Otherness

Otherness also contains tracks by AMM group co-founder and free improviser Eddie Prévost; Naplam Death drummer Mick Harris; catacoustic sound artist and friend of Emmett Williams, Z’EV; aural architect Lovely Midget; microtonalist Kraig Grady (who incidentally was voted in the Top 100 of L.A.’s coolest people) and artist-cum-mycologist Michael Prime capturing the sounds of shiitake mushrooms. The publication is also adorned with the work of legendary science fiction and fantasy illustrator Jeffrey Catherine Jones who has been hailed by artist Frank Frazetta as “the greatest living painter”.

David Cotner explains “Otherness. It’s being 20: no longer a teenager but not quite an adult. An in-betweenness. It’s the touch of fog at the seaside that’s almost substantial enough to be felt and held in one’s hand. Almost. It’s an errant page of pornography found on a tree branch in the wilderness. It’s the sudden absence of the constant sound somewhere, sometime, of a motor. It’s light slowed down to 38 miles per hour and the possible existence of literally bottomless pits. It’s what lies in outer space directly beneath the Earth and downward, not just out and away from it”.

David Cotner’s writings on culture both popular and unpopular have appeared in various magazines and publications and he is a longtime champion of the culturally neglected. Cotner has, for the better part of the past decade, chronicled the endlessly creative apex of music and art in his weekly Actions communiqué, a compendium of events happening in the world of the leftfield and the experimental.

Composer and conceptualist David Cotner first proposed the method of composition known as Literalism in the mid-1990s. Literalism is a way to make music using physical representations of compositional elements to create everything from orchestral works to apparently formless moments of noise.

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