Plexure: John Oswald: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Open: Suck/Rip

2. Urge: Slow/Slice/Blink

3. Manifold: Philosophy/Phase

4. Blur: Moment/Wow/Nest

5. Zoom: Alone/Gogh

6. Cyfer

7. Compact: Phase 2/Snap

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9. Mad Mod

10. Temperature: Tempus Amore (Hyper Love Time)/Tempo Pact

11. Massive: Hazzard/Warning/Treacherous

12. Velocity: Tremendous/Tremulous

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4.0 out of 5 stars Takes a while to get used to, Feb 28 2002

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Mark Seemann (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plexure (Audio CD)

Imagine setting your radio to skip through stations 10 times a second. Imagine that it somehow ends up sounding like music.

This is a paraphrase of the first description I saw of this CD, and I thought that it was an interesting idea, but was curious if it could actually be done.

Hearing it for the first time, I was somewhat disspointed. Maybe I had expected some kind of synthesis - a revalatory experience where bits and pieces come together as something not only different from the parts themselves, but of a much higher order.

In reality, of course, it doesn't really sound much like music the way we are used to think about it.

Listening to the CD a couple of more times, however, got me to reassess my initial evaluation. Out of a quite complex sound picture crystalizes some rather fine, detailed pieces of music.

Of course one would be tempted to call this type of music avant garde or experimental, and although it may belong in those categories as well, it seems to me to be a fine continuation of the modern composition tradition, in line with composers such as Ligeti.

It really takes a while to get used to, but is rewarding if you give it a chance.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This CD belongs in every home, and I'm not kidding., Sep 28 2001

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One of the most incredible listening experiences to be had anywhere. This kind of collage is of course easy to do if you have the right equipment, but to get a result such as what can be heard here requires an extremely acute musical sensitivity. This is beautiful, exciting, rewarding, exhilarating, mind-blowing, rejuvenating MUSIC. The tremendous force behind it will open up new perceptual horizons, causing you to rethink (no less) the way you listen to music. ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Megaplundermorphonemiclonic, April 6 2001

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Michael Sean (Seattle, WA - US) - See all my reviews

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John Oswald is a pioneering composer who deals directly with the issues of copyright, appropriation, sampling, and 'plunderphonics' in music. According to Oswald, a plunderphone is "a transformed but still recognizable audio quote." Perhaps his most formidable project yet, "Plexure" is completely assembled from other CDs and features over 1,000 'electroquoted' contemporary pop artists from the past decade or so (since the dawn of compact discs). The material progresses according to tempo, with beats and syllables juxtaposed and layered in an aural tapestry that rolls by at an almost subliminal rate. The sensation is comparable to the opening of Robert Zemeckis' film adaption of "Contact" when the camera gradually pulls back from the Earth's atmosphere and through the galaxy until it reaches the outer universe, during which we hear a barrage of song snippets, televison audio, and radio broadcasts that grows fainter as the sound waves get further out. Each track here is credited to a hybrid artist (Sinéad O'Connick Jr, Bing Stingspreen, Marianne Faith No Morrisey), and the whirlwind of familiar hooks, riffs, and voices invites an examination of just what makes pop music popular. Among the myriad of sources used, you can catch moments of Madonna, Prince, Nirvana, Edie Brickell, Deee-Lite, Julee Cruise, U2, Jane's Addiction, Metallica, Talking Heads, EMF, C+C Music Factory, Fine Young Cannibals, Annie Lennox, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This disc debuted in 1993, so much of the recording is culled from the late 1980s/early 90s. Reportedly, Oswald has plans to revisit this project in the future. Due to the legal issues raised by his methods, this import (issued on John Zorn's Japanese label, Avant) is one of the few John Oswald releases still available. Although it clocks in at just under 20 minutes, there's more information on this CD than a box set. It's not exactly something you would throw on at a party, but it's a fascinating experiment in audio recognizition and association. Experience it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
Imagine playing "name that tune" at 5 times the speed of your ears' ability to recognize familiar sounds. Read more

Published on April 18 2000 by xmw

5.0 out of 5 stars websearch for plunderphonic space; if into it, consume...
supposedly, Mr. Oswald's just about to put out a Plunderphonics anthology...for now, this'll have to do...

Published on Oct 17 1999