Joe Sikes - Fabrician, friend, and free of a prior rehearsal (cancellation) - made the voyage to my humble abode. He made me acutely aware of a wasp's nest which hovered over my sliding glass doorway, twitching with the wings of 20 or 30 of them, all anxiously building together. Buzzing sounds and swarm noises have always been some of my favourite. Really intense with a huge number of rippling textures, thousands of pinpoint spatial positions. The angry version of crickets and treefrogs on a calm night.
He unveiled to me a homemade signal processor with an angry buzz like a wasp. We quickly tuned the wasp, who began to pulse with the beat from an old hacked set of keys, tiny and powerful. I added in the sounds of attacking sets of Glitchbugs and Pianississimo Piano, while Joe communed with the Prophet creating ethereal chords and swooping bass tones giving it all a kind of weight.
A good handshake. A veritas templum. A meeting that makes me eager for more, and more planning about the hows and whys during the upcoming days.
A discovery of Tuxedomoon, discussion with film of the old juxtaposed with the new, Circuit Bending with Uri Geller, and a documentary on Sound-alchemists were also on the menu. Some of this is acknowledged in Joe's short film:
http://www.fabricelectronica.net/kris/RadiophonicMontage-08-12-2010.wmv
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