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It should come as no surprise that Small Life Form (aka Brian John Mitchell, head of Silber Records) is the distillation of everything Silber has stood for since its birth nearly a decade ago: stripped down, unadulterated sound exploration. - Nathan Amundson, Rivulets

About Small Life Form

Small Life Form is about nothing if not sound. Sound as escape from life. Sound as a medium to penetrate and affect the human body. Sound as both creation & destruction. Sound as an entity meant to be concentrated on, not casually listened to.

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

Small Life Form's debut release One was released in late 2003 on Silber. All tracks on One are meant to be played simultaneously and looped continuously. This can be achieved on your computer with Windows Media Player 6.4.09.1128.
 
Small Life Form discography
Lost Kisses DVD - My Life is Sad & Funny 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 ina 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.

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small life form: alive alive
MP3 EP 2008 | Silber 071
3 tracks, 21 minutes
free download from Archive.org

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
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