“Schemawound’s Body Movements remix album is the most powerfully minimalist commitment to sparsesound we’ve come across in some time (‘powerfully minimalist’ in that it’s minimalist, and powerful). There are no songs or other hand-holding things. Instead the sound sounds like it was grown. Not intended. Crepuscular creations fermenting, dividing, and slowly achieving sentience.” –20 Jazz Funk Greats
Guest Post: Katie Gately – Hymncycle
Hi, my name’s Katie Gately and I created the second remix onSchemawound’s “Body Movements” titled Hymncycle. Schemawoundapproached me on Soundcloud to do this remix via the Disquiet Juntogroup. I discovered the group recently after Marc Weidenbaum found mymusic online and reviewed a track on Disquiet.com. Until then, mymusic had been heard by zero people. This is my first remix. I […]
Disquiet Junto 0059: ThreeSixes
@@ERROR by Schemawound This week’s project involves the human voice. You will create a choral drone from three samples that you will create with your own voice. This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent. Here are the steps in the project: Step 1: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) to determine which vowels you […]
Body Movements
Today Waxen Wings has released my 4th full length album under the Schemawound name. The album is named “Body Movements” and contains remixes and reconstructions of tracks from my previous album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still.”. The remixers were given the full audio and supercollider source code for the album and […]
Body Movement: Reflections
A remix album? I am not sure where the thought came from. My recent album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Wan’t To Hold You Perfectly Still.” is not what I would have considered ideal material to have remixed. Despite my doubts I decided to throw caution to the wind, upload the raw tracks and source code, and […]
Disquiet Junto 0058: Drunk and Hungry and Not At All In Love
@@ERROR by Schemawound This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Endless Ascent netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally […]
Feed It Or It Will Die
Over the past year I have become much more involved with netlabels and creative projects such as the Disquiet Junto. This has led me to discover a vast network of amazing musicians providing their material for free. Either through trying to gather remixers for my upcoming album or just plain old fan mail I have been in contact with quite […]