INTERVIEW: Charles Hoffman

Charles Hoffman

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
CHARLES HOFFMAN
interviewed
by Ian C Stewart

Is there anything you're feeling particularly mouthy about at the moment?
Lately I'm really obsessed with self-importance. I work in web development, and I seem to run into a lot of it in those circles, but it's kind of everywhere in society these days. So many people try so hard to look like something that not only they're not, but also that doesn't even make sense to be. The "creative class" is this myth that messes with your head. People spend money they don't have to try to look like a big wheel, when you're really just like, making silly fun websites that only make money by selling advertising under the false pretense that anybody pays any fucking attention to it. There's so much in our society and economy that's just absurd right now but that people take totally seriously.

INTERVIEW: Greg Mathieson of Bat Lenny, Limpid (the) Green, Stegor, etc.

Stegor

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
Greg Mathieson
of Bat Lenny, Limpid (the) Green, Stegor, etc.
interview by Ian C Stewart

Right up front, let's talk about your musical influences. Who are your biggest influences and why?
Classic Prog Rock, like Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull… I just keep going back to that stuff. As much as I love the multitude of musical styles and directions that have developed since then I’ll never forget the mysterious feelings I got when I was a kid listening to that stuff. And then there’s Bowie, XTC, Talking Heads, Kraftwerk…

INTERVIEW: Evan Peta of Evan Peta

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
EVAN PETA
interview by
Ian C Stewart

So, Evan. Is there anything you're feeling particularly mouthy about at the moment?
Peanut Butter Oreos are pure evil, seriously.

REVIEW: Moljebka Pvlse &; Cría Cuervos "Vid vägs ände" (Road's End) - CD

MOLJEBKA PVLSE and CRIA CUERVOS
Vid vägs ände (Road's End) CD, 2011
Cohort Records, 128 Condo Street, Monticello, IN 47960 USA
http://cohortrecords.0catch.com
Two long pieces, assembled by Sweden's Moljebka Pvlse and Italy's Cría Cuervos. Epic drone-ambients. "pa vndrande fot (Traveling By Foot)" fills the air nicely, with several twists and turns. It's cinematic in spots. "det ar aldrig for sent att vanda om (It's Never Too Late To Turn Back)" is a cleaner drone, reminding me of the music for the film 'Baraka', it feels profound, especially around the 20-minute mark, it sounds like a didjeridoo or its eastern equivalent, and a bit of feedback behind it. The last few minutes, with the reversed vocal sample loop is astounding. Gorgeous.
Ian C Stewart

PODCASTS: AUTOreverse PODCAST 7

autoDIVERSE quagazine

AUTOreverse PODCAST 7
20110730

1. FZZY PMPR "Not Fun" from the next EP, which we'll call 'hijacked beats'
2. JOHN NEIL - "Snowman" (XTC) from 'beasts i've seen, the xtc fans' tribute cassette'
3. AUZEL - "I Remember It More Now" from 'old'
4. LOVE CALVIN - "Burn Victims Suck (Acoustic Version)" from 'what's left, volume three'
5. SQUEEGEED CLEAN - "Fake Burzum Ritual" from '2010 - Synchronised Fucking Up And Pre-Emptive Flashbacks'
6. DON CAMPAU - "Trial By Fire" from 'best of don campau, volume two'
7. AMPTEXT + BASS - "Bodyment 2" from 'nine strings' split cd
8. IRRELIGION - "Forever Tonight" from 'cadaver holiday'
7. BRYCE EIMAN - "SK-5 01" from 'tone whore'
8. MINOR 2049er - "Do The Slam" from 'unliberated'
9. C. REIDER - "Clathrate Gun Hypothesis" from 'owning extinctions'
10. KNITTING BY TWILIGHT - "A Thousand Islands" from 'weathering'
11. SCOTT BROOKMAN - "Everything You Write Sounds To Me Like Death" from 'the busy world of scott brookman'
12. DAMNED HEAD (PBK) - "Epidural Threat" from 'into my head'
13. DANIEL PRENDIVILLE "Amnesie...er" from 'mutant ogre'
14. EVAN PETA - "Spark Generator" from 'spark generator'
15. TODD SKAGGS "Alimentary Canal" from 'rodomontodd'
16. BENTWITHLIGHT - "Monster" from 'burnt offerings'
17. XOLOSTAR WARRIOR - "Control The Mind Circle"
18. DARRIN AILES - "If You Would Leave" from 'ruthless angelic cherubs, volume two'
19. EVIL BREAD - "Purple Pie Pizza", from 'Live At Apollo's!'

go!
http://iancstewart.podomatic.com/entry/2011-07-30T09_15_20-07_00

INTERVIEW: Jim Shelley of Book Of Kills

Jim Shelley on Earth Day

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
JIM SHELLEY
BOOK OF KILLS
interview by Ian C Stewart

SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
I surely did. Did you miss me? Wait!  Don't answer that!

