Asmas
Bio
Norwich, UK. M. Andrews principally active as an instrumental improviser, songwriter, and poet; thus far Asmas has very much been a side-project for sporadic indulgence. This will change.
Members
Matthew Andrews
Gear
Asmas presents a VERY CRUEL DESIGN, a piece of apparatus comparable only to the thing from Kafka's 'In The Penal Colony', cOmInG sOoN to live use...
~THE INSUB REGISTRY~
a four-channel mixer combining...
1. a Macbook running loops generated from material produced and/or processed in PureData / Hydrogen / Audacity / Reaper / etc.
2. FM radio thru a dynamic mic
3. a metronome-cum-tone-generator thru a Boss DS-1, Big Muff, and Ashdown 'James LoMenzo' Bass Hyper Drive
4. bowed, battered, and prepared electric guitar thru a high-gain valve preamp (preparations include screwdrivers, Allen keys, springs, coins, slides, a hammer...)
For recording purposes this is supplemented or replaced-in-part by various other instruments (most notably double bass and synth) plus extensive use of contact microphones and found objects.
Discography
LATEST RELEASES:
Attendant Presumption
(31/05/2020)
1. The Profile of a Grain of Sand 03:59
2. (B) 04:13
3. Yr Conception of Ideology is The Problem (Reich Was Right) 03:14
4. (between) 04:28
5. A More Expedient Folly 06:44
6. (A) 05:10
(noise / harsh noise / industrial / sound collage / drone) https://sovietdistrict.bandcamp.com/album/attendant-presumption
[Digital only / U.S. Bail Fund fundraiser]
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The Insub Registry: First Outing
(29/05/2020)
1. Abject Humanism 21:39
2. Clepsydra 22:14
(noise / harsh noise / sound collage / generative) https://sovietdistrict.bandcamp.com/album/the-insub-registry-first-outing
[Cassette + Digital]
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LIVE NOISE / COMPUTER NOISE (25/05/2020)
1. The Square Root Of Minus One Is An Imperial Power 04:29
2. Magic Lantern But Not 08:18
3. Branding Kink 03:00
4. The Difference Between Two And Four Is A Two Neither Of Them Contain 07:32
5. Biopolitics Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does 06:30
6. Might As Well Use It 02:27
7. Ways Of Dog To Van 06:17
8. The Hosts Of This Gameshow Died In The Wrong Order 11:54
9. Vision-In-One 03:04
10. All Art Aspires To 06:14
(noise / harsh noise / EAI / free improvisation / computer music) https://sovietdistrict.bandcamp.com/album/live-noise-computer-noise
[CD-R + Digital]
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Immanent Soul-Train Classics For One
(21/05/2020)
1. 'Entropy' Pronounced 'Excitement' 03:19
2. The Temerity Of It 04:10
3. Volume Does Not Equal Intent 03:40
4. Roland Barthes Enjoys His Collection Of Polaroids 03:26
5. The Direction Of Appropriation Is Everything 06:29
6. Thinking Again About Miasma 04:13
7. Two For Two 05:30
8. For The Future (Just In Case) 02:13
(noise / harsh noise / HNW / drone / EAI / free improvisation) https://sovietdistrict.bandcamp.com/album/immanent-soul-train-classics-for-one
[Digital only]
Contact
soviet.district@aol.co.uk
