PDM42 News
PDM42: Essential Tracks for Improvisation
JUN 21 2024
In preparation for future performance, we've developed a couple of pieces tied to thematic performances, wherein we built basic tapestries on which to improvise on other instruments. In listening to them, we found that they stand alone.
That said, merry something to you all.
PDM42: "Giammjhamnsahn" Video
JAN 13 2021
PDM42's Second Album
DEC 24 2020
Claire Ariyah and Crabcake McGriddles have been conspiring for 100% of Claire's life now, and have dropped a Christmas goodie for fans of what we're calling "Classic Industrial Music". By which we mean "noisy, difficult-listening sound collages and primitive instrumentation, subsequently processed and mutilated", as opposed to later "Disco-Era Industrial Music". Produced by MDF's Matthew N. Sharp, and performed by Claire Ariyah and Crabcake McGriddles, this album explores the surprising parallels between the traditional sonic landscape experimentations and "found sound" recordings of machine noise, and the natural discovery of sound by a human child as she grows from one year to two years of age, with the additional percussive contributions of her furry brother, Crabcake McGriddles.
You can get it through Apple Music, Amazon, or wherever you'd normally acquire such things.
PDM42, "3n69r9x105706" Released
JUNE 11, 2019
3n69r9x105706 is available in the iTunes Store, featuring 40 minutes of funk. Well, jazz-funk greatness-style funk, technically. If you're going to be that way about it.
Step One: obsessively record pre and post natal sounds of one's daughter. Step Two: as said daughter becomes older, provide her with access to musical equipment in order to explore making noises and sounds. Step Three: mutilate recordings, intermixing recordings of fellow family member, Crabcake McGriddles, the dog. Or, rather, the dog's stage name. Because art.
Goodbye, Crabcake.
JUNE 4, 2023
We regret to inform the world that Crabcake McGriddles, or, as we knew him at home, Stanley McCuddles, passed away this afternoon.
Stanley was an enthusiastic vocalist and percussionist, and was much more than just a talented artist and band-mate; he was our family. We were lucky to share our lives with him for 12 of his estimated 14 years, and he will remain in our hearts forever. In his honor, we hope to force other people to hear his unique voice in future performances for a long, long time.
In clusters of fives. Repeatedly. Dominantly. Ferociously.
WHAT IS PDM42?
CLASSIC INDUSTRIAL MUSIC
We make Classic Industrial music for Classic Industrial people.