Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television

by Negativland

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1.	There Is No Planet 04:21	buy track
2.	Is It Or Isn't It 04:31	buy track
3.	Square Shaped Clouds 04:07	buy track
4.	Live At Sea 02:45	buy track
5.	What Is The Problem? 03:12	buy track
6.	Building And Raising 02:36	buy track
7.	I Love Bees 03:15	buy track
8.	Nothing Is Destroyed 04:40	buy track
9.	Enjoying Life 04:02	buy track
10.	Don't Trust Your Memory 03:32	buy track
11.	Believe What You Can 02:01	buy track
12.	Loop Forever 12:18	buy track
13.	Participate 03:54	buy track
14.	More Than One Answer 04:29	buy track
15.	Let's Just Ship It 00:38	buy track
16.	Breathe In Breathe Out 04:49	buy track
17.	A Portal Of Sorts 03:19	buy track
18.	Algorithmic Me 05:40	buy track
19.	The Real Punishment 01:33	buy track
20.	No Excuse 04:11	buy track
21.	A Couple Of Milliseconds 02:13	buy track
22.	Death Is Optional 01:58	buy track
23.	A Big Mistake 02:21	buy track
24.	They're The One 08:09	buy track
25.	Tape The Pain In Place 03:17	buy track
26.	Every Song Ever Created 05:17	buy track
27.	No Wonder 06:41	buy track
28.	Oh 01:33	buy track

about

Long known for creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text, what does a Negativland album sound like when it’s missing all of those voice samples? It sounds like: Speech Free.

An entertaining yet archival release of Library Music for your use and reuse, this new album by Negativland has had every last trace of semantic meaning carefully removed from the mix. But what does the word 'semantic' really mean? It means that Speech Free is a complete reimagining of the 28 tracks of music that were hiding in plain sight directly beneath all of that hopelessly outdated Cultural Jamming on our last two or three releases (which only exist for those who were looking for them -- and looking fairly often).

Entirely composed and performed by the group with an all star cast of guest musicians, these productions explode out of even the tiniest of speakers as some of Negativland’s most listenable barrages of pure ear candy yet — all we had to do was remove all of that annoying language that makes Negativland records so distractingly difficult to leave on while doomscrolling.

As our marketing research suggests, these catchy tunes can work well for you as both new jingles and musical beds, perfectly suited for voiceovers discussing anything from commercial products to political campaigns. Most target audiences regularly indicate a preference for moderately subversive content and confusion, and you’ll find that this release provides that target with precisely the right amount of each. No one will know what the original critical texts on these tracks once were -- though those messages remain, and might even be amplified, once replaced with new sales pitches of your own design. Because every second of Usable Music™ on this record has been precisely designed and personally guaranteed, by everyone still here in Negativland, to be: Speech Free.

Download comes with 22 page PDF containing album packaging and complete list of all verbal samples which were removed and are no longer present in the audible music.

Physical editions available here: negativland.com/negativland-studio-releases

credits

released December 23, 2022

Composed, played, recorded, mixed, edited and remixed by Negativland

Prairie Prince: drums on Is It Or Isn't It, Live At Sea, More Than One Answer, No Excuse, No Wonder
Nava Dunkleman: percussion on Live At Sea, Believe What You Can, A Portal Of Sorts
Ava Mendoza: guitar on Building and Raising, No Excuse
M.C. Schmidt: prepared piano on Nothing Is Destroyed, They're The One, plastic oil barrel on No Excuse, baking tin on Every Song Ever Created
Thomas Dimuzio: electronics on Participate, electromagnetic cell phone recording on No Wonder
Steev Hise: guitar noise on More Than One Answer
Drew Daniel: sequencing on A Big Mistake, They're The One
Star St. Germain, Jackie Gratz, Kris Force: strings on A Big Mistake
Jem Doulton: percussion on Every Song Ever Created
Erich Hubner: bass on No Wonder
Stella, Beatrice, Méabh de Siún, Vivian, Aasha, Neela, Ruby, Dee Dee, Savanna: the Don't Trust Your Memory Animal Chorus

Cover design: Shawn Wolfe and Negativland
Pug finders: Matthew Hansen-Weller and Dan Lynch
Mastering: Thomas Dimzuio

To license entire tracks as is for film, radio, internet or television, please contact: info@negativland.com
For fragmentary and transformative reuse of this music, as always, feel free

N© and N℗ 2022 by Negativland and Seeland MediaMedia

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