-U3wwXx40Q'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/n-U3wwXx40Q'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In short, the noise phase is a phase many if not all of us go through, as both consumers and creators of art, in which we begin to question orthodoxy and reject authority. It’s when we start to push ourselves towards extremity for extremity’s sake, in the hope that so doing will reveal certain truths, or make possible certain sensations that are unavailable through conventional means. I’d argue, then, that it’s healthy. Necessary, even.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Noise” and “music,” both aural phenomena, are closely related — but the line separating one from the other is a matter of more debate than one might imagine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merriam-Webster defines music\u003c/a> as the “science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.” Its second definition, much more straightforward, defines music as “an agreeable sound, euphony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noise is nearly the opposite: it’s a “loud, confused, or senseless shouting or outcry,” or more simply “sound, especially one that lacks agreeable musical quality or is noticeably unpleasant.” (Note the explicit value judgments in the aforementioned definitions.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6mV2mxjlXv8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6mV2mxjlXv8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Noise” is a distinctly modern phenomenon. Noises have of course existed since time immemorial; the very first noise was — what else? — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/a-brief-history-of-noise/422481/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Bang\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/a-brief-history-of-noise/422481/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the sound of which scientists have attempted to recreate\u003c/a>. But “noise,” as we conceive of it today, with all of its social and even political implications, coincided with the Industrial Revolution, as machines and amplified sound became facts of daily living, especially in populous cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the Industrial Revolution that paved the way for the Futurists, a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wide-ranging group of artists and intellectuals\u003c/a> (primarily Italian but also Russian, Belgian, and beyond) active around the turn of the 20th century, whose works unabashedly emphasized motion, speed, dynamism, spectacle, and industry. And it was one Futurist in particular, Luigi Russolo, who wrote a tract (\u003ca href=\"http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/noises.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Art of Noises\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) that laid the foundation for the elision between “noise” and “music.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wsflxIkveR0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wsflxIkveR0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the Machine, Noise was born,” wrote Russolo. “At first the art of music sought purity, limpidity, and sweetness of sound … Today music, as it becomes continually more complicated, strives to amalgamate the most dissonant, strange, and harsh sounds. In this way we come ever closer to noise-sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this tract, more than 100 years old, Russolo encapsulates the philosophy that I here refer to as “the noise phase.” He continues: “Everyone will acknowledge that all musical sound carries with it a development of sensations that are already familiar and exhausted, and which predispose the listener to boredom … For many years Beethoven and Wagner shook our nerves and hearts. Now we are satiated and we find far more enjoyment in the combination of the noises of trams, backfiring motors, carriages and bawling crowds than in rehearsing, for example, the ‘Eroica’ or the ‘Pastoral.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My noise phase began at a relatively young age, spurred by an early interest in electronic and industrial music. With each successive album I discovered and loved, I pushed a little bit further out, testing the limits of my own listening. Without realizing, I was following Russolo, seeking to “continually enlarge and enrich the field of [my own] sounds … [corresponding to] a need in [my] sensibility … [which,] liberated from facile and traditional Rhythm, must find in noises the means of extension and renewal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noise offered to me an extravagance, a purity of feeling and intent, that I could not find elsewhere. Noise was Bartleby’s “I would prefer not to” pantomimed as music. It was my hand over a candle, held for as long as I could. Noise wasn’t “pleasurable” to listen to, but it was unrelenting, unstoppable, and all-encompassing. In its inescapability, I found escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though it lasted for years, it eventually passed. The cloudy angst of my teenage years gave way to the naïve churlishness of young adulthood, and sooner or later I discovered the wonders of pop music. (Thank you, Broken Social Scene.) My own noise phase coincided with some of my most turbulent years, which in hindsight seems by design.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/IwSvrvq9Quo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/IwSvrvq9Quo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>For some, the noise phase is lifelong. Japanese legend Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow, has spent the last 36 years producing\u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/12551-Merzbow?sort=year%2Casc&limit=50&subtype=Albums&filter_anv=0&type=Releases&page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> just shy of 300 albums\u003c/a>, each one a differently hued rumination on noise. And in America — to choose but one example — \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRRecords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts’ RRRecords\u003c/a>, a record store and label led by inveterate weirdo Ron Lessard, has for decades disseminated and propagated works by noise musicians from across the globe to whomever is willing and able to pay their rock-bottom prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you, dear reader, have never had a noise phase of your own, consider what I have written here. Noise, as difficult as it may be, contains infinitudes within it. In closing I leave you with a quote from a veteran purveyor of noise and a philosopher in his own right, the great American artist John Cage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then 16. Then 32. