VITAL WEEKLY REVIEW 608: TEN SECOND COMPILATION 2(CDR by Kif Recordings)Seventy-one tracks in twenty-five minutes. That is, if I'm not mistaken ten seconds per track. Kif Recordings asked, through internet, people to send in music that lasted ten seconds - one of those internet projects. You can play it, and before you read from the insert band name and track title, the next one is already almost over. Is there a point to all of this, I wonder? I could spend more time thinking about that than actually listening to this and still don't work out a proper answer. So maybe it's better to glance the various names and marvel at all the new names, silly names and silly titles and funny music. It's not all noise that shines here, but it prevails, in all its variations and deviations. Rather than trying to point out the point in all of this, I must admit it's all much more interesting that one would expect. A pity that some are only very short and one wish to hear more, in some cases ten seconds is still quite long. (FdW)

VITAL WEEKLY REVIEW 623: KIF_SOUP RMX VERSUS COMPILATION (CDR by Kif Recordings)
I'm a little uncertain as to just what is going on here, even to the title!- back in VW608 a review of Ten Seconds Compilation appeared- some 71 - 10 second tracks from various artists- this CDr *seems* to be "a hybrid" from two such compilations - where each was remixed - by Animal Machine / Cygore & Eraritjaritjaka / Animal Machine as the blurb says "remix 1 vs. remix 2 = SOUP" do you follow? If so you are probably doing better than me. KIF - Keep it frozen "is a non -profit music label , distributor specialized in micro & mini tracks recordings" responsible for this very interesting reduction / deconstruction of the compilations.
I'm not fond of compilations as I'm averse to serial events like a many coursed meal - for one the cutlery is confusing - here the result is a soup- everything is present in the resultant 20:39 - so only a spoon is required- it is a
mixture of many lo-fi noise sources at a fairly ambient texture which makes for a coherent context in which the pieces now separated from their teleological menu co-exist - re-act - and play as a homogenous yet rhizomic whole. A long, slow implosion of sounds. The important thing here then is the re-generation by the co-operative forces at work which makes something both in its audio presence and conceptualization significant and very worthwhile. BTW KIF are accepting contributions for comp 3- but I will look forward more to the hopeful synthesized soup 2.
(jliat)


VITAL WEEKLY REVIEW 628: ANIMAL MACHINE "HOMO HOMINI LUPUS"  CDr by KIF Recoding)
SWAMPS UP NOSTRILS "DIGITANA" (CDr by KIF Recoding)
Homo homini lupus is a roman proverb - people act like wolves to each other - as in are cruel, for never are humans happier than killing each other apart perhaps from working out new ways to do this. Giving such a title to 4 tracks of essentially harsh noise provokes the comment that here noise once again criticizes what others call civilization - which is also its  "music" - its organization of sound, in particular western music, an organization which is responsible for the world we find ourselves in. A worry is that using animals pejoratively misses the point of the extent of man's fall from grace,  man invented punishment- not  animals -  how much this is to be taken seriously? -  should we be serious at all- for noise's amateurism and in-competence denies appropriation into an academia which if no longer literally throws humans to wolves - by way of amusement - "justified" as punishment - does so in far more spectacular and devious ways. Modernism's programme of absolute
organization - (of everything including sound which it defines as music)  generated  paranoia - post-modernity's schizophrenia (look at the proliferation of groups and labels in *noise* - often the same people - *same people* multiple personalities).. is the overcoming of modernity. But I explain too much? Digitania has what appears to be 6 tracks - beginning like an experimental work based on sine and other wave forms, beats pulses  and silences - interrupted by swathes of noise  which are themselves interrupted. Interesting but more acoustically/ethically problematic (modern!) than the ideological deconstruction of AM. (jliat)

VITAL WEEKLY REVIEW :

http://www. vitalweekly. net/podcast. html