A Tale of Two CD's (apologies to Charles Dickens).

I was in London visiting a friend for a couple of days last week. On my travels I picked up a couple of CD's. The first was a tip-off from Detroit techno superstar Kenny Larkin; the CD being Thom Yorke's new solo album 'The Eraser', and a very fine album it is too, full of rattling electronics, stuttering pianos and that voice. Great stuff.

I also bought a CD called 'Harmonic Bridge' which, for the disbelieving out there, really is a recording of a bridge - the Millenium footbridge across the Thames to be precise. It was recorded by Bill Fontana and is currently being exhibited at Tate Modern. The thing is, I've been listening to the bridge more than Thom Yorke. Sorry Thom, nothing personal. It's just that I find the crescendos and ritardandos as the wind, Thames tide, foot traffic and alignment of the planets conspire in a perpetual act of architechtural orchestral improvsation strangely moving. It's as if you're getting a privileged peek inside a parallel world which is always there, yet which we never choose to give our attention to. Yet I think we should give our attention to this hidden world of sound. Why? Primarily, simply because it's there. And secondly because by paying attention to these things we might increase our sense of wonder at the intricacies, inconsistencies, anomalies, aberrations and occasional fortuitous flukes that make life so fascinating.

Anyway, I've uploaded a chunk of audio to my myspace page. More will follow in the coming weeks. Also uploaded some random pics.

My MySpace Page

Hello...?

Hi,
Welcome to the new blogger home of David Killingback (...that's me by the way).

Here you'll be able to find out about my current main musical project - Side-FX Sound System - as well as all the other little musical and artistic things I occasionally get caught up in. Side-FX Sound System is a project I'm working on to bring some of the more experimental sound recording techniques (i.e., field recording, phonography, recording via contact microphones, etc) into the realm of electronic music, some of which is aimed at the dancefloor.

Soon you'll be able to hear some of the results of this process over at my MySpace page.

That's all for now.

DK / Side-FX Sound System.