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Audiobok: Remixes and Out​-​takes (Disc 1)

by Buttress O'Kneel

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"In late 2019, in the innocent days before The Plague, B'O'K was busy creating what some now consider her magnum opus - an 'Audiobok', cut together from thousands of fragments of various audiobooks. She released it at the end of March, just as the 'Rona settled in for real.

Although ostensibly a surrealist/dada art piece investigating the semantic frisson created by the juxtaposition of 'signifiers of meaning' divorced from their role as 'carriers of information', the Audiobok was more than that - somehow, even though we all recognised this juxtaposition and deconstruction, the power of narrative still shone through, and, even though the work kinda was superficially interested in destroying narrative, it ended up kinda being a story itself. Did the Audiobok reveal hidden aspects of narrative itself, or hidden aspects of our own brains? Did the tenacity of narrative despite deliberate deconstruction tell us something about humans, or about language, or about human/language symbiosis? The artiste herself was conspicuously silent about any conclusions to be drawn.

However. The Plague descended, and many of us found ourselves drawn to both the distraction of narrative, and the distraction of the audiobook as a hitherto neglected form of media delivery system. The world seemed exactly as surrealist/dada as B'O'K's dark distorted fantasy, and real life turned into an unsatirisable cut-up piece of nonsense collage, barely as comprehensible as the Audiobok to which we found ourselves listening. A silly piece of nonsense suddenly seemed to make just as much sense as our locked-in plaguetimes, and, as an accidental snapshot of the ludicrousness of existence, her Audiobok was suddenly not only comforting but essential.

Fast forward two years, and now the Audiobok is a piece of history. But it still lives, as evidenced by this fresh two-volume collection of Remixes (and Out-takes). With remixes by luminaries such as John Jacobs, Robin Fox, Justin Ashworth, Glass Cage, Ellipse Elkshow, Clinton Green, A Demon Sheen, Fukno, and (maybe?) I Cut People, plus two remixes by Buttress herself, these surrealistic dadariffic pieces of deconstructed narrative live on in yet newer forms.

Add to this a handful of unreleased pieces from the composition-sessions that spawned the Audiobok itself (the 'Out-takes' of the album's title), and you have a whole new entity, albeit one that has clearly blossomed from the same twisted seeds. Remixes of cut-ups - cut-ups of remixed cut-ups - deconstructions of remixes of cut-ups - reconstructions of cut-ups of remixes. Meaning sheared from form and form scraped clean of meaning- narrative exploded into pure sound and pure sound masquerading as narrative - a parade of symbols pretending to be signifiers, and words disguised as music.

A timeless classic, or a joke that went too far? An important piece of art, or an excuse to use the phrase 'rectal mucous' a lot? A silly piece of nonsense that should never have been remixed even once, let alone for a full two volumes? Only you can be the judge."

Department of MetaPompic RetroAnalysistic Revisionism
IWML
2022


NOTES FROM THE ACTUAL ARTISTE:

hey there. at some point John Jacobs sent me a bunch of sounds he'd been making, using Audiobok as source material. i thought these were all awesome, and discussed with him the idea of releasing them. at the same time, i had a bunch of small semi-finished extra bits and pieces, bits that didn't make it to the Audiobok but really had nowhere else to go (the Audiobok was already so long, and so some tracks never made it because of time constraints, others seemed sort of 'off topic' or whatever).

so then i had the idea of doing a 'remixes and out-takes' album. i thought this was a funny idea, coz like this is a spoken word piece and the idea of doing that kind of 'remixes and out-takes' kinda thing seemed incongruous and silly and genre-blind, which of course is my specialty. so then i asked a bunch of other people who weren't John Jacobs if they'd want to do remixes of the album, and to my surprise, a whole lot of those people said yes. even more surprising, a whole bunch of them actually gave me tracks! so many that yeah, this is now a double-disc / 2 volume affair (i know i know, no-one thinks of things in 'discs' nowdays, but i'm old and i am what i am).

every remix here is awesome, and i am honestly touched that so many people went out of their busy way to make a little space for these remixes in their schedules. and i'm also touched and honoured that even a whole bunch of the folks who never actually gave me tracks did think about it very hard and if they weren't so busy probably would've given me tracks as well - i'm looking at you, People Like Us and Nat Grant and Tape Ways, i'm honestly delighted that you even considered it. and i'm especially touched by I Cut People, who was like 'look, i'm going through a whole heap of persynal stuff right now but i will definitely give you something for it even if it's way past the due date' - and so in his honour there is a placemarker for when that piece eventually appears.

this due date by the way was chosen for a couple of reasons: firstly, the Out-Takes on this album are all getting their very first public appearance at an exhibition i'm a part of in the UK called Cover Versions which has its very first preview opening tonight, so there's that. also it's almost exactly two years ago that i released the Audiobok, so i wanted to kinda synch it up to that (i only missed it by like a week, hey). and it's also the first of april, so it's like symbolic of foolishness and prank behaviour, which i guess the Audiobok fits into.

thanks everyone, i'm fucking stoked. (and yes, i've started collecting samples for the next Audiobok...)

bđź’żk
2022

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Buttress O'Kneel Australia

“Words like "mashup" and "remix" don't really do justice to Buttress O'Kneel's method - Top 40 pop crap gets sliced, diced, and tossed into a dizzying, exciting hardcore electro stew. Compared to other djs who timidly drop a Vanilla Ice acapella over a Chemical Bros intro just to move a dance floor, O'Kneel shreds copyrights with a blood-curdling vehemence. Smash the state!”
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