Garbage Music, by Devon Michigan

Garbage Music

by Devon Michigan

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1.	Regolith 01:27	info	buy track
2.	Tunacans Redux 01:54	info	buy track
3.	Liquor Day 2016 (Get It Right) 02:33	info	buy track
4.	Groke Remaster 01:57	info	buy track
5.	Downer (no nap, no snack) 03:56	info	buy track
6.	Slasher Flick Protagonist 02:34	info	buy track
7.	Final Boss (we're all gonna die) 03:20	info	buy track
8.	A Chase Sequence (July 17th 2016) 05:18	info	buy track
9.	The Night Mountain Train 03:19	info	buy track
10.	Raw Groke 01:51	info	buy track
11.	Insert (epilogue) 01:08	info	buy track

about

"Garbage Music" was recorded by putting an sm57 microphone in my vagina and manipulating the ensuing signal with four guitar pedals. “The Ghost Taco” was a cabaret and noise performance of the same premise, exhibited sixty times to live audiences between 2007 and 2019.

The microphone picked up my voice, heartbeat, and movements- all reverberating through the water in my body. If the stage monitors were kept on; if I stood in the wrong place; if the room was too small for the sound system: it might mean feedback or, at least once, a fire. The volatility of the signal plus the vulnerability of the act made for compelling live performance- but it took a lot of work to make it listenable.

I was solicited pretty regularly by indie labels BITD, but never produced anything I really wanted to publish. It was a live, physical performance first- never really intended to be recorded or taken seriously. This collection is jams and compositional experiments, curated from over 170 raw files and twelve years of practice. Most of them were made off the cuff with one input. Often I'd recorded them to work out a piece of music that fell into place while the 'tape' was running. A few are multi-tracks that I built haphazardly over the years from such one-input files. These feeble recordings are practice logs and maquettes, never meant to be final products.

The earliest ones were recorded at the Secret Location on Hawks and East Hastings in 2007 and 2008. Some others were made during my time at the Hammock Residency in Vancouver, at the now-defunct ROYGBIV, thanks to Jacob Audrey Taves. There are also pieces recorded on Cazelais and on Langevin in Saint-Henri, at The Death Church in Verdun, Ari's House and The Zone (both at Fattal), The ex-Torn Curtain up in Mile Ex, and in that half-burned down portable jam space on the Canal at the foot of rue William that's probably condos now.

Garbage Music was created in the context of queer, anti-fascist, D.I.Y punk, metal, noise, & electronic music scenes in so-called Vancouver and Montreal in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The name was a hold over from my days as a drag king stripper. It was changed to “Pelvic Space” in the final years. Both names have been scrapped for this release.

Many people have told me that thought this project was an urban legend until they saw it for themselves. This is proof- if it never plays another show- that it existed.

credits

released November 3, 2021

Special Thanks (in no particular order) to: FakeJazz! Wednesdays; Steps Precious Pierrot; Jamie Woollard; Kara Douglas; Spark Pylon; Olwyn Fowlie; Kate Risiek; Dylana Williams; Sara Sahulka; Alex Zgl; the Secret Location; the ALF Haus; the Death Church; F.A.F.U.S.; La Brique; the sound techs and bar staff at Casa Del Polpolo & La Sala Rosa; Paula of Island Frequencies; the Red Gate; Colonic Irrigation (for The People, Now); Esther Splett; Julie Matson; Sarah Hanson; Jesse Blanchie; Jane Harms; Catherine Simone Debard; Michelle Reddick; Sasha Ford; Pants & Mark; Aude & Keith; Arlo; Heather Jean McDermitt; Shearing Pinx & Bill; Markus Levar Lake; Ross Birdwise; JS Truchy; Show of Bedlam; Gems Hall; Velveeta Krisp & Emma Hendrix; Marly, Jess, & Jason; Camerin Cobb; the Haus of Faux Pas; Lighta! Sound; Carmen Aguirre; Sam McKinley & the PNW//HNW community; Canon Cook; Xothogua; Jay Moore; Ian Sequiera; David Kristian; Ryder Alsop; Kit Rothschild; Mikiki Burrino; Alex Tigschelaar; Taylor Geddes; Brant Boshart & Vile Intent; Robyn Maynard; Jacob Audrey Taves; Alex Moskos & The Zone; Claudia; Peau, Sara, & Jack; James Goddard; the Arteles Residency; the Hammock Residency; anyone using their bodies and communities to move through trauma; and anyone who ever booked, patronized, indulged, engaged, or supported me.

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