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13297489/catharsis-in-cacophany-the-necessity-of-a-noise-phase","authors":["11317"],"series":["arts_1718"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_13298297","label":"arts_1718"},"arts_13209143":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13209143","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13209143","score":null,"sort":[1494615628000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-ghost-ship-a-music-collective-emerges-from-the-underground","title":"After Ghost Ship, a Music Collective Emerges From the Underground","publishDate":1494615628,"format":"standard","headTitle":"After Ghost Ship, a Music Collective Emerges From the Underground | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1718,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>If a thousand freaks gather in the forest to throw a week-long party and there’s no one around to document it, did it really happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the essential question being posed by \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katabatik\u003c/a>: a 17-year-strong collective of artists, electronic musicians, and performers throughout the Pacific Northwest who for many years have produced their own renegade events, shrouded by secrecy and attended only by those in the know. Now, after losing several core members in last year’s tragic Ghost Ship fire, Katabatik are shifting gears, focusing on publicly telling their story and sharing their constituents’ music and art as a record label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13209349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13209349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Katabatik insignia.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Katabatik] all share a commitment to pursuing the esoteric, and to hidden paths of creativity,” says Michael Buchanan, aka \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/identity-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Identity Theft\u003c/a>, one of Katabatik’s co-founders. “Not for the sake of obscurity itself, but for access to certain energies that are perhaps inaccessible and difficult to reach through common means.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those energies have their roots in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when large-scale, mostly-outdoor gatherings where DJs played music on enormously powerful speakers (the eponymous “soundsystem”) had migrated from Jamaica and taken root throughout the UK. When that culture mixed with Chicago house music, the result came to be known as the “free party” movement — a scene that centered organizers’ “refusal to abide by the rules of contemporary society, capitalism, and a 9-5 life,” according to \u003ca href=\"http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/06/spread-of-uk-soundsystem-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">those who were there.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the free party movement spread across Europe, the culture never made its way to the U.S. mainstream, hampered by a populace low in density and lacking interest in (or awareness of) electronic music. That is, until you scratch beneath the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Katabatik comes in. Started in Anchorage, AK, in 2000, Katabatik — the name a riff on katabatic wind, a particular weather phenomenon that occurs in glacial environments — migrated south to Oregon, finally settling in the Bay Area in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/katabatik/identity-theft-bcnu\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We primarily produced our events outdoors in physically remote places, and that rawness and unfettered experience is central to our ethos. Many of us are fairly uninterested in nightclub culture,” says Buchanan. “And we don’t want to depend on bars as the sole venue for our musical expression. There’s a mutual respect [between organizers and attendees] and an innate power that develops when you successfully operate outside of law and commerce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does this actually mean in practice, you might ask?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime in 2011, I found myself driving solo to a bizarre location in East Oakland, which I would later learn was called “\u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/night-crawler/Content?oid=2135915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr. Floppy’s Flophouse\u003c/a>.” Despite the weird majesty of the venue itself — a maze of warrens, attics, basements, and sub-basements — Katabatik’s motley crew of DJs, live electronic musicians, and performance artists left an indelible imprint on me. Equal parts beautiful, harsh, and bizarre, the music sounded simultaneously familiar and unlike anything else I had ever heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To top it all off, a cavalcade of robed, masked performers enacted a midnight ritual to celebrate the equinox. I left feeling like I had discovered a world I always knew existed, but had never known how to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/katabatik/scarford-cry-baby\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, things proceeded apace, with Katabatik hosting sporadic out-of-bounds events and occasionally releasing their artists’ productions online. That is, until \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the fire that devastated the Ghost Ship warehouse\u003c/a> on Dec. 2, 2016, killing 36 people — including sound engineer \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/15/barrett-clark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barrett Clark\u003c/a>, visual artist \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/16/jonathan-bernbaum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Bernbaum\u003c/a>, and musician \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/08/joey-casio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Casio\u003c/a>, all members of the Katabatik community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Barrett in 2001, when his group POLAR played on the Katabatik rig,” recounts Buchanan. “Right away we realized his mastery of electronic music, even at an early age. Gradually, as he shifted towards live sound engineering, he became the de facto sound man for Katabatik, and was amazing at it. His career [as an engineer] really took off, but he always remained completely loyal to Katabatik and prioritized our winter and summer solstice events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark was not only one of Katabatik’s most prolific artists; he was instrumental in making their events sound as good as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barrett was relentless — an irreplaceable human being,” Buchanan says. “Losing him and Jonathan, our main visual artist, was a huge blow, on a personal and a collective level. We’re an extremely tightly knit group, and there weren’t that many of us to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still grieving and processing, Buchanan is determined to do justice to Katabatik’s legacy, even if it means diminishing the group’s mystique. “We have a very real ‘thing’ that has grown organically over the years, and deserves an outlet into the greater spheres of public perception,” he says. “There is a huge body of work that has more or less been hidden in our archives for years — but there are also new works being created [by our artists] that possess the same vibrant energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/xanopticon/thee-source-none-shall-pass-xanopticon-rmx\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Buchanan, and Katabatik, look ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years, Barrett and I had discussed actualizing our vision for a record label,” he remembers. “Our plans were underway, but the fire made it painfully clear that our old ways of simply throwing endless underground parties were over, and that releasing our music to a wider audience was crucial,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way to establish in a less ephemeral way the basis for our creative praxis,” he says, “and a way for us to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Katabatik on their \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp\u003c/a>, which collects their digital releases. Live recordings from past Katabatik events are available via \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/katabatik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soundcloud\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Katabatik, a 17-year-old electronic music community that's operated in secrecy, goes above board — in large part, to honor their friends. