Everyone Is Everyone

Magicicada is the musical side of Atlanta musician/sound designer/photographer, Christoper White. He collaborates with Destructo Swarmbots (track 2), Trulee Grace Hall (track 3), Rob Clemens (track 4), and Steve Brand (track 6). This CD is an organic, experimental work that blends traditional, as well as folk and eastern, instruments with found objects, samplers and field recordings to create a work that varies from delicate, cinematic soundscapes to harsh electronic environments. The instrumentation includes pump organ, voice, contact mics on faulty electrical lines, melodica, toys, iron balls rolling on wooden floors, accordion, cellophane, air cans, tape decks for the blind, guitar, MARTA (Atlanta's public transit), synthesizers, oven door (percussion,) cellos, paper, frogs in the backyard, and the remains of Hurricane Denis shaking the roof. Since 1999, Chris White has been recording and performing non-stop. 8 tracks. Public Guilt Records. 2008.