V/A - Byron Recital Hall No. 3

Vitrine is thrilled to unveil Byron Recital Hall No. 3, the latest volume in a continuing series of assemblages and chance meetings. Being left with the stain of blind interaction. Episodic actions spool into greater chambers of interlocking dismay. Mike Collino, either with solo efforts as Dog Lady Island or via his sterling Alien Passengers imprint, exemplifies the midwestern / Detroit milieu of home-tapers and jammers while also generating a blurred, placeless intrigue. There is more than enough room at this table for analog gunk and grime, but a place has been set for refined obscurantism and Fluxus absurdity.The bent is unmistakably American while also Continental, not unlike LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams Southern skew on surrealist bric-a-brac via Trans Museq. Various players are assembled in aggregate units to then be combined and mixed according to procedural schematic. While past volumes reeked of a heady Detroit junk noise brew and the spacious event of East Bionic Symphonia, this issue touches on everything from abattoir circuitry to Phren-esque analytic decollage. The players are amongst the lighthouses of the fertile midwestern vein, including Tyler Hicks, Andrew Coltrane, Heath Moerland, Sam Hooker and Knox Mitchell, as well as criminally under-documented artists such as Brad Dixon and Michael Dresden. Byron Recital Hall No. 3 serves as a candle down to a morass of largely untapped group innovation. What was once obscure becomes obvious to a fault. Rooms are disassembled, voices lose their bodies and decay never truly manages to destroy the sound. Limited to 100 copies. Sold out at source. - Vitrine\r\n