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Cracking

by Christopher Nosnibor

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Cracking 1 07:42
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Cracking 2 12:43
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Cracking 3 v.1 11:30
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This one started on a whim, although was in some respects born of necessity. Home-schooling my 8-year-old daughter under lockdown, I thought it would be an education and creative time-filler to encourage her musical creativity. Given that she has – and can play, at least basically – both guitar and keyboard, recording her playing felt like a fun project.

I’d purchased a USB mini mixing desk some months previous (a Behringer XENYX Q502USB), but had only used it in a live context when performing with …(something) ruined, running a second vocal mic through a multi-effects guitar pedal, along with a custom-built drum synth, both controlled from the stage by the mixer and then into the PA. And so I figured I needed to test my own ability to record to my laptop before demonstrating it to my daughter, and what better way to do it than by borrowing her Casio keyboard and recording a range of sounds.

These sounds immediately became the basis for my first new musical recording in over a year, and when subject to some tweaking and general fuckery, those sounds resulted in a piece descriptively titled ‘New Noisewerk’.

And so the subsequent tracks took the same sounds, but evolved them from the previous track adding layers of noise and distortion and damaging EQ, meaning that with each revision, the sounds became further removed from the originals. This gives a certain linearity to the EP, although it may not be immediately apparent.
The title reflects the circumstances of the music’s creation: there were times when I felt like I was cracking up, and every moment of every day, cracks in people’s lives and characters were revealing themselves, while the cracks in society had rapidly become yawning chasms.

Sometimes, it’s beyond futile to even attempt to make sense of things, because, it seems, sometimes there is no sense. In such times, I find noise not necessarily calming,, but the most appropriate soundtrack, being both immersive and cathartic.

Finally, ‘cracking’ is an adjective I’m given to use when I think something is particularly good. And I am rather pleased with how these have come out.

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released August 2, 2020

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