Asemic Manuscripts inspired by "Meanderings" by Dylan Houser

1/7/2019

Hi y'all,
I just purchased Dylan Houser's Album Meanderings from Dylan's Bandcamp page.
Please click below to enjoy Meanderings.

I decided to do the review of Dylan's Album in an art/writing style called Asemic Manuscripts. Each song for me holds a unique feel and a continuity as a whole to the other songs. Over the last few days I did each piece, in various places, finishing up doing "Queen Spider" and "Sunset Beach" at a laundromat in Saint Pete.

Vela

Queen Spider

I enjoy doing art in normal public spaces vs. the confines of my bedroom. Each piece moved me in a different way. My favourite song off the album is "Queen Spider". My second fave is "Sunset Beach". Meanderings is a really tight album. I was moved and surprised. To me when I think of Noise in the genre that some of us play in, Dylan comes to mind first as hard and heavy. Then Hal Harmon next.

Loduten

Sunset Beach

Meanderings was in parts very elegant and beautiful. It added to the picture I have of Dylan doing what Dylan does. There may be another write up on this album...but..at the present moment I am still pondering on the sounds Dylan created. Don't take my words on it. I drew how I felt. Please go and slip on head phones..(my fave way to enjoy music) meditate on the Asemic Manuscripts and enjoy.

Meanderings album artwork on Bandcamp

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penny grune-fae

Name: Penelope Rebecca “Penny”

Born: Shreveport, Louisiana
Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida
Formerly: Massachusetts, Rhode Island

Present Music Project: Penny Grune-Fae

Sound, it fascinates me, haunts me, and moves me. My entire life has been the exploration, application, and pursuit of sounds.

One question people have asked me over the last three years of my life in regards to my Experimental Music / Anti-Music creations is, “How long have u been doing this?” My heartfelt answer... as long as I have been alive. Until three years ago I just did not know what I was doing was part of a movement, community, or “A Thing” I just thought it was what it was, Having fun creating. I knew of Cage, Dada, Eno, Glass, and others. There are a few people I have come to know and respect in the Experimental Community that can tell us the entire family tree of a gazillion artists, their relationships to what we do and how it all got to here. That was never me. I am constantly learning.

It was about three years ago when I started focusing on penny music: taking down my sketchbooks, notebooks, napkins and started to see how it led me here. When I was younger, I made tape loops, tape manipulation on reel to reel tape recorder, captured field recordings, created soundscape recordings, did weird things to my percussion gear, and built contraptions to play with on stage because why not! I wanted to see how they would sound and how I could apply them to whatever music project I was working on at that time in my life.

I never knew all of this was really a thing. It was just fun.

Origin Point:
I was at a place called the Venture Compound, supporting a friend's project and started hearing and seeing some incredible shows. I started hanging out and meeting these creative people. I felt a connection to what they were doing and who they are. I felt a part of something bigger than me. I felt I could maybe belong. Then I saw SPNF, Pre-Inc and other insane shows. Mind Blown!!! Then one day I was looking up Mail-Art sites and came across Hal McGee and then I saw some of the same people who I
met on his YouTube account performing. Connections to Connections, like how a tree is connected to her roots, branches, leaves, ground and all that earthy nature stuff (LOL)

I grew as I was challenged. I wanted to create something my own. I started playing a few collaborations alongside people that were already actively creating. During this time I was doing poetry, playing drums, and trying to support others. I was asked one day if I wanted my own set. I said yes!

This is where Penny Grune-Fae evolved from. My first solo set was made of contradicting sounds mixed
into a soundscape. I used 4 mp3 players because they were cheaper than 4 Micro-Cassette Recorders. I saw Hal McGee's Dictaphonia Fest. That is where I wanted to start. That sounded so wicked Rad!!! The pursuit sounds and combining sound together. I started searching for Microcassette Recorders... man they were expensive though!! Mp3 players. So I got four, a mixer, did some insane research on pedals, bought some and started creating. I played my first set...it worked... it freaking worked!! People liked it. I
even liked it...LOL...I am, constantly hard on my self. Later that night, a few people compared me to
others out there who have been doing something like I just did... just with different gear... and professional as I said... I did not know it was a thing. I was asked to play other shows, met more killer people and I started to grow more. LOL... Since the start of this leg of adventure I now have one Micro-
cassette only 3 more to go...LOL... Hal McGee turned me on to another recording device, but that will be another story.

