Doseone

One artist that has inspired me with his use of analogue sound recording is Doseone, an underground Hip-Hop artist and poet affiliated with the Anticon collective.

"anticon is a collectively owned record label dedicated to scrounging up quiet ideas and tiny epiphanies wherever they might be found. To this end, we make up poems, sing raps, lift drums, and invent albums. So that we might do the impossible and make a living out of following our curiosities, we mass produce our music, pin price tags to its shrink-wrapped surface, and float it out into the world." - Taken from www.anticon.com

Doseone's album, The Pelt (2003) , is the biggest influence in terms of my current project. It is a release that constituted of a book and a CD containing poetry and stories. The CD corresponds to the book and is designed to be listened together. The audio is made of Lo-Fi style tape recordings, utilising the various qualities that tape can offer, such as speeding up, slowing down, tape hiss etc. I like the fact that Doseone uses his method of working as a device to enhance the audio experience, it feels as if it is a personal recording which the listener has stumbled upon. This is the effect I intend to create in my installation, as if the spectator is eavesdropping on a personal conversation. I think that this will enhance the immersion of the audience into the piece, making it seem like a real life event, rather than a staged performance.

An MP3 from The Pelt can be played on the player below: