Decoder Duo

If you break a man open what spills out? blood, muck and viscera, or words? 

G Lucas Crane and Jim Findlay high-jack each others bodies with Decoder Duo, reveling in the soup of mind and sound that exists when you stumble through the dense and viscous media jungle and find a looming cut-up machine, gleaming in a clearing, moonlight glinting off electrodes and stirrups. Strapping in, they escape inward through the hiss and spit of no-wave New York noise punk, curling out short explosion tracks whose lyrics arrive in a seance of junk media. Jim spits the ghost words and Lucas hacks the broken tapes.*

We're now singing the bladerunner omen year 2020 blues. Each year we pass is a patchwork mask of all the years that came before. How many animated gifs does it take to crush a lightbulb or explode a toilet? Strap in and find out.

excerpt from a live recording at The Collapsable Hole, NYC, Jan 11, 2020.

performed by G Lucas Crane and Jim Findlay

directed by Mallory Catlett

engineering and sound design by G Lucas Crane

programming by Keith Skretch

photo by Maria Baranova

*the mechanism: Jim and Lucas both improvising, with Lucas sending a live-mixed audio feed to Jim via in-ear monitor. source material: Trump’s rally speech about energy efficiency.

you can listen to more tracks from this project on soundcloud