SonicAnta: EYE DEARS

Tucson's last regular source for solid news about immigration and the border, The Arizona Daily Star, reported today that the border wall averaged $3.9 million per mile.

Now that is one expensive instrument folks.

I wonder what else could have been done with all that money...

"The 140 miles of pedestrian fencing put up under the Secure Border Initiative prior to Oct. 31 of last year cost an average of $3.9 million per mile with costs ranging from $400,000 to $15.1 million a mile, a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday found."

"That per-mile average is more than the $3 million estimated by the Congressional Budget Office in August 2006 and much more than the $2.2 million estimated by the Senate used during the immigration reform debate that same year."

"Even the highest estimate at the time, $3.2 million per mile from U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., ended up being too low. " --- Arizona Daily Star, Brady McCombs 1/30/09

Gung Hei Fat Choy.

Gentle winter rains have returned to the desert, laying the groundwork for the coming season of wildflowers.

As a New Year's gift to you, I've posted a track of rain falling upon a tin porch roof and interacts with other random objects"HERE"
This track allows the patterns of the rain to dictate the tempo and tones.

As clouds arrive and pass the tones alter accordingly.

This track will also appear in an extended work later this year.

More can be found at: www.glennweyant.com

If an airduct drones in the heart of Tucson's semi-abandoned El Con Mall and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Wonder no more.

Sound answers to the questions that vex one's soul in the tawdry hours of dawn await at: www.glennweyant.com
Be. Hear. Now.

SonicAnta launched a subtext site today at:www.glennweyant.com
More a flog of the mental slog than a traditional blog,www.glennweyant.com will be a repository of unique content and further more ranging beyond the scope of SonicAnta.

Plus you will get a chance to weigh-in and help drive this beast forward.

Will this lead the way down some new twisty, windy paths?

Dunno.

But not to worry.

SonicAnta will still be the home of the sonically depraved, offering all the usual aural goodies and doodads you've come to expect and deserve.

So stay tuned and hope to see you there.

And here.

New sounds"HERE."

On Thursday December 11, (fourty-five years to the day that I was first slapped into this existence in Hackensack, New Jersey), I’ll be celebrating my seminal birth milestone by bowing steel in Tucson, Arizona at The Loft Cinema.

The 20-minute set will be part of The 6th Annual All Souls International Film Festival which is a two day event exploring death and rebirth via cinema.

For this event I'll be working with some new instruments, a short circuiting shortwave radio, and prepared sound samples.

Video artist, event coordinator and psychograper extraordinaire Adam Cooper-Teran will be adding his unique vision to the live soundscape with a wall of images and visual delights.

If you are not familiar with Adam’s work, I’ll let his images speak for themselves rather than clutter it up with words: "ANTRAL.NET"
I’m looking forward to finding out where our visual soundscape collaboration morphs to.

Working with Adam is an honor and perhaps best of all for those who will be attending, the audience will be able to take this all in on The Loft’s sprawling vintage movie screen.

More details about event can be found at: "THE LOFT"
The Gearwire Tapes
Recently I was turned on to www.gearwire.com and the work of reporter Gretchen Hasse who I had the pleasure to speak with about The Anta Project last month.

Gearwire.com is a fantastic repository of mostly video gear tips, techniques and interviews.

The four-part series Gretchen produced on The Anta Project takes a look at the hardware I used to create the work so now there’s really no reason for you not to can get out there and play the world.

But perhaps best of all the interview was done via the phone, so I sound a bit like The Central Scrutinizer which is wonderfully appropriate for this new age of Homeland Security.

The White Zone is for loading and unloading only indeed.

The full series links:
1. http://www.gearwire.com/sony-icdp520-review.html 2. http://www.gearwire.com/dod-fx80b-review.html 3. http://www.gearwire.com/korg-cm100l-review.html 4. http://www.gearwire.com/schaller-oysterpickup-review.html

Chicago bound whirlwind has abated.

A wonderful time and much to pass on.

