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The Occulatiomorbit

by Eric Lunde

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the english language is taken apart and reassembled into "new" words then made to speak of which the audio is then degenerated into fundamental units. another long ride down the opcay tunnel.
FROM VITAL WEEKLY:
ERIC LUNDE - THE OCCULATIOMORBIT (two lathe cut records by Kanshiketsu!)

In front of me is a silkscreened plastic box containing a cardboard box. Inside I find a 5" inch lathe cut record, a lathe cut postcard record (one side only), a handmade pin, hand-stamped inserts (in black, red and blue) on what seems to be recycled paper and a booklet containing an alphabet I can't read. Welcome to the world of Eric Lunde. Except that isn't said anywhere. Connected to this package is a book (some 240 pages), 'The Occulatimorbit', which Lunde sent me as a PDF and which is more confusing. Heading to the Bandcamp mentioned below, hoping to be enlighted, it turns out there is more music for this title than could fit on the lathes. I asked mister Lunde, and there is not much by way of explanation other than "the entire project is first an exercise in deliberate nonsense (I ain't no author, I just fuck with words) and now an asemic project. none of it really is supposed to make much sense" but ending with "enjoy it for what it isn't might be my advice", which are wise words. I often receive material I don't understand the meaning of but take for it and enjoy for what it is (or isn't, perhaps). The music (I secretly admit using Bandcamp here, as my turntable had some problems with these small-sized lathe-cut records) is precisely what we would expect from Lunde (if there is such a thing as the expectation with him, of course). "The English language is taken apart and reassembled into "new" words then made to speak of which the audio is then degenerated into fundamental units. another long ride down the optical tunnel", which in Lunde's world is recording words, then playing them back, picking that up, and repeat that process quite a few things. Language rendered beyond meaning if, of course, there was ever any meaning. The book eludes me, but I enjoy the audio part. It reminded me of Lunde's earliest work, but rougher than ever before. Think of Alvin Lucier's voice erosion of 'I'm Sitting In A Room', but now compressed to a few stages; maybe because Lunde uses the cheapest recording means, so decay becomes apparent very early on. Here's where noise music and sound poetry meet, cruder than Henri Chopin. I find this sounds like excellent music. It is all very consistent in execution and beauty to hear. It is the sort of crude sound poetry that I like and coupled with the handmade package, which makes it, perhaps, a hermetically closed thing (I thought of the Voynich manuscript), but that's the beauty in mystery. (FdW)

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released August 28, 2022

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ERIC LUNDE WORKS IN SOUND AND PRINT. HE HAS A RICH HISTORY AND A POOR DEMEANOR. PLEASE VISIT THE BLOGGER SITE BELOW TO CATCH UP.

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