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705030666,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1026},"headData":{"title":"After Ghost Ship, a Music Collective Emerges From the Underground | KQED","description":"Katabatik, a 17-year-old electronic music community that's operated in secrecy, goes above board — in large part, to honor their friends. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"After Ghost Ship, a Music Collective Emerges From the Underground","datePublished":"2017-05-12T19:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T03:37:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13209143/after-ghost-ship-a-music-collective-emerges-from-the-underground","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If a thousand freaks gather in the forest to throw a week-long party and there’s no one around to document it, did it really happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the essential question being posed by \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katabatik\u003c/a>: a 17-year-strong collective of artists, electronic musicians, and performers throughout the Pacific Northwest who for many years have produced their own renegade events, shrouded by secrecy and attended only by those in the know. Now, after losing several core members in last year’s tragic Ghost Ship fire, Katabatik are shifting gears, focusing on publicly telling their story and sharing their constituents’ music and art as a record label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13209349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13209349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/P1040849-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Katabatik insignia.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Katabatik] all share a commitment to pursuing the esoteric, and to hidden paths of creativity,” says Michael Buchanan, aka \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/identity-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Identity Theft\u003c/a>, one of Katabatik’s co-founders. “Not for the sake of obscurity itself, but for access to certain energies that are perhaps inaccessible and difficult to reach through common means.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those energies have their roots in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when large-scale, mostly-outdoor gatherings where DJs played music on enormously powerful speakers (the eponymous “soundsystem”) had migrated from Jamaica and taken root throughout the UK. When that culture mixed with Chicago house music, the result came to be known as the “free party” movement — a scene that centered organizers’ “refusal to abide by the rules of contemporary society, capitalism, and a 9-5 life,” according to \u003ca href=\"http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/06/spread-of-uk-soundsystem-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">those who were there.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the free party movement spread across Europe, the culture never made its way to the U.S. mainstream, hampered by a populace low in density and lacking interest in (or awareness of) electronic music. That is, until you scratch beneath the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Katabatik comes in. Started in Anchorage, AK, in 2000, Katabatik — the name a riff on katabatic wind, a particular weather phenomenon that occurs in glacial environments — migrated south to Oregon, finally settling in the Bay Area in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/katabatik/identity-theft-bcnu\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We primarily produced our events outdoors in physically remote places, and that rawness and unfettered experience is central to our ethos. Many of us are fairly uninterested in nightclub culture,” says Buchanan. “And we don’t want to depend on bars as the sole venue for our musical expression. There’s a mutual respect [between organizers and attendees] and an innate power that develops when you successfully operate outside of law and commerce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does this actually mean in practice, you might ask?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime in 2011, I found myself driving solo to a bizarre location in East Oakland, which I would later learn was called “\u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/night-crawler/Content?oid=2135915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr. Floppy’s Flophouse\u003c/a>.” Despite the weird majesty of the venue itself — a maze of warrens, attics, basements, and sub-basements — Katabatik’s motley crew of DJs, live electronic musicians, and performance artists left an indelible imprint on me. Equal parts beautiful, harsh, and bizarre, the music sounded simultaneously familiar and unlike anything else I had ever heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To top it all off, a cavalcade of robed, masked performers enacted a midnight ritual to celebrate the equinox. I left feeling like I had discovered a world I always knew existed, but had never known how to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/katabatik/scarford-cry-baby\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, things proceeded apace, with Katabatik hosting sporadic out-of-bounds events and occasionally releasing their artists’ productions online. That is, until \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the fire that devastated the Ghost Ship warehouse\u003c/a> on Dec. 2, 2016, killing 36 people — including sound engineer \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/15/barrett-clark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barrett Clark\u003c/a>, visual artist \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/16/jonathan-bernbaum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Bernbaum\u003c/a>, and musician \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/08/joey-casio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Casio\u003c/a>, all members of the Katabatik community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I met Barrett in 2001, when his group POLAR played on the Katabatik rig,” recounts Buchanan. “Right away we realized his mastery of electronic music, even at an early age. Gradually, as he shifted towards live sound engineering, he became the de facto sound man for Katabatik, and was amazing at it. His career [as an engineer] really took off, but he always remained completely loyal to Katabatik and prioritized our winter and summer solstice events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark was not only one of Katabatik’s most prolific artists; he was instrumental in making their events sound as good as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barrett was relentless — an irreplaceable human being,” Buchanan says. “Losing him and Jonathan, our main visual artist, was a huge blow, on a personal and a collective level. We’re an extremely tightly knit group, and there weren’t that many of us to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still grieving and processing, Buchanan is determined to do justice to Katabatik’s legacy, even if it means diminishing the group’s mystique. “We have a very real ‘thing’ that has grown organically over the years, and deserves an outlet into the greater spheres of public perception,” he says. “There is a huge body of work that has more or less been hidden in our archives for years — but there are also new works being created [by our artists] that possess the same vibrant energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/xanopticon/thee-source-none-shall-pass-xanopticon-rmx\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Buchanan, and Katabatik, look ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years, Barrett and I had discussed actualizing our vision for a record label,” he remembers. “Our plans were underway, but the fire made it painfully clear that our old ways of simply throwing endless underground parties were over, and that releasing our music to a wider audience was crucial,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way to establish in a less ephemeral way the basis for our creative praxis,” he says, “and a way for us to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Katabatik on their \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://katabatik.