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Living Vicariously Through the Destruction of the Past

by Ayla Cosnett

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Repent, harlequin! It's the wildly popular video America can't stop talking about!

Casey Kasem stowed away on Kon-Tiki and ended up covered in plastic, PCBs, and human waste in the mosh pit at Woodstock '99. Your cousin is watching the Monkees' Head on VHS in the basement as a hurricane rages: Easy Rider, salad, the mall. The editors of Sound on Sound magazine barge into Pierre Schaeffer's studio in 1948 armed with a hotel trolley full of 1176 clones and smash his turntables with a ball-peen hammer; clambering back into the interdimensional subscription service, they set the controls for the Black Ark and prepare to burn it down to protest the Upsetter's refusal to buy a Neve. As Liz Truss triumphantly returns to power clad in resurgent Markov chain futures and a trenchcoat Peter Thiel bought for her in Croydon's Dimes Square Annex, we begin to realize that only Måneskin can save crank wave.

"Waving a Nonexistent Flag" began as an attempt to convey this through more or less concrete music but ultimately became but modestly eloquent agitprop on the twin tendencies of movements that define themselves in reaction to become reactionary and of signifiers of meaning to become reified against themselves. It is flanked by two pairs of short pieces of mainly synthesized sounds sketching out microcosms within this principle.

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released April 18, 2023

Ayla Cosnett: electronics, samples, programming, mixing, Ceefax page editor web app, tedium of resentment

track 1 renders unrecognizable samples courtesy of Bogdan Raczynski and Bastl Instruments
track 4 contains samples of 1968 "Marijuana With Sonny Bono" PSA (public domain)

Realized December 2022–April 2023 in Mount Vernon, Baltimore, Maryland
Special thanks to M.C. Schmidt for helping me make peace with the Dutch

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Ayla Cosnett Baltimore, Maryland

b. 1999 (easton, maryland, usa)
situationism, psychoanalysis, the chesapeake bay, spring reverb, b movies, the trafalmadorian evolution of internet culture, pauline oliveros, david tudor, daphne oram, miles davis, can, ornette coleman, scratch perry, sonic youth, being a tranny ... more

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