Cast Of Thousands With Escape Mechanism - Live
ARTIST.....: Cast Of Thousands With Escape Mechanism
TITLE......: Live
LABEL......: Recombinations.com
URL........: www.escape-mechanism.com
RIP DATE...: May-31-2006
STORE DATE.: Jun-27-2004
GENRE......: Noise
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 75,0 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Untitled 05:20
02 - Let's Talk (Q And A) 04:18
03 - Today 04:36
04 - Worship 05:25
05 - Digital Deconstruction 06:35
06 - Tape Recordings 06:54
07 - Let's Talk (Interlude) 02:33
08 - Radio Star 07:44
09 - Destruction 06:36
10 - Just Like Flying 04:38
11 - Lets Talk (Pt. 1 & 2) 09:07
12 - But Why? 04:37
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68:23 min
Release Notes:
What is the Cast of Thousands? (as told by John Nelson)
I originally did my radio program, Some Assembly Required, as a
two-hour show. The second hour was an hour of what I called, 'live
improvised media collage,' and we did it for over two years with
what seemed like a cast of thousands, as there were many different
participants over time. So, when we would occasionally be asked to
play out, that's what we would call ourselves - Cast of Thousands
with Escape Mechanism - as I was the only consistent member of the
group, and much of the material I used was material I was working
with as Escape Mechanism.
When I started syndicating the show, I shortened it to an hour-
long program, keeping only the first hour, where I play recordings
by sound collage artists from around the world. We would still
occasionally play out at art galleries and performance spaces
around town, and Cast of Thousands became more of a live extension
of my studio project, Escape Mechanism.
Our studio sessions involved anywhere from 1 to 6 people, and more
equipment than I can remember. A typical set up would usually
include a couple of minidisc players, a turntable or two, a cd
player and a sampler. On one occasion, we had two minidisc
players, three cd players, five turntables, and a sampler going
all at the same time. It really didn't matter how few or how many
pieces of equipment were being used. The best sessions were when
everyone was feeling glad to be there and willing to work
together. It was a lot of fun.
www.some-assembly-required.net
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Cast Of Thousands (on this recording) are:
Gregg Boullosa, Corey Hanssen, and Jonathan Nelson