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    John Oswald – plexure ’24; plexures (Part 2)

    by 5:4 October 8, 2024 • 09:50
    October 8, 2024 • 09:50

    i stressed before the primacy of Plexure within the context of these two new albums. Yet the extent to which Oswald has been irresisitably drawn back to this work suggests that the idea of a ‘definitive’ version is meaningless. Indeed, the extensiveness of the so-called “bonus tracks” (most of which …

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    John Oswald – Plexure update

    by 5:4 October 5, 2024 • 10:26
    October 5, 2024 • 10:26

    Part 2 of my deep dive into John Oswald‘s extensive reissue of all things Plexure is coming soon. However, in the meantime there’s a time-critical update relevant for any other plex-heads out there. For this weekend only, Oswald has made available two additional Plexure-related items.

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    John Oswald – plexure ’24; plexures (Part 1)

    by 5:4 October 3, 2024 • 10:06
    October 3, 2024 • 10:06

    It seems as if an age has passed since i last wrote about the music of Canadian composer John Oswald. It was actually only four years ago, but a pandemic has come and gone during that time, which perhaps makes it seem longer. At that time, Oswald was beginning to …

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    Remixed, remastered, revised, reissued: John Oswald (Part 2)

    by 5:4 September 4, 2020 • 05:00
    September 4, 2020 • 05:00

    It would be disingenuous to downplay just how laugh out loud funny is so much of John Oswald’s music. And this is surely one of the main reasons why he has fallen foul of the more simple-minded legal “brains” in the pop industry, since a casual encounter with his later …

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    Remixed, remastered, revised, reissued: John Oswald (Part 1)

    by 5:4 September 3, 2020 • 09:58
    September 3, 2020 • 09:58

    To return to the theme of reissues that i was exploring recently, another composer whose work has hitherto been languishing relatively unheard is the Canadian John Oswald. i first encountered his music around 25 years ago, at a Birmingham Symphony Hall concert where the Kronos Quartet included his astonishing electroacoustic …

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    Mixtape #58 : Virus

    by 5:4 March 17, 2020 • 14:21
    March 17, 2020 • 14:21

    Sometimes deciding a theme for a mixtape can be a time-consuming business – but not this time. If anything, not making viruses the theme for the new 5:4 mixtape would just feel like being wilfully contrary. So – a couple of weeks earlier than scheduled – here it is, a …

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    John Oswald – I’d love to turn (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 23, 2019 • 06:00
    March 23, 2019 • 06:00

    Many people will likely have first encountered the work of Canadian composer John Oswald through one of two things: either the wonderfully weird collection of ‘Mystery Tapes’ he began putting out in the early 1980s or, more likely, his 1989 album that gave the name to a new form of …

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    Mixtape #49 : Untitled

    by 5:4 September 12, 2018 • 09:58
    September 12, 2018 • 09:58

    For the latest 5:4 mixtape, i’ve turned my attention to that most elusive of artistic statements, the untitled work. When i set out to assemble a shortlist of pieces in my library that had adopted the word ‘untitled’, it wasn’t immediately obvious what i’d find. Yet, with one or two …

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    Mixtape #47 : Travelogue

    by 5:4 July 3, 2018 • 15:44
    July 3, 2018 • 15:44

    For my July mixtape, i’ve decided to take myself on an impromptu trip around mainland Europe. With the help of Google Maps, i’ve plotted a course that’s somewhat circuitous but which manages to take in most of the continent. Starting in Holland (I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper, Ryoji Ikeda), we …

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    Mixtape #44 : Spring

    by 5:4 April 3, 2018 • 20:35
    April 3, 2018 • 20:35

    For my April mixtape, i’ve gone for a seasonal theme, exploring music that references and/or alludes to aspects of spring. While all the seasons are, by their nature, in a continual state of flux, i’ve personally always tended to think of spring and autumn as being ‘transitional’, more obviously progressing …

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    Mixtape #17 : Lay the Voice to Rest, Dear Mist (In Memoriam Danielle Baquet-Long)

    by 5:4 July 8, 2010 • 00:12
    July 8, 2010 • 00:12

    How quickly a year passes. On this day, 12 months ago, Danielle Baquet-Long died, bringing to an abrupt end the remarkable musical project that she and husband Will had crafted together for several years. Of course, music, like life, goes on regardless, and the prospect of plenty more releases yet …

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    Back to John Oswald

    by 5:4 January 7, 2008 • 09:21
    January 7, 2008 • 09:21

    Yesterday’s listening was a return to an old favourite: John Oswald. i’ve been interested in him since my early 20s, when i heard a work of his performed by the Kronos Quartet at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall (Mach i believe it was called). His “plunderphonic” style is remarkable, and when i …

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