REVIEW: Xolostar Warrior - Gorkun Crystal Audio Stream, 2011

Xolostar Warrior  - Gorkun Crystal Audio Stream - 2011

XOLOSTAR WARRIOR
Gorkun Crystal Audio Stream
Soundclick download, 2011
This is a brief introduction to the XoloStar Warrior, whose songs are in the Indietronic category on Soundclick. "Humantron" sounds like one a Buckethead instrumental. Which means it's funky, heavy and groovy and there's cool sound effects. And fun. "Zenorama" breaks out the vocal harmonizer and effects, along with the finger-jab drum machine sounds. Nice. Absurd, really. But great! "Para Talk" jumps in with a funky beat and more spaced-out spoken bits which go through every effect known to man. It's kind of hilarious and great at the same time. Finally, "Go Luup" continues with fragmented beats and rather deranged synth-stabs. Did he just say "shadow of the octopus"? Fun and awesome.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: amptext + bass / Blk w bear - split CD, 2011

amptext + bass / Blk w bear split CD 2011

AMPTEXT + BASS / BLK W BEAR
"Nine Strings" / "Ten Outtakes & Demos"
Split CD, 2011Cohort Records
The first track by amptext + bass, "The Ghosts Of Silent Radios," sounds like about four different scores by John Cage played at the same time, which, for all I know, it might be. It sounds like a person playing a cello. There's a bit of messing-around with a handheld tape recorder (I assume), the air in the room. An old telephone in a box, or something. Hard core avant garde. "Bodyment 1" and "Bodyment 2"  continue with the same template, while the final two pieces are less tape-menacing and more live performances, if that description makes any sense. The cello playing is deft and scrapey, and the pieces include lots of silence.  Nice. The tracks by Blk w bear that follow are of the ambient noise ilk, or dark ambience. "Valve Languere [Vasoline Mix]" includes some interesting samples and loops which gradually fade across the inner ear thing. "Reade Lactid" sounds like some sampler abuse, of which I approve. "Salt Water Coughing" finishes up sounding like a pipe organ being devoured by a poltergeist. This deeply experimental split CD is available now. Handmade covers, the whole deal. John Gore really does this sh1t up.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: The Implicit Order - A Wink And A Nod, 2011

The Implicit Order - A Wink And A Nod

THE IMPLICIT ORDER
A Wink And A Nod  download
Cool mixture of remixes, tributes, anti-mixes, whatever you wanna call it. Homage. Each of the eight pieces are new versions of tracks chosen by The Implicit Order, and gradually redefined with the now-standard Implicit Order engine. Echoey loops, weird spoken passages and ambient room noises populate the frequency spectrum. Some are quite noisy, others more austere.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: Dislocated Tones - "Compound Fractures" compilation, 2011

Dislocated Tones - Compound Fractures, 2011

DISLOCATED TONES
Compound Fractures, download 2011
Here's a fun compilation that's all over the place, stylistically speaking. Chuck Hoffman's opening track is called "Feline & Toddler Vomitorium," it's a neat pile of Casio sampler loops. "Twenty Four" by Arcade is noisy and spaced-out dub, can it be? Yes, it can be. Large beats and fractious beats, and squelched synth stuff. I enjoy. Sampleman also takes a funk-friendly approach with "Small Pink & Black Alien". "Carbon" by Yenoc is another toe-tapper, with its upbeat synth burbles and vocoder vocals. The majority of the other tracks are quite noisy and abrasive., in a couple of cases straddling the line between noise and order. "Ophelia As A Cyborg" by Haru Yasumi is a noisy bit of FUNK, so it's what, IDM, is that the category? That is the noisiest funk track this side of my own work as FZZY PMPR. I like it a lot, though all of the pieces were interesting in their own ways.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: ANIXAS - ZECTEC EP 2011

