[this poem w/music has imagery that some may find disturbing]

The root of this track was a recorded duo improv between Mike Rothmeyer (guitar loops) and me (keyboard loops) released as Rothmeyer and Frippenstein. (Frippenstein was my solo improv synth loop act, the name a tribute to Robert Fripp’s own Frippertronics.)

One day while multi-instrumentalist/songwriter, Jeff Turmes, was at my little home-based studio, mixing some tracks he’d recorded at his own home, he happened to hear the Rothmeyer & Frippenstein tracks and offered to cut a sax part to one on the spot. I readily agreed, and the new mix appeared as a bonus track on subsequent releases of the Rothmeyer & Frippenstein album. (You can hear that drum, bass, and poetry-less version, titled, “Deep Blue Nowhere,” here.)

A few years later, on a whim, I decided to see if I could lay bass and drums across the more or less free time track and use it to frame a short, troubling poem I’d written a few years before. Perhaps because of the ‘natural’ rhythms of the echo loops, it somehow sort of worked, much to my delight and amazement. (Frippenstein became Tranz Azul which transmogrified into one blue nine, kinda.)

Many years later (that would be earlier tonight), I decided on yet another whim that I should throw together a quick vid (there is, of course, little or no such thing, at least not around chez TK). I found a series of photos of doll’s eyes — in and out of dolls — and used various video effects to give them a sort of anime look.

– TK

Listen to Rothmeyer & Frippenstein’s 2.6.93 album | view the vid above on YouTube: I Fall into Her Hollow Eyes
Or listen to just the audio from  the vid above…

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