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp\u003c/a>, which collects their digital releases. Live recordings from past Katabatik events are available via \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/katabatik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soundcloud\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13209143/after-ghost-ship-a-music-collective-emerges-from-the-underground","authors":["11317"],"series":["arts_1718"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1501","arts_1118","arts_1559","arts_596","arts_1817"],"featImg":"arts_13214391","label":"arts_1718"},"arts_13038360":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13038360","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13038360","score":null,"sort":[1492048823000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"you-with-the-violin-sight-read-these-computer-algorithms","title":"You, With the Violin! Sight-Read These Computer Algorithms!","publishDate":1492048823,"format":"standard","headTitle":"You, With the Violin! Sight-Read These Computer Algorithms! | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1718,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Signal From Noise is a bimonthly column from DJ, underground music aficionado and writer Chris Zaldua. This week he brings us a roundup of notable new releases. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Happy Valley Band, ‘Organvm Perceptvs’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Indexical)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening to The Happy Valley Band’s \u003cem>Organvm Perceptvs\u003c/em> in its entirety, I can’t help but wonder: if someone bought this record sound unheard, took it home, and listened to it — how would their face look afterward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, I’m not sure if I’ve ever wondered that about any other record before. And I’m not sure I’ve ever heard another record quite like it, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/170204430\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it, then? According to its press release,\u003cem> Organvm Perceptvs\u003c/em> is “a virtuosic decomposition and reconstruction of the Great American Songbook performed by a core quintet augmented by New York’s best freelance contemporary classical musicians.” In other words: Great musicians playing great songs — badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a slightly uncharitable reading. The actual process involved in the construction of this record is a great deal more complicated — so much so, in fact, that it is accompanied by a 12-page suite of liner notes detailing the whole process. To make a long story short: David Kant, the Happy Valley Band’s “bandleader” or “composer,” designed his own home-grown computer software which algorithmically reduces pop music to its constituent parts, then transcribes those constituent parts as sheet music — so human musicians can play them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disjointedness and losses of translation inherent in this process are what make \u003cem>Organvm Perceptvs\u003c/em> such a — “unique,” let’s say — listen. The process is a good deal more complicated than I let on here, and entails some interesting, valuable philosophical conundrums, particularly with respect to notions of authorship, authenticity, and the role of computers in music-making as music-making becomes increasingly more technologically esoteric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://indexical.bandcamp.com/track/its-a-mans-mans-mans-world\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: The resultant music is bad. Quite bad. To this listener, it is like nails on a chalkboard. (Actually, nails on a chalkboard sounds much better to me; what does it mean that I prefer pure cacophony to off-time, off-kilter pop music?) I cannot in good conscience say I will ever listen to this record again, except to play as a parlor trick or to quickly put an end to a party that’s gone on for too long. That seems its chief accomplishment; this record is awful, even exquisitely so. It is long (and rich) in ideas but woefully short in execution — by design. Whether or not that makes it worth owning — well, your mileage may vary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Happy Valley Band performs live with Wobbly on Wednesday, April 26 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/indexical-presents-happy-valley-band-and-wobbly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets ($10 – $15) and more info here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-800x60.jpg\" alt=\"Turntable.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11687704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-400x30.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-768x58.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>KNXVES, “Civilized” / “Reasons Pt. 2”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Self-released)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, I received some new music in my inbox that stood out from all the rest: it was catchy, dissonant, and soulful at once, tied together by a chunky, corroded breakbeat. Called “Reasons Pt. 2,” it came courtesy of young Oakland-by-way-of-LA artist KNXVES, and it’s been bouncing around various parts of my brain since I first heard it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/knxves/reasons-pt2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward many months later, and a new email from KNXVES lands in my inbox: he’s released a new tune, “Civilized.” It sounds different from “Reasons Pt. 2” — it’s milder, more introspective, and less concerned with rhythm — but it’s clearly the work of the same talented artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KNXVES describes his music as “post-soul,” which in this world — where everything bleeds into each other and commingles without end — seems as fine a description as any. The “post-” is key: KNXVES’ music is rooted in soul, particularly apparent in the rich emotional tenor of his vocals, but he’s clearly concerned with a whole lot more. “Reasons Pt. 2” is steeped in trip-hop, the chunky breakbeat calling back to the golden days of Mo’ Wax. “Civilized” pushes farther out, all but abandoning beats altogether and incorporating glitchy vocal effects that makes the whole thing sound not unlike Oval playing with soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnWVwuKquE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the face of it, it seems silly to review these tunes — their combined runtime lasts hardly more than five minutes. But a YouTube video and a SoundCloud upload are the contemporary equivalent of a 7″ single, and more importantly, both of these songs are superb and leave me aching to hear more. And that, in today’s age of bombardment and profusion, is a rare feeling indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-800x60.jpg\" alt=\"Turntable.