Anixas - Zectec

ANIXAS
Zectec EP - Mudball Records
Jamendo download, 2011
It's an EP but it's more of a 3P. Three pieces, three minutes Each. "Zectec115" The first one features a decent drum loop with cool, staccato synth stuff happening, but there's also a couple of notes, like a drone but higher, almost like feedback or ground hum, which turn it from a playful bit of MIDI action to an act of sonic aggression. I'm not sure if it's intended, or not intended. "Zectec116" and "Zectec117" deploy similar drones and MIDI synth rubs, which are not as harsh. Kind of neat.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW: Jamie Hutchings interviewed by Skot

Jamie Hutchings

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
JAMIE HUTCHINGS
interview by Skot Schtikla
"The title comes from the where and how of the recording which had a very strong impact on the end result. It was recorded in a run-down shack out the front of a property in Avalon that was lent to us. Thus the bleeding, spilly, haphazard non-studio quality. Secondly, it was all recorded mostly live to an 8 track cassette recorder by my friend Chris Colquhoun" - comments from Jamie about his latest album 'Avalon Cassettes'

NEWS: Love Calvin - What's Left, Volume Three - now available

Love Calvin - What's Left, Volume Three, 2011

Third volume of miscellaneous Love Calvin songs. Grab for free. These unique and truly visionary home recordings, lovingly preserved and displayed by Russ Stedman.


Stop reading this, go get it NOW or I won't be your friend anymore, if I ever was.


LOVE,CALVIN - "WHAT'S LEFT? - VOLUME THREE"

01 Superman's True Story
02 It's A Big World
03 Blue Egg
04 Leave Me Alone
05 Burn Victims Suck (Acoustic Version)
06 Don't
07 Blue Lights & Jesus
08 He Served Us Some Fires
09 I'm An American
10 Regrets
11 Crawl
12 Cheesemeister (Alternate Version)
13 Feel All The Dirt


Love Calvin Love Calvin Love Calvin Love Calvin Love Calvin Love Calvin Love Calvin Love Calvin


http://www.lovecalvin.com/whats-left.html

REVIEW: leshitter Blut - Kill Everyone And Everything EP, 2011

leshitter Blut - Kill Everyone And Everything

LESHITTER BLUT
Kill Everyone And Everything EP
Cherry Blossom Dog Records, 2011"Welcome to everything you thought you would never see before."
Crazy, keyboard noise... dude with spluttering, tourette's-level swearing and verbal misanthropy. "Intro" is a swearing, deranged rant against humanity with clapping in the background. "Ode To Camping" is the longest nine minutes and nine seconds of my life. That high feedback tone is brutal, and the toy piano-playing adds sinister depth. "A Life Of Nothing" sounds like death metal grumbling over a broken casio. "like dogshit on the grass...." "Liar Throne" features a steady drum beat somewhere back in the haze of its discontent. More black-metal vocals, plus the feedback and keyboards. It's certainly unpleasant, often brutally so. Aggressive, electronic noise comes in many forms.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW: Swerve interviewed by Skot

Swerve

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
SWERVE
interviewed by
Skot Schtickla

Swerve has been a part of the Sydney music scene, in particular the experimental music scene for as long as I've been around of it. I first met him in the mid nineties sometime as his label had organized gigs which they had asked my band at the time to be a part of and also I had witnessed insane shows that contained Swerve and other acts from his label Dual Plover that I'd never seen or heard anything like before! Generally challenging musically in many ways but also also visually spectacular and energetic unlike a lot of 'noise' shows which can be great to listen to but dull to look at. I noticed that never with Swerve or any of the associated acts you would get this, they always went off in some way and had fun.

INTERVIEW: Greg Stomberg of Syberite

Stomberg Susnara

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
GREG STOMBERG
questtons by
Scott Stikla      

When did you first become aware/ interested in sound in general and what do you remember of your earliest 'hearing 'experiences whether musical or not?
When I was in kindergarten we got out of class early because awas shot, one of my earliest memories, then in feb i remember running across the street yelling 'the beatles are on tv, the beatles are on tv', we made guitars out of boards and rubber bands in 1964 when i was 6 or 7, a great year, well, not for jfk i guess.

INTERVIEW: Roman Kovalchuk of HIGH PARK

High Park - All Day, 2011"

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
Roman Kovalchuk of
HIGH PARK
interview by
Ian C Stewart

ROMAN, HELLO. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'RE FEELING MOUTHY ABOUT RIGHT NOW?
I'm on a three hour drive going camping right now, away from my studio, so I'm pretty happy to get a few days away from the city and relax.

