As you know, our 3rd issue PUNKS & Scholars publishes a mash-up of experimental writing as well as literary and curio objects. And since we’re duch DUM teases, we’ve been giving you a peek at a few of our Issue 3 objects since our debut on January 31st. Here’s our final installment, right before our festival-sized February 9 release party at Echo Country Outpost, by Rebekah Weikel. A publisher and project curator, she operates Penny-Ante Editions out of Los Angeles, and her contribution to DUM DUM Issue No. 3 is this lovely cassette recording.
A note from Rebekah: “Talking Hues” was an idea I had in 2012. This five-minute recording is merely a first consideration toward the idea, which was to explore my own psychological associations to color via audio recording. This rough outline was recorded in January 2013 and assembles (layers) six pieces with care for the color blue: four spoken vox tracks (2013), a segment from a tape recording I captured at a beach in Oxnard (1990), and a short piano piece sampled from a song released in 1990 by the band Spleen Ideal, a duo active in the late ’80s and ’90s which consisted of Marc Collin and french composer Xavier Jamaux.
You can touch, see, hear, feel, smell the object Rebecca created for Issue 3 if you grab a copy from our spankin’ new online store, or if you’re local, stop by our release party in Echo Park this Saturday to rummage through our box.