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11687704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-400x30.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-768x58.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rays, \u003cem>Rays\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Trouble In Mind)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who consumes an inordinate amount of high-falutin’, high-concept music designed to tickle the brain-stem, a certain part of me craves raw, direct, straight-to-the-vein records that make no bones about what they are or what sound they’re after: records without pretension or shame. Which is precisely what the new self-titled debut LP from Oakland-based band Rays is, and precisely why I like it so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/troubleinmind/rays-theatre-of-lunacy-trouble-in-mind-records\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rays is a rock band, or a punk band, or a post-punk band. More accurately, that doesn’t really matter and isn’t the point anyway — Rays do not strike me as a band particularly concerned with identity. Across 11 songs and about 30 minutes, Rays strum guitars, slam drum skins, and sing along — sometimes out of key, sometimes not — with an energy and exuberance that few besides the adolescent, the blithe, and the blessed can match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vocals, dissonant as they are, were a sticking point for me at first. It’s easy to read them as lazy or careless; on my first listen-through, I was taken aback, in fact. But on my second, third, and subsequent listens, my uncertainty became acceptance and then endearment. I allowed myself to accept the rock. And this album rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/troubleinmind/rays-lost\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impressively, Rays manage to flit through a suite of styles on such a short, sweet record. The opening salvo, “Attic,” is pure, unfiltered West Coast garage rock. “Lost in a Cage” is playful, even a bit surf-y. “Pain and Sorrow” is plaintive as its name. And “Theatre of Lunacy,” my favorite tune on the record, is post-punk bliss, taking pages from the European playbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no bullshit on this record. What you hear is what you get. Sometimes, that’s exactly what you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rays performs Monday, April 17 at El Rio in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://www.elriosf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets ($5) and more info here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Happy Valley Band performs a crazed Google-translate version of hit songs in San Francisco on April 26; also, new albums from KNXVES and Rays.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705030969,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1220},"headData":{"title":"You, With the Violin! 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This week he brings us a roundup of notable new releases. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Happy Valley Band, ‘Organvm Perceptvs’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Indexical)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After listening to The Happy Valley Band’s \u003cem>Organvm Perceptvs\u003c/em> in its entirety, I can’t help but wonder: if someone bought this record sound unheard, took it home, and listened to it — how would their face look afterward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, I’m not sure if I’ve ever wondered that about any other record before. And I’m not sure I’ve ever heard another record quite like it, either.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"vimeoLink","attributes":{"named":{"vimeoId":"170204430"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is it, then? According to its press release,\u003cem> Organvm Perceptvs\u003c/em> is “a virtuosic decomposition and reconstruction of the Great American Songbook performed by a core quintet augmented by New York’s best freelance contemporary classical musicians.” In other words: Great musicians playing great songs — badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a slightly uncharitable reading. The actual process involved in the construction of this record is a great deal more complicated — so much so, in fact, that it is accompanied by a 12-page suite of liner notes detailing the whole process. To make a long story short: David Kant, the Happy Valley Band’s “bandleader” or “composer,” designed his own home-grown computer software which algorithmically reduces pop music to its constituent parts, then transcribes those constituent parts as sheet music — so human musicians can play them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disjointedness and losses of translation inherent in this process are what make \u003cem>Organvm Perceptvs\u003c/em> such a — “unique,” let’s say — listen. The process is a good deal more complicated than I let on here, and entails some interesting, valuable philosophical conundrums, particularly with respect to notions of authorship, authenticity, and the role of computers in music-making as music-making becomes increasingly more technologically esoteric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://indexical.bandcamp.com/track/its-a-mans-mans-mans-world\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: The resultant music is bad. Quite bad. To this listener, it is like nails on a chalkboard. (Actually, nails on a chalkboard sounds much better to me; what does it mean that I prefer pure cacophony to off-time, off-kilter pop music?) I cannot in good conscience say I will ever listen to this record again, except to play as a parlor trick or to quickly put an end to a party that’s gone on for too long. That seems its chief accomplishment; this record is awful, even exquisitely so. It is long (and rich) in ideas but woefully short in execution — by design. Whether or not that makes it worth owning — well, your mileage may vary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Happy Valley Band performs live with Wobbly on Wednesday, April 26 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/indexical-presents-happy-valley-band-and-wobbly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets ($10 – $15) and more info here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-800x60.jpg\" alt=\"Turntable.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11687704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-400x30.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-768x58.