Gear Talk Mixtape by Ale Hop
How does the relationship of artists with their gear affect the composition? Listen to a mind bending mixtape-collage with statements about the use of gear in electronic music compostion, eerie sounds, and weird loops by the Peruvian musician and sound researcher Ale Hop of the platform «Nuts and Bolts».
The mix was produced by the Peruvian musician and sound researcher Ale Hop, collaborator of «Nuts and Bolts», a platform that builds structures and circumstances that facilitate engagement with gear and gear-talk from a diverse standpoint. The piece was crafted as a sound-collage of excerpts from the Nuts and Bolt’s podcasts and tutorials from which we can hear fragments of conversations and insights about technology and music composition of artists such as Andrea Parkins, Jenny Hval, Jessica Ekomane, Jenny Berger Myhre, Jlin, Jessica Sligter, Guro Skumsnes Moe, and Sukitoa O Namau, mixed with selected music from the artists, and one track from Ale’s upcoming album The Life of Insects.
Tracklist
00:00 – Artist: Jessica Ekomane
Track: Common Fate
02:06 – Artist: Andrea Parkins
Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #2
02:52 – Artist: Jaleh Negari
Track: Clouds
Album: Arch Waves (Eget Værelse, 2016)
04:16 – Artist: Jenny Hval
Track: In the Red
Album: Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones, 2016)
05:36 – Artist: Jenny Hval
Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #1
06:12 – Artist: Nadah El Shazly
Track: Palmyra
Album: Ahwar (Nawa Recordings, 2017)
07:43 – Artist: Jenny Berger Myhre
Track: Lage Setning Av Et Ord
Album: Lint (Canigou Records / The Lumen Lake, 2017)
08:28 – Artist: Jenny Berger Myhre
Nuts and Bolts Tutorial: How to make a DIY Instrument? or «Acoustic Laptop»
09:02 – Artist: Sukitoa O Namau
Nuts and Bolts Tutorial: Hydrophone and Amplification Circuit, Y
09:05 – Artist: Sukitoa O Namau
Track: Nari 私の炎
Album: Nari (URUBU, 2018)
11:42 – Artist: Jessica Sligter
Track: The Dream Has Died
Album: Polycrisis.yes! (2018)
12:00 – Artist: Jessica Sligter
Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #3
13:00 – Artist: Aya Metwalli
Track: بعد العشا
15:22 – Ale Hop Nuts and Bolts
Interview: Gear-Interview October 2019
15:24 – Artist: Ale Hop
Track: The Way to the Ocean
Album: The Life of Insects (Buh Records, 2020)
18:01 – Artist: Jlin
Track: Carbon 7 (161)
Album: Black Origami (Planet Mu, 2017)
18:07 – Artist: Jlin
The Innovator Podcast episode: Nuts And Bolts #2
19:45 – Artist: Jana Winderen
Track: Out of Range Commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur, Redaktion Hörspiel / Klangkunst, 2014
20:38 – Guro Skumsnes Moe Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #2
21:33 – Artist: MoE and Mette Rasmussen
Track: Tolerancia Picante
Album: Tolerancia Picante (Conrad Sound, 2019)
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Published on August 18, 2020
Last updated on September 29, 2020
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