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One Inch Equals 25 Miles

by Out Of Context

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1.
Distance 09:21
2.
Confidence 07:41
3.
Stripped 06:35
4.
Again 05:45
5.
Escalator 03:13
6.
Fingertips 06:17
7.
Profile 04:58
8.
Mask 05:43
9.
Luggage 06:55
10.
Transmission 04:25
11.
Eight Hundred Thousand Bomb Shelters 10:00

about

Writer Sumner Carnahan has worked with composers and performers for twenty years to present her stories off the page. Musician/composer J.A. Deane formed the Out of Context ensemble to explore conducted improvisation. This urgently weird CD comes out of a live recording to OOC playing Carnahan's latest story collection, One Inch Equals 25 Miles.


"Not to mix Metaphors, but...There's a song by the visionary art-rock band pere Ubu, (it's ultimately a "relationship" song) that begins with the following; "In the earliest part of the 20th century, deep inside the American Wilderness, in the State of Kansas - 82,000 square miles of flat - there were two automobile cars. On July 5th, 1904, they ran into each other."

Seen from the perspective of late spring 2005, the two-years-in -the-making collaboration between writer Sumner Carnahan and musician/composer J.A.Deane that has resulted in the deeply affecting and mysterious work you are about to listen to appears every bit as astounding and unavoidable as the collision described by Ubu lyricist David Thomas. As artists, both Carnahan and Deane long ago veered off the commercially-approved "major highways" of their chosen forms, journeying instead with relish across the rutted, perilous, and deliriously invigorating backroads of the avant-garde.

The shortest distance from one point to another may be a straight line, but in the land of One Inch Equals 25 Miles strict linearity is never an option. Like the bus driver, Rio, who acts as our guide withing the pages of Carnahans book (the name means "river") Deane steers his Out of Context ensemble along a meandering, winding path full of twists, turns, and sudden surprises. As has been delineated elsewhere, Deane's method of "conduction" involves a series of gestures that control performance elements such as loud-or-soft, who solos and who remains silent, changes in pulse and the like. But the notes themselves are always left to the individual players. Even the occasionally recurring thematic leitmotifs are created in the moment and only resurface later when and if Deane displays the so called "memory" signal.

Technical explanations, however, easily confuse the issue. The best advice one can offer the initiate is to simply sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. Listen, for example, to the way the piece "Again" begins with a sound that approximates an idling engine, or how the hum of words wells up once the OOC machine starts, fitfully, to accelerate. A woman's voice tells us something how "movement in the physical world" happens, and voila, just like Chuck Berry's mythical Airmobile in the song, "You Can't Catch Me," we've magically become air-borne.

There are other signposts and sights along the way, too many to list here. The plaintive melody on oud that propels the section entitled "Profile"; the mournful bassoon cadenza at the outer reaches of "Distance"; the undulating uniflute theme (played by Deane himself in his guest appearance) that forms the core of the penultimate "Transmission"; and the monolithic " Eight Hundred Thousand Bomb Shelter," which brings the piece to a roiling close. This final track consists of every word contained in Carnahan's book, squeezed into a melifuously layered, post-nuclear, Joycean cacophony cobbled together from thirty-eight recordings of individual readers and a motley Tragic Greek Chorus. Like the mantra, OM, the resulting buzz contains an entire universe, humming along its sad and beautiful trajectory."

-David Prince, 2005

credits

released November 20, 2014

Out of Context:

J.A. DEANE - conductor/sampler/flute
JON BALDWIN - cornet
C.K. BARLOW - sample/live sampling
STEFAN DILL - oud/electronics
JOHN FLAX - acting/voice
KATIE HARLOW - cello
SAM RHODES - bassoon
MOLLY STURGES - vocalist
ALICIA ULTAN - viola
JEFFERSON VOORHEES - drums/percussion

ALL COMPOSITIONS: J.A.Deane and OOC, except track eleven by J.A> Deane and C.K.Barlos(BMI)

WORDS: Sumner Carnahan (ASCAP)

ADDITIONAL VOICES:
Todd Anderson, Diane Armitage, Aline Brandauer, Lauren Camp, Carol Eastus, Barbara Monk Feldman, Max Freidenberg, Julia Goldberg, Julie Graber, Rod Harrision, Ann Karlstrom, Nacha Mendez, Colleen Mulvihill, Gregor Petrov, Zachariah Rieke, Anita Sanders, Charles Shere, Joan Stango Woody Vasulka, Tracy Wein, Valerie Arber, Robert Ashley, Ken Bullock, Sheila Davies, Rico Eastman, Nora Fisher, Lisa Gill, Barbara Goldem, Mark Griffith, James D. Houston, Patrick McFarlin, Michael Motlley, Chrissie Orr, Gaila Rieke, Celeia Rumsey, Michael Shippling, Dave Stafford, Steina, Mark Weber Roy Wroth

ADDITIONAL VOICE RECORDINGS: J.A. Deane at Burning Books in Santa Fe, live in person or live through answering machine

PERFORMANCE ENGINEERED AND RECORDED: Quincy Adams at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 10 December 2005.

DESIGN AN ILLUSTRATION: Michael Sumner

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