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>KNXVES, “Civilized” / “Reasons Pt. 2”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Self-released)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, I received some new music in my inbox that stood out from all the rest: it was catchy, dissonant, and soulful at once, tied together by a chunky, corroded breakbeat. Called “Reasons Pt. 2,” it came courtesy of young Oakland-by-way-of-LA artist KNXVES, and it’s been bouncing around various parts of my brain since I first heard it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/knxves/reasons-pt2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward many months later, and a new email from KNXVES lands in my inbox: he’s released a new tune, “Civilized.” It sounds different from “Reasons Pt. 2” — it’s milder, more introspective, and less concerned with rhythm — but it’s clearly the work of the same talented artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KNXVES describes his music as “post-soul,” which in this world — where everything bleeds into each other and commingles without end — seems as fine a description as any. The “post-” is key: KNXVES’ music is rooted in soul, particularly apparent in the rich emotional tenor of his vocals, but he’s clearly concerned with a whole lot more. “Reasons Pt. 2” is steeped in trip-hop, the chunky breakbeat calling back to the golden days of Mo’ Wax. “Civilized” pushes farther out, all but abandoning beats altogether and incorporating glitchy vocal effects that makes the whole thing sound not unlike Oval playing with soul.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8HnWVwuKquE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8HnWVwuKquE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>On the face of it, it seems silly to review these tunes — their combined runtime lasts hardly more than five minutes. But a YouTube video and a SoundCloud upload are the contemporary equivalent of a 7″ single, and more importantly, both of these songs are superb and leave me aching to hear more. And that, in today’s age of bombardment and profusion, is a rare feeling indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-800x60.jpg\" alt=\"Turntable.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11687704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-400x30.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Turntable.Break_-768x58.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rays, \u003cem>Rays\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Trouble In Mind)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who consumes an inordinate amount of high-falutin’, high-concept music designed to tickle the brain-stem, a certain part of me craves raw, direct, straight-to-the-vein records that make no bones about what they are or what sound they’re after: records without pretension or shame. Which is precisely what the new self-titled debut LP from Oakland-based band Rays is, and precisely why I like it so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/troubleinmind/rays-theatre-of-lunacy-trouble-in-mind-records\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rays is a rock band, or a punk band, or a post-punk band. More accurately, that doesn’t really matter and isn’t the point anyway — Rays do not strike me as a band particularly concerned with identity. Across 11 songs and about 30 minutes, Rays strum guitars, slam drum skins, and sing along — sometimes out of key, sometimes not — with an energy and exuberance that few besides the adolescent, the blithe, and the blessed can match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vocals, dissonant as they are, were a sticking point for me at first. It’s easy to read them as lazy or careless; on my first listen-through, I was taken aback, in fact. But on my second, third, and subsequent listens, my uncertainty became acceptance and then endearment. I allowed myself to accept the rock. And this album rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://soundcloud.com/troubleinmind/rays-lost\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impressively, Rays manage to flit through a suite of styles on such a short, sweet record. The opening salvo, “Attic,” is pure, unfiltered West Coast garage rock. “Lost in a Cage” is playful, even a bit surf-y. “Pain and Sorrow” is plaintive as its name. And “Theatre of Lunacy,” my favorite tune on the record, is post-punk bliss, taking pages from the European playbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no bullshit on this record. What you hear is what you get. Sometimes, that’s exactly what you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rays performs Monday, April 17 at El Rio in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://www.elriosf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets ($5) and more info here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13038360/you-with-the-violin-sight-read-these-computer-algorithms","authors":["11317"],"series":["arts_1718"],"categories":["arts_69"],"featImg":"arts_13049471","label":"arts_1718"},"arts_12836586":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_12836586","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"12836586","score":null,"sort":[1489075218000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"on-music-discovery-in-an-age-of-overwhelming-choice","title":"On Music Discovery in an Age of Overwhelming Choice","publishDate":1489075218,"format":"image","headTitle":"On Music Discovery in an Age of Overwhelming Choice | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1718,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>What is “music journalism,” anyway? Who does it serve? And what is its purpose in an age when consumers no longer need critics — nor record stores, for that matter — to discover new music?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been writing about music, in both amateur and professional capacities, for at least 16 years — which, as of this counting, is one-half my lifespan. I have been reading about music for even longer: one of my earliest, fondest musical memories is purchasing the Wax Trax! Black Box (a three-disc compilation cataloguing the hits on seminal Chicago electronic-industrial label Wax Trax!) as a barely pubescent tweenager and, seated in the back seat of my parents’ car, listening to all three discs in succession on my Sony Discman during a long road trip — reading voraciously the enclosed booklet all the while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmxFwHwnHzc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a meaty, detailed booklet, providing history and context for the artists included on the compilation. That was my earliest exposure to “music journalism,” writing which increased my appreciation and understanding of music beyond the mere “this sounds good” versus “this does not sound good.” (Not that those aren’t crucial criteria, of course.) But that booklet taught me about the artists and the culture behind the music: it taught me that when artists support each other, collaborate, and are propelled by like-minded record labels, genuine scenes are born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it went in the ’90s and early ’00s — magazines like The Wire, XLR8R, URB, and others covered electronic and experimental music in print, while small, user-driven websites (like \u003ca href=\"http://www.brainwashed.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brainwashed\u003c/a>, one of the first outlets I published in) covered fringier material. As a music-discovery ecosystem, it functioned decently enough — listeners read about new music in print or online (increasingly online), then subsequently sourced said tunes by mail or at record shops, for those lucky enough to live in the proximity thereof. And then, by the mid-late ’00s, everything changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the mid-late aughts could be reduced to a single phenomenon in particular, that phenomenon would be the rise of self-publishing — and social media, the obverse side of the self-publishing coin. (In fact, one could not exist without the other.) YouTube launched in 2005; SoundCloud in 2007; and by 2008,\u003ca href=\"http://pigeonsandplanes.com/in-depth/2015/10/music-blogs-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mp3 blogs had become mainstream power players\u003c/a>. By that point, many nodes in that aforementioned music-discovery ecosystem had already been rendered irrelevant — and if they weren’t already so, the writing was on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12871626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r.jpg\" alt=\"An early issue of XLR8R, from 1993. Music journalism sure has changed since.