- Experimental electronica
- Avant-electronica
- Electronic music
- Improvised music
- Performance art
- Sound art
- Live
Comment: the US-based artist CRANK STURGEON's almost a half-hour performance at a villa in Augsburg, Germany makes me think of it as an example coming out of a compilation of noise and electronic music compilation by an imprint, Sub Rosa. It chimes like an installation or radio play executed by a very early electronic musician. I have listened to it twice in a row and the second round was a quite different experience in my perception. First it sounded like a communication act between aliens who deployed their station behind a junkyard somewhere at a very remote distance full of slagged-down glitched-out sonic bits which may hurt you if you get really into it. Something which you are not able to decipher off. At the very rear part of the composition one hear zombie-alike moans as if a possible perspective of depravity and deprivation regarding the human race. By the way, the issue being released on Attenuation Circuit includes the live of this performance at Youtube made up of thrift store electronics, clothes of supermarket aesthetics and incongruous practices.