While there was an entire universe of experimental musicians doing their art I was growing through it.
When I was younger I was raised in the church. OOOOOH no!! not religion... Yup... LOL... In that time
of my life, I was given the choice to sit with my folks or go sit in the sound booth and learn sound. I choose to learn sound. During that time I also learned how to run lights, do spots, fixed stuff when it broke build stages, build instruments, program light boards, lay lots of duct tape, and get electrocuted, I was hungry to learn. I also choose to do technical support first before I had spots on me. I wanted to lift others up rather than just be "Look at me". I learned so much during that time, and I feel I am a better musician for it.

Percussion: I love drumming, I have been having a relationship with drums my entire life. From my Mum's heartbeat to playing pots and pans on my Mum's floor to doing some touring I have been
drumming. My foundation as a percussionist has greatly added to what I have been creating.

Other points of Interest that I enjoy exploring: Making friends, Mail-Art, Creating Asemic Manuscripts.
Sketching Future Noise Instruments. Roaring 20's Culture, Radio Dramas and doing Stand Up Comedy.

Adam J Naworal

1/7/2019 04:11:52

AWESOME asemic writing as always, Penny!

Penny

1/9/2019 03:47:59

Thank u Adam.

Lord Litter link

1/7/2019 07:17:32

... again .. I really .. really .. really like the style and atmo of the drawing! A very unque way of creating with a definite class!

... the music:"...To me when I think of Noise in the genre that some of us play in, Dylan comes to mind first as hard and heavy.."

What I hear has no relation to *noise* in any way. It's more like a timeless afterglow of electro/guitar Kraut .. very meditative and always keeping the style!

Bravo to both artists here!

PS: I know I'm a helpless dreamer .. I still think music like this should be on thick vinyl with a great cover like the Meanderings album artwork on Bandcamp ...

Dylan Houser

1/7/2019 11:06:56

I think Penny added the "noise" description because we've played and attended many harsh noise shows over the years, particularly when I would play under the Hell Garbage moniker, which had a lot more distortion, feedback, yelling and stuff.

The noise tag sort of makes sense in that it's all free form and doesn't have the best sound quality, heh. "Queen Spider" does get pretty abrasive, and "Sunset Beach" involved a DOD Grunge pedal and feedback from a microcassette recorder!

I've always wanted to do vinyl releases myself, but I'm cool with pro-CDRs (made and ordered through Kunaki!) as well.

Thank you for the kind words and feedback (no pun intended)!

1/8/2019 06:01:31

CD_rs are sure ok! .. I guess I'm just having nostalgic thoughts on these double LPs with electro/guitar Kraut that inspired me much and that are an element of times when music/sound was often created for the first time..and there is something in your sound that brings something back on a different level ..

1/9/2019 03:47:04

Exactly.. That is exactly what i meant.. Keep exploring!! I have never heard u do anything that stunk..you are wicked good.

1/9/2019 03:48:57

Thank u for the kind words.

Lumen K

1/7/2019 08:28:46

Your asemic works are magnificent, Penny!

1/9/2019 03:43:13

Thank you.
I really enjoy doing Asemics. It opens me up and free me. I usually listen to music when i do these. Dylan's was a treat to ride on. Lol...u should see what happens when i listen to H. P. Lovecraft..

1/7/2019 10:58:38

EXCELLENT work, even as standalone pieces separated from the original source of inspiration. Once I get my funds together and actually make more physical copies, I might consider using these arsenic writings as part of the album art (with credit to Penny, of course!)

1/9/2019 03:40:02

Thanks Dylan.

Aimee Naworal link

1/7/2019 17:46:17

As always Penny & Dylan continue to inspire. I need to do more art outside of my house like I used to.

1/9/2019 03:38:56

Awwwh. Aimee u are so kind. Love your arts as well.

Leslie Singer

1/7/2019 21:49:41

Penny, it’s great to see more of your asemic works—especially while listening to Dylan’s Meanderings. I learn something new every day here at the Electronic Cottage! Thank you.

1/9/2019 03:37:57

Thank u..glad to share.
Looking forward to hearing and seeing u perform on Sunday.
I agree, every time i visit i learn something new.
Dylan's cd is filmed with good stuff.

Rafael González

1/8/2019 15:18:40

Great!!!

1/9/2019 03:50:47

I am glad u enjoyed them. It was fun taping into the ocean of inspiration i got listening to Dylan's Cd.

1/9/2019 14:42:28

I understand you!

Chris Phinney

1/11/2019 07:14:21

Penny,

I love the asemic writing reviews, thanks for showing me new things I was unaware of, I love how you reviewed Dylan's release!

Asemic Manuscripts inspired by "Meanderings" by Dylan Houser

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