Everything Else

Drawn into the deep. Drawing into the slowly evolving rhythms. Everything else seems to be somewhere else altogether. Anne Westphalen writes her own poetry, echoing on the sound is a sound is a sound. And as time slowly progresses and the rhythm thickens beat by beat, it is hard to tell if you really move or the world just moves around you. The way everything else functions, I always felt really guilty for not running away. Westphalen's electronic vocabulary gets straight to the point and then continues to repeat itself endlessly to get to the point from any possible angle. Many stones may be left unturned, not even touched. But the one she is holding in her hands you know by heart. The way everything else functions, I didn't have the guts. Moving on from her last SueMi release 'Of Loops and Quotes' Westphalen placed one last sample still untouched from her previous work. In 'Gleisdreieck' she included a quote from an interview the American artist Justine Kurland had recorded while working with a group of girls. Working through and around the layers of her minimal yet rich electronic montages, the voice seems to be set in a different world and lends itself to be re-assembled the same way the music does Copy and paste the words, mix and master the edit. The way everything else unctions, totally ignore reality like nothing ever happened.  ©  2003 Anne Westphalen