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An unhinged bulkhead leans safely, on a mission for the little songs of the mutilated.

by Little Songs Of The Mutilated

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"An unhinged bulkhead leans safely, on a mission for the..." is the seventeenth volume of Exquisite Corpse music from the sound art collective Little Songs Of The Mutilated. It was created on January 20th 2019 at Melbourne's own synthesizer heaven, MESS. The process adapts the old Surrealist parlour game for an online sound and music collaboration. The 6 pieces were worked on concurrently, each with an unique permutation to the order of players to maximize both the variety in results and challenge in the process. The only parameter predetermined was the duration of each contribution, in an effort to democratize the process and authorship.

For this collection, instead of file sharing online over a week as is the usual LSotM process, the artists were all in the same room, sharing their work at the end of each hour. Each player continued the piece from the final 10-13 seconds of the preceding player's work, with no rules for how the sounds were to be interpreted. The results align perfectly with the poetic and visual art examples of the game; a montage of ruptured forms, idiosyncratic sound objects, and illogical transformations of sonic language, all poignantly and absurdly dreamlike.

Little Songs Of The Mutilated is an ongoing project by an ever growing community of talented and rigorous sound artists and musicians - mostly based in Melbourne, Australia - coming together to experiment and play with their medium. The project focuses on cultivating and nurturing the potential for collective creativity, reveling in surprise, and investigating new possibilities for musical form and content in a fun and exciting way.

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released February 7, 2019

Composed/performed by:
Justin Ashworth: EMS VCS3 & Synthi AKS
Andras Bubics: Erica fusion system/Moog DFAM/Mother 32
Emah Fox: Ondes Musicales/Roland System 100/700
Jannah Quill: Buchla 200e.
Jassy Robertson: EMS VCS3/ Theremin
Ryan Ross Smith: various/numerous Eurorack

(see individual track links for the order of players for each piece).

Curated, assembled, and mastered by Justin Ashworth.

Collage artwork by Justin

Special thanks to Boz, Fox, & Mat at MESS, and extra thanks to Deborah Kelly for the collage inspiration.

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Little Songs Of The Mutilated is an ongoing project by an ever growing community of sound artists and musicians - mostly based in Melbourne, Australia - coming together to experiment and play with their medium. The project focuses on cultivating collective creativity, reveling in surprise, and investigating new possibilities for musical form and content in a fun and exciting way. ... more

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