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RR- 1, Debue July 26 2014

from REUSEABLE RADIO by A Rented Crutch Recordings

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The impulse to speak and hear clearly is certainly experienced here and now-

Speaking into this microphone wired into a digital audio recorder wired to the wall- this process involves such of variety of linked and overlapping technologies that we may feel overwhelmed- however conveninced.

Are we indebted to what we do not understand? I don't know, in the same way that I don't know how my voice gets impressed into this digital machine and further onto the internet; the same way that I didn't and still don't know... I mean, really know, how the disc jockey's voice transmitted through invisible waves in the air. Ah, the wonder of it all, the wilful and the un-wilful ignorance all basking under the same world of wonder.

The thoughts of consciousness transposed into word/utterance/sign/signage/signature.
The air shots up through my larynx to vocal cord and words come out of my mouth or at at least seem to, onto this recording.

So many technologies. Am I speaking freely or am I reading prepared text? You can only guess, I guess, unless some expertise exists of knowing the nuance of a reading relative to a non-reading free speaker... like one of those people who certifies the authenticity of objects, such as signatures. Do such experts exist? I don't much care either way.

Whether I am improvising or reading this speech may remain a mystery of little concern for us. The reason I brought it up was in order to further wondering about the tangled varying technologies at play here/now; this immediacy forever shorthanded as 'presence' and 'the present'. Writing as recording...and then recording the recitation of the writing is like a recording of a recording... something incestuous...downwardly spiraling... overrefined... recording record recording... loops of feedback relooped... regenerated degenerations...so many natures wrapped around so many technologies we begin to lose the ability to keep track and so we don't... like blind maggots reaching up from our mutual soil/fertility/rot; our conception; our wretched industrial existence; our common shared stench; this mortal coil.

We breathe the radio and cell phone waves with the glee of not yet being tumoured and yet even the idea of ghosts , souls and dreams has now finally and tragically been taken... somewhere else, certainly not in the zone of the jeering taunting tainted corporate representation, but hopefully somewhere safe and beautiful... souls, dreams and ghosts deserve someplace beautiful, don't you think?

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from REUSEABLE RADIO, released October 13, 2014

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A Rented Crutch Recordings Vancouver, British Columbia

'A Rented Crutch Recordings' embody a variety of sound, noise and music recordings centered around the projects of Chad MacQuarrie. These include bands Karen Foster, Assertion and Swanvista, aliases such as The Chads and Dubstawk as well as collaborations Ello Gail, IMI, Burning Bridges, Island/MacQuarrie, ThisHiss and Car/Mac.
These recordings range from 1983 up until the present.
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