tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59536512009-03-19T18:12:51.864-07:00What better time to get a fine domain like CorporateCollapse.com? Make the most out of the tanking economy! Email magdalen23 att gmail to make an offer. Right now, old Passiflora and Tiffany Lee Brown music is still on this site...magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1078043923148294762007-07-24T22:25:00.000-07:002007-07-24T22:25:33.576-07:00

The divinely talented Derek Ecklund, impresario of long-time Oregon group Mesmer, has collaborated with me recently. We played at "The Language of Slumber" event at the Enteractive Language Festival in Portland, and at the Dark Arts Festival/AVA fundraiser in Astoria. "Slumber" was recorded at Mesmer's studio in Astoria (the town is largely the subject matter for my lyric-making. And hey, I'm

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hello all... in case you are interested in the non-musickal things i get up to, most of my stuff is at www.magdalen.com, including updates about publishing projects, performances, etc. random ramblings can be found at Interdisciplinary Mayhem...i'm also editing 2GQ and co-editing PLAZM magazine.xotiffany a.k.a. Passiflora

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The incredible "Women Take Back the Noise" compilation (Ubuibi Records) is finally out. My track "Belly," with Gail Buchanan, appears under my music name, Passiflora.Ninah Pixie put together this three-CD set of experimental and noise oriented female musicians, including Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey, Coum Transmissions) and Fe-Mail. Pixie also soldered together one of the

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The incredible "Women Take Back the Noise" compilation (Ubuibi Records) is finally out. My track "Belly," with Gail Buchanan, appears under my music name, Passiflora.Ninah Pixie put together this three-CD set of experimental and noise oriented female musicians, including Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey, Coum Transmissions) and Fe-Mail. Pixie also soldered together one of the

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1119492530433338132005-06-22T19:04:00.000-07:002005-06-22T19:08:50.436-07:00

The incredibly good-lucking, funny, and fashionable producer and musician Gail Buchanan just needs to wash her jeans. OK. No really. Together Gail and I just finished two mixes of a very cool track called "Belly." And "Belly: The Sustained Odd Play Mix." I'd offer you an MP3, but the track is destined for the Ubuibi Records compilation Women Take Back the Noise, and exec producer ninah from Big

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1088631084807526712004-06-30T14:28:00.000-07:002004-06-30T14:34:48.156-07:00

Could it be that the accusations of Satanic backmasking were true? Is Brainwarmer's Bee Side a work of the Debbil himself? The only way to find out is to listen to Bee Side: Crack-2 Mix, made from the original, forward-facing tapes.

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Eric Hausmann (now playing Chapman Stick with Portland's Tres Gone power-improv trio) produced this Ambienesque song at his home studio, and then let me name it Disaster Narrowly Averted. I'm not sure, but I think the source tracks are from Nyack and Bee Side. All three songs are on the Brainwarmer album. Also, I want to thank Warren Ellis for bein' a fan and linking to Nyack from his very

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1086807651422781152004-06-09T11:52:00.000-07:002004-06-09T12:00:51.423-07:00

Another -- surprise! -- live improvisation, with Enrique Ugalde (guitar), Equinoxe (keys), and Larold Will (drums), all of Black Orchid. As usual, pardon the tape hiss & all that... Here's Collapse in Angles.

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Much of Black Orchid's trippy improvisation was melodic, or pretty, or rhythmic, but it all had a simultaneously dark & humourous undertone. So let's start with what comes first: Chaos. Please pardon the inevitable tape hiss & live recording type noises.

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When recording in Nyack, New Jersey with Steve Masucci of The Lost Patrol, I did a quick little improvised thing with voice and keyboards. Later, excerpts of the track appeared on the soundtrack to an animated film of an HP Lovecraft story. Download Nyack on mp3 or buy the Brainwarmer album, which contains the song.

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1078767782486843072004-03-08T09:43:00.000-08:002004-03-08T09:46:08.123-08:00

Gail & I will probably go to hell for doing this to such a classic tune. You know it from Patsy Cline's singing. Now find out what happens when someone fucks it up, slows it down, makes a weird arrangement, and a vocalist improvises a new melody on the top: Falling to Pieces.

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1077930840164578172004-02-27T17:14:00.000-08:002004-02-27T17:18:12.043-08:00

My favourite piece on the wacky record put out by my ex-band Brainwarmer is a mad little number called Bee Side. The lovely & talented Gail Buchanan engineered & produced this, based on improvisations by me and Larold Will. Larold is playing theremin. Sounds like I'm playing piano & Optigan & singing. We recorded onto 2" analog tape, and at one point Gail & I physically picked up the reels and

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1077582024417188572004-02-23T16:15:00.000-08:002004-02-23T16:23:11.420-08:00

another bit of musique. this one requires patience. patience and a T1 line. you see, this song is a 20+ minute long extract from a 70-minute piece entitled "Through Plexiglas Sheets ov Harmony." the lovely name comes courtesy of To-Ka-Ge, with whom i improvised this piece on the Drift Catalyst stage on the Esplanade at Burning Man 2002 while dust blew, playa-watchers meditated, and the sun went

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1077499245802927682004-02-22T17:20:00.000-08:002004-02-22T17:23:31.403-08:00

i've recently come to realise that my years of improvisational music & performance -- and various ways of working with extemporaneous word-manifestation -- have downright changed my life. a certain kind of consciousness change is enacted when you shift paradigms from that of Attempting To Create Perfect Wonderful Work That Will Move & Amaze People to that of Opening Up To Whatever Drops Out Of

magdalenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16731828150673504665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953651.post-1077409361808707792004-02-21T16:22:00.000-08:002004-02-23T14:41:46.716-08:00

so my friend david gans heard me say -- well, he *read* me say, since this was online -- that years ago i'd written a song that mentioned Barstow, California in the first line. "Bishop, Boron, Barstow... Miles on the desert..." he says he wants to hear it. here you go, david: "Obligatory Road Song". this song was a favourite when Black Orchid used to perform it. it was one of very few

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if you do any sort of creative work, you know what it's like out there. people wanna stuff you into a genre. they don't want your music, your words, your piss & blood & ectoplasm oozing out from the box of definition. you have an identity, a name, a word, a marker, a symbol that somehow stands in for "you" and the work you create. you've probably been informed that you should attach that

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