INTERVIEW: Russ Stedman epic

RUSS STEDMAN
MONSTER INTERVIEW
ten questions in the middle by Skot
other questions by Ian C Stewart

TRICKY QUESTION FIRST: CAN YOU TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ALBUM THAT NO ONE ELSE KNOWS?
The sound, feel, instrumentation, vocals, and pretty much everything about the song "When Will The Drugs Take Effect?" is a homage to one of my favorite albums of all time; THE FLAMING LIPS' "The Soft Bulletin".

INTERVIEW: Dave Stafford of pureambient

Dave Stafford

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
DAVE STAFFORD
of PUREAMBIENT.com
Intrviewed by
Ian C Stewart

DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
Maybe…. but I’ll aim better next time!

NEWS: New Stedmusik Podcast

The Hard Way - The Kinks
I Can't Believe It's Not Satan - Devilcake
She Looks Like Someone Who'd Fuck Somebody You Hate - M.O.T.O.
Back From Somewhere - Husker Du
Stairway To Britney - The Evolution Control Committee
Peace, Love and Nuclear Fusion - Russ Stedman
Peace, Love and Nuclear Fusion - Love,Calvin
Peace, Love and Nuclear Fusion - Evan Peta
The Oath - Kiss
I Don't Wanna Work Anymore - Russ Stedman
The Hard Way - The Knack
Guest -Evan Peta

http://russstedman.podomatic.com/entry/2011-07-17T12_46_57-07_00

INTERVIEW: Don Campau

Don Campau

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
DON CAMPAU
interviewed by
Ian C Stewart

SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
In fact I did. I don’t believe you’ve ever received your full due from running autoreverse during those crucial years after Option went south and Sound Choice folded. You and Bryan Baker of Gajoob were essential to keeping the spirit of home taping culture on the map and alive. Plus you are just a damn good writer.

INTERVIEW: Sean Padilla of The Cocker Spaniels

Sean Padilla

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
SEAN PADILLA
aka COCKER SPANIELS
Ian C Stewart

DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
Yes, I missed "AUTOreverse" a lot. During the last five or six years of life, I felt very disconnected from the "cassette culture" that served as a musical and psychological lifeline for me when I was a lonely teenager in southeast Texas. "AUTOreverse" was the best of the 'zines I read to keep myself informed about cassette culture, and its support helped give me the strength I needed to keep making music when the people surrounding me weren't exactly supportive.

REVIEW: Azalia Snail - "Celestial Respect" CD, 2011

Azalia Snail - Celestial Respect, 2011

AZALIA SNAIL
Celestial Respect CD, 2011
Silber Records
Raw and ethereal at the same time, two qualities long thought to be mutually exclusive. "Solar Riser" opens with multiple layers of vocal and keyboard drones. "Burnt Cookies" starts with a satisfyingly simple drum beat and builds into a sort of a gothic Rolling Stones full-band groove, disappearing behind a wall of echo. The songs are interspersed with keyboard and vocal passages which are themselves cloaked in slapback echo. "Fallen Down" is a straight, quiet passage near the end. The overall tone reminds me of the first couple of Jarboe solo albums I heard, and, like those, "Celestial Respect" is its own thing.
Ian C Stewart

NEWS: Dave Stafford's all-new Pureambient HD channel on YouTube

Dave Stafford's pureambientHD channel is up and running at last on YouTube - featuring all five of the available Dave Stafford Live Performance Videos in stunning HD video with the highest quality audio possible.

INTERVIEW: Shaun Sandor of Promute and Bicameral Mind

Shaun Sandor

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
Interview with
SHAUN SANDOR
of PROMUTE and BICAMERAL MIND
by Ian C Stewart

WHERE/HOW/WHEN DID YOU RECORD YOUR LATEST THING?
I recorded the most recent release - Portocal Sessions in the spring of 2011. It is on the Zeromoon Label as a net release, and hard copies for sale go to benefit the Sonic Circuits Festival in DC.

INTERVIEW: Graham Halliday aka Funkmeister G interviewed by Skot Schtikla

Funkmeister G

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
FUNKMEISTER G aka
GRAHAM HALLIDAY
interview
by Skot Schtikla

Graham Halliday is mainly known in the recording guise of Funkmeister G.



Born in Ireland and then living in Perth, Western Australia for a few years, he is Sydney-based and has lived in just about every suburb of the 'inner west' since he was a kid. He produced Chunky Yet Funky zine in the 90's when I first came across him and some of my earliest memories of G are him calling me on the phone and then not really saying much except 'listen to this' and then he would play me everything from a dictaphone or tape deck old jazz, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart to some of what I assumed to be his own noise recordings down the phone which with the old land-line would pretty much come across as 20 minutes of distorted fuzz!

