The Fossil Aerosol Mining
Project makes music from audio artifacts. The idea is essentially one of a
sonic version of an archaeological midden – a suite of interrelated artifacts,
fragmented and decayed to various degrees, and lacking most of their original
contexts. The Project has a penchant for sounds from 1980s post-apocalyptic and
zombie films, for their double-whammy of irony and postmodernism.
There have been other
themes, however – including the deconstruction of pop songs to create new sets
of dislocated artifacts. These can be rearranged and artificially decomposed in
such a way as to create a certain distance that allows for new perspective on
familiar icons.
The Blank Album was one such project. Recorded in 2009, a suite of
songs and soundscapes was modeled from fragments culled from an iconic White
Album by a certain Fab Four. This
had been done before - notably the Grey Album by Danger Mouse five years earlier.
The Blank Album was a little bit different. Some of the tracks were
little musical Frankenstein monsters with a beat, and others were more
elongated passages of heavily decomposed Beatlemania.
For obvious reasons, the
album was not commercially released. But here are two tracks. The first is an
example of a more pop-related song (unusual for Fossil Aerosol), and the second
will be more recognizable to those familiar with their 25+ year catalog. There
was also a music video, even.
Click on the track names
below, and as the backwards record once said, “turn me on deadman”…. Enjoy.
Fossil Aerosol Mining Project
2009
Fossil Aerosol Mining Project
2009
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