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Stitched On Bach

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Artist: Eugene Debs Bicameral Noisechestra

Title: Stitched On Bach: Chance Meeting On A DAW Of Wendy Carlos & Nurse With Wound

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Pierre Henry and Johann Sebastian Bach collaborated?
No?
Fair Enough.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if pieces of the western classical canon were performed using samples from a musique concrete/noise band's sonic palette of field recordings?
No?
Fair Enough.

We did wonder these things. The MVM actually wondered about and experimented with this idea frequently over the past several decades. Here is our fourth release as a result of that curiosity: Stitched On Bach.

Our first exploration down this path, Symphony #1, used western symphonic forms to dictate the structure of a work using our sound palette: Allegro; Andante; Sonata; Scherzo; et al.

Then Excerpts from Cognitive Dissonance and No One No Needs To Know What You Want explored what happens when we replace the field recordings that serve as the instruments in our classic noizak works with standard instruments from the western classical world:
violins replaced squeaky hinges; viola replaced metal screech; oboe replaced skipping record; bowed vibraphone replaced whispering stars; etcetera.

Stitched On Bach reverses this, exploring what happens when our field recordings replace the standard western instrumentation in "classic" scores, such as Bach's secular cantata, Weichet Nur, Betrübte Schatten (Dissipate, You Troublesome Shadows) BWV 202, the first piece we tried this with.

We are arranging Bach for Noisechestra!

This work will grow as we slowly attempt to record Bach's entire oeuvre using field recordings.

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released January 28, 2021

Album cover by Winsor McCay

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The Museum of Viral Memory Eugene, Oregon

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

Improv jazz come unpinned from time

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

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind
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