Geologically The Chicago Calling Arts Festival was the bedrock.

In a burst of three degrees of separation, it appeared everyone has a connection to Dan Godston, the event's key coordinator and meteor trumpeter.

Via Dan a gig was put together on the evening of October 8 at The Peter Jones Gallery, a dynamic creative space with random stadium seating.

That gig paired myself with legendary Springboard designer Eric Leonardson and concussion percussion extrapolation experimenter Matt Weston.

Lumped into that group was a creature called the Artbot run by Michael Erzen which painted images based on our improvised sounds.

You can download that set in three parts HERE.
Be sure to note the occasional passings of the EL racing by.

October 9 brought me to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a presentation about The Anta Project with Eric’s class.

Afterwards I had a chance to sit in on a session by Eric teaching the finer points of building contact mics.

Great stuff and a whole new generation being set free with sounds and instruments of their own design.

Over the next two days gears were shifted as The Anta Project took root at Chicago Public Radio’s Third Coast International Audio Festival as an installation.

Many conversations and connections via The Anta Project with radio producers from around the globe, informative sessions, free beer and a bit a radio celebrity gawking.

Riding the elevator with Noah Adams talking about Stan Freberg, being asked by the Kitchen Sister’s 'So how exactly do you play the border?' and meeting with Jane Feltes of This American Life (Hey, isn't that Ira Glass?) were all highlights.

But so too was the open bar on the first night.

A great selection of cold beer and appetizers.

And just in case you might wonder what a couple hundred radio people in an acoustically twisted room with an open bar sound like: LISTEN HERE.
With so many talking, I was only too happy to listen.

Now you can too.

Stay tuned,
Glenn

A fun article about "THE RAIL" appears in the fall edition of Signal-to-Noise ~ The Quarterly Journal of Improvised, Experimental and Unusual Music.
There are also some wonderful articles about Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Memorial Band, the various summer festivals and the D.C. scene unseen in the same issue.

So if you get a chance pick up a copy.

STN is always an enjoyable read.

Seven Black Angles is a feedback collaboration between myself, Barry Chabala, Matt Sekel and Mike Yarrish, three musicians and sonic experimenters whose work I admire greatly.

For this work all participants utilized feedback generated through unique methods to create four separate "seed" tracks which were then remixed, manipulated and edited by each musician to create four separate sonic outcomes.

Barry's original track was created with laptop, mic and speakers.

Matt's original track was created with processed guitar and effects.

Mike's original track was created with no-input feedback and electronic effects amplified.

My contribution was generated by an instrument of original design (FeedForward aka: Spokes and Sound) and pump organ.

The parameters for this project were as follows:

1. Each musician recorded a feedback "seed" track then made it available to the other participants.

2. Each participant then collected the tracks, manipulated and responded to them.

Seven Black Angles is my vision of the final mix.

Matt's piece titled: "Feedback4Quartet" and Mike's piece titled: "New Machines Not Safe" can be found HERE.

Barry's piece titled: "new, improved lowfat eric" can be found HERE.

Thank you, as always, for listening. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hope you enjoy these visuals for Sonoran Sound Work #18, created with bowed saguaro bones, insects, planes and wind.

This segment was recorded on 08-08-08.

Stay tuned for further more.

Some of the search terms that drive people to SonicAnta rise from the depths of obtuse connections.

Not sure why these connections are made.

Imagine winding up here while looking for research on oyster drones.

Navras indeed...

Goose Mystic Mocking Birds Written by: Electronic Searchers
Compiled by: Glenn Weyant
crowd station
goose mystic
lacking
thunderlight vegetation

metal boundary
wall designs
nail pedal organ
pigeons

wall harp
mystics mocking
bird squid head
howling

free porn
high massed walls
austrian redbug
oyster drones

divine wisdom
electric dears
scrap designs
downloaded

sex dungarees
desperation
pink gorilla
masturbation

sounds grow
india decays
in lava
summer's heat

vintage radios
water towers
a desert tree
unearthed

wind harps
woodgrain bikes
who invited
this navras
electric fan

I can't help but wonder if Senator Obama heard King David's Wall calling.
~See the video below for more.~

Now how about a similar speech on the U.S./ Mexico border...

