Field recordings / domestic machinery / damaged tape

Sound for the wrong room.

Noisy, difficult-listening sound collages and primitive instrumentation, processed and mutilated for public examination.

PDM42 / signal remains active

Recent transmissions

News / recordings / remains
An archival photograph of a house
21 Jun 2024

Essential tracks for improvisation

In preparation for future performance, we developed pieces tied to thematic performances: basic tapestries on which to improvise. In listening, we found they stand alone. Merry something to you all.

PDM42 Second Album cover
24 Dec 2020

PDM42's second album

Claire Ariyah and Crabcake McGriddles explore the surprising parallel between machine noise, found sound, and a child's discovery of sound.

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Crabcake McGriddles
04 Jun 2023

Goodbye, Crabcake.

Stanley McCuddles was an enthusiastic vocalist, percussionist, band-mate, and family. His unique voice remains in future performances: in clusters of fives. Repeatedly. Dominantly. Ferociously.

13 Jan 2021

Giammjhamnsahn

Video document from The First Annual Report of.

3n69r9x105706 album cover
11 Jun 2019

3n69r9x105706 released

Forty minutes of funk. Well, jazz-funk greatness-style funk, technically. Pre- and post-natal recordings, musical equipment, a dog, and a process of mutilation.

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Operational description

Classic industrial music.

We make Classic Industrial music for Classic Industrial people.

No commercial value