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About Small Life Form

Small Life Form's process, theory and sound draw from influences of the post-WWII avant-garde. In this way, Small Life Form and Silber offer us another bridge between post-rock music & serious experimental composition, equal influences Gyorgy Ligeti & Cindytalk.

Recordings started in 1998 & Small Life Form's debut album One was released in late 2003 on Silber. All tracks on One are meant to be played simultaneously and looped continuously.

Since 2007 Small Life Form has predominantly become a live project touring throughout the american south & recording an album in a nuclear cooling tower in the pacific north west with a scattering of releases & compilation appearances.

Small Life Form discography
	voice in the sky MP3 Album 2012 | Silber 116 1 track, 45 minutes $5 download listen on Silber This is one of the most sedated pieces I’ve heard for a long time. Listen to it late at night with little distraction. It’ll gently lull you to sleep. ~ Beach Sloth A 45 minute electro-acoustic drone piece from Small Life Form built from voice, melodica, copper pipe, optical theremin, super simple synthesizer, feedback, & aircraft lock. : Listen to the track voice in the sky (excerpt) : Press Release : Reviews
	Satsop CD Album 2012 | Blondena Music 020 2 tracks, 39 minutes Order physical copies through Blondena ($5 download through Silber (320kbps, ~92 megs)) Well it took a while for the rights to be sorted out, but finally released are the Small Life Form recordings from inside of a nuclear cooling tower in the pacific north west. : Listen to the track A Year Is A Day : Press Release
	CD Release Improvisational Event MP3 Album 2012 | Blondena Music 4 tracks, 65 minutes available through Blondena Music Bandcamp 2012 Blondena Music release party recorded including a 23 minute collaboration between Brian John Mitchell (Small Life Form), Bryce Clayton Eiman (Weather Machine), & Scott Berrier (Powercloud).
	Lost Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny DVD 2009 | Silber 073 10 cartoons (plus three bonus bits), about an hour $12 This is true & funny material in a day & age when the two worst adjectives your work can have are "true" & "funny." ~ Dave Sim, Cerebus/Glamourpuss Well, it's finally here, a collection of cartoon versions of the first ten issues of Lost Kisses.  It even includes a special making of thing & cartoons of Worms #1 & XO #1.  The DVD includes a psychonautic electro-acoustic drone soundtrack of new music by Small Life Form.  Lost Kisses tells snarky stories of life's perils with self -deprecating humor.  So check it out & spread the word. : Press Release : Reviews
	Small Life Form Lost Kisses Soundtrack MP3 Album 2009 | Silber 081 16 tracks, 68 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page When the time came to make a soundtrack to the Lost Kisses cartoons, Small Life Form’s brand of electro acoustics & aggressive ambient seemed like a great fit for the stories. The music is loop driven & sometimes barely noticed & at other times feels like a laser beam straight to the brain threatening to completely wash it clean. The soundtrack to an emotional acid trip - not necessarily positive or negative or menacing or soothing, but very physically present. The instruments used are the standards of the recent live Small Life Form shows including copper pipe, triangles, melodica, pitch pipe, harmonica, microphone feedback, & voice all washed & sculpted with distortion, reverb, & delay. Some of the pieces are shorter or longer than on the Lost Kisses DVD (adjusted for the length of the cartoons) & also included are the pieces for the menu pages that were eventually cut from the release. If you dig the soundtrack make sure to check out the DVD to get the rest of the story.
	alive MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 071 3 tracks, 21 minutes download zip file | Archive.org page 2007 marked Small Life Form’s live debut & over the next year the style refined, abandoning real horns for a piece of copper pipe, replacing organs with melodica, & vocals with feedback manipulation. Alive is collected from two live recordings in 2008.  They are massive structures built from scratch using a loop pedal, distortion pedals, & reverb units.
	one CD Album 2003 | Silber 030 7 tracks, 48 minutes $12 ($18 international, $5 download (256kbps, ~92 megs)) : Listen to the track Horns : Press Release : Reviews

Compilation Appearances

• Track: "xfine," "out of you"

Weemoed Met Verbrand Konijn Cassette - Imvated Records - 2005
• Track: "Hohn" (w/Jarboe)

Zann CD - Silber Records - 2001
• Track: "Sleigh Stowaway"

Silber X-mas CDR - Silber Records - 2000
• Track(s): "Decay," "Mouthed"

Demain CD - Silber Records - 2000

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