Rick Reed | Hidden Voices [For Herman Nitsch]
TRANS003
Net Release Date - July 2005
Codecs: mp3, ogg VBR highest quality
Physical in October 2007
Edition 50

 

This release has been taken offline. To purchase the CDR of uncompressed audio in custon die-cut self-latching cover please see the online store.

 

An active sound-artist for the past 20 years Reed has released several LP’s on labels such as Ecstatic Peace, Beta Lactam Ring, Pale Disc Japan, and Elevator Bath. His latest projects have been providing the soundtrack for New York film maker Ken Jacobs’s latest work “Mountaineer Spinning” and creating a sound installation for Herman Nitsch’s latest gallery exhibit “The Orgies Mysteries Theater” in Houston Texas.

For this release Reed has composed with the sound sources used for the Nitsch installation to create a dynamic and hypnotizing 39-minute sound work. With masterful control of his Moog, World War II era sine-wave generators, short-wave radio, and assorted hardware [no computers here] Reed pulls the listener ever deeper into their Id. When we first listened to this work it functioned as a kind of audio Rorschach test conjuring up images of rutting wild sheep charging forth with ecstatic intensity which then, bruised and exhausted, wedge their way back into their mothers' wombs in an attempt to melt back into what was there before they were. Listen with caution.

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