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Everything in Fee Fie Foe Fum is derived from an easily recognizable 1966 pop hit. I came across the source material through research focused on the period of a few months back then between the death of Edgard Varèse and the release of Frank Zappa’s first record. I was 13 years old.  The familiarity of the material lends itself to a plunderphonic treatment, revisiting techniques I developed in the 70’s and 80’s to transform existing music into recreations where ideally the listener is simultaneously recognizing/remembering the original while hearing/discovering  its transformation into something altogether new.  The work is a hybrid of plunderphonic and rascali klepitoire techniques.

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delta 1.3 — 12nov2022
epsilon 1.4 — 8dec — level adjustments

Oswald has a nomenclature system indicating the state of completion of tracks and albums; it’s based on the computer software versioning lingo, which was common by the 1980’s when he began to apply a numeral system to indicate revisions in the Mystery Tapes https://x-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/x-mystery-tape-sampler. Here’s the greek letter code with his caveats:
alpha — in this state i would only play something for someone if i’m in their presence to make comments about omissions, adjustments, inevitable changes to be made, et cetera.
beta — these tracks are sometimes accessible to selected individuals, and are usually indicated as rough mixes, rough edits, or general roughhewn roughage.
gamma — programmers refer to this as a “release candidate”. which means this might be a final version, but i might change my mind.
delta — this indicates that the track is more certainly suitable to inflict upon the world; which does not mean that i won’t make little tweeks; hence the accompanying version numbers. the delta symbol is ∆ which i’ve also used to begin the titles of a group of compositions particularly focused on sound as some would distinguish the term from music.
epsilon — this would indicate that i would be crazy to make any more changes.

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from i'd Love to Turn …, released December 1, 2022
video of the premiere performance by the Bang On A Can All-Stars also found here:
youtu.be/cvIBF4aMCGw

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FONY is a 21st centuy record label focused on audiocentric creations by John Oswald and his associates—
works including Plunderphonics, the Rascali Klepitoire, Mystery Tapes, plus miscellaneous soundtracks, sonic inventions, site-conditioned performances or installations, et cetera.
Video and audio production and mastering passes through mLAB, where Oswald is Director of Research. ... more

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