[pe166]A Magic Whistle
The Solar Cell
[pe165]Ron Heglin - Tom Djll
Duos for Voice and Runglers
[pe164]S.Glass
Benign Neglect
[pe163]Eugene Chadbourne & Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells
Fed Up With Bass
[pe162]Philip Gayle
Sunrise Crazy
[pe161]viddekazz2
sounds of silence
[pe160]Dennis Palmer
White Wuff
[pe159]Stephen Flinn / Bryan Eubanks
[pe158]Pet The Tiger
Hail The Traveler
[pe157]Tungu
Successful Utilization of Elements
[pe156]Philip Gayle
Mammoth Flower
[pe155]Seeded Plain
Badminton, The Volleys
[pe154]Bryan Day & Dereck Higgins
Woven Territories
[pe153]John Krausbauer & David Maranha
[pe152]Evan Lipson
Echo Chamber
[pe151]Guro Skumsnes Moe & Philippe Petit
[pe150]Brasilia Laptop Orchestra
10 yEars aLive
[pe149]Bill Brovold
Pi
[pe148]Illusion of Safety & Z'ev
[pe147]Naturaliste
Temporary Presence
[pe146]Euphotic
Isopleths
[pe145]Pet The Tiger
Gaze Emanations
[pe144]Ashtray Navigations & Anla Courtis
Protozoic Rock Express
[pe143]Alan Sondheim
Future Speed Future
[pe142]Albert / Day / Kreimer
Mutations
[pe141]Bill Brovold's Stone Soup
Michael Goldberg Variations
[pe140]Michael Gendreau
Polvo Seran, Mas Polvo Enamorado
[pe139]Hélène Breschand & Elliott Sharp
Chansons du Crépuscule
[pe138]Alan Sondheim / Azure Carter / Luke Damrosch
LIMIT
[pe137]Collision Stories
Those Missing Will Complete Us
[pe136]Ghost In The House
Second Sight
[pe135]Henry Kaiser / Alan Licht
Skip to the Solo
[pe134]Peter Aaron / Brian Chase Duo
Purges
[pe133]Alan Sondheim / Azure Carter / Luke Damrosch
Threnody
[pe132]Ou
Scrambled!
[pe131]Many Arms & Toshimaru Nakamura
[pe130]Ben Bennett / Jack Wright
Tangle
[pe129]Period
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[pe128]Music For Hard Times
City of Cardboard
[pe127]Tetuzi Akiyama & Anla Courtis
Naranja Songs
[pe126]Massimo Falascone
Variazioni Mumacs
[pe125]Auris + Gino
Rub
[pe124]Honnda
Fantasy Remover
[pe123]Azure Carter & Alan Sondheim
Avatar Woman
[pe122]Various Artists
The Unscratchable Itch: A Tribute To Little Fyodor
[pe121]Nels Cline / Elliott Sharp
Open The Door
[pe120]Pretty Monsters
[pe119]Cactus Truck
Brand New For China!
[pe118]Belcher / Bivins Double Quartet
EXO
[pe117]Normal Love
Survival Tricks
[pe116]Ron Anderson / Robert L. Pepper / David Tamura / Philippe Petit
Closed Encounters of the 4 Minds
[pe115]Philip Gayle
Babanço Total
[pe114]Dino Felipe
Sorta' Bleu
[pe113]Ydestroyde
Synzosizer
[pe112]Pilesar
Radio Friendly
[pe111]Little Fyodor
Peace is Boring
[pe110]Courtis / Yamamoto / Yoshimi
Live at Kanadian
[pe109]Bob Marsh
Viovox
[pe108]Tartar Lamb
60 Metonymies
[pe107]Shelf Life
Ductworks
[pe106]A Tomato a Day
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[pe105]D + D
[pe104]The Mighty Vitamins
Take-Out
[pe103]Smut / OVO
Split 7"
[pe102]Bill Horist / Marron
Sleephammer
[pe101]Richard Trosper
The Ocean
[pe100]Shinyville
No Sleep till Babylon
[pe99]Lisi
Damn It!!
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[pe97]Emily Hay / Marcos Fernandes
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[pe96]The Machine Gun TV
GO->
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Live In Japan
[pe94]Mike Pride
The Ensemble is an Electronic Device
[pe93]Jorge Castro
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[pe92]Yagihashi Tsukasa
Automatic
[pe91]Eftus Spectun
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[pe88]Eric Cook
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[pe86]Autodidact
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[pe84]Day / Boardman
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[pe82]Shifts
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[pe80]Mogami
[pe79]Jesse Krakow
Oceans in the Sun
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[pe77]Angels
[pe76]Khoury / Shearer / Hall
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[pe75]Renato Rinaldi
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[pe72]Watch the Stereo
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[pe70]The Bunny Brains
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[pe69]Jack Wright & Bob Marsh
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[pe67]Jad Fair & Jason Willett
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[pe66]Baker / Baker / Bloor
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S.Glass - Benign Neglect
CD (San Francisco, CA)