From ABC News, July 25:

Senator Obama challenged a new generation of Americans and Europeans to tear down walls between estranged allies, races, and faiths in a soaring call for global unity at an unprecedented mass campaign rally overnight.

The Democratic White House candidate told tens of thousands of people near the footprint of the old Berlin Wall that humanity faced a perilous turning point, and it was time to build "a world that stands as one."

Senator Obama's speech was a clear echo of former US president Ronald Reagan's call to then Soviet leader Mikhael Gorbachev in Berlin in 1987 to "tear down this wall," before the fall of Communism.

"People of the world -- look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one," he said.

Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor were in town this week from Australia as part of a three day trip along the US/Mexico border.

From California through Arizona they've been checking out and playing some of the newly built walls and fences that separate the two countries.

If you have not had a chance to check out their workyou should.
From Hollis' spot-on transcriptions of bird song and fence music, to Jon's passion for violins and pretty much all things bowed, it is worth the trip and time.

On the second day they were here, Jon and I set out for Sasabe, a sleepy port of entry town in Southern Arizona, to explore the sonic possibilities.

Two years ago I'd played some of the barbed wire fences, migrant water jugs, shrines and other ephemera in the area as part of The Anta Project.

Returning two years later, it was odd to see how much has changed in that period of time (See the photos Jon took of the old fencing that still stands in Mexcio and the new wall).

Where ocotillo posts, mattress coils, hundred year old train rails and barbed wire once delineated the border, a sprawling wall of steel columns and so-called "virtual fences" have sprung up.
While it's questionable how long those structures will last or how effective they will be at keeping people out, it was clear the new wall can make some elegant music.

Tunneling, ladders, hack saws, or simply walking around the locations where the wall terminates seem to be some kinks they still need to work out.

Personally, I can think of no better way to celebrate freedom as an American on this Fourth of July weekend than traveling the Arizona outback, conversing with Homeland Security checkpoint guards armed with Geiger counters, getting pointers on the fine art of fence bowing, meeting the people who are walling in the country, banging on some imported steel, improvising with hovering Border Patrol helicopters and basking in the beauty that is the Sonoran Desert.

Till again, stay tuned and let freedom ring.

Glenn

~~ And yes, I now know traveling is spelled with only one L. Everyone's an editor these days. Yeesch! ~~

Tired of baking in the summer heat?

Then SonicAnta's got just the cooling relief your fevered mind is craving.

Thanks to an unprecedented and historic joint collaboration between SonicAnta and The Two Sun Sin Phony Orgestra, for a limited time you are now invited to join The Tucson Electric Fan Appreciation Society (T.E.F.A.S.)

Membership includes a T.E.F.A.S. Certificate of Membership suitable for framing, and a copy of Electric Fan Sound Works, a thirty minute odyssey into white noise and beyond.

This recording was created by mic-ing and recording an oscillating Honeywell electric fan with a variety of microphones strategically placed to "play-up" the fan's assorted tones, drones and nuances.

Those tracks were then processed and mixed into a single work which best represents an immersive electric fan event.
It is the hope of The Tucson Electric Fan Appreciation Society (T.E.F.A.S.) that this recording will open the door to your own personal discoveries, observations and enjoyment of the fans swirling around you everyday.

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And as an added incentive, if you order today, an additional mystery disc will be included at no additional charge.

So dim the lights, find a cool comfortable place, ideally between two speakers, breathe deep and enjoy the fan.

(Note: This recording is also being issued as part of the SonicAnta D-Construction Series. Subscribers to the series receive the disc and automatic acceptance into the T.E.F.A.S. at no extra charge.)

A new instrument was born this week.





























A low rez poor quality clip here for now...
http://www.sonicanta.com/music-62.html Stay tuned for further more.

