Taking Things Apart

Decomposure [KEYED WRONG] – Taking Things Apart
Decomposure takes basic sounds, breaks them down to pieces, and arranges them back into beats/percussion pieces. Look at the track titles: every track is “composed” from the basic sound that is represented by the title (e.g., “matches”). The result, sometime jungly, sometimes more straight-up beat, sometime no beat at all. Interesting stuff. Track listing below with short explanation (liner notes expand a bit) and description.

1. Scrabble[KEYED WRONG] – made of the sounds of a game of scrabble. Accelerates and stretches the sounds; percussion-like changing beat.
2. * Mathces – a box of matches. Jungly beat.*
3. Toy DJ playset – looped to noise and broken beats.
4. * Drawing – sampled off 30 minutes of “recording of the artist drawing” including a track that passed nearby. Slow, almost non existent beat, developed into glassy-sounding faster beat.*
5. Speech – W’s Sep 2001 State of the Union address. Actual (and long) pieces of the speech, light percussion, mid/slow tempo beat.
6. Sound card noise – white noise created by his own sound card while recording. Starts with almost no beat, then some jungle emerges.
7. Vancouver’s skytrain. No beat, cool sounds. Accelerates into some fast beat.
8. Notepad guitar – acoustic guitar recording -> mp3 file -> edited on notepad editor -> sampler. Shorter, no beat.
9. * Piano and toy electronic drumsticks. Pleasant piano tune, mid tempo beats, surprisingly communicative, nice. *
10. Headphones – plugging headphones into microphone jack and playing with it… quite an effort. Anyway, quiet start, and again a beat developes.
11. Cassette player. Fast beat.
12.*[Shorter than listing due to hidden track] Interview/60Hz – interview with indie film maker about sound in his movies, and a 60hz synthesized sine wave. Mid tempo steady beat. Track finished at –6:23.*
13. * Hidden track. Starts at –3:17. Jungly percussion beat, children singing.*