Audio piece consisting of microphone intrusions, bad singing, sporadic moaning and half-hearted humming. Concentrating on the minute, the hereto insignificant, those tiny moments. On the surface Solar Plexus accomplishes nothing. Once submerged, though, all you’ll need to breathe are ear plugs.
In and out of claustral spaces. The inside of a boiling pot, of a fire out of control, of a sleeping bag in the summer heat, of a mother in an elevator reciting poetry, of an ear plug in fear of an alarm, of a loud headphone forest walk, of a … The insound of an inside. These soundscapes of internal spaces are connected by blinks. Blinks coming from your ears.
Mix and edit for Sound Voice Perform, 2005:
Solar Plexus (1994) (9:02)
Original tracks:
Solar Plexus (part 1 Blinks) (7:13)
Solar Plexus (part 2 Thresholds) (9:18)
Solar Plexus (part 3 Crawls) (7:43)
Solar Plexus is composed of three sections: Blinks, Thresholds, and Crawls. It is further divided into boils, fires, fountains, suffocations, swallows, descents, and pain directives (amongst others).
BLINKS
boil
fire
fountain
suffocation
lac maman
ear plugs
nose & rings
towards descent
THRESHOLDS
boil
melodies
pain directives
identikit
saut avec imaginaire
jesus de montréal
te amo
CRAWLS
boil
hair
lost
loudspeak
rien
lost again
land count
REVIEWS
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GAJOOB (March 1997) review of Solar Plexus on Radius #3 CD by Mike Bowman.
In the words of Monty Python, “And now for something completely different.” The Radius #3 CD compilation features the work of audio artists, and when I say artists I mean the fine arts Andy Warhol type, not the recording artist Michael Jackson type. Kathy Kennedy constructs an audio essay on gang culture and the pursuit of victims using a sonic collage of footsteps in the subway, victim’s verbal recollections and other associated sounds. Christof Migone’s “Solar Plexus” focusses on the minute, insignificant sounds of the world: people humming to themselves, clanking dishes in the kitchen, etc… According to the liner notes, the goal of these artists is to have their works broadcast. If you like the work of hometapers like Scott Davies and the band Inca, you’ll enjoy this departure from the world of rock.
