Activity of Sound, by Menchaca/Noga

Activity of Sound

by Menchaca/Noga

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1.	Ghosts among Cornflowers 06:43		buy track
2.	Spanish Soapdish 02:18		buy track
3.	Your Ivory Tower Has Fallen over but Mine Is Just Fine 02:44		buy track
4.	The Monk of the Calendar 05:40		buy track
5.	The Wait in Four Dimensions 01:39		buy track
6.	Y la chica pone ojos de besugo oyendo lo que dice el chico 03:00		buy track
7.	Algae 02:49		buy track
8.	Silence Is Traffic 05:52	info	buy track
9.	The Gathering Card 05:19		buy track
10.	Silence Is Traffic in Advance of Sleep 02:12		buy track

about

"I love sounds just as they are and I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are. I don’t want them to be psychological. I don’t want a sound to pretend that it’s a bucket or that it’s president or that it’s in love with another sound. I just want it to be a sound."

These are the only words on Activity of Sound. They are spoken by John Cage, who was extolling silence, the sound he loved best. "And the silence almost everywhere in the world now," he added, "is traffic."

Over the course of forty minutes sound and visual artist Frank Menchaca and percussionist Jaroslav Noga meet to explore these and other paradoxes of sound. Their collaboration takes the form of a journey across numerous genres: clanging industrial noise ("Your Ivory Tower Has Fallen Over but Mine is Just Fine"), ambient ("Algae"), drums and bass ("Silence is Traffic"), post-modern classical ("The Monk of the Calendar")--sometimes all at once.

A suite in ten parts, Activity of Sound is meant to be listened to as a single piece at the intersection of music, noise and sound sculpting.

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released March 22, 2024

Frank Menchaca: guitars, keys
Jaroslav Noga: percussion and drums
Produced, mixed and mastered by Ondrej Jezek at Jamor Studios in Prague, Czech Republic
Cover art by Menchaca

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Menchaca is a Pittsburgh-based artist, composer and writer.

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