1. Abandoned Information Kiosk
2. I Have A Prepared Statement
3. The Exact Opposite Of Surveillance

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S Glass: loops, objects, cassettes, fails videos, electric organ, location recordings, sound processing, bass guitar, voice

Reviews:
(Bad Alchemy) Mit der mit 'Abandoned Information Kiosk', 'I Have a Prepared Statement' und 'The Exact Opposite of Surveillance' bestückten CD Benign Neglect (pe164) mache ich Bekanntschaft mit S*GLASS, Seymour 'Bananfish' Glass, der das kreiert hat mit Loops, Objects, Casset­tes, Fails Videos, Electric Organ, Location Recordings, Sound Processing, Bass Guitar, Voice und dem Knowhow mit dem weirden Bren't Lewiis Ensemble und als Glands of Ex­ternal Secretion mit Barbara Manning. Als ein Cinema pour l'oreille, das dramatisch und mit wüstem Geschrei suggeriert, was die Kameras nur streifen, weil sie auf Godzilla fokusiert sind. Jedenfalls hat diese 'Ubu-friendly sound collage' aus Shouts, krachigen Kürzeln, Gebrodel, ominöser Action und ominösem Leerlauf einen polyglotten, hauptsäch­lich japanischen Anklang. Die zweiten 20 Min. bringen orgelige, bohrende und dumpfe Sounds und auch wieder vokale, nun opernhafte Einwürfe einer Männerstimme, einer zittrigen Frauenstimme, beides eingedreht in Loops. Dazu elegisch geigende, vogelig schrillende, kratzige, grunzige Laute und schweifendes Glissando in stereophonem Hin und Her. Diesem obskuren Ambiente folgt im dritten Drittel perkussives Scheppern, Schaben und Rotieren und wieder schreiende, impulsive, pulsende, bebende Injektionen. Eine springende Kugel, sanfte, verzerrte, abgerissene Vokalisation, dissonant sirrende Schlaufen, beschleunigter Bandsalat, dialogisches Pingpong, teils rückwärts, schrillende Gänse, eiserne Reibung. Offenbar gibt es immer noch genug LAFMS-Spirit, um in Kalifor­nien in Swimming Pools zu pinkeln. Mit einem Motto wie „Make Yourself Useless“ (2024) und wie er reagiert auf 'The Rise of the American Asshole' (auf „Cesspool of the Angels“, 2023), das spricht Bände. - Rigo Dittmann

(Felthat Reviews) The amount of tools and strategies used here might feel like a vertigo but only in the beginning when you adapt and react by tuning into this wholesome, radiant and well-rounded narrative that might feel like plunderphonics going astray. Released by Bryan Day's Public Eyesore as a DL and a CD is a straight shoot of 60 minute soundtrack to urban neurotica. A collage of sounds, voices, done over the electronic landscape left me with an interesting set of feelings that are rather difficult to convey. A psychogeographical, musical trip through a vast urban biodome of things unobvious, and magical where all the elements and nuances play equally important role. The drama in this narrative is born in pain and a visceral analysis of all the completed samples, echoes, electronic and acoustic, field recorded elements processed and put together in a way that it feels extraordinarily cinematic. An excellent album which could easily be a document, a tape music, you name it... - Hubert Heathertoes

(Vital Weekly) Although there’s no other information given than the list of instruments and sounds used (“loops, objects, cassettes, fails videos, electric organ, location recordings, sound processing, bass guitar, voice”), we can assume it’s Seymour Glass, one of the excellent Bananafish magazine, founder of Stomach Ache Records and a musicians in his own right with such groups as Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, Glands Of External Secretion, S.F. Seals, and Steeple Snakes. I looked on Discogs and was surprised to see the list of solo releases under the Seymour Glass name (a pseudonym, actually, from various short fiction stories by J.D. Salinger). I’ve only heard a limited number of these releases, and not many from his ‘band’ projects, but listening to this new CD, I believe I can see a common thread: the love of working with sound, whether it’s any sound, or any sound-making device or instrument. Multitrack recording, analogue or (more likely) digital, brings out the organisation, resulting in compositions. He does this in the best tradition of musique concrète, but not in the most traditional sense of the word. Here, Glass offers three lengthy pieces, each lasting 20 minutes, and in each of these, he explores a plethora of sounds, conjuring a multitude of images. One can probably label this as surrealist music, in which sounds are used to paint fever dreams, nightmares and other non-sequiturs. Anything to unsettle the listener, and yet also quite relaxing, an altered state of mind. I admit I was tempted to use some old Bananafish reviews and rewrite/collage them as a new review, as they were as weird as some of the music reviewed, or so I understood back in the day. These three pieces are best enjoyed as one long symphony of sound, without beginning or end, and not to be analysed in too much detail, but, like an altered state of mind, just be perceived and enjoyed. - Frans De Waard


2024 Public Eyesore Records.