While
I’ve read the description of this cassette several times (It appears on
Bandcamp, but then again also in the j-card), I feel as if it is hard for
anyone to fully grasp the concept of this cassette without actually hearing
it. The best way for me to compare it
in a physical sense would be with a quilt.
Some people- typically old ladies- assemble quilts based on scraps of
various fabrics from events or people in their lives. In that sense, it does somewhat become the
fabric of their very soul.
C.
Reider takes audio scraps that he has collected and sews them together to
create an audio quilt. These pieces
include everything from voice mail messages (He loves the voice mail, but then
again so do I) to people conversing in what can only be perceived as a local
diner.
In
addition to this, there are noises such as blow dryers, church bells and heavy
rains falling upon glass windows. This
tends to lend the sound on certain levels of someone flipping through radio stations
(Before the invention of television, was there such a thing as radio station
surfing?) but it isn’t as random seeming and is much more deliberate.
The
overall effect of this cassette comes out sounding great as it certainly has a
flow and rhythm behind it as opposed to just x number of clips being stapled
together and forming something rather random.
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