Due to technical issues, I couldn't get my Ableton Live to work on OBS/ twitch, so my set changed from field recordings to "dub-noise" at the very last minute. I usually attribute solo noise, drone, ambient, beat based performances to eXU-9. eXU-9 takes it's machine name from Exu, Papa Legba, Cybotron, Model 500, UR, X-101, X-102. Sound inspired by MF BASS, Wave form Transmissions I & III, Interstellar Space, Space is The Place, Pulse Demon, Butoh, Great Black Music and Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi Projects. It is both a machine and a hyper-sygil for liberation, disobedience, transformation and self-care/acceptance. It also gives me space to explore sound beyond logic and language. This set was improvised with real time frustration with my set up. In the end this was just me showing up, dealing with setbacks and performing anyway. I prefer listening to this set on headphones.
ALBUM https://normanwlong.bandcamp.com/album/calumet-in-dub EXHIBITION CATALOG Norman-W-Long-Catalog.pdf CALUMET IN DUB I hope this message finds you all well. I am very happy to announce that my new album Calumet in Dub is available for download and CD pre-order. Calumet in Dub is a two-channel mix of an eight-channel sound installation exhibited at the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago in 2022. The exhibition focuses on Long’s research-based work delving into the ecology and soundscapes of the Southeast Side of Chicago along the Calumet and Little Calumet River area. Inspired initially by a story that aired on the BBC about the relationship of the Little Calumet River to the history of the Great Migration, Long has investigated how housing, labor, and environmental activism has coalesced in this location and how historic figure, Hazel Johnson considered the “mother of the environmental justice movement,” diligently brought these issues to light. Other inspiration was found in An...
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