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A cut-up/collage/plunderphonics project |
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The Jabberwocky project started in late 2001 after I watched a documentary called Sonic Outlaws which focused on Negativland,John Oswald and The Tape-beatles. Inspired by the film and particulary Oswald's plunderphonics, I embarked on making cut-ups of other artists song's, to rearrange and exaggerate a ceratin song or artists uniqueness and sound characters for a satirical/parody purpose. So with blank cassettes, CD's and boomboxes in hand I started work on my first album in February 2002. After 7 months, 3 wornout boomboxes and some 60 finished tracks later it was complete.
. I made up a few cassette copies and sent them various folks I had met (virtually) on plunderphonia and AEN chat groups. One of the people I had sent a tape to was fellow collage artist Klarc Qent who went ahead and a tape to CD transfer for me. 30 of the 60 tracks made it to the self-titled CD and all 30 tracks were made available for free download via the now defunct IUMA. A few months later I did a 14 minute/500 artist montage track called Splice Up Your Life, that was originally intended for a "remix war" EP with noise artist Komafuzz that never came to fruition. So I took the track and released it as a limited edition 3" single (only 20 copies were made) and later included it on the QATTP EP
. It was around March of 2003 that I began work on the second album Easy Listening For The Hard Of Hearing which was finished 2 months later. More dialog laden and heavier on the puase edits I wanted this to be a bizzare Frankenstein-like creation and less plunderphonic song oriented. A few advanced copies were made and given away/traded. The master copy was also sent to Klarc Qent who agreed to do the tape transfer again. His copy included 6 tracks that were meant to be for a Klarc Qent/Jabberwocky split EP that, like before with Komafuzz, never materialized and is lost.
After a few months of waiting and excuse making from Qent I went ahead and recorded/released the Quick And To The Pointless EP. That release marked a milestone as it was recorded using Cool Edit Pro 2.0 software instead of cassette tapes. After more and more months of waiting patiently in silence from Klarc, Scott Chapman from Happy Scrappy:Hero Pup did the transfer. Easy Listening finally saw the light of day aftera year of delays in May 2004.
A few months later I decided to rig a freind's (Burt Reynoldswrap) Walkman to my PC and began work on mastering/revamping the 30 left over tracks from the 2002 sessions. Of the 30, only 22 were used (some of the pieces just outrighted sucked) so I went ahead and did some new tracks and used some pieces that were on various compilation CD's for the outtakes CD Home Cookin'. It was after that CD was released that I had a brainstorm of an idea for the next full legnth release, but more on that in a minute
In October 2004, I played my very first show at the 804 Noisefest. I played a short 20 minute set that was well recieved, although, I was a nervous wreck. Jabberwocky performances are very sporadic. So far I've only done 1 mini-tour, which was a 3 dayer, in North Carolina with O.N.E. and Projexorcism. Those shows and some at The Noisehouse were recorded for the live album, The Horniac Show. Inbetween working on material for the live shows, I had established a relationship with New York based label FDH Records to do a series of cassette only releases of improv called "The Spontaneous Tape Series". The tape series is different in that it's not the usual audio collage/plunderphonics.
I was also working on a CD that would be a complete 180 from previous efforts. A multi-layered audio collage concept album about war,sex and religeon called Eat Shit And Die. After 9 months of recording and tinkering it was finally released in November 2005. Personally, I thought it would never be finished or that I would be able to pull this idea off..
An EP entitled j. bLoW was set to be released in November 2006. Unfortunately the 2 completed tracks (and some snippets of tracks being worked on) were accidentally deleted without being saved onto any media format. It is now officially an unfinished/lost CD. Also unreleased/lost is Spontaneous Tapes 3 & 4. They were finished and sent off to FDH but for whatever reason didn't release them. I don't have master copies either.
On March 23, 2007 the announcement was made that the Jabberwocky project had been dissolved. In January 2009 another compilation entitled "4jabb" was released. It consists of Jabber's various compilation appearances, unreleased tracks, and 2 tracks from the lost j.bLoW EP".
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