REVIEW: Dave Fuglewicz and Hal McGee - Synergistic Reconstruction - tape 2011

Dave Fuglewicz and Hal McGee - Synergistic Reconstruction, 2011

DAVE FUGLEWICZ and HAL MCGEE
Synergistic Reconstruction cassette, 2011
Haltapes - www.halmcgee.com
Here's some fresh noise by two legends of the genre. This c-60 is divided into four separate pieces. The layers were brought together on a four-track cassette recorder, which just warms my heart. This whole project is a labor of analog love, at least on the recording end. Dave's original noises and synthesizer tones were later manipulated and reassembled by Hal into this stimulating blend.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: Bryce Eiman - Tone Whore - download, 2011

Bryce Eiman - Tone Whore

BRYCE EIMAN
Tone Whore, Last.fm download 2011
Casio SK-5 abuse, the likes of which not seen around here since I left mine at Darrin's. This album is eight processed noise/feedback pieces. Mysterious rhythms emerge and are slapped down with a quickness. I know that the looping function on the Casio SK-5 can provide multitudes of possibilities for unique, or unusual repetitions. The permutations can be endlessly fascinating in the correct hands (i.e. Bryce's, not mine). It sounds like there are some effects being applied in real time here. I like the tremolo type stuff. Piece number three has an adagio orchestral feel, quite pastoral there. Fascinating.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: Auzel - "Old" -- 2011

Auzel - Old

AUZEL
Old - download, 2011
www.vuzhmusic.com
14 shortish pieces. Micro, minimalistic. Lots of samples, surrounded by rustic, homemade vocal drones. "I Remember It More Now" is a couple of rhythmic, glitchy loops beset by noise-abuse. "The Maid And The Cook" is kooky and frenetic, using some seriously high frequencies amid piano and xylophone-type sounds. Like a lost piece by Skinner Box. "Incorrect Spell" continues similarly, maybe like one of the early Rasputina album interludes. "Too True" is an all-too-brief vocal piece that sounds like some lost record on 4AD that I wish I had heard before. Wow. "Herringbone" is a whispery, breathy, trippy, heavily-processed conversation. "She Turned Into The Dog" is just gorgeous ambience, sounds like an echoey cello or an e-bow with a bit of humming on top. This album is scary and weird. I like it very much. A mighty fine release.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW: Jim Santo of The Sharp Things, The Kennel Recording Studio, etc.

Jim Santo

AUTOreverse Issue #14, Summer 2011
JIM SANTO
Interview by
Ian C Stewart

Is there anything you're feeling particularly MOUTHY about at the moment?
Are you kidding? I am a non-stop bitchin' machine. I spent most of today on the phone with help desk personnel, need I say more?

REVIEW: THE IMPLICIT ORDER - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY EP

The Implicit Order - For Your Eyes Only EP, 2011

THE IMPLICIT ORDER
For Your Eyes Only EP, Bandcamp, 2011
Three-piece refresher course on Anthony Washburn's aesthetic. The title track is dark, rhythmic, Bill Nelson style atmospheric, new-agey in a good way, relatively uptempo epic at seven and a half minutes. It's a cross between gorgeous and hellish. "Kingdom Of Blood" features christian preaching-type stuff, behind reverby synth pads. I prefer the instrumental stuff, "Monsters Among Us" is pleasant little three minute bit of haze to round things out. Is this my first time hearing The Implicit Order? Maybe it just feels like it. Now I'm a fan.
Ian C Stewart

REVIEW: KNITTING BY TWILIGHT - WEATHERING - CD, 2011

Knitting By Twilight - Weathering CD 2011

KNITTING BY TWILIGHT
Weathering CD, 2011
http://www.itstwilightmusic.com
Fascinating, percussive instrumentals with art rock tendencies. It would be lazy to say Dead Can Dance with special guest Robert Fripp, so I won’t say it. The soundtrackish, professional production places this album into a category all its own. And though the song title “Harold’s Budds” may tip their hand, Knitting By Twilight is more than mere gauzy piano. The layers of hand percussion deserve a special mention, and the unique, darkly Asian tone of the cymbals. The dynamics ensure that this is not some overly-rigid MIDI new age pastiche, or something. I’m losing the plot trying to say how much I’m enjoying this. I do! I’m reminded of David Sylvian’s better instrumental pieces.
Ian C Stewart

BUY

INTERVIEW: Ken Clinger of Bovine Productions, etc.

