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...:::...the past few weeks i have been traveling...unaccompanied by the sounds i so often choose to have around me. instead, i have been passively engaging the daily frequencies mexico has to offer...noticing the ways in which things in stillness become amplified in motion...the ways in with they interact...i begin to make a list of their sonic collisions, finding it so much more interesting to describe with verbs the ways in which things come together to release a sound...

...spray, slam, shut, place, drip, scrape, skid, hiss, flutter, bump, shudder, smack, splash, crack...

these are some of the happenings that gave off sounds...that sonically describe the materiality of place (does the sound of heels walking on concrete have a different pitch to it in one city then the next? or perhaps consider the sound of squealing brakes ricocheting between building faces)...i thought a lot about these things...about how the same action with the same materials can create dissimilar sounds in two separate places. why is that? i wondered. and listened. and wondered some more...and i think maybe it is that the materials of a place are culturalized through use...that they take on regional accents...

and i also realized how accustomed i have become to hitting 'play' to shift my moods, to re-construct my daily environment...and i think i'll try to be more aware of how and when i listen...because while i love to create new sequences and patterns and motion by dressing myself up in sounds...i also want to know what makes a place a place...for how can i discern the nuances of the bus wires snapping overhead in san francisco or tires spinning out an a gravel in baja or vermont if i am shut into a neatly constructed audio-box...one that is beautiful but limiting...i think to really listen means taking in equal parts of passive and active selections...:::...

download: 070406-modyfier part01

andres bucci – get down : apr 2007 on kupei musika
audiofly x & paul harris – miscalate : mar 2007 on rekids
hertz – three ways (misjah remix) : mar 2007 on elp
jokke ilsoe – feeling good (trentemoller remix) : apr 2007 on namnam records
michael de hey & grooveyard – compound (peter horrevorts remix) : mar 2007 on ec records
crystal fake – monday after (unai remiks) : mar 2007 on kupei musika
margot meets the melody maker – torch (rainer weichhold remix) : mar 2007 on great stuff
gaiser & heartthrob – nasty girl : mar 2007 on minus
leif – boomerang : mar 2007 on frankie records
dub pistols – rapture feat terry hall (prins thomas diskomiks) : apr 2007 on sunday best recordings
mistress barbara – barcelona (holden bell dub) : mar 2007 on border community

download: 070406-modyfier part02

stephan bodzin – liebe ist… : apr 2007 on herzblut recordings
jacobs-lee – stolen uncut diamonds (holger flinsch remix) : mar 2007 on register
einmusik – pion : apr 2007 on italic
mono – make a difference : mar 2007 on cr2 records
glimpse – it the little things : mar 2007 on glimpse recordings
tom ellis – all screwed up : mar 2007 on frankie records
frankie valentine – zumbi (808 remix) : mar 2007 on sunshine enterprises
ozgur can – not even winds 2006 feat nick beman : mar 2007 on armada music
saul b – glossphobia (original mix) : mar 2007 on acid milk recordings
sorcerer – surfing at midnight (prins thomas mix) : apr 2007 on tirk
trentemoller & dj tom – an evening with bobi bros : mar 2007 on kickin records
luetzenkirchen – a view to the sea : mar 2007 on tabula raza