New - McClure, Bruce - Interval Band Selections - LP

"Interval Band Selections" transmits two recordings from Bruce McClure's October 11, 2019 performance at Cafe OTO, each utilizing one 16mm projector threaded with a film loop of a base frame set in emulsion, guitar fx pedals, and public address system.

"Bruce McClure has created a form of audio-visual practice that is almost unique in its intellectual fascination, while at the same time serving to render coherent thought almost impossible during the experience of it. In my book, that is quite a trick. All the most interesting art of the last one hundred years has worked by repurposing media improbably, to make us experience the world differently. McClure's use of film as a sound medium may have some links (with a differing intent) to Daphne Oram's 'Oramics' project, in which she painted sound onto 35mm film. But to put it better - if you take Guy Debord's 'Hurlements en Faveur de Sade,' Anthony McCall's light sculptures and Conlon Nancarrow's player piano works; and place them in a blender, you have something approximating what McClure has done with his projector works. The intersection of repetition, light and electronic sound in these works operates directly on that part of the brain where consciousness resides - it is psychedelic in the best way imaginable. While it is easy to understand why he has not released many documents of the audio aspect on its own - because of the inextricable relationship of mutual causality that defines the work as a whole, I can report that his second album 'Interval Band Selections' stands alone gloriously, awaiting the opportunity to short-circuit your synapses. McClure abjures practice as rehearsal in favour of practice as realtime experiential investigation of space and time. I applaud him." Bruce Russell, Lyttelton NZ, 2026

Mixed and mastered by Mike Sidnam. Screenprinted inner sleeves by Kathleen Norman. Edition of 100.