For those of you who may have missed it, David Byrne of Talking Heads fame has been doing some wonderfully innovative work in challenging perceptions about what is music, noise and/or an instrument.

Recently a video of him playing a building in NYC with a modified pump organ was posted on boing-boing and youtube (see below).

What I found intriguing, almost more so than the work itself, was the so-called "controversy" about whether it was music or noise.

Nothing new in the "you call that art?" argument of course.

It's been around since the first cave person banged out a beat on a hollow log.

"What you call that music? My cave kid can do that."

Then BAM! the clubs came out and another step in our collective de-evolution was underway.

Deeply seeing, hearing and being has never been for everyone.

That's why Shiva invented ear plugs and blinders.

But when someone named pascodedhed emailed me asking: "Why don't you record yourself taking a shit and call that music?"

It got me to thinking: "Now there's an eye dear."

Mic-ing a bathroom then broadcasting it live into a gallery space (and vice-versa) might have possibility.

Of course the installation would have to be done in Flushing Meadows.

Anyhow, kudos to David for trying to open some ears.

Be sure to check out the video. It's worth the eye time.

And who knows, maybe we can figure out a way to bring that organ to the US/Mexico border and install it on the wall some day?

Now wouldn't that be something...

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A Live Concert Review

Where: Tucson, Arizona, USA
Time: Noon
Date: 5/21/08

I'm sitting out back sipping tea in the tree shade for this outdoor show and I've gotta say this is one outstanding performance.

Temps are already over 90 and these north-eastern-southern-westerly winds are flowing through in bone shaking gusts.

Every wind chime for miles around is clanging in a Mad Hatter spoon-against-the-tea-pot kind of way.

But does that deter the mocking birds from their mission of predation and fornication and song?

Not at all.

In fact they seem to thrive on these winds that could make a musician contemplate taking a screw driver to his or her favorite instrument and mutating it in some desired fashion with hardware store wires and a handful of sound springs.

A dust devil at least 300 feet high, or so it seems, swirls into form and lifts trash and dust and dried flowers high to the point of disappearing over neighbors walls and fences.

With the natural world in motion the unnatural world abides.

The main road traffic sounds transform into oceanic waves, crashing and rumbling.

Occasional jet engines strain for control, a symphony of bowed exertions.

Hard to say if this is even the first or second set anymore.

Seems to be an ongoing affair.

A forever concert.

Somewhere a cricket in the oleanders applauds.

A dog howl follows and the feral neighborhood rooster crows.

I want to hold up my lighter but am afraid the whole place will go up in flames.

Hopefully someone is taping this.

What is the sound of one foot clapping?

In 2006 Phil Hargreaves and I released: FRIDAY MORNING EVERYWHERE.
OILAL is a track from that recording.

Initially OILAL had been about twenty minutes or so in length after I'd stretched Phil's vocals into the vortex.

Eventually we wound up cutting it down to about four minutes, but someday I hope the whole thing will see light of day.

OILAL has a strange vibe.

Anyway, Phil recently sent over some images from Liverpool, England and I blended them with some footage from Tucson, USA.

The result I thought was suitably strange for OILAL.

Enjoy.

1. WALL-TUNG DRUM 2. WALL PIANO 3. WALL-WIND HARP 4. WALL-A-PHONE
Two years ago this May, The Anta Project was born.

I wish I could say I knew the moment I applied my cello bow to the Nogales wall and drew those first raspy drones that a global transformation of the US/Mexico border was underway.

But I honestly hadn't a clue.

I simply thought it would be an interesting experiment to embark upon.

Could a symbol of division be transformed into an instrument whose sound was capable of creating unity and awareness while challenging our ideas about borders and identity?

It was a mystery at the time, but today, with listeners from roughly 100 countries having downloaded roughly 100 gigs of sound and images I'm pretty confident it is working.

On a personal note, I have been fortunate to meet many wonderful people via The Anta Project who have generously shared their ideas, comments and support.

