Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples

"after 3 years of deliberation, keith fullerton whitman's multiples album will be released on compact disc on the kranky imprint on may 16th. this is certainly kfw's crowning achievement, the result of countless hours of studio labor in exotic locales with even more exotic equipment and compositional methods. please give it a listen."

There was a track from this album on last year's Kranky Kompilation -- it sounded like multitracked farfisa droning. Kind of like Conrad's "Four Violins". Actually, KFW should give 20% of his royalties from "Playthroughs" to Tony Conrad.

I was at that show, and I agree it was hard to focus on the music in the second piece while that video was going on - by contrast, I had my eyes closed during the first piece, and I was blown away by how great it was to hear that music played at that volume in a room that size.

<3 disingenuousness

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'multiples' is such a fantastic record

agree! i actually finally picked it up about 2 wks ago, gave it several spins—utterly great, cant believe i waited so long on it

i really dug 'disingenuity' last year but it took me until this year to track down 'generator', which is also good.

Really want to hear Disingenuousness but is it only out on vinyl or what?

multiples is probably in my.... say, top 25. I've been consistently playing it ever since it came out and it hasn't gotten old. really impressive range but not in a ham-fisted way and everything just works beautifully. I'm especially fond of the farfisa track.

still haven't listened to disingenuousness and I even picked it up!

the generator tape on root strata also kind of blew my mind. remember kfw describing it as an automated take on terry riley for the listing in his store and that is actually spot-on. have a huge soft spot for persian surgery dervishes and it's a bit like a more frenzied, monolithic take on that sound.

disingenuousness is more of the full-experience statement but the generator tape just suits all kinds of levels of listening. live generators is room recordings of live performances and a little too lo-fi to have the same effect but I made it through

the generator sounds at this point have been assimilated into a wider-ranging live piece: http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/09/30/130239680/keith-fullerton-whitman-in-concert-high-zero-festival-2010

i had no idea until 5 minutes ago that KFW was the fellow behind the Creel Pone label.

doing god's work imo.

oh, totally! the guy's passion for electronic music is really pretty inspiring. I get a real OBSESSED vibe (in a good way!) and that passion just bleeds out from so many of his projects.

huge fan, if you couldn't tell.

and I like the live generator tapes too... but agreed, the root strata one is where it's at.

multiplies

is

awes

watching the skies lightening on a clear morning

ha!

i also had no idea he was the sole dude behind Creel Pone. should have guessed.

this is him too, right?
http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/artists/fritz+dietl.html

and this is awesome, if you haven't seen it:
http://vimeo.com/18639215

hrvatski - irrevocably overdriven break freakout megamix

<3<3<3

19:00 onwards is one of the greatest minutes in recorded music next to say 'hallogallo', 'psk' and 'étude aux chemins de fer'

i need to hear that... only have the one hrvatski cd

swarm and dither has some tigerbeat6 ish us idm classixxx but IOBFM is to breakcore what chartres cathedral must have been to the lepers' shantyhouses at its foot

http://soundcloud.com/alteredzones/keith-fullerton-whitman-101105

this is wonderful!

KFW was one of my favorite artists.

and then he was posted on Altered Zones, lol.

R.I.P.

the fuck does it matter tho rly

none of the new wave american synth ppl are near his level

yup. he's the best!

whiney have you heard the recent 'exploratory' pieces he put up on his website (say two-ish months ago?). i liked them a lot

i went to see deerhunter in 2007

this dude opened and played what came off as one continuous song

he's from my state

wire interview is really fantastic

... an uninterrupted 5:43:30 transcription (in stereo) of a particularly nice patch built on the "voight-kampff machine" (pictured) on 06/20/12, recorded whilst i was out having lunch in davis square (i.e. unobserved, unmoderated, untouched, unheard, etc) ...

http://soundcloud.com/kfw/120620-auto

was just coming here to post that!

I've been jamming "Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue)" off Generators all year and it's still amazing, I could live in it for days. Most people on this thread have probably heard it already but if not, check it out: there's an excerpt up on Soundcloud and the whole thing is on Spotify.

i don't really get what this is exactly but it looks interesting

https://soundcloud.com/kfw/sets/greatest-hits

neat. I like that the bits of songs are still recognizable -- I was worried that it was going to be one of those ultra-high-concept things where it no longer bears any trace of the original.

it's not unpleasant but it's a little facile. basically slowed down clips with phasing effects, as far as i can tell. kind of like those "justin bieber slowed down 500%!" youtubes

i'm sure there's more going on than that but that's what it sounds like

I'm not in love with it. I've also had a fascination with the "salient pop music moment" thing for a while, like when there's just one little chord change or drum fill or vocal inflection that has extra aural significance for you, but I think he could do something more interesting with them.

the fact that he's planning on releasing 24 hours worth of these suggests that he's probably not sinking a ton of effort into each one, although i could be wrong

he also said he started working on them when he was 30 and he's 40 now

i haven't been feeling this guy since disingenuity and generators : /

but those are still transmissions from the heart of space

I like a lot of what I hear from him

what has he done since generators? wasn't that just last year?

Occlusions; Real Time Music for Hybrid Digital-Analogue Modular Synthesizer (2012) -- not sure if this was recorded in front of an audience, but there are audience sounds and some good (supposed) reactions to the performance. atonal and nasty sounding, from what i recall. wish Mego put this stuff out on cd

definitely dig occlusions but I do prefer the two occlusions tapes to the mego lp

liking late playthroughs, starts off a bit too quiet, skip ahead if you're impatient