Releases
MDSE at Lumenhouse, 2011
Audio CD / live and studio recordings
$10.00 (+ $5.00 shipping & handling)
“MDSE at Lumenhouse” is comprised of a live recording from Lumehouse, Brooklyn, NY, along with three tracks from DSE studio.
MDSE at Lumenhouse is available as a digital download on iTunes.
More information can be found at the following links:
http://soundcloud.com/muzakspeed
http://www.facebook.com/MDSEnoise
{SØNiK} Fest 2.0, 2011
Audio CD / live recording of performance at BronxArtSpace
$10.00 (+ $5.00 shipping & handling)
“{SØNiK} Fest 2.0″ was recorded at {SØNiK} Fest 2.0 at BronxArtSpace, with performances by Schafer and just recently formed MDSE. The CD has two lengthy tracks that include “Jackhammer”, the full-length version by DSE, and “Triadic Irruption”, by collaboration MDSE.
TRACK LISTING
1. Jackhammer
2. Triadic Irruption
{SØNiK} Fest 2.0 is available as a digital download on iTunes.
Sad Pavilion, 2011
Audio CD / live recording of performance at Mildred’s Lane
$13.00 (+ $5.00 shipping & handling)
“Sad Pavilion” (2011) was recorded live at Mildred’s Lane artist residency in Scranton PA. The performance was part of an evening sound event curated by Bret Schneider involving eight artists with sound stations spread throughout the wooded landscape. MDSE engaged analog and digital electronics with sampled instructional reco…rds and vocal experimentation operating on the schism of language and noise. For this event David Schafer [DSE] performed for one hour followed by MeKaniKdolls [MD] for one hour, then collaboratively as MDSE for one hour.
TRACK LISTING
1. Triphthong Variant
2. Cognitive Affixation
3. Semantic Seizure
4. Jackhammer (excerpt)
5. What Should A Museum Sound Like? (excerpt)
6. Emergentist Frequencies
7. Phonemic Aphasia
“Sad Pavilion” is available through PayPal, and as a digital download on iTunes.
What Should A Museum Sound Like?, 2010
Audio CD, 53:34 minutes / live recording of performance at Whitney Museum
$15.00 (+ $5.00 shipping & handling)
“What Should a Museum Sound Like?” is a site-specific work that involves a text written in 1963 by Marcel
Breuer, the architect for the Whitney Museum. A voice actor was hired to record the text, describing Breuer’s
vision for the Whitney. The floor plans and elevation drawings of the Whitney Museum were then translated
into a series of composed sounds using MetaSynth, a composition and sound design program that can
translate images into sound. In a live performance at the Whitney Museum, the original recording of the text
was remixed live through a series of effects, loops, and software. Read more…
In The Year 2525 Remix, 2008
Audio CD / 03:45 minutes (repeated)
$10.00 (+$5.00 shipping & handling)
The 1969 science-fiction rock single “In the Year 2525” is a dystopian prediction of the future with musical
harmonies and a recurring chorus. The song’s theme is that of a doomed future and a dependency on
technologies and pharmaceuticals. Recorded in the sixties during the Vietnam era, it captured the
dehumanizing aspects of advancing twentieth century culture. I reworked the sound to reflect culture’s
disorientation and utilized the Recipe for Poetry by Dada poet Tristan Tzara. For this project, I subjected
the lyrics of “In the Year 2525” to Tzara’s recipe for poetry and then remixed the actual song based on that
random act of selecting. The lyrics of the entire song are still represented, but not in the original order. Read more…
x10R.1 & 2, 2002
Double-CD / Transparency Label
$15.00 (+$5.00 shipping & handling)
Disk One: Times Ten Resequenced with Two Second Gap (47:35)
Disk Two: Times Ten Resequenced with Variable Gap (58:41)
Edition of 1000
Ten easy listening records resequenced according to the theories of the Muzak Corporation and then superimposed.
The album has been played on many radio stations including WFMU and various Internet programs abroad. The
album was voted as a favorite in Amoeba, Los Angeles, “Best of 2002″ periodical. For review click here.