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Dead Medium

by Cynocephalic Saints

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you place all hope in unstable forms
it won't last

but nothing lasts

I started making noise around 1998, and kept doing so on and off until 2014. I'd always tried to keep my noise on the relatively positive side, a way to explore the numinous, to play with sound, but at that point I got too overwhelmed. My last piece under my old project was a requiem for those lost to police violence, and then I just stopped. It felt like the death knell for my seed of light. For nearly five years I did nothing at all with sound. In late 2018 I started tinkering again. I started a new project under a new name, Cynocephalic Saints, and put out a single. It felt good. It felt right. And so I undertook creating an album, a full work, thematically and sonically cohesive.

I had access to a bunch of soon-to-be-discarded microfilm equipment (cameras, processors, parts for each, film, etc.) and started collecting recordings of the sounds I could coax out of this increasingly obsolete technology. The institution discarding it had been priced out by the rising cost of film, developing chemicals, and equipment repair, and were forced to abandon their preservation efforts. Microfilm had been the standard because it is so durable, but the changes in the film industry made it unattainable, and so they had to switch to creating digital facsimiles to aid in preservation. Microfilm had become a dead medium. Hope had to be put in untested, comparatively unstable forms.

Free downloads of all Cynocephalic Saints releases can be found at Noise Hermitage:
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released January 17, 2019

vocals, field recordings, and sound manipulation by gabriel lunesce

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Cynocephalic Saints Baton Rouge, Louisiana

on the disappearing fringes

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