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Collisions

by Jeremy Bible

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Jeremy Bible's Collisions is a conceptual binaural work originally created for a live 4 channel quad surround performance presented at Akron's Rubber City Noise on Saturday June 8th 2013. Collisions illustrates Bible's eclectic disciplines with elements of field recordings, digital & analog noise, subtle pitch and millisecond level timing offsets, fatiguing frequencies, razor sharp sound design and occasional generative elements culled from his sound installation projects. Sewn together through thoughtful composition, sharp contrasts and jarring arrangements. Headphones recommended for optimal 3D binaural effect.

“Jeremy Bible is a Cleveland based interdisciplinary artist, and proprietor of the music imprint Experimedia. Collisions was originally created for live 4 channel surround performance, but proves just as effective listened to on physical media, and this is certainly Bible’s most accomplished work to date. Collisions is a harsh and meticulous, yet rewarding, sound collage of noise and field recordings. Digital static intertwines with serene field recordings of bird song. Structurally this is a complex ever shifting work, that surprises the listener with its ever evolving and challenging ambiance.” - Bleep.com

“Collisions is a bit of a mindfuck. That being said, the incredible array of sounds that Jeremy Bible (all hail experimedia!) juggles is impressive and he does so gracefully, leaving just enough room for these compositions to stretch their legs and find their footing. “Collisions is a conceptual binaural work originally created for a live 4 channel quad surround performance”, we’re told, and this much is apparent when heard digitally. The pristine details shine through and overwhelm. However, on tape Collisions finds another life entirely – analog media is an interesting (and excellent) choice for this music. Lines blur and sounds fade into oblivion so that the listener is completely lost in the aural walls Bible creates. This is dense, hard-to-digest music but through patience we are all rewarded.” - Brad Rose, factmag.com

“Jeremy Bible is the man behind the Experimedia label/distribution/empire, which has humble beginnings as a small imprint for his own compositions for melancholy dronemusic and amorphously treated field recordings. Admittedly, it has been a while since we’ve heard any of Bible’s output; and on Collisions there’s a considerable shift from the soft-focus, ambient-grounded smears and blurs from those earlier recordings to the neutron smashing and amplified laboratory hum found the aptly named cassette. The field recordings do persist with chapters of nocturnal tree frogs and daytime birdsong bracketed by passages of clinical electronics, possibly rendered through blorping modular synthesis or some sort of digital equivalent. The tones, nonetheless, are sharp and abraded, reflecting similar rhythms from barking tree frogs and mellifluous thrushes. Bible’s jittery splutter of tone into jagged sawtooth patterns and erratic squiggle recalls some of the polydactyl, generative work from Keith Fullerton Whitman or the scabrous digital errata of Florian Hecker. At times, it’s a frenzied, furious work; and at others, it can be austerely designed in the vein of Asmus Tietchens. Super limited, and packaged in a swanky box with foil stamping.” - Aquarius Records

“All hail Jeremy Bible, this dude knows what’s fuckin up. Most of yall probably know he runs the flawless EXPERIMEDIA label/distro, but he’s also got some insane music makin chops as well, and Collisions is easily my favorite work of his. This is a total head fucker, melding sharp musique concrète, abstract field recordings, glitchy rhythms, and bizarro noise into something wholly cohesive & unique, this takes all of your attention while twisting synapses and making new neural pathways in your brain, making you question every fucking moment. Is there anything actually happening right now or is it actually silent? Are those frogs or synths? Is this doing permanent damage to my ears? Did I just shit myself? There are truly incredible moments on this record that feel like you’re staring a starving pack of dire wolves right in the eyes, unsettling organic gurgling & chirping, panning & pointed blasts of almost danceable static shred, high end drone like the hum of a distant generator. You’re never at ease, even when the music is peaceful, because early on you discover there’s an ever present sense of danger. This is just the fucking best. It was originally a live recording from June 2013 at the RCN Cave in Akron, Ohio that was released digitally shortly thereafter, but it’s been expanded & remastered for CD and tape release on False so now you can hold & cherish this sexy beast. The artwork above is for the digital version, the tapes & CDs come in silver stamped black boxes with cotton & card inserts and they look super fuckin slick.” - Justin Snow, Anti-Gravity Bunny

“New high bar set here with Jeremy Bible’s physical issues of his once digital-only Collisions album; both the cassette version (which I have on hand), and the CD version of this release are top-notch. Look at that! Mirror-metallic print on a glossy box with bellyband? Shit, seriously good. Sonically, Bible’s never sounded more in control, precise, and sharp than on this one. A friend of mine likened it to birds, and the frantic, fast-paced and high-pitched nature of that animal fits this record’s trajectory quite well. You can also just hear what sound like genuine field recordings of them throughout the length of the recording – the flapping of wings, their worm-wanting chirps, etc., all of it pieced together with synths and tape samples, and whatever all else you won’t be able to place in your imagination. Instead of approaching a noise-collagist’s oft-used technique of mashing textures together, smearing things into a pasty pastiche of blended “harsh,” Bible buts things together with a care that almost feels obsessive, giving each and every individual sound he creates edges that are refined and defined. It is designedmusic. Bible adds and subtracts elements as if building a sculpture out of Jenga blocks, and while the architecture is built to feel like it should be teetering on the brink of collapse at any moment with sounds swooping in and crashing into one another with blind and aggressive accents, wavering on unsteady waves of dynamic shifts, Bible’s foundations are still strong enough to keep the sound remarkably sturdy. And though he can also be tender, finding the softer side of his instrumental array as the album makes its way toward the end, even his quietest moments (complete, dead, negative spaces) are used in ways that could leave many white-knuckled and squeamish. Also this: Album of the year.” Strauss, tinymixtapes.com

“You might know Jeremy Bible as the proprietor of your favorite independent distributor/zone emporium Experimedia, but the Cleveland-based inter-disciplinary artist wears a tower of hats in addition to the black-brimmed postman cap symbolizing the prompt shipping of physical media. Over the last few years, he has experimented with video synthesis (=crocheted rasta beanie), constructed quadraphonic live setups (=four "Collector” snapbacks), and exploring the infinite potential of electronic concrète collage (=the sleek black headset of Morton Subotnick). Though infrequent limited-run releases have trickled out of his Experimedia label imprint over the last decade, his new album Collisions– streaming in full below– showcases the most fully realized incarnation of his solo project to date. The album’s two extended pieces speed through a litany of textures and atmospheres, juxtaposing squalls of hi-fi synth noise with naturalistic field recordings and passages of otherworldly drone. Bible’s surprising aural journey coheres across its diverse palette of sounds by way of its uniformly lush production standard and its attention to detail in tone spatialization. The album channels the structural chaos and alien laptop squelch ofFlorian Hecker, and the unpredictable live synthesis of Headboggle, as it stakes out its own unheard territory in the wide expanse of the experimental underground.“ - Maxwell Allison, adhoc.fm

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released June 19, 2013

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Jeremy Bible is an American interdisciplinary artist whose work occupies a shared space between multi-channel audio-visual installation and compositional practice. His performances invite listeners to explore an eco-futurist environment that challenges the established topographies of time and linearity. ... more

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