I've also found myself immersed in some rewawrding collaborative endeavors and it has all been very humbling.

While I could go on forever, I want to focus on my two year collaboration with Nogales, Sonora artists Alberto Morackis and Guadalupe Serrano from
Murales Frontera.
We met in Tucson shortly after The Anta Project was released, and Alberto and Guadalupe said they were interested in my ideas about transforming the border into an instrument since they were doing something similar with sculpture.

I asked them if they would want to try blending our interests by building an oversized "wall piano" or kalimba which could be affixed directly to the Mexico side of the wall.

At the time we first met we also had high aspirations for creating an international arts event on both sides of the border.

Alberto, Guadalupe and I discussed the potential economic opportunities an international art event would create for the communities on both sides of the border.

We also talked about it being an opportunity to change the incorrect perception that Nogales is a place with little more to offer other than human smuggling, drugs and day tourism.

We met with Casa de Cultura in Nogales, Sonora and I presented them with a detailed and perhaps overly ambitious proposal for an event that included music, art, interactive events and performance.

Sadly for various reasons, both political and economic, the event did not take place.

This year the process was once again put into play and a couple of meetings in Tucson and Nogales yielded more ideas and people interested in participating.

At the center of this "event" has been the core idea of building a handful of oversized instruments and attaching them to the Mexico side of the wall, transforming it physically into a sprawling resonator.

Whether an event in October takes place or not is still not known.

As a guerilla sound artist, I do what I want on my own budget, which is often minimal at best.

Because I can work cheaply, grants and other funding sources have never impacted my ability to create or take action.

I use whatever materials and tools are available.

The world is my instrument and I love working with junk and found objects.

And in this freedom I credit The Anta Project's success.

However, building a sculpture and launching an event around it which would require funding with many hands in the pie was/is something alien to me.

Today I was pleased to learn from Alberto via email that he and Guadalupe have decided to go ahead with my designs (Also a huge design shout-out should go toPadma Sound System sound pioneer Lewis Humphreys/ Yeshe Dorje for his stellar thoughts about building a wall-wind harp).

Below and above are links to the sketches so far.

As anyone who works with metal knows, prototypes require some trial and error.

So I'm sure this will be an organic process.

There is work to be done but I think we're off and running.

I look forward to see where Alberto and Guadalupe take this next.

If you are interested in building similar instruments on the walls where you live, contact me via email and I'll be happy to collaborate/share details.

Now further into year three!

What will be?

Stay tuned and in touch.

Glenn

1. WALL-TUNG DRUM 2. WALL PIANO 3. WALL-WIND HARP 4. WALL-A-PHONE

Time has sped up again in a swirl of passing images, sounds and sensations.

Summer's heat is not far away and the desert knows it.

Spring winds blow incessantly.

Bird's mate, hatch from eggs and commit fratricide all in the name of progress, filling first light with a manic dawn chorus.

The new growth from winter rain is drying out, dispersing next generation seeds for the monsoon waters to expand.

And in this time I'm floating.

The trip north to Flagstaff earlier this month for the RMCLAS conference cleansed the mind and lungs of dust and lethargy.

It was wonderful to meet so many good people with fresh ideas and enthusiasm for the transformation and exploration of borders and human dynamics.
But there were volcanoes there too.

Places where black lava lay in frozen waves near the remains of ancient homes built from mud and stone.

To the north, in a solitary place along the rim of the vast crevasse that is the Grand Canyon, a perfect place to lay and listen with closed eyes was discovered.

Cool breezes rising up from the depths and mingling with the pines led to a cathartic nap beneath the midday sun. Awakening reborn to the creaking flutters of passing ravens was just the soulful rejuvenation I needed.

If all goes according to plan --- And what ever does? --- the coming months may bring some interesting announcements, collaborations and assorted doings.

Should be fun.

But till then, stay tuned and in touch.

Anta Blog
My name is Glenn Weyant.

I am a self-Googler.

Like masturbation or drinking alone, self-Google-ing and discussion of it's merits is often frowned upon in polite society.