\" width=\"838\" height=\"608\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12871626\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r.jpg 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-768x557.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An early issue of XLR8R, from 1993. Music journalism sure has changed since.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, many (myself included) believed that self-publishing would usher in a new world of possibility, in which artists and creators of all kinds would be free to share their work with the world, in which the crème de la crème would rise to the top, and those innumerable über-talented bedroom producers would finally get their shine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to 2017 and suffice it to say that the experiment did not quite turn out as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We live now in a world of infinite, never-ending profusion, where “keeping up” (with music; with art; with reading; with almost anything) has become a quaint notion at best — and a laughable, even absurd one at worst. Far from ushering in a world of limitless possibility where Bedroom Bob’s remarkable homegrown talent stands on equal footing with Corporate Charlie’s massive marketing budget, this onslaught of profusion has done the opposite, reifying existing power structures and gatekeepers and making it more difficult than ever to separate signal from noise, wheat from chaff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Simply put: pluralities of choice overwhelm us. This is a reality of the human brain that now, spoken aloud, seems patently obvious, but which the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/is-the-famous-paradox-of-choic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science of psychology is only just beginning to countenance\u003c/a>. (An excerpt from this fine article whose headline, lest it dissuade you, perfectly demonstrates \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betteridge’s Law\u003c/a>: “Iyengar’s initial study [demonstrating the paradox of choice] and her many follow-ups made a real contribution to our understanding, such that a principle that was once invisible — indeed impossible — a decade ago has become ‘widely shared’ by now.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When faced with a deluge of choices, consumers (listeners) turn to what they already know. And perhaps more than ever before, “what they already know” turns out to be the players (record labels; publications; artists; etc.) with the most money. Here’s a tweet shared last year by U.K. record label \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/10999-Modern-Love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modern Love\u003c/a>, a mid-size label dedicated to experimental electronic music (whose banner artists include Andy Stott, Demdike Stare, and Claro Intelecto):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ourmodernlove/status/783647476968517634\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deciphered, this tweet means that up-and-coming artists are discovered by small, boutique record labels (i.e., “first-order curators”), who then receive a bit of press, usually from independent (i.e., unpaid) online-only publications, and who then are snatched up by their much larger, much wealthier counterparts — the “mass-market curators” (like XL, Ninja Tune, and Warp, the closest thing to “major labels” in electronic music, or publications like Pitchfork and RBMA Daily, both of which are corporately funded). Without fail, the real groundwork and due diligence comes from labor that goes grossly undercompensated — or comes entirely free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoH4X9GyG4w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings me right back to my original questions about the modern meaning of music journalism and its purpose: who benefits, who pays for it, and how these considerations affect every player therein. It’s questions like these — ultimately, all questions about how we might make our musical ecosystem better and more just — that keep me up at night. And it’s questions like these that I’ll be exploring regularly in this space, a new column for KQED Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll still be writing about underground, under-the-radar artists, shows, and releases with a Bay Area focus. (“Old-school music journalism,” if you will.) But I’ll also be tackling these loftier topics, discussing conceptual conundrums that might not have answers, and — perhaps most importantly — I wish to involve both artists and fans in these discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you want from music journalism? Yes, you: the bedroom artist, the small label-owner, and the avid music consumer. You are what makes music go round; you provide the energy that makes this artform so vibrant. Music, writ large, may not be quite as simple as it seemed when we were kids in cars with our Sony Discmans, but I’d venture it’s just as exciting, bewildering and absorbing as ever. Let’s talk about it — and try to make it better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What was once a handful of important new releases each week, dutifully covered by a few niche outlets, is now an unmanageable, full-blast spigot of constant music. We're here to help.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705031296,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1190},"headData":{"title":"On Music Discovery in an Age of Overwhelming Choice | KQED","description":"What was once a handful of important new releases each week, dutifully covered by a few niche outlets, is now an unmanageable, full-blast spigot of constant music. 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And what is its purpose in an age when consumers no longer need critics — nor record stores, for that matter — to discover new music?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been writing about music, in both amateur and professional capacities, for at least 16 years — which, as of this counting, is one-half my lifespan. I have been reading about music for even longer: one of my earliest, fondest musical memories is purchasing the Wax Trax! Black Box (a three-disc compilation cataloguing the hits on seminal Chicago electronic-industrial label Wax Trax!) as a barely pubescent tweenager and, seated in the back seat of my parents’ car, listening to all three discs in succession on my Sony Discman during a long road trip — reading voraciously the enclosed booklet all the while.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GmxFwHwnHzc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GmxFwHwnHzc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It was a meaty, detailed booklet, providing history and context for the artists included on the compilation. That was my earliest exposure to “music journalism,” writing which increased my appreciation and understanding of music beyond the mere “this sounds good” versus “this does not sound good.” (Not that those aren’t crucial criteria, of course.) But that booklet taught me about the artists and the culture behind the music: it taught me that when artists support each other, collaborate, and are propelled by like-minded record labels, genuine scenes are born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it went in the ’90s and early ’00s — magazines like The Wire, XLR8R, URB, and others covered electronic and experimental music in print, while small, user-driven websites (like \u003ca href=\"http://www.brainwashed.