WHITE DEATH
Whitescapes
1
Not a place of fluids, organs, muscles, tendons and bones all in a constant, precarious and living tension with each other, but a vacant, hollow, whited chamber, scraped clean, cleared of any evidence of the grotesque embarrassments of an actual life. No smells, no noises, no colour; no changing from one state to another and the uncertainty that comes with it; no exchanges with the outside world and the doubt and the dirt that goes with that; no eating, no drinking, no pissing, no shitting, no sucking, no fucking, no nothing.
David Batchelor
2
And ‘white’ appears. Absolute white. White beyond all whiteness. White of the coming of white. White without compromise, through exclusion, through total eradication of non-white. Insane, enraged white, screaming with whiteness. Fanatical, furious, riddling the victim. Horrible electric white, implacable, murderous. White in bursts of white. God of ‘white.’ No, not a god, a howler monkey. (Let's hope my cells don't blow apart.) End of white. I have the feeling that for a long time to come white is going to have something excessive for me.
Henri Michaux
This release includes improvisations performed during a residency at the Worm/Klangendum synthesiser archive and sound studio in Rotterdam. These were subsequently developed further in a performance at Tranzit Gallery, Bucharest.
GLACIAL ERRATIC (2017)
Risograph print and download (tour release)
The first recordings from the second age of White Death, with flute and analogue synth
MYTH AND MANEATER (2010)
Cassette (Rayon, France/UK)
Clarinet and flute improvisations on the first White Death collaboration. These recordings have their roots in a 2008 tour through France and Spain, when Jones’s band, Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, and my own, Helhesten, performed as one group. (A recording from this tour, of Jones and myself with Rob Lye from tourmates Chora on soprano sax, was later released under the name The Darkness in Concrete.)