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Procession (Stolen Land Boustrophedon)

by hAshtAgblAck.n.o.i.s.e

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released March 25, 2022

This piece relies strongly on a repeating two-minute sound clip that Garth Erasmus had given to me to play with. After three layers had been eked out of Garth’s clip, each of them processed strongly and in different ways, these were overlaid, resulting in the 15-minute repeating figure of Procession. But it was much too repetitive to be interesting. Trying to ameliorate the monotony, I more or less randomly happened upon a clip titled “Stolen Land” on my computer. It was a half-forgotten experiment that I had previously constructed from a piece of spoken text by Garth, referring to the stolen land that comprises much of Cape Town, but had soon abandoned. The text had been severely distorted using a wave-shaping algorithm that I had written in PureData, and then mixed into a part of a distorted ambient recording of a workshop, Something in Return, which Garth had presented at Zeitz MOCAA as part of the show Home Is Where The Art Is. This had in turn been overlaid with other ambient recordings, details of which have since slipped my mind. What have survived the overlays and distortions are Esther Marie Pauw’s warbling flute sounds in conversation with Garth’s prepared saxophone, and one or two of the louder sonic bursts of Jill Trappler’s amplified spinning wheel. Whatever else had been recorded was drowned out by the reverberating distorted background of the clip. I overlaid the repetitive figure with the “Stolen Land” clip, stretching the latter slightly to accommodate the 15-minute length of the former. A bit of reverb and compression distortion completed the process.

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hAshtAgblAck.n.o.i.s.e Cape Town, South Africa

Jacques van Zyl (hAshtAgblAck.n.o.i.s.e) is a noise musician and sound artist working in the fields of improvisation, musique concrète, harsh noise wall and installation sound art.
His musical career spans more than 2 decades & includes various collaborations.
His conceptual project “blacknoise” is a musical exploration of the unsilent silences that frame and define our various sonic environments. ... more

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