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BeWindReKind

by B. Elkins

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These Ancient Charts 01:42
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Yamato 01:42
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A Bizarre and Shocking Tragedy 01:41
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What's Happening To Us 01:48
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Back in the early 00's I worked a series of shitty electronic manufacturing jobs. Largely sedentary, repetitive, and boring. I had left home not long before and was living with friends. The only music device I had to my name was one of those shitty all-in-one CD/cassette/radio bad boys I think I might have gotten from a school fundraiser. I brought this in to my work station and would plug my headphones in and jam out while I worked or listen to books on tape (yeah this was before technology existed, wild huh!).
In the hazy mists of that yonder time before, I had only the barest inkling of what experimental music was or could accomplish. I only knew I was bored and tired and wanted to fuck around at work because soldering the same four components several hundred times a day isn't really intellectually stimulating. There were a few blank tapes kicking around in a box that I brought in to work with me. I started surreptitiously cobbling together a series of experiments to tape, pulling from radio, sound effects CDs borrowed from the library, music, anything. They were wonderful weird plunderphonic time capsules and then...they were lost, somewhere in a move probably.
Fast forward to now, today, the very moment you are reading this. I am trapped in my office alone, sick with the plague. We sometimes find perspective in distance, and I found another entry back into this same mode of working, just pressing record and automatically layering sounds (this time plundered from B-movie streaming services used to, ironically, save myself from boredom again). All these tracks were created in an attempt to awaken that same age old experience of:

I'm bored, let's fuck shit up.

Only the "play" video and "record" audio functions where used to create "BWRK". No editing or processing was used in the production of this piece.

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released February 23, 2023

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