The Boston ensemble of unique instrumentation layering percussion, bowed and struck metal, synth, vibes and other percussive devices, whose core players are drawn from the Leap of Faith ensemble, is joined by Eric Woods on analog synth, along with two guitar players and Joel Simches on real time signal processing, allowing for an expanded palette of sound.
Format: CD Condition: Sale (New) Released: 2018 Country: USA Packaging: Digipack Recorded at Evil Clown Headquarters, in Waltham, Massachusetts, on June 2nd, 2018.
"One of our recent Evil Clown recruits, Eric Woods, is skilled with the analog synth... I had been trying to acquire such a player for the orchestra for some time. Eric is familiar with the early history of analog synths in Europe by composers like Stockhausen, Pierre Henry and others. The original electronic music was analog, classically oriented and principally about transformation of sound. Most contemporary electronic music is not concerned with these original objectives, but they are not that different than my goals for Leap of Faith Orchestra and the related smaller Evil Clown ensembles. Welcome Eric to Evil Clown!
Since Eric has joined us, he has participated in a number of sets with different Evil Clown ensembles. Among these are two Metal Chaos Ensemble sets at Evil Clown Headquarters (Shape Memory, Blast Furnace) featuring Bob Moores (an Evil Clown regular for several years now) and two Leap of Faith Orchestra Sub-Unit performances featuring our regular guitarist Reverend Grant Beale (Truth Tables from LOFO and SU Deductions, and Observer Effect from LOFO and SU Refuting Leplace's Demon). These several performances blending analog synth and guitars with the Evil Clown improvisation language is a new direction for the project - a bit more oriented to the world of rock-based improvisation.
The big breakthrough for this session is to have both guitar players, Eric, Yuri and myself do the full length set at ECH where all of the gadgets are. Like the last session (Blast Furnace), we are joined by Joel Simches on real time signal processing and live-to-two-track mix. Joel's presence really enabled us to up the ante on the set up and we used basically every input on the mixers for some signal in the room.
We have been expanding the Evil Clown Arsenal now for years to continually broaden our color palette... With the addition of Eric and these other new resources, Cryptomorphism is the most completely realized electro-acoustic improvisation to date anywhere in the Evil Clown universe! Look for more of this version of Metal Chaos Ensemble in the future!!"-Evil Clown