Outside My Window The City Is Never Silent: A Bestiary

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A long out-of-print LP-only release, this single 30-minute track is a compendium utilizes selected material from the following titles: Amarillo Ramp, The Bridge, Deva, Spain; Fragments, El Oido, First Computer Piece, The View From Here [Root (for TM)], Semen Injection, To Mary, and Walker Groves. Sounds by: Kim Gordon, William Hooker, Takehisa Kosugi, Alan Licht, David Linton, Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Sudden Infant, William Winant. The voices of: Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, George Cowdery, Thom Degesu, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, Cody Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer.

You Are Everywhere and Nowhere, All at Once: The sounds of forgotten conversations, voices of loved ones, talks delivered via wire, crosscut with various tone poems (music(s)), newly formulated dream theories. You are listening to a conversation that took place in Heaven, some time ago.

This piece grows out of recent works dealing with phrases constructed from various recycled bits of voice and sound, the silences between them, and the cross-pollinations which occur as they are juxtaposed in different ways. The sound components have been gathered from across a large number of works I’ve done thru the years. I decided to use these bits and selections as the raw material from which to create a sort of sonic journal or notebook. In the last few years I’ve done a few sound installations based around a set of fragments of voices which I have collected, and most of these are drawn upon here. The voices are those of friends, family, loved ones and other artists, and although chosen for personal reasons my hope is that the various voices will overlay to create a new narrative of their own. This piece was originally created for a Belgian radio broadcast in 2000.

-Lee Ranaldo

Original LP released by Chocolate Monk and Hell's Half Halo, summer 2002.

Includes pdf of LP art and liner notes.

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released January 1, 2002

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