Here you can find details of the CD version of our joint Geomatic/Lagowski album ‘Cosmochemistry’.
Tracklisting :
01. Plasma Spirals
02. Tellurium
03. Interdimensional
04. Sibylline Prophecy
05. Neutron Superfluid
06. Opposing Force
07. Hands of the Creator
08. Obfuscator
09. He Who Saw the Deep
10. Interdimensional [Ex_Tension Remix]
11. Interdimensional [Dj Element Remix]
I’ve never had a manager for my musical output and am not the kind of person who can schmooze his way to success. I don’t believe in kissing the backside of those who I think might help to increase my exposure in the electronic music/sound world. I find it hard to look at my musical output from the outside in – to me it seems sporadic and patchy with a few tunes here and there that I still enjoy. I’m always analysing my own tracks and wishing I could have done this or that better but ultimately, once a track is done and ‘out’, it’s like saying goodbye to an offspring and time to make another one.
So this week, in an attempt to increase my circle of listeners, and to introduce people to my music (which I’ve been making for 30+ years) I’ve paid FB to bring traffic to this page. Only a very small amount but without a manager, there is not much I can do to push it out there and spread the virus.
In the long distant past, I would have sent cassettes out to fanzines and later, cd’s to magazines and websites. I even met people and gave them cd’s in person! I soon realised that giving people your music free, in the hope that they’d review it or talk to others about it, was a very naive thing to do.
I don’t really know what I’m trying to say apart from, this is the way I’ve always done it and I don’t think it’s ever going to change. So paying FB to promote me is perhaps the equivalent of sending out that cassette 30 years ago and I don’t really expect it to go anywhere or reach anyone but you can’t hang on to your children forever and maybe this will push them further afield into areas that they’ve never been.
S.E.T.I. performance at Phobos IV Festival, Sophienkirche, Wuppertal, November 3rd 2012. With thanks to Martin Phelios for organisation and camerawork and Yukari Lagowski for logistical support.
The new Lagowski album is available from the following link ‘Redesine’. This is a download-only release, but the downloads can be of CD quality should you desire, enabling you to burn your own custom cd of new Lagowski material.
Lagowski 'Redesine'
I’m no mathematician and don’t understand the principles behind many of the weird and wonderful programs like Metasynth, Supercollider, Soundhack etc. I simply gather the sounds that please me and the rhythms that excite me and try to throw them together. If I understood all of these mathematical principles, do you think I’d create interesting tracks? Maybe yes. I wouldn’t say my tracks now are brilliant by any means but they are what I want to make and listen to at the time they are made.
I liken my noise & music making to some kind of painting. I usually throw a large amount of ‘paint’ on the ‘canvas’ and watch while a great deal of it falls onto the floor. I then spread what remains on the canvas so that certain colours come through and others are obscured. Sometimes, points of light poke through. Sometimes the canvas is naked with blocks of black slammed down hither and thither (is ‘thither’ a real word?).
There are many canvasses lying in the dust on the ‘studio’ floor. One day I’ll blow off the dust and put them back onto the easel to see if I can rescue anything. Maybe the paint will still be wet in places. I suppose I could chip away at the paint and break a few bits off. Maybe I could leave empty patches or add a bit of new paint. Perhaps blend a new colour.
But then perhaps, one day, the brushes will be unusable, stiff or broken. In which case, I shall use my fingers and hands.
By the way, I don’t like using spray paint.
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