Machine for Making Sense
Machine for Making Sense is an Australian performance ensemble whose five players weave voice, text, winds, violin, hurdy-gurdy, live electronics and tape into dense interlocking textures rather than conventional song forms.
By 1994 the group had been performing and touring worldwide for several years. Their Tall Poppies album On Second Thoughts (TP034), recorded at ABC Studio 227 in Sydney, is a sequence of twenty-six short pieces lettered A to Z that bring music and text together in startling ways.
Machine for Making Sense is featured on the following titles
Machine for Making Sense: On Second Thoughts
Twenty-six short pieces lettered A to Z. By 1994 Machine for Making Sense had toured worldwide for several years. The five players weave dense, highly textured material that fuses music and text in startling ways.
Producer
Members of Machine for Making Sense
Jim Denley
Jim Denley's flute and saxophone improvisations range from the tiniest whispered whistle to the loudest shriek. He treats breath, flax and reed as raw material for austere, intense free sound.
Rik Rue
Rik Rue builds music from tape manipulation, analogue and digital samples, and close field recording. Rockpools and tidal motion become extended soundscapes; elsewhere his electronics lock into dense, interlocking textures with voice, winds and strings.
Stevie Wishart
Stevie Wishart’s free improvisations centre on violin, hurdy-gurdy and voice, joined by tape, keys and winds. The music is dynamic and compelling: energy that snaps at the ankles, yet lets you wander its imaginative structures.