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Artist......: Evicshen
Album.......: Hair Birth
Label.......: American Dreams Records
Genre.......: Noise
Catnr.......: 6ADR
Source......: CDR
Rip.date....: 2020-10-28
Str.date....: 2020-07-10
Quality.....: 694 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://evicshen.bandcamp.com
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1. Current Affair 6:46
2. Under The Stall Door 7:52
3. Classical Mechanics 2:15
4. Funhouse Mirror Stage 6:12
5. Bolete 7:18
6. Lissajous 7:55
7. Fever Pitch 5:34
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,: Evicshen AKA Victoria Shen is an experimental sound artist who :,
: has worked with electronics for over a decade. Her practice :
:' blurs the lines between sound, visual, and tactile art. Shen ':
,: originally got her feet wet working for Jessica Rylan (a student :,
: and former employee of Don Buchla) at Flower Electronics, :
:' creating patchable analog synthesizers. She cultivated a ':
,: fluency with electronics, which in conjunction with her :,
: expansive interests in the arts and sciences, challenges a :
:' conventional means to ômake music.ö ':
,: :,
: Though synthesizers are the backbone of ShenÆs music, while :
:' performing live, she plays self-made synths, invented ':
,: instruments, and even acoustic objects like a bull whip. Shen is :,
: a markedly mobile performer that muddles of the boundaries :
:' between performer and audience, stage and floor. Her sets tend ':
,: to be site-specific, in direct response to the physical and :,
: acoustic qualities of the space in which she performs. Her live :
:' show vacillates between moments of restraint and swells of ':
,: frenetic and confrontational movement. A tightrope walk between :,
: control and chance, the whiff of danger is never far during :
:' ShenÆs performances. Her sound is dynamic with a sensitivity to ':
,: texture and structure throughout. :,
: :
:' This sensitivity is maintained in her debut LP Hair Birth. Hair ':
,: Birth is the result of several weekends locked in a studio :,
: creating cacophonous, wondrous synth noise with HarvardÆs Buchla :
:' 100 and Serge modular systems. She tracked hours of stems ':
,: before cloistering herself in a painstaking editing process. :,
: Songs like ôUnder The Stall Doorö sound like a cybernetic :
:' rollercoaster with rumbles and shrieks that hurtle the listener ':
,: through virtual space. Others, like ôBolete,ö are tense, dense :,
: mood pieces that move from the queasy to the tranquil to the :
:' surreal. ':
,: :,
: Hair Birth is not limited to audio though û Shen wants the full :
:' expression of the album to be experienced visually, haptically, ':
,: and to be embodied as a living breathing artifact. In a total :,
: integration of sound and image, Shen has created an album that :
:' you listen to, through its own art. ':
,: :,
: HereÆs what she had to say about the limited special edition :
:' record with a jacket that functions as a loud speaker: ôThe art ':
,: is the speaker and the speaker is the art. The width of a :,
: continuous copper coil is modulated as it radiates across the :
:' surface of the jacket, rendering the image of my face ':
,: mid-performance from a show last summer in Kumamoto, Japan. The :,
: coil, when connected to an audio amplifier and placed in front :
:' of a magnet, turns the material of the cover into an active ':
,: speaker membrane. The whole thing dances and vibrates in your :,
: hands as you listen to the album, as it pushes the particles in :
:' the air back and forth to create invisible waves that we ':
,: perceive to be sound.ö :,
: :
:' ShenÆs curiosity and creativity knows no bounds, and Hair Birth ':
,: is an unbridled emblem of her inspired, joyous mind. :,
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