Ballast NVP037, dead edits: dead edits presents dead edits, the dead edits dice game (aka deadzee)

 When Eric and I were talking at the end of 2020 about ideas for forthcoming dead edits releases, we landed very quickly on “dice game.”

 

This is the result. 

 

 

The game is essentially rolling dice to spell words (thanks, Canadians playing on their yachts in the 1930s!), although we suggest variants that encourage neologisms, exquisite corpses, and other ways of playing with language. Consider it an extension of the idea of recordings that encourage audience participation (lock grooves mutli-speed records, etc.).

 

Five scorecards are included.

 

The audio (c-16) is split up as follows:
side 1 is a study of tape warble accompanied by the sounds of Blake rolling dice and Eric finding words in the dice he rolled. Side 2 is Eric continuing to find words while Blake pronounces whatever "words" appear with a single roll of the nine die. Blake’s cat Em Dash makes some guest appearances.

 

Consider the recording a combination of Trista Tzara’s offer to write a poem by pulling words out of a hat, a field recording, vocabularyclept poetry, and sound poetry.

 

Edition of 16 signed and numbered copies. $30 ppd in the US—overseas, please get in touch for shipping.