It'll make you blind.

You'll grow horns and hairy palms.

And so on.

Yet we all do it from time-to-time.

And those who claim they don't are often the ones who do it most of all.

But I digress as usual.

One upside to self-Google-ing is the discovery of new and wonderful sites.

Here are a few blogs worth a repeated look.

PROVISIONS
From time-to-time The Anta Project receives a blog mention.

It is always an honor to learn that someone has found value in The Anta Project.

Especially from one such as Signal Fire.

Signal Fire: A Blog For The Arts of Social Change is the blog of Provisions, a social change learning resource that amplifies compelling voices that challenge and redefine the mainstream.

Defiantly favorites-worthy.
BORDERLORE
BorderLore is the blog of Maribel Alvarez, a University of Arizona professor and social scientist who is also the author of the always informative and occasionally irreverent BorderLore newsletter.

I've been fortunate to meet with Maribel a couple of times and she is incredibly supportive and knowledgeable about arts, activism and politics.

(Are they really three separate categories?)

Be sure to check out her recent entry about the latest comic book release of Migrantes!

TUCSON QUERIDO
Want to know more about things to do in Arizona from the perspective of someone who is doing them?

Then Tucson Querido is worth a visit.

As the author notes: "What makes this blog special? It's a great guide to Tucson because it provides "reviews" that have nothing to do with money, advertising or tourism councils. It's written and photographed mostly out of my love and fascination for these places."

STARTLING MONIKER
I've mentioned It's Too Damn Early, DaveX's weekly experimental radio program originating in Southern Illinois as must-hear.

I should have also mentioned Startling Moniker as a must-read resource if you are interested in music, noise, sound and all the permutations.

Where else are you going to hear and read about set lists that have the makings of a Bill Burroughs haiku?

Eight Frozen Modules,
Wondrous Horse.
Lexaunculpt Squid,
Arcane Fist.

D-Construction Series: April Installment ~ The Sea of Cortex
For those of you who have subscribed to the Sonicanta D-construction Series, April's installment (The Sea of Cortex) should be in the mail on the 28th.

The Sea of Cortex is a selection of works drawn from two year's worth of sonic experiments.

Heavily processed ambient tracks are layered beside raw, one-take journeys.

Over thirty sound sources (AND NO SYNTHESIZERS!) contributed to these tracks including: The Blu-Blu, Kestrel 920, prepared guitar, piano, steel cans and drums, assorted wires, feedback, radio signals, horns, tapes, bells and a cast of lost and found objects.

At this point selections will not be made available as downloads for logistics reasons.

But not to fear, with the May installment the download sample tradition should resume in full.

The Point Of Power
A new Power Point PDF about The Anta Project from RMCLAS has been uploaded.

The PDF version lacks the sounds etc. that the Power Point includes, however, it should hopefully give you some idea of the where this has been and where it is headed.

4/08 PPT UPDATE

Then you must be built upside down...

So the winter rains brought a bounty of wildflowers, but the recent dry winds have been whiping up a toxic stew of dust and pollen that has left me feeling like an extra on the set of Scanners.

(Check out the accompanying photo of my boots after a recent hike for pollen details).

Sure, one or two good sneezes can be cathartic.

But five or six in a row, repeatedly, seems to bring on an interesting form of madness.

On the upside, I have been noticing a few musical hallucinations creeping in with each nasal explosion.

Of course they may just be a byproduct of having read Oliver Sacks' new book: Musicophilia.

Hard to say.

Anyway through this fog a few pecked notes:

In The Blog
The Anta Project had a fun mention on Deputy Dog this week.

The desert sonic excursion was juxtaposed by DaveX (professional, licensed raconteur) with Terje Isungset’s wonderful frozen sound work: Iceman Is.


All the details can be found at: Deputy-Dog.com.
D-Construction Update
The first installment of the D-Construction Series has hit the postal by-ways. Everyone who subscribed should be receiving two discs (the scheduled release and a bonus mystery disc) via Priority Mail at their doorstep. Next month's discs and ephemera should be hit the skies on April 29.

