tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37545286189306440952024-03-05T14:04:21.679-08:00BETAWAVE XMX7http://www.blogger.com/profile/17088790744159305687noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754528618930644095.post-32227503127602037512011-09-24T12:11:00.000-07:002011-09-24T12:11:04.757-07:00Betawave X - The GETAWAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> It's at the end of the infamous Summer of Virgo; the monsoons -exhausted of their reservoir- have seemingly cooled the heated relations between shopkeepers and landlords. Trade routes have been relatively cleared of extortionist mobs and petty two-bit hustlers. While not exactly having been guaranteed 100% safe passage, the duo of Le Pontiac and Kidlat!, together as Betawave X, decide it is time to finally embark on their long-anticipated coast-to-coast Anthro-Kinetics study tour.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> The ICS-commissioned Anthro-Kinetics Research Society have sponsored Betawave X to take on this cross-cultural immersion tour to gather more data on human rhythmic patterns and behavioral wave-generation, always in light of their on-going studies in Internal Circuitry. </span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> J. Le Pontiac Gonzales reports, "<i>Our research will be tackling such inquiries as what propels; what steers human dynamics beyond the usual notions of need and survival</i>". S. Kidlat! Ocampo adds, "...<i>from great mass migrations to the blinking of one's eye, we want to find out what moves us</i>".</span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> As an auxiliary companion piece to the Urban Metro-magnetics leg of their tour, Betawave X gathered their first research findings together and composed "The Getaway Mix": an auditory field guide through inner-inner city dynamics, replete with field recordings, journal entries, and street-level artifacts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zlv8wtN9mf5G4UpevmJJQWrEZIe0juJytJs6zYBNrLzrO93FZwSXy-jf3R5uaPCAc-tLWqUyEpweDJBwwqKzsIfNVV0v1d-hLieIU_Bxhxg9V04bHVAa_hXBB8kCgUg1gA-Y6EN3yug1/s1600/TAPESCAN2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zlv8wtN9mf5G4UpevmJJQWrEZIe0juJytJs6zYBNrLzrO93FZwSXy-jf3R5uaPCAc-tLWqUyEpweDJBwwqKzsIfNVV0v1d-hLieIU_Bxhxg9V04bHVAa_hXBB8kCgUg1gA-Y6EN3yug1/s1600/TAPESCAN2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> Limited to only 13 copies, The Getaway Mix was printed onto stereo cassette tapes for distribution. While a copy of the tape was couriered off to ICS headquarters, the rest of the copies were generally gifted back to neighbourhood leaders, township elders, and local street vendors they meet along their journey. These tapes have long since been out of print.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> Flashback to 2011, it's the annual Harvest Moon Intramural Swapmeet; celebrated local cultural purveyor, M. "Caezar" Cobarrubia, chances upon a rare find: an obscure yet intriguing cassette recording entitled The Getaway Mix. His curiosity is soon rewarded as the tape is played on a portable hi-fi and allowed to unravel its ribbons of rhythms and sounds from a distant but familiar space.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7UBaX0tjyL4nEMwQjjBU8Eow6ShEFQYR3XeFch4x3RvL_QaucCn4shLhLQWpvdtvYvilRq1CKyzQ5cf699TubLx7hfuQJCuD2NiRDEqERi_VabE2bJEKXgl-MXQ7DGaVbOjaQM-220-_/s1600/tape01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7UBaX0tjyL4nEMwQjjBU8Eow6ShEFQYR3XeFch4x3RvL_QaucCn4shLhLQWpvdtvYvilRq1CKyzQ5cf699TubLx7hfuQJCuD2NiRDEqERi_VabE2bJEKXgl-MXQ7DGaVbOjaQM-220-_/s400/tape01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> Further listening compels M. Cobarrubia to investigate more about The Getaway project in hopes of re-releasing the long-lost recording and allowing a whole new generation of listeners a second chance to partake of it. Efforts were made to trace the origins of the tape through a series of serpentine leads (false and otherwise), eventually finding its way back to ICS and Betawave X.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> An on-going correspondence between Cobarrubia and Betawave X culminates in an agreement to make use of Cobarrubia's internetwork presence to disseminate The Getaway Mix via <a href="http://www.really-dope.com/">Really-Dope</a>, a modern day online gallery which Cobarrubia co-founded and co-curates. The Getaway Mix is currently being translated in digital format and will soon resurface to see the neon lights of a second birth. Watch this space!