Asia Radio Environments
Over the weekend, Jesse Paul Miller played what he estimates as only his second solo performance. For this he mixed together field recordings and played them back through 6 speakers surrounding the audience. It started incredibly delicate and slowly built into a mass of sounds. I recognized several things as being from Asia as I’ve heard these wonderful self produced CDRs of his recordings from there. The latest one is “Asia Radio Environments“, a fairly self descriptive title. However in addition to picking up frequencies in Asian countries, Jesse has recorded the environment around him as he was exploring the shortwave dial. So the unstable signals are paired with bird singing, traffic and other ambient noises heard in Java, Bali, Lombok, Myanmar, Thailand and Japan. The results are suprisingly calm. However, I think the most meditative title he has done is the popular “Asia Archive 2008 Volume 2: Muslim Call to Prayer, Java, Indonesia” which we finally got restock of. Both discs are quite limited and come in hand numbered editions.