Philly Music!
CREATIVITY BEFORE YOUR EYES
Props. There were props. I went to see my friend, Iam, do a show at the Yell Gallery last weekend, and he had a table full of props.
Iam S. Mick is the mastermind of Philly noise & music outfit, "185668232". 185668232 was headlining a bunch of other artists for the evening.
Iam made use of the props almost right from the beginning. He lowered the microphone down to the table level, and poured a glass of water. The microphone was connected to a recorder, which recorded and then played back the pouring exactly as we heard it. ... Then Iam played with the recorded pouring sound, distorted it, quickened the tempo, then back to the prop table.
Next, moving the microphone up to his face, he drank a few gulps of water from the glass, then played that back.
And then he rang a large bell which had been salvaged from an old church. Then he played that back.
He did this sequence with a number of items.
He worked and played with these sounds and integrated them into one long piece. Unlike previous shows where he played several shorter tracks, this show contained everything in one. I recognized fragments of various tracks embedded in the longer piece, following the playback of the props.
Iam is always on the lookout to push the envelope to incorporate everyday sounds and not-so-everyday sounds into his pieces, sometimes combining them with traditional instrumentation, sometimes not.
Another example of a track that rose from an unexpected source is "PersonalityPerPerson" which is playing right here on my blog page. In the notes connected with the track, Iam says, "What is considered a "mashup" of left over sounds for PRODUCT PLACEMENT (the 36+ track EP) // These sounds were on my machine by the previous owner; he told me to do something with them. I didn't choose these sounds, just arranged them."
There's more creativity to sample if you check out 185668232 on the internets. Here is the click ::: 185668232 on Bandcamp (CLICK HERE)
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