Elliott Wall – Portland, Oregon artist

File under "difficult listening pleasures"

This is music I’ve created electronically, mostly live, from rendered or expropriated samples with layouts I created in Plogue Bidule, often using techniques to degrade the final musical product– supposedly to create the feeling of unearthing an obscure, damaged and weathered artifact. The drones are usually musically mundane ingredients transformed beyond recognition. Sometimes the techniques used are trivial, and sounds are bricoleured almost as found. I’m inspired by noise phenomena and pareidolia, the no-man’s-land between AM stations, the unexpected glitches of a skipping CD; in the same way that we see faces in clouds and trees because faces are so deeply significant to us, we also will pull music from static and noise in an attempt to find patterns we understand. Perhaps these works could be imagined as the tessellated, emergent interference of AM noise superimposition, the chromatic fragments of long dead radio-broadcasts, drifting into deep space, perpetually resurrecting.