Ken Clinger

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
KEN CLINGER
interview
by Ian C Stewart

SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
There was a definite void in the Universe, which has now once again been filled.

REVIEW: Hal McGee and Danny McGuire - The Stipulator Vs. Glow Bell Worming - cassette 2011

Hal McGee and Danny McGuire - The Stipulator Vs. Glow Bell Worming, 2011

HAL MCGEE and DANNY MCGUIRE
The Stipulator Vs. Glow Bell Worming cassette, 2011
Haltapes - www.halmcgee.com
Whacked-out improvisations recorded in the summer of 2010, thirty minutes up one side and thirty back down the other. It could be cartoon music from hell. The first piece contains layered feedback, loops and rhythmic repetition. This is definitely not easy listening, background kind of stuff here, this stuff commands your full attention. "Hal McGee is state of the art," that phrase, repeated, brings to mind Brak and Space Ghost. Side two continues similarly, rolling and writhing. I enjoy Danny McGuire's detuned guitar riffing action, it almost takes this into the realm of dark ambient heavy metal. Rounding out with "Smack The Taste Out Yo Mouth," which the entire tape easily manages to do. A welcome return.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW: Ian C Stewart of AUTOreverse, Devilcake, Samarkand, Bizarre Depiction, etc. featured in his own publication

Ian C Stewart, 2011

IAN C STEWART
interview by
SKOT SCHTIKLA
July, 2011

When did you first become aware/ interested in sound in general and what do you remember of your earliest 'hearing 'experiences whether musical or not?
I think, when I got my first portable tape recorder, that was the first time I became aware of sounds. That was probably around my 8th birthday, which would be 1980. Eventually the thrill of listening was surpassed by the greater thrill of recording every single thing I could find. Listening was not as much fun. It's easy to forget that in those days, everything you experienced was transient and, once it was done, it was done. Of course now it's the opposite extreme, everything is documented. I have tapes from 1984, when I was learning to play the guitar. You hear ten minutes of room noise followed by some naff guitar playing, followed quickly by whatever I was watching on TV at the time. The act itself of recording was the main thing. Which is pathetic, I sound like a total caveman.

INTERVIEW: Carl Howard of audiofile Tapes, The Land Of Guilt And Blarney and more

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
CARL HOWARD
interview
by Skot Schtikla

Carl, you made a high-profile contribution to the first issue of AUTOreverse. You then disappeared for the rest of its run, if I recall correctly. Tell us in five or six words, what have you been up to since then?

I have directed all of my squalor... to internet radio! Practically everything else has either disappeared, been sacrificed, or else been ruined by water damage along the way. Sheesh! Watch fifteen years of ones life vanish... before... your... very... eyes!

INTERVIEW: Jehn Cerron of Eyelight

Jehn Cerron

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
JEHN CERRON
aka EYELIGHT,
conversation with Ian C Stewart
July 2011

Have you ever done much traditional promotion of your own work? I don't recall seeing many interviews with you back in the old days.
 Short answer: no. My idea of promotion was handing out tapes around town. I was really bad about answering mail. Anything that ended up out there was by someone hearing from someone else. Shy...arguably Aspergers. Just didn't have that kind of agenda. Just wanted to record for the sake of.
My question to you... how many hours did you log listening to submissions and how??

INTERVIEW: C. Reider of Vuzh Music

c. reider

AUTOreverse #14, summer 2011
C. REIDER
of VUZH MUSIC,
interview by
Ian C Stewart


SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
Yes.  It was an important document of cassette culture.
I am embarrassed looking back on my own contributions, my review writing was generally pretty poor, and I was often unnecessarily harsh in my judgements (sorry all you hometapers), but excluding most of my writing it was a great 'zine.

NEWS: new Vuzh Music release - Auzel - "Old"

Auzel - Old

A new release by a new artist on Vuzh Music.

Auzel’s debut release is called “Old”. It is a diverse set of peculiar, tiny, composed vignettes that suggest contemporary avant-garde composition as much as freak-folk or hometaper weirdness.
keywords: weird, dreamy folk, female vocals, lo-fi

http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/auzel_old.html

INTERVIEW with John Orsi of Knitting By Twilight

Weathering, 2011

AUTOreverse, Issue 14, Summer 2011
JOHN ORSI of
KNITTING BY TWILIGHT
interview by Ian C Stewart

July 10, 2011

SO, JOHN.....DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
I did miss AUTOreverse!  My immediate reaction to it's absence was "Where did that great magazine go to?"  It seemed to me that AUTO had the same sensibility regarding Music AND Art and Design that I was/am attempting with Knitting By Twilight.  And so a kinship was lost when AUTO went away.  And so Welcome Back!

