Jason Zeh
A Vacant Lot To Be In
Crippled Intellect Productions LP
Those
who grew up with the cassette as the principle means for portable
listening and file exchange find its resurgence a bit puzzling. How many
beloved tapes died from the tape snapping or getting melting in the sun
from leaving it on the car dashboard or the physical mechanism itself
jamming? For Jason Zeh, those failings are exactly what he seeks to
extract through his visceral collages from discarded tape machines and
malfunctioning cassettes. While many of his previous recordings have
employed the mangled sounds of crumpled and even burnt tape, A Vacant
Lot To Be In focuses on the electro-magnetic properties of the tape
machine, as Zeh shoves magnetic pieces of metal into the mechanism to
interfere with the signal flow. The result is ominously insectoid
humming and scabrous noises that increase in density and velocity over
both pieces of this vinyl, collapsing into a exhausted smolder of
corroded drone and hiss.
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