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Artist
Hands To
12+ albums
ambientfield recordingsexperimentalmusique concretejeph jerman
about
Jeph Jerman started recording under the name Hands To in 1986 as an sampler and tape loop project. Most of the early work was sampler and tape loop based. Later he moved to performances using only found objects from nature such as stones and pinecones, and in the case of "Egress", recorded an album using only a dead cactus from the Arizona desert. Jerman has since ended Hands To, but carries on field recording with AARC. About album - Hands To – Catalogue Of Abuse Tracklist A1 Extract A2 Decay A3 Short A4 Edit A5 Entropy A6 Cross-Talk A7 Direct Contact A8 Ground Feedback A9 Medium 1 B1 Medium 2 B2 Oppenheimer B3 Acceleration B4 Heat B5 Direct Abuse B6 Deceleration The ideas behind this album seem to be to push found sounds to & beyond the point of distortion, which in theory puts it in two categories - one being Concrete Music (ie. pushing pre-taped sounds beyond the limits into distortion through electronic means is Concrete), but more to the point, this is Pure Noise, and should appeal to the ever-hungry dissonance-mongers. "Extract" opens the 'A' side, an immediate grating loop of heavy Industrial motor vehicles at work, sustaining the velocity of a pneumatic drill while barely-heard movement goes on below the surface. "Decay" continues this theme, distorting the source sound (unknown even to the artists) into something torn, twisted & lethal. Voices can be heard through the rushing (as in waterfall), thundering (as in, well, thunder) sound. "Short" is h
