Instructional Sculpture For Children
- RS06
- CD-R
- Edition of 50
- 1. Instructional Sculpture for Children (26:05)
"Instructional Sculpture for Children" Is a half hour soundtrack to a recent video work by John, and is composed of unprocessed contact mic recordings from the San Francisco Exploratorium. Subtly mixing these with home made electronic drone waves, John's CD is a beautiful pastel like dreamscape full of vibrating creatures and small explosions. Edition of 50 with 3 color silk screened covers.
"The undulating drones and scraped loops which provide the backbone for the debut recording for San Francisco's John Davis could have easily been plucked from a Phill Niblock or Andrew Chalk composition; but in fact their origins lie in the interactive exhibitions found at the Exploratorium, SF's one of a kind museum of science, art, and human perception. If you've never had the opportunity to get to the Exploratorium, it's well worth the visit as there's tons of contraptions designed to illuminate, educate, and amaze. Armed with a mini-disc recorder, a good mic, and a willingness to explore, Davis captured many of plinks, plonks, and bongs from the Exploratorium's many exhibits that demonstrate any number of acoustic phemonena. He then ran these field recordings through a battery of Max/MSP patches to arrive at this spiralling cloud of pixelated smears, golden drones, and a variety of those aforementioned plinks, plonks, and bongs. Davis certainly draws from the aesthetics of Stephan Mathieu and Fennesz, adding a mechanical and metallic clamour into the mix." - Aquarius Records