TEENAGE
ENGINEERED
DAYDREAMS
NEW LP DECEMBER 16 FROM DAKSINA
This album was created in response to a suggestion of a specific mandate. Compose a release whose dominant instrumentation is supplied by the sound palette of the Teenage Engineering OP-1 Synthesizer. Side One of TED fulfills this concept. Side Two continues into a more expansive group of tracks bringing in analog synths, guitar, effects, and field recordings of everyday items and street sounds. Spoken word poetry is supplied by poet Yuko Otomo. The cover art is by artist Janice Sloane. The album will be available from the DAKSINA Bandcamp. The vinyl is now SOLD OUT but is still available for digital download.
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Across two extended pieces totaling over thirty minutes, TED unfolds like a transmission from some waterlogged future. Clarion calls ring out across cavernous spaces while ghostly vocals drift in and out of focus. Orchestral swells collapse into stuttering drum patterns. Field recordings bleed into pools of ambience, punctuated by whispered incantations that feel more like spells than words.
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*** NYT Critic’s Pick ***
“Crammed with exhilarating sounds, moving reminiscences and stimulating arguments that [free jazz] is not just music, but vital music… [It] highlights are incredibly well-curated archival footage and contemporary interviews that allow the viewer to briefly commune with some beautiful souls… This movie constituted a too-short heaven on earth. I’d binge on an expanded series, honestly.” - Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
“Brilliantly engaging… A comprehensive overview of the major players in this wild, unrelenting scene… If you’re a kid just getting into avant-garde free jazz and wondering which records to buy, this is a hell of a place to start… A fascinating examination of the origins and the subsequent outbreak of some of the most compelling, challenging, and confrontational music ever to be performed in the past hundred years… Definitely makes a lasting impression. Whether you’re already into this stuff or just dipping your toe into the Kool-Aid, Fire Music delivers all the brimstone and more.” - Chuck Foster, Film Threat
“A kinetic, often thrilling re-contextualizing of the Free Jazz movement, Fire Music breathes new life into the most experimental section in jazz… Thrilling archival footage plays as the real star of the film… Surgal proves to be a superb storyteller here, carrying throughout the film’s much too brief 88 minute runtime a propulsive energy that, while not perfectly mimicking the energy of the movement he hopes to discuss in the film, at least brings to life the spirit at its very core… Utterly essential viewing… Hell, the Sun Ra footage alone cements this film as one of the year’s most exciting, and something that’s sure to find a rabid fan base once it arrives on streaming later this year.” - Josh Brunsting, Criterion Cast
“Fire Music provides a concise, thoughtful account of the musical form which first blossomed in the late 1950s.The documentary does an excellent job of making the music come alive with its gripping performance footage and incisive interviews with many key players... The film should be on any serious music lover's must-see list." - Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
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Biography
Lin Culbertson is a composer and musician living in NYC.
BIO
Lin’s experience as an improvisor greatly informs her sound work. Her compositions are comprised of synthesized sounds, field recordings, and conventional instruments. They incorporate aspects of indeterminacy in their arrangement and performance. The influence of her graphic design background is evident in the use of graphic scores and visual translation software to include non-musical elements in the sound creation process. She is a founding member of the improvisational unit WHITE OUT, who have released seven albums to date. She has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists including Tom Surgal, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Mike Watt, and Ikue Mori among many others.
Lin Culbertson's compositions for film and television incorporate her instrumental skills, as well as her experience synthesizing and manipulating sounds, giving her a diverse sonic palette to draw from. Her eclectic background in a variety of genres can be referenced when creating a musical accompaniment to a film’s visual content. She is able to create everything from lush abstract soundscapes, to jazz vamps, to electronic/ambient drones, to classical orchestral pieces.
Lin earned a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Wisconsin, where her studies focused on contemporary composition, electronic music production, Javanese Gamelan performance, ethnomusicology, and studio art.
Film Credits
Fire Music
Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict
The Shift Discovery Network
Christopher short film by Jane Gang
Installation Soundtrack Credits
The Last Tree Babs Reingold
Hung Out in the Projects Babs Reingold
Labyrinth: Current Millennium Babs Reingold
Discography (partial)
TED lin11c (Daksina DAK026)
Accidental Sky White Out with Nels Cline (Northern Spy Records)
Asphalt and Delay White Out (audioMER)
Live at No Fun White Out with Carlos Giffoni and C Spencer Yeh (No Fun Productions)
Senso White Out with Jim O’Rourke and Thurston Moore (Ecstatic Peace)
China Is Near White Out with Jim O’Rourke and William Winant (All Tomorrow’s Parties)
Drunken Little Mass White Out with Jim O’Rourke (Ecstatic Peace)
Red Shift White Out (Ecstatic Peace)
MUSIC
Bandcamp Page
The first digital only releases on my new Bandcamp site are older material reworked during the Coronavirus Quarantine.
A number of sound works on the projects page are included in Radiant Energy and Other Strategies.
