The Torture Garden (Live), by Aaron Dylan Kearns

The Torture Garden (Live)

by Aaron Dylan Kearns

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	1.	La Limite (September 15th, 2022) 05:29
	2.	Disciplinary Examination (September 15th, 2022) 03:50
	3.	Bullfighter (September 15th, 2022) 04:52
	4.	Artaud Is Dead (June 16th, 2022) 04:12
	5.	Logs / Maruta (June 16th, 2022) 03:53
	6.	Triptych 1988 (December 15th, 2022) 10:22
	7.	Screaming Popes (December 15th, 2022) 04:35

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Personal highlights from three of my later sessions at the monthly experimental music event Kirkwood Ballers Club. I went with the latter three as with the earlier setlists, I still had a certain level of self-restraint and reluctance to my performing. As the sets went on though, my approach became increasingly cathartic as the tracklists picked up more direct themes in relation to the writings of Georges Bataille and Octave Mirbeau. The sessions were always fairly impromptu, with technical glitches and on-set mishaps happening occasionally during the performances. They ultimately only enhanced the increasingly confrontational tone of the performances. My noisemaking arsenal was put to the ultimate test by these last few sets. The garden trellis that I used since 2019 is now a dented jutted metallic mess and my coat rack is in literal pieces.

Excuse the varying audio qualities. Matching the impromptu nature of the concerts, the audio sources I have at hand vary quite a bit also. I mixed the audio the best I could from various sources including camera audio, my raw Logic Sessions and the occasional audio-only source. Either way, I wanted to include some sort of documentation for this era of performing on my Bandcamp. Thanks to Lake Collins for the sound source for the December setlist, Tre' Bell of Arcane Frequencies and C K P I T S for the additional sound source for the June setlist and Martin Kearns for recording video of all the sets.

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released December 28, 2022

Aaron Dylan Kearns: Vocals, arrangement, lyrics, Korg Monotron Delay synths, Wasp synth, coat rack, garden trellis, drone synth, Omnichord drum machine.

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Aaron Dylan Kearns Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta-based underground artist: Avant-garde filmmaker, noise artist, comic author, collage artist, obscure media aficionado.

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