Performance for Career Fairs, by EDME

Performance for Career Fairs

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There comes a time in every musician's life when they attend a career fair.

Or, perhaps there doesn't.

What do we know about life? We cannot begin to comprehend our own tangled timelines let alone properly imagine the experience of another lifeform's. All we can do is look back through history as humans currently understand it and question whether any branch on the tree of life that ends in so many extinctions (six species out of seven for hominids, thus far); that has existed for a mere 300,000 years; and that has triggered an extinction event akin to geologic and cosmic catastrophes that have struck our planet only five times before across 4.5 billion years, can consider itself successful.

There is a certain hubris to such thinking. A noxious arrogance. A willful ignorance. Homo Hubris, indeed.

So, maybe, not every musician eventually attends a career fair. But for the sake of argument, surely an animal as imperfect as Homo Hubris can be forgiven for imagining that surely they do. We mean, most humans imagine that we can "solve problems" with technology, when the historical record pretty clearly demonstrates that each new technological development over the last 12,000 years (at least) has merely made the planet worse for every single life form excepting a few hundred humans at any one time. So, given the accuracy of the human imagination, we think it is fair for us to argue that some musicians eventually attend a career fair somewhere at some point in their lives.

So, say you are imagining (with that unctious, atrophied, malignant "tool" you call mind) that you are at a career fair. Maybe you and a bandmate are there. You're talking the talk and walking around wondering if you are engaged in the walk or just walking in circles and if the two are actually not the same.
Imagine the two of you decide to compose a soundtrack for said career fair. Being pomo hipsters, you decided that the score is simply recording the event -- that by being present, you are performing your composition.

Okay, easy to imagine, because, of course, everyone reading this has done exactly that.

So, you take out your hand computer and make a recording of your performance for documentation purposes. Cool.

Then what?

Well, fortunately for you, there is a noxious, deadly pollution spreading faster than the most aggressive cancer through the world you inhabit. This poison, far more deadly, far more vicious, far more invasive, far more extensive than microplastics is digital "information." It is everywhere. it has consumed everything. And it is only growing hungrier.

SWEET!!!

That cesspool is just the place for your brand-spanking new composition! How lucky are you to live in the modern age!

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released March 7, 2024

Composed by Adrian Cervantes & The Administrative Assistant

Performed by machines both analog and digital

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A lifetime in noise & experimental stitched to the last 100 years of electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete magique

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Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

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