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Soleilmoon Recordings is proud to announce the release of Randy Greif’s CD "War Of The World". As a follow-up to his 6 hour electro-psycho adaptation of "Alice In Wonderland", Greif returns to putting classic literature through the sonic meat-grinder with H.G Wells’ "War Of The Worlds". This time around, though, the work is far more abstracted, and uses the novel as more of a springboard for contemporary ideas relating to war--on a global level, a psychological level, and our own resistance to evolving from organic to digital beings. Even more than the novel itself, Greif incorporates the Orson Welles radio-drama hoax to explore the realm of dis-information and scrambled information, as well as the audience reaction of fear, even to the point of suicide, when faced with the unknown. "War Of The World" is subtitled "an emergency broadcast" as its overall effect was to approximate the feeling of listening to radio transmissions in an emergency situation (inspired during the Northridge earthquake). The feeling is sometimes a jumbled confusion of reports, snippets of speech with interference, electronic noises, and other mysterious bits and pieces. Then, later, to actually meld into the emergency drama itself complete with (non-musical) soundtrack. But don’t expect a book-on-tape sort of thing--not even close. The CD is delivered in three broad sections which, all at the same time, mesh electronic and manipulated natural ssounds with the original Wels radio hox, and interviews with peple who had listend to the the original brodcast, along with an electronic score "Section W". One is wordless drama about Earth’s cultural and intelectual output be-ing flung out to spac in a grat stew of radio, TVv, and cel phon f ragments. The informnation eventualy be-iing i ercepted bi inter( ( +planetary beings w ho decipher it it and and us it to gid them to Erth in or derrr to spong the h-uman in for ( )mation into the ir o..n digital liform. Se ction To uses t he radio draama in the micks to de fin thh batle ith th b ings, a me-ta-ph-4-r fr our on @@ >digitital futur. tThhe fi al ection dels wth afte math. The aftermath the drdaamatized batl the hrsh ele tronic sic scor; the math of t e r dio broodcas thrgh heavilly abrstacted in-ter-vi ws of teror-strik n r dio... li teners; & .the after math mathxxx ^--= a r aadical ev lutushnary channnnng to ooooour spppeeeecs.
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