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brainwashed\u003c/a>, one of the first outlets I published in) covered fringier material. As a music-discovery ecosystem, it functioned decently enough — listeners read about new music in print or online (increasingly online), then subsequently sourced said tunes by mail or at record shops, for those lucky enough to live in the proximity thereof. And then, by the mid-late ’00s, everything changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the mid-late aughts could be reduced to a single phenomenon in particular, that phenomenon would be the rise of self-publishing — and social media, the obverse side of the self-publishing coin. (In fact, one could not exist without the other.) YouTube launched in 2005; SoundCloud in 2007; and by 2008,\u003ca href=\"http://pigeonsandplanes.com/in-depth/2015/10/music-blogs-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mp3 blogs had become mainstream power players\u003c/a>. By that point, many nodes in that aforementioned music-discovery ecosystem had already been rendered irrelevant — and if they weren’t already so, the writing was on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12871626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 838px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r.jpg\" alt=\"An early issue of XLR8R, from 1993. Music journalism sure has changed since.\" width=\"838\" height=\"608\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12871626\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r.jpg 838w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-768x557.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/xlr8r-520x377.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An early issue of XLR8R, from 1993. Music journalism sure has changed since.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, many (myself included) believed that self-publishing would usher in a new world of possibility, in which artists and creators of all kinds would be free to share their work with the world, in which the crème de la crème would rise to the top, and those innumerable über-talented bedroom producers would finally get their shine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to 2017 and suffice it to say that the experiment did not quite turn out as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We live now in a world of infinite, never-ending profusion, where “keeping up” (with music; with art; with reading; with almost anything) has become a quaint notion at best — and a laughable, even absurd one at worst. Far from ushering in a world of limitless possibility where Bedroom Bob’s remarkable homegrown talent stands on equal footing with Corporate Charlie’s massive marketing budget, this onslaught of profusion has done the opposite, reifying existing power structures and gatekeepers and making it more difficult than ever to separate signal from noise, wheat from chaff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Simply put: pluralities of choice overwhelm us. This is a reality of the human brain that now, spoken aloud, seems patently obvious, but which the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/is-the-famous-paradox-of-choic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science of psychology is only just beginning to countenance\u003c/a>. (An excerpt from this fine article whose headline, lest it dissuade you, perfectly demonstrates \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betteridge’s Law\u003c/a>: “Iyengar’s initial study [demonstrating the paradox of choice] and her many follow-ups made a real contribution to our understanding, such that a principle that was once invisible — indeed impossible — a decade ago has become ‘widely shared’ by now.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When faced with a deluge of choices, consumers (listeners) turn to what they already know. And perhaps more than ever before, “what they already know” turns out to be the players (record labels; publications; artists; etc.) with the most money. Here’s a tweet shared last year by U.K. record label \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/10999-Modern-Love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modern Love\u003c/a>, a mid-size label dedicated to experimental electronic music (whose banner artists include Andy Stott, Demdike Stare, and Claro Intelecto):\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"783647476968517634"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Deciphered, this tweet means that up-and-coming artists are discovered by small, boutique record labels (i.e., “first-order curators”), who then receive a bit of press, usually from independent (i.e., unpaid) online-only publications, and who then are snatched up by their much larger, much wealthier counterparts — the “mass-market curators” (like XL, Ninja Tune, and Warp, the closest thing to “major labels” in electronic music, or publications like Pitchfork and RBMA Daily, both of which are corporately funded). Without fail, the real groundwork and due diligence comes from labor that goes grossly undercompensated — or comes entirely free.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/uoH4X9GyG4w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/uoH4X9GyG4w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Which brings me right back to my original questions about the modern meaning of music journalism and its purpose: who benefits, who pays for it, and how these considerations affect every player therein. It’s questions like these — ultimately, all questions about how we might make our musical ecosystem better and more just — that keep me up at night. And it’s questions like these that I’ll be exploring regularly in this space, a new column for KQED Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll still be writing about underground, under-the-radar artists, shows, and releases with a Bay Area focus. (“Old-school music journalism,” if you will.) But I’ll also be tackling these loftier topics, discussing conceptual conundrums that might not have answers, and — perhaps most importantly — I wish to involve both artists and fans in these discussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you want from music journalism? Yes, you: the bedroom artist, the small label-owner, and the avid music consumer. You are what makes music go round; you provide the energy that makes this artform so vibrant. Music, writ large, may not be quite as simple as it seemed when we were kids in cars with our Sony Discmans, but I’d venture it’s just as exciting, bewildering and absorbing as ever. Let’s talk about it — and try to make it better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chris Zaldua is a writer and DJ living in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"mailto:czaldua@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email him here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/12836586/on-music-discovery-in-an-age-of-overwhelming-choice","authors":["byline_arts_12836586"],"series":["arts_1718"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_991","arts_1118","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_12872047","label":"arts_1718"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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