Freetables 5, by a demon sheen

Freetables 5

by a demon sheen

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1.	Running in Circles 05:28	buy track
2.	The Anxiety of Mandragore the Magnficent 04:05	buy track
3.	Pastoral Pastimes (prologue) 01:29	buy track
4.	Keep the Hookah Aglow 04:19	buy track
5.	This I've Got To Look Into! 01:50	buy track
6.	The Herd 04:19	buy track
7.	The Word "Didjeridu" Was Coined by Anthropologist Herbert Basedow in the 1920s 08:12	buy track
8.	Pastoral Pastimes (proper) 03:07	buy track
9.	Swinging and Staggering 02:48	buy track
10.	Jazz Cigarette 04:12	buy track
11.	Gallop 01:18	buy track
12.	Wind-up Power Ballad 04:04	buy track
13.	Staggering and Swinging 03:04	buy track
14.	This Machine Makes Muppet Eyes 03:29	buy track
15.	Echolocation 02:46	buy track
16.	The Heard 02:09	buy track
17.	Wagons on Grand Plateau 08:20	buy track

about

all arrangements of objects kept functioning by rubber bands, bulldog clips, wool, and blutak. after each recording, the entire set up was dismantled. ephemeral and transitory, like an audio sand mandala.

this album of freetables incorporates many swinging objects striking actual real drums - kick drums, turkish drums, tom drums, snare drums (snared and unsnared) - as well as strumming or hitting the strings of an acoustic guitar, and all the usual mixing bowls and whatsits that i normally use. also of course there are several tracks which incorporate leaning the acoustic guitar onto the actual spinning vinyl of a record, to act as a kind of hurdy-gurdy.

my stylus is so ruined at this stage (from being forced to run over things like spoons and pot lids etc) that it mostly just crackles and distorts now - all the cleaner record sounds on this album are from tracks recorded some time ago.

all sounds made by the freetables - all i did was set them up, and occasionally fade up or down the actual turntable noise, or place or remove the drone guitar. no overdubs or playing along or editing was performed - this is all raw machines.

inspirations (specific to this kinda thing):
Clinton Green / Undecisive God
Ernie Althoff

inspirations (turntables in general):
Otomo Yoshihide
Christian Marclay

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released December 8, 2022

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freetables Australia

turntable structures

self-playing music machines

acoustic turntablism

sound sculptures

stylus destruction

(another project by A DEMON SHEEN) ... more

discography

Freetables 5

Dec 2022
Freetables 4

Nov 2018
Freetables 3

Nov 2018
Freetables 2

Mar 2018
Freetables 1

Mar 2018

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