Son[i]a #319. John Richards/Dirty Electronics
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There's something beautiful about the ephemeral. It's here, it's gone... Live practice, improvising and versioning.
Low-level electronics, no failure relief.
Taking a motor out of a printer and just sticking a jack socket on one end. Infra-instruments
I'm just going to get a prop. Radical nails
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with the British sound artist and maker John Richards/Dirty Electronics that we were unable to include the first time around.
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