REVIEW: Evan Peta - Mockingbird Hill CD, 2011

EVAN PETA - MOCKINGBIRD HILL

EVAN PETA
Mockingbird Hill CD, 2011
www.dezvalentino.com
This is a good album for fans of rock guitar in all its guises. Classic rock with clean, harmonized riff and vocals just like that band Masters Of Reality. "It's All Too Much" opens in grand fashion, amid squalls of lead guitar. Tuneful guitar rock. Is this freedom rock? "It's All Good" is like Blue Oyster Cult meets They Might Be Giants. Or is it? "Jazz And Peanut Butter" is a delightful thrash-speed romp for guitar, bass and saxophone sound, definite Frank Zappa territory there. "Gamma Ray Shuffle" is built on a John Bonham drum break, but not the one most people use. Cool. "Peace, Love & Nuclear Fusion (Part 3)" is a pretty/menacing instrumental keyboard ditty, a la Ace Frehley's "Fractured Mirror." "Dorian Gray Scale" is a fun guitar/bass riff pattern thing. The last song, "Mockingbird Hill" is a similarly enervating procession. Of rock.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW: Brian John Mitchell of Remora, QRD, Silber Media

Remora, photo by David Haught from the Silber 15 year show back on April 2

AUTOreverse #14, Summer 2011
BRIAN JOHN MITCHELL of
REMORA, QRD 'ZINE, SILBER MEDIA
by Ian C Stewart

SO......DID YOU MISS AUTOreverse?
Yeah.  Early TapeOp felt like a continuation, but they veered away into more "professional recording" than what I am into.

INTERVIEW: Anthony Washburn of The Implicit Order

The Implicit Order

AUTOreverse Issue 14, Summer 2011
ANTHONY WASHBURN of
THE IMPLICIT ORDER
interviewed by Ian C Stewart


Is there anything you're feeling particularly mouthy about at the moment?
The prolificness of net labels that release EVERYTHING an artist produces. Not everyting an artist does is releaseable. It's OVERKILL!

Let's talk about your musical influences. Who are your biggest influences and why? Who were your early musical influences?
De Fabriek is probably the biggest, as Richard Van Dellen was like a mentor to me when I first started. He gave constructive criticism when needed, and encouragement. Throbbing Gristle comes in second as they let me know that I could do it myself, and not to pay attention to any trends or rules, and I really just loved their fucked up sound and attitude.

REVIEW: Bentwithlight - Burnt Offerings - 2010

BENTWITHLIGHT
Burnt Offerings, Bandcamp, 2010
Same dude as Tactil Vision, similar vibes, but more guitars, more rockin', more vocals, more humanness. This is closer to Ministry than Skinny Puppy. Hua! Darkly funky riffs and grooves and vocals. Little bit more of a band feel. And it's good.
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW with Walter Lapchynski of BROWNIAN MOTION and THE ERNIE 4

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LTER LAPCHYNSKI of BROWNIAN MOTION and THE ERNIE 4
interviewed by Ian C Stewart
Are you feeling MOUTHY about anything in particular right now?
Well, I’ve become an ever-vocal supporter of copyleft. Free information!

REVIEW: Tactil Vision - Singles 2K11 CD, 2011

TACTIL VISION
Singles 2K11 CD, 2011
www.5amconductions.com
Deep beats and bass lines for miles. Layers of funk. There's a precision here, rigid but good at pushing the air in just the right way. "Focalpoint" is seven minutes worth of headnodding. My personal favorite is "Shangri Las Puntas," dude, that bassline! That being said, "Dogfed" is pretty massive as well. I definitely hear the cEvin Key influence on this stuff. Tight.
Ian C Stewart

NEWS: Dave Stafford - "Tachyon Net" live ambient video

DAVE STAFFORD - TACHYON NET
more information at pureambient.com

INTERVIEW: Steven Wymer of BENTWITHLIGHT and TACTIL VISION

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INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN WYMER aka
BENTWITHLIGHT aka
TACTIL VISION by Ian C Stewart
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'RE FEELING MOUTHY ABOUT AT THE MOMENT?
Not at the moment: there is a saying that I remember: "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion". Presently, just trying my eyes and ears open, observing my surroundings...but I am interested in seeing what the next phase of the internet brings, say, with Virtual Reality.

