CHILDREN OF CATHODE RAY | Encounter (mid-90s)

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"Encounter" (mid-1990s) from the almost-lost demo tape collection of mine. This raw recording was probably made at my place in the Scout Area in the late mid-1990s, when the band was fully active and experimenting with whatever musical or electrical instruments they could get their hands on at the time.
The original 1989 lineup of The Children of Cathode Ray consisted of Tad Ermitaño on video, visuals, bass, synthesizers, electronics, effects, and computers; Jing Garcia on audio, synthesizers, electronics, effects, and computers; Blums Borres on lead guitars, effects, graphics, and computers; Peter Marquez on lighting effects, electronics, photos, and visuals; Regiben Romana on percussion and effects; and Magyar Tuazon on visual effects, bass, and electronics.
The band was a closed but metastable collective, with a 30-year history of sporadic dormancy interleaved with sudden bursts of activity. Various combinations of its six members have disappeared (sometimes for years) only to rejoin as casually as they dropped out.
The band was a catch-all for the members' interests in music, sound, experimental film, lighting, literature, poetry, graphic arts, and technological deconstruction.
A Cathode Ray piece might include radios and four-second cassette-tape loops feeding into a mix filled with drums and electronic percussion, effected guitars, synthesized pads, and passionate raving in an invented language, which would, in turn, be augmented visually by video feedback, projections of exposed Super 8 film abraded with a variety of kitchen implements, or VHS spliced on a pair of consumer VCRs.
However, instead of music being composed to add mood to pre-existing visuals (as happens in film), or video being composed to back up pre-existing music (as happens in rock or electronica), Cathode Ray's methods give equal primacy to sound and imagery. A looping image might inspire a certain timbre or rhythm, which calls up an accompaniment in the lower registers, which, in turn, provokes a decrease in the image's luminance, and so on.
(Text for this liner note was edited and updated by me. It was originally written by Tad for the 2004 CCR Live! CD release.)
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Lo-FI, SLo-FI experimental sound as art from Jing Garcia (a.k.a. autoceremony), plus anything and everything that create sound.
CREATING THE SOUND OF THE FUTURE... YESTERDAY.
SYNTHWAVE, RETROWAVE, SIGNALWAVE, PLUNDERPHONICS, RETROFUTURISM
An original member of Children of Cathode Ray, one of the earliest sound art groups in the Philippines, established in 1989.
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