{"id":7871,"date":"2016-10-20T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T07:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2024-04-30T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:29:14","slug":"7871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/20\/7871\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Field Recordings by Cabaret’s Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018SOULS OF DEAD CHILDREN\u2019 AND OTHER CREEPY FIELD RECORDINGS BY CABARET VOLTAIRE FOUNDER CHRIS WATSON<\/h1>\n

\"\"Photo by Kate Humble, via\u00a0chriswatson.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Chris Watson is\u00a0the coolest.<\/em>\u00a0He\u2019s most famous as one of the three founding members of Cabaret Voltaire. Since leaving the Cabs in \u201881, he\u2019s continued to make experimental music (see, for instance, his wonderful 2005\u00a0collaboration with KK Null and Z\u2019EV<\/a>), but he\u2019s best known for his field recordings. BBC Radio 4 has a\u00a0whole page<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to programs that feature Watson and his work; if you\u2019re not careful, you can lose yourself for hours there listening to stories like \u201cWildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the crested tit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard H. Kirk is, of course, the longest-lasting (and sole remaining) member of Cabaret Voltaire, but I wonder if it\u2019s significant that Watson\u2019s name got top billing on the back cover of the Cabs\u2019\u00a0first<\/a>\u00a0two<\/a>\u00a0albums. Watson\u2019s\u00a0attic<\/a>\u00a0was the band\u2019s practice space from \u201874 to \u201878, and Kirk credits his distinctive guitar sound on the first records to a fuzzbox Watson, then a phone engineer, built for him. (Check out the Burroughsian\u00a0news cut-up<\/a>\u00a0Watson contributed to a 1981 tape compilation released by Jhonn Balance.)<\/p>\n

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from Dangerous Minds \u2018SOULS OF DEAD CHILDREN\u2019 AND OTHER CREEPY FIELD RECORDINGS BY CABARET VOLTAIRE FOUNDER CHRIS WATSON Photo by Kate Humble, via\u00a0chriswatson.net Chris Watson is\u00a0the coolest.\u00a0He\u2019s most famous as one of the three founding members of Cabaret Voltaire. Since leaving the Cabs in \u201881, he\u2019s continued to make experimental music (see, for instance, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"from Dangerous Minds<\/em><\/a>\r\n

\u2018SOULS OF DEAD CHILDREN\u2019 AND OTHER CREEPY FIELD RECORDINGS BY CABARET VOLTAIRE FOUNDER CHRIS WATSON<\/h1>\r\n\"\"Photo by Kate Humble, via\u00a0chriswatson.net<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nChris Watson is\u00a0the coolest.<\/em>\u00a0He\u2019s most famous as one of the three founding members of Cabaret Voltaire. Since leaving the Cabs in \u201881, he\u2019s continued to make experimental music (see, for instance, his wonderful 2005\u00a0collaboration with KK Null and Z\u2019EV<\/a>), but he\u2019s best known for his field recordings. BBC Radio 4 has a\u00a0whole page<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to programs that feature Watson and his work; if you\u2019re not careful, you can lose yourself for hours there listening to stories like \u201cWildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the crested tit.\u201d\r\n\r\nRichard H. Kirk is, of course, the longest-lasting (and sole remaining) member of Cabaret Voltaire, but I wonder if it\u2019s significant that Watson\u2019s name got top billing on the back cover of the Cabs\u2019\u00a0first<\/a>\u00a0two<\/a>\u00a0albums. Watson\u2019s\u00a0attic<\/a>\u00a0was the band\u2019s practice space from \u201874 to \u201878, and Kirk credits his distinctive guitar sound on the first records to a fuzzbox Watson, then a phone engineer, built for him. (Check out the Burroughsian\u00a0news cut-up<\/a>\u00a0Watson contributed to a 1981 tape compilation released by Jhonn Balance.)\r\n\r\n[ click to continue reading at Dangerous Minds<\/a> ]","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}