REVIEW: Brownian Motion - Midnight Vawk In The Park - 2009

BROWNIAN MOTION
Midnight Vawk In The Park, Bandcamp, 2009
18 minutes of deeply processed, experimental sound that began life as a college radio broadcast. Now, it's more like a digital twang across the chops. It sounds like it's being echoed out by hand delay, overdosing on the regeneration. Strangely exhilirating, especially toward the end, when something resembling a human voice gradually returns. It's a very cool touch to sort of return to the beginning, somewhat, sort of, not really. Totally!
Ian C Stewart

INTERVIEW - Russ Stedman Opens Up About KISS

THIS WILL BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR ALL-KISS COVER ALBUM, "MUSIC FROM THE STEDMAN." IS IT AN OFFICIAL RELEASE? WHEN DID IT COME OUT? YOU REALLY COVERED A LOT OF GROUND WITH THAT CD, TONS OF SONGS FROM EVERY ERA.
No, it's not an official release. I pretty much made it to show off to you. There were three copies made. One to you, one to Mike Myers, who played drums on a lot of the songs, and one to my good buddy Evan Peta. Maybe I should upload it to archive.org, but I would never consider it an official release. There are recordings on it spanning 1986-2006. My favorite is the Reggae version of "Naked City" from UNMASKED.

CD REVIEW: Greg Stomberg and Dan Susnara – The Second Acid Fest – 2010

GREG STOMBERG and DAN SUSNARA
The Second Acid Fest CD, 2010
Metroweb Studios
Greg Stomberg excitedly relates an apparently true tale about a drug party. Dan Susnara’s music bed is comprised of samples, sound effects, guitars, and other stuff. The vibe is folky and spacey, befitting the subject. “And Other Chemical Misadventures Of” opens the proceedings with eight and a half minutes of sprawl. “On Blackhawk’s Land” adds a hint of menace to the trippy vibe, with heavily-effected drones flying around in both directions. This album takes full advantage of the stereo spectrum, again befitting the hallucinatory subject matter. Expansive and grandiose, this is the opposite of easy listening. “We’re All Working For The Common Good” fires up a bluesy bit of distorted guitar and drum machine, which is like Ministry with Joe Walsh or something. “…what are you talkin’ about, man…?” looped. One might ask the same of you. “Exports, Procession And Wolfbiker” is eighteen and a half minutes of freaked-out funhouse vibe, which is like Skinny Puppy’s “Spahn Dirge,” conceptually, at least. Pretty in some spots, rockin’ in others. “Ambling Down,” the closer, is definitely more along the rockin’, riffin’, almost prog rock-like in scope. Lo-fi prog rock for stoned baby boomers.
Ian C Stewart

NEWS: c. reider – Formerly Sine Drones – download

c. reider
Formerly Sine Drones
Beginning with the humble sine drone, in frequencies chosen at random (by asking Twitter friends to choose a number between zero and twenty-thousand!) I have created probably my most austere & minimalist compositions yet. The sine drones were treated using only equalization & dynamic effects to synthesize the seven complex drones featured on this twenty minute long experimental pure-electronics recording.
Free to download from the Modisti netlabel here:
http://modisti.com/11/?p=8711
Check out the rest of the Vuzh Ranch….
http://www.vuzhmusic.com

NEWS: QRD #51 – Indie Comics Special

Silber Media / Brian John Mitchell’s long-running online publication QRD is up to issue number 51. Interviewees include
‘Lil – Tiny Tommy Comics
Kimberlee Traub – Worms
Liz Suburbia – Sacred Heart & Cyanide Milkshake
Michael Anthony Carroll – R.A.In.B.O.W, AsthmaAttack, The Accidentals, Death Takes on Holidays, The Kernal
Mike Kitchen – Spy Guy
Sloane Leong – Crooked Root & Maschinell
Troy Little – Angora Napkin & Chiaroscuro
Wayne Wise – Grey Legacy & Chaos Punks
Blair Kitchen – The Possum
David Lawrence – Mercy Thompson: Moon Called, Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf, & Ex-Mutants
Dawn Best – VARULV, Sonic the Hedgehog, & Sylvanna
ED – Peculiar Comics
Gary Scott Beatty – Jazz: Cool Birth
Jack Knifley – Haunted & Break The Line
Jason Strutz – The Order of Dagonet
William Schaff – Dead in Disemboque

Brian also notes: new issues coming soon with label owners, guitarists, indie comic folks & more.
http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/51about.html