AUDIO
the music:
Hour back grounds and four. Grounds with little middleground vary much from India and Audi. Rock to academic, empire and pragmatic composition. It was mutually decided. We'd play purely. Improvised and composed music and sometimes both. Any additional musicians would or would not be welcome, or some combination of both. Everything we say is recorded and considered. We have 18 CD-R releases, 6 others finished, 14 shelved, and 29 forgotten, and about 26 not recorded, performed, or released by us. To play at least once a month, with different instruments and collaborators is a very nice thing.
We can be contacted through this site or directly or indirectly.
Slide of Plork CD out now>>.
what the media says:
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you see the review in the Detroit on-line zine?
shenanigans/rattling wall collective/jeff karolski
19 november 2oo2
crackle #8: cpop, detroit
gotta hand it to cpop & time stereo & whoever for putting on this very interesting free show, the first one of the crackle series i had been aware of. my loss. finally got to witness a version of the rattling wall collective, an "electro-acoustic" group which deliberately includes outside collaborators with each performance, in this case, members of the shenanigans. 2 guys set up on a table in one corner and played a variety of tabletop devices, while across the room, two others played saxophones, moving around and behind the audience and the art exhibits in the space. one even entered the elevator and played on another floor before returning. the guy in the faux-animal skin coat did a spinning dervish sax that resulted in a nice doppler-like effect. they all seemed to be listening to each other and carrying on a conversation that i thought was much superior to the 2 cdrs i had heard previously. i was told by a friend that his previous experience with the rwc had encountered a much larger ensemble with a more noisy mix. very thought-provoking, and i have to give credit to them for using the space and crossing back & forth thru the audience. at one point, one of the sax players snuck up on me while i kinda listened-daydreamed and i was almost startled by the effect. it is nice to have some unpredictability to a live performance, it breathes life into it. - rattling
wall collective review from earpeace:
there are strong elements of very loosely euro-style improv, but there are also some syth/electronic noises that expand the vocabulary. very understated, consistent with a very self-willed design to do it their way, and to enjoy it. they move along with rather gentle and inobtrusive sounds, such that in those times when their edges surface in a more obvious way, i am surprised. i like being surprised, it happens so rarely in music after awhile.