Pan – PAN 08.
With “I love you please love me too”, Joseph Hammer continues his
journey into playful yet heavily focused idiot-savant infinite
psychedelic inertia. Utilising consumer audio technology and 20th
century detritus, Hammer lovingly decodes his passion for mid century
sci fi and AM radio station beyond all point of recognition like a
snakecharmer. Multi-dimensional audio collage techniques to a free form
and completely unorthodox plunderphonic hypnosis. Baked devotionals for
tape loop minds.
Joseph Hammer, a sound artist from Los Angeles, has actively created
experimental works since 1980 as a member of the LAFMS collective. His
practice draws on the complexities of the process of listening and
playing, reflecting on the role of the audience versus the performer,
and uses music as it influences our notion of time, memory and intimacy
as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. In various
collaborations, solo, and as a founding member of the trio Solid Eye
along with several other projects (Joe & Joe, Dinosaurs With Horns,
Dimmer, Points of Friction), Hammer has performed widely and is an
influential contributor to the Los Angeles underground scene.
The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited
edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a
poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which
itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with
interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill
Kouligas.
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