New Sounds / Freshly Arranged (2012)
On Wednesday I went to The Fire to see 185668232. As usual The Fire jumbled up the order that the bands played, so that the playing order was different than what was on their website. I don't even expect that place to stick to what their page says any more.
185668232 has a continuous free-flowing stream of personnel that changes from show to show. Wednesday it was mainly Iam Mick with a spoken-word backup from Sadie Fissinger. I adjusted the first line of this blog to accommodate Iam's perception of his work and to maybe update my perception of work of today's artists in general. While I have normally identified new work as "New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released", Iam told me that he doesn't consider himself a musician (even though I've seen his proficiency playing several instruments), but one who works with "sound", including more sound than what constitutes traditional music. ... And in my conversation with him and another artist learned that there is no way to "write" down in notations on paper what those sounds are in a way that would be similar to writing music on a piece of paper. If you wanted to perform what you're doing tonight again five years from now, you would have to recreate it. There's no way to write down on paper what it would be so you could read it and do it again in five years.
This is an interesting concept to learn as my own horizons or understanding of "music" and "sounds" are also being redefined.
I've seen Iam's more recent work move off into the areas of new "sounds". And with a focusing on the bands that were to be playing that night (that he was largely instrumental in putting together), I've seen him show an interest in "Chalk Harmonica Vibe". And after listening to Chalk Harmonica Vibe on their web page before the show and listening to their music at the show, I would venture to say that maybe they had a little influence in the stylings of 185's specific performance Wednesday night.
One of 185's more experimental pieces is pRODUCT pLACEMENT [2012], which is a continuously evolving work that features a wide array of stylings and techniques. And it's playing right here on my blog page.
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6/27/20 UPDATE! ::: 185 removed the original version from their page and replaced it with a newer version. The recording below is actually from 2014.
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185668232 has a show scheduled for tonight at the Meatlocker in Montclair, NJ..
To visit 185668232 otherwise, here is the click ::: 185668232 (CLICK HERE)
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