Insect Groove

Sarah Peebles - Insect Groove

The music is both improvised and composed and according to the liner notes, the tracks mostly do not have editing, multi-tracking or sequencing. Insect Groove is a set of electroacoustic pieces with manipulated sampled sounds and the shō, a Japanese mouth-organ with a unique timbre

From the liner notes:

Sarah Peebles is a Canadian-based American composer, performer and broadcaster. Her initial music and composition studies in Minneapolis, MN were followed by a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition in 1988 from the University of Michigan School of Music at Ann Arbor, with further studies in traditional and contemporary music in Japan over extended periods 1985-1993. Her work with electroacoustics focuses heavily on sampled sounds - which she gathers, alters, groups, and manipulates on the fly - and also draws upon the sustained tones of the shō, a Japanese mouth-organ noted for its unique timbre and tendency to 'throw' sound in unexpected ways. Her music often explores alternative performance settings, such as museums, bamboo groves, temples and parks, and her activities have included multi-channel sound spacializations, small ensemble, video, radio and music-theatre works, performance art, and collaborations with dance, installation, film, animation, brush art and spoken word.

Performers:

Sarah Peebles - Max. Sample Cell I & II, Unity DS-1, shō

David Toop - spoken word [track 4]

Nilan Perera - altered electric guitar, Boomerang, Whammy 2 processors [tracks 6 & 8]

Jin Hi Kim - electric Komungo [track 6]

Ko Ishikawa - shō [track 8]

Tracklisting:

1. Nocturnal Premonitions {2:13}

2. The Curse of Border Vacuums, part I {5:21}

3. where the Wild things Went {6:19}

4. White Powder/The Spiders {6:15}

5. Drillbit Skiploop {6:52}

6. Insect Groove {6:04}

7. Higurashi in Yamanashi {3:57}

8. Listen to the Sound of the Sun Sinking into the Lake {6:54}

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