Joe Frawley: Speak of this to no one (USA 2010 - Clinical Archives)


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Credits:
I wrote the music, or improvised the music, and played the piano. I also chose the found sounds and did the electronic processing and arrangements. Rachel breathed, spoke and sang. Greg provided certain sounds in the bass register. Some voices are those of narrator “Secrets”, who reads for Librivox.org. “Descension Day” features double bass bowed harmonics played by Houston Guy, courtesy of user “Stomachache” on Freesound.org. “Yes, please yes” is based around dialogue samples borrowed from the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Drama “Sacred Hearts”. Special thanks to J.C. for sharing his personal collection with me. Cover illustration is a detail from “Ava in the Snow”, by Natasha Newton [ http://theblackbirdsings.typepad.com ], used by permission. Speak of this to no one. -JF

Along with Ritual Research and Daughters of Industry, this is Joe Frawley’s third release on Clinical Archives.

Info:
Joe Frawley (b. July 4, 1971) is an experimental composer and pianist working out of New London, Connecticut whose works blur the boundary between music and sound art. By layering and juxtaposing original music with processed found sounds, field recordings, and recontextualized speech fragments, the composer creates challenging yet accessible sound assemblages bearing a hypnotic dreamlike quality. His works have been widely broadcast internationally and appear on several prominent experimental music compilation CDs, including Vibrö No. 4: Music No Music, published by Double Entendre (Paris), and Audiotron, published by Extrapool (Netherlands).

http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/
http://www.youtube.com/user/joefrawleymusic
http://www.myspace.com/joefrawley