Pianoless Cage, by TestTubeBaby

Pianoless Cage

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1.	Like Usual 01:51	buy track
2.	In a Habitual Way 05:49	buy track
3.	In Absentia 07:07	buy track
4.	Customarily 00:56	buy track
5.	Commonly 06:04	buy track
6.	More Often than Not 05:39	buy track
7.	By and Large 06:50	buy track
8.	As Always 05:51	buy track
9.	Mindlessly 09:38	buy track
10.	Automatically 06:45	buy track

about

Initially, I imagined I was making these field recordings to incorporate somehow into "songs." I was thinking of the instrumental "In the Grass" from 1997, that I created while at an artist retreat in Ucross, Wyoming (found on the "Constituent" album).

I wanted to randomly pop in to places where I am often, and record whatever was happening there at the moment.

While these never were incorporated into "songs," that doesn't mean that I didn't fiddle with them a lot (i.e. compression, noise reduction). What occurred to me as I did was just the sheer amount of content within each recording. Listening to them reminded me of a practice I developed when I was a teenager, where if I felt myself teetering on boredom, I would just pick out a roughly 1 foot by 1 foot patch of ground and observe everything that was going on in it.

A thing that occurred to me as I was finding places to record was how there might be a parallel to trying to record ambient noise in public and trying to find a place to camp or live in public (e.g. if you don't have a home). Recording with my visible shotgun mic in a park that I walk through all the time that has children and their helicopter parents playing in it, for example...

The working title for the album was "Comme D'Habitude" and that's where all the titles of the songs come from (there's really no way to meaningfully title these songs, so it was good to have a conceit). The final album title has a double meaning... that you'll either know or not. I don't think it matters if not.

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released October 10, 2022

Cover photo by MiKelly

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TestTubeBaby Vancouver, British Columbia

Just walked
On a long slab of concrete
Probably hundreds of metric tons
To the store
Thinking about the similarities
And differences
Between me and a squirrel

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