released January 28, 2018

Side A: Kirsty Porter - Overcome with hope

All tracks K.Porter apart from Tui the dog barking on track 1, Sarah Bingle drumming on track 2 and Alice Coltrane being amazing on track 3.

Recorded mostly at Snails, Palmerston North, 2017.


Side B: C. Reider- the Science of Inattention

2018
CC-BY-NC-SA

Sine wave manipulations and lo-fi field recordings.
Made in 2015 and 2016.
Assembled as part of a tryptich including Chew Cinders and Sun Kinks.


Cover image is a photo of art created by Kirsty Porter

d~t 8


"A dog can vaguely be heard barking in the background as the slowed down rock continues. It's grown into an ambient feel really. I feel as if we are drifting carelessly through time and space. After a slight pause the drumming begins to come in quite heavily and I think this is the third song. It's just this flurry of percussion that makes me feel like I'm drowning now. Tones are mixed in which also make me think of the "Jeopardy!" theme for some reason, but these banging drums will likely be all you will hear over everything else. Radio frequency whirrs and other electronics grow to a true sense of loud before it all comes crashing back down into a quieter place."
"A swirl of electronics begins Side B. It's this weird almost helicopter whirring sound with these other electronics behind it which resemble owls to me. A slight beat coming through now, perhaps not a drum but a bass note. That all fades out as a swarm of bees can be heard now with higher pitched tones that might make a dog run out of the room. It almost sounds like a modem at one point as the beeping gets heavier. But then it can also somehow mimic a bird call, which is odd with the sound behind it sounding like bees so it's, you know, the birds and the bees like you've never heard them before!"
- raisedbygypsies.blogspot.com/2018/03/cassette-review-kirsty-porter-c-reider.html

"I’m spooked by Kirsty Porter, because she sounds like she’s doing a séance. If she does it right, she’ll be calling ghosts into the room, and that can’t be good for anybody. If it’s just that unearthly guitar and effects and chants and stuff, I guess that’s fine, but I’m not feeling too confident about it. Even with the drums entering periodically, the mood isn’t ruptured in any way. Still, there’s beauty in it, even in the chaos of the noise when it blasts through (“The Dark Period” indeed!), even when Porter’s “Jamming with Alice” Coltrane (not … literally, like in the same room). (Unless it’s a ghost!) C. Reider spends the entirety of side B grinding through “The Science of Inattention,” twenty-two minutes of the gnarliest “abstract electronic, electoacoustic, and process music” that you’ve ever heard. Minute one sounds completely different than minute five, but the shifts are gradual and logical and mesmerizing. There are probably ghosts in his equipment too, maybe the ones Porter’s called into this universe, but more than likely they’re of Reider’s own doing. Maybe they’re just bees bending circuits. You seriously never can tell with this one."
- www.tabsout.com?p=22008

"You might think; what’s ‘the sound of relaxation?’ and because there is so many, it will be impossible for me to provide you with an answer. I guess it’s an whole area full of sound, clearly provided by hand, playfully played for utterly pleasant slackness in which we feel delightedly absorbed by opium in the musical kind. I was wondering why it was called ‘orange vase’ until the music actually transported me with the other listeners deep inside the base of the vase. Deeply tucked away with ‘friends’ of this tape we listened to Kirsty Porter singing words that echoes through the vase it’s insides. It creates a funny dubby sound that me and the fellow listeners all seem to enjoy as we all nod to each other with happy content faces of sheer appreciation."
"It goes hand in hand with the world that C.Reider has cooked up, one in which bees and birds, computer bleeps and pleasant noises all go hand in hand like an miraculous mixture of hand knitted field-recordings. It’s a pleasant listenable take that is as comfortable as the sound of a hypnotic car passing by, with deep drones colliding with the recordings to bring what the artist calls ‘The science of Inattention’ to the table, or in this case the ‘table’ means actually ‘ears’. It would be an amazing sweater if the audio bits had been wool, but as the musical content on this side of the split tape it feels exactly how it supposed to be! All pass by so quickly, even though it’s quite a lengthy knitting work, but in case of music that makes time fly; it’s always a sign that it’s absolutely the best thing to hear!"
- yeahiknowitsucks.wordpress.com/2019/06/12/kirsty-porter-c-reider-kirsty-porter-c-reider-split/