Larynx, by Lary 7

Larynx

by Lary 7

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1.	DEGAUSSER 01:08	buy track
2.	TEA CUP 02:58	buy track
3.	CONCRETOTRON BALLROOM 04:26	buy track
4.	XYLO 01:40	buy track
5.	CLOCK STUDY (for Michael) 03:12	buy track
6.	PENDULUM (for Alvin) 03:30	buy track
7.	COCOA TINS 02:44	buy track
8.	CLOCKS/BELLS 02:55	buy track
9.	TINITUS 04:31	buy track
10.	1956 01:22	buy track
11.	MECHANO-BLEEP 05:10	buy track
12.	DESERT 06:12	buy track
13.	SELF MOLESTATION (concretizer opera) 09:05	buy track
14.	LARYNGITIS 03:45	buy track
15.	STRONG DARK SAUCE 00:14	buy track

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Recorded in Lary 7’s legendary apartment studio Plastikville over nearly a decade, Larynx is the first full-length retrospective of the East Village icon’s hybrid music and engineering practice. The record mobilizes 7’s array of homemade instruments, which he ‘frankensteins’ together from offcast and outmoded bits of technology. An ode to the long-lost Canal Street junk shops he frequented in the 1970s and ’80s, Larynx brings together numerous thrift finds and sonic inventions used in his theatrical performances and installations.

To play “le concretotron,” a board covered with twenty years worth of unspooled magnetic tape, 7 runs a tape head topographically over the flattened strips, picking up snippets of their recorded contents. The spring tree, another of his contraptions, is simply turned on and left to its own devices; feedback loops cause the amplified coils to resound in space and slowly increase in volume. The track “Mechano-Bleep” features a pattern generator constructed from a telephone sequence switch, 150 oscillators from an electric accordion, a sewing machine motor, and an early computing system called a “select-a-board.” Meanwhile, antiquated electronic instruments abound—7 employs the Ondioline, a precursor to the synthesizer; a Philicorda organ; and a homemade Trautonium, among other gadgets.

Following Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Raymond Scott of Manhattan Research, 7 adopts a painstaking editing process that is entirely analogue. With lacquer cut directly from reel-to-reel and mastered by Paul Gold, Larynx is, in 7’s words, “the sound of the twentieth century going haywire.”

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released May 19, 2023

Recorded at Plastikville
Mastered by Paul Gold
Photographs by Lary 7
Design by Alec Mapes-Frances

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