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Bio
Sydney-based composer Marcus Whale produces music most commonly under the name Scissor Lock, a laptop-based experimental ambient music project.
Other ventures have included instrumental concert composition for a number of Australian new music groups, ongoing collaborations with Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn (Whale & Thorn), Grant Hunter (Whale Hunter) and Aspen Michael Taylor, as well as occupying one half of electronic cut'n'paste pop duo Collarbones.
Thus far, his output has concerned itself with loop and granular-based forms of manipulation, outlining the resemblances and interactions between organic and mechanised elements in music.
Marcus Whale talks about the creation of 'Whale/Taylor':
"In late June 2009, on a huge, inexorable sugar high, Aspen Michael Taylor and I mashed our heads into the smallest of Midian Studios' cotton-weaved rehearsal rooms. This was a few days after the first time I'd met Aspen, at a hastily-assembled night of improv sets at Melbourne bar Horse Bazaar. The ensuing hour of material produced in that room remains some of the most corrupted, restless, evil music of which I've ever been a part.
Aspen's pitchfucked guitar progressively slates, warps and folds into unnatural forms over the course of the first two tracks. Meanwhile, any semblance of my voice is granulated out of recognition, scratched into a bed of quiet digital feedback and sine tones. The final track, by contrast, draws out, lengthens, the central guitar chords exploited fully for their resonance. At its most central, this release is a crimping mess, a trashed underside of ambience, caked and hidden in decay and resonance.
'Whale/Taylor' is the first release from a continuing collaboration between Aspen and I, following his previous Kiddiepunk release, 'Milk Teeth' and a number of CD-Rs of mine released under the name Scissor Lock."
Other ventures have included instrumental concert composition for a number of Australian new music groups, ongoing collaborations with Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn (Whale & Thorn), Grant Hunter (Whale Hunter) and Aspen Michael Taylor, as well as occupying one half of electronic cut'n'paste pop duo Collarbones.
Thus far, his output has concerned itself with loop and granular-based forms of manipulation, outlining the resemblances and interactions between organic and mechanised elements in music.
Marcus Whale talks about the creation of 'Whale/Taylor':
"In late June 2009, on a huge, inexorable sugar high, Aspen Michael Taylor and I mashed our heads into the smallest of Midian Studios' cotton-weaved rehearsal rooms. This was a few days after the first time I'd met Aspen, at a hastily-assembled night of improv sets at Melbourne bar Horse Bazaar. The ensuing hour of material produced in that room remains some of the most corrupted, restless, evil music of which I've ever been a part.
Aspen's pitchfucked guitar progressively slates, warps and folds into unnatural forms over the course of the first two tracks. Meanwhile, any semblance of my voice is granulated out of recognition, scratched into a bed of quiet digital feedback and sine tones. The final track, by contrast, draws out, lengthens, the central guitar chords exploited fully for their resonance. At its most central, this release is a crimping mess, a trashed underside of ambience, caked and hidden in decay and resonance.
'Whale/Taylor' is the first release from a continuing collaboration between Aspen and I, following his previous Kiddiepunk release, 'Milk Teeth' and a number of CD-Rs of mine released under the name Scissor Lock."
LINKS
Scissor Lock Myspace Site
Scissor Lock Website
Curt Recordings Website
Collarbones Myspace site
Whale and Thorn Myspace site
Glove and Cradle Blog
Scissor Lock Website
Curt Recordings Website
Collarbones Myspace site
Whale and Thorn Myspace site
Glove and Cradle Blog