Flagstaff Bound
This Saturday, April 12, if you happen to be in Flagstaff, be sure to stop by and say hello.

I'll be at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 2008 Conference where the weekend lineup of presentations looks outstanding.

The Anta Project presentation will be part of a Saturday session titled: Borders, Fences, and Immigration Policies.

Details are below. Hope to see you there.

Borders, Fences, and Immigration Policies
Chair: Glenn Weyant (Anta Project)

1. Riley Merline (University of Arizona), “A Century of Border Fence Construction and Community Transformation: Ambos Nogales, 1898-1998”

2. Prescott Vandervoet (University of Arizona), “Los peligros del desierto: víboras, alacranes, y coyotes”

3. Larman C. Wilson (American University, Emeritus), “The Death of the Senate’s 2007 Immigration Reform Bill: A Post Mortem”

4. Glenn Weyant (Anta Project), “A Look at the Transformation and Deconstruction of the United State Border Wall in Nogales, Arizona, Symbolically, Metaphorically and Literally via Art and Educational Narrative”

Howdy folks,

Spring has arrived in the Sonoran Desert once again, buoyed upon shifting waves of crazy Oz-woven wild flower quilts in techni-color cartoon brillance.

To celebrate, I've posted three new downloads built with radio signals, a wheezing perfectly-out-of-tune pump organ from roughly 1900, birds, trains, wind, piano and found objects percussed and manipulated for your aural consideration HERE (The March O Ate Constructions).

The lo-fidelity clips are culled from extended hi-fidelity tracks featured in this month's installment of the SonicAnta D-Construction Sound Subscription Series.

"Great blistering barnacles!" I hear some of you exclaim, spewing smoke and fire from your ears. "What in the name of this great tarnished nation is the SonicAnta D-Construction Sound Subscription Series?"

Well, I'm glad you asked....

For a single installment of just $50, subscribers to the SonicAnta D-Construction Sound Series receive 10 audio discs over a twelve month period (roughly one a month, sometimes more) featuring hi-fidelity full-length constructions of the excerpts posted, plus material found nowhere else.

That works out to $5 (or less) per disc.

But perhaps best of all, these discs will not be offered anywhere else or ever again through the series, making them instantly collectable.

But if collectible discs delivered almost monthly to your front door sounds too good to be true, then let me put on my best latex Ron Popeil mask to state: "But wait. There's MORE!"

Sure, these discs may not slice, dice or Julian Salad very well, but subscribers will also enjoy occasional random bonus material goodies with each mailing such as additional discs, dvds, paperback books, a semi-regular newsletter (The SonicAnta Trans-Border Flyer), original images and other etcetera and ephemera.

So what do you say?

Ready to take the plunge and help support independent sound exploration while getting some of the finest sonic ear candy found nowhere else?

You are?

Well then you better hold on to your eyeballs because... yep you guessed it... THERE'S EVEN MORE!

That's right, subscribe today and you will receive as a special thank you, the full, 56 minute March O Ate Construction as your first installment plus a very special mystery bonus disc.

Okay so what are you waiting for?

You get the discs, the schwag, and the simple joy of getting unexpected stuff in the mail each month.

Not to mention that as the dollar continues to plummet your investment in SonicAnta can only grow over time.

Subscribe to the SonicAnta D-Construction Series.
Till again, stay tuned and listen deep.

Glenn

Another installment in the latest video series: Work For Prepared Guitar And Assorted Flowers.

Enjoy.

The Ever Expanding List Of Countries And Assorted Entities Tuned In
As many of you already know, The Anta Project/SonicAnta is being embraced by listeners globally.

From what I can tell, it is mostly a "viral" expansion from one person to the next.

Watching this project grow without the shackles of corporate backing and with minimal financial investment has been very gratifying.

Thank you for tuning in and spreading the word.

The farther this goes the closer we get. Tag: You're IT.


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