</span></div>MX7http://www.blogger.com/profile/17088790744159305687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754528618930644095.post-86517694039490236312011-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:002011-01-01T00:39:28.188-08:00GHETTO HYMNS for the EARTHBOUND and WEARY<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDgHEOvhHJTyGrfd_-XOQAP1974FMn_MORbFaKh3CAOBQUyM1ljiaUtqD2Lw20lHR8hhWwe1mv77GhyphenhyphenpxQ6aHdHd1HKhYI3lWSTMA_vx1VM7TGyxk0_SMa64gRkyW8aPZ_CRcdza79O2u/s1600/HYMNS-cover-A1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDgHEOvhHJTyGrfd_-XOQAP1974FMn_MORbFaKh3CAOBQUyM1ljiaUtqD2Lw20lHR8hhWwe1mv77GhyphenhyphenpxQ6aHdHd1HKhYI3lWSTMA_vx1VM7TGyxk0_SMa64gRkyW8aPZ_CRcdza79O2u/s1600/HYMNS-cover-A1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: small;">As Betawave X forges ahead with their Ghetto Space Music project, the ICS Grants and Commissions Board counsels Kidlat! -on the strength of his undergraduate dissertation- to propose and submit a collection of works to the District Municipal Hall for public dissemination and archiving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Ocampo dutifully responds by offering this seven-piece songbook entitled fittingly: Ghetto Hymns for the Earthbound and Weary; an unmistakeable double-action petition for self-upliftment and steadfastness, and at the same time an invocation for sweet deliverance and repose. It embodies a spirit of hope - not one of passive longing but of a proactive and dynamic aspiration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> "<i>The songs themselves are strong statements on their own</i>," reports Cultural Presinct Head Librarian M.L. Sian, "<i>There is a clear call for new and different ways of perception, but presented in a language accessible to all</i>". </span><span style="font-size: small;">Post Office Damaged Parcels Clerk, Totoy Monteiro, assents, "<i>...this is some funky shit I ain't never heard before!</i>". </span><span style="font-size: small;">As unadorned yet wonderfully vibrant as the songbook cover, the music is of an uncluttered -and thus unfettered- exuberance.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> "<i>These works will serve as valuable contributions to our burgeoning culture and society</i>," states A. Cobarubia of the ICS Board, "<i>The Betawave ethos of glad-hearted self-cultivation is a timely -and timeless- axiom that we would all do well to live by</i>."</span><br />
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</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> In conjunction with their Internal Circuitry Studies (ICS) Electroacoustic Practicum, Kidlat! and Le Pontiac, together as Betawave X, set to work on a series of psycho-electrosonic research tests, the initial results of which have subsequently formed the backbone and foundation for their Ghetto Space Music project.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> Deemed as relevant and significant research findings of our century, the ICS board has commissioned the release and subsidization of the Ghetto Space Music (GSM) series for public circulation and broadcast. Primarily distributed -but not limited to- public libraries, city hall archives and shortwave radio, ICS continues to solicit support and funding from both public and private sectors for sustained dissemination of the GSM anthology.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> In their project report, Betawave X elaborates, "<i>GHETTO is about economy of resources, austerity of needs, and succeeding amidst meager conditions. It alludes to making the most out of the least; a form of transmolecular distillation in search of the underlying essence</i>. <i>SPACE is about the individual SPACE that we occupy, both external and, more importantly, internal. Rather than stars and planets, our studies deal with intimately cellular and metaphysical SPACE. And finally there's MUSIC</i><i>...it's simply about the joy and harmony that holds all things together."</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <i> "With the first volume, we maintain the basic approach of extracting the fullest expression possible with the least amount of components; operating under the premise that the inner nucleus, free of clutter and superfluous adornments, is allowed to radiate further with a more defined and clear-cut design."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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