richard thomas

Richard Thomas

TITLE:"Orange Wax-Ghost Bowling (with umbilical cord).To Be Rotated And Viewed Whilst Whistling."
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY: Richard Thomas.
mini cd. oozebap "algo es algo" series, 011.

SAMPLE! > (excerpt).mp3 [00:56]

staff:
Dog Abuse - Vectorscope and Flash loops
Chien Battu - Phonogene, camera, strip of rubber
Adam Bohman - torture impliments
Jonathan Bohman - books, statistical analysis, horticulture
Hebron Dicoxlig aka Y - Penny FartThing, unculture, scarf made of leather extract
Luke Durance - computer games, plates with the Queen on
Montague Fochs - himself
Patrick Furness - Butterworth Compounder/vending machines
Panos Ghikas - the violin
Ralf Nuhn - German accents, Mechatronic Soundtrack System
Steven Parry - Welsh accents, dyslexia, poetry/lists, worm belt, cloak
Scott Pearsall - pump and bellows
Andrew Plummer - black stick with holes in it, gruffed-up screech loop
Shiho Sawada - Japanese accents, Sleep Encouraging Equipment
Richard Thomas - Welsh accents, basic Charnel, Procrastination Tools and Idiophones
Johannes Von Wiesacker - the cello

contact:
richardthomas@btinternet.com
http//:www.hub100.com/richardthomas
http//:www.hub100.com/dogabuse
http//:www.chocsarnie.co.uk

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A long title short on meaning. The title is borrowed from an object I made out of wax. I wanted to make a crappy sound sculpture so I melted a bunch of orange candles onto a silver plate and shaped the blob into the form of a typical cartoon ghost. Fortunately, clumsiness prevailed over design and I fucked it up, so it's form changed to include a strand like an orange intestine protruding from it's gut and one smallish orange globule to it's left. Someone said the globule looked like a bowling ball, someone else said the intestinal thing looked like the spectre's umbilical cord. My idea was to place this plate on a rotatable surface, like a turntable, leaving the viewer to provide their own suitably spooky soundtrack by whistling, aping the oscillations of the plate. This whistling could be solo or ensemble, depending upon how many are viewing it at any one time (my personal record was two). The whistling can be of any pitch, timbre and duration, it's down to your brain, lungs, saliva and the geography of your lips. The title therefore, describes the thing as a thing and also instructs you how to "use it", and that's the extent of it's interactivity. The title has nothing to do with the music on this CD, apart from the fact that it was conceived and constructed in the same time period. For those about to write a Max-patch, I salute you.

dog abuse, 2002