a t:me allowance
an essay by Hue, em:t.cc contributor extraordinaire (part II)
after collecting all that i could i contacted t:me with one of the inquiring cards, a laid back stamp of elisabeth II was attached and a beatsystem postcard was sent back with the queen turned at ninety degrees. then later, the 1997 t:me press catalogue and a promo natural language postcard was sent to me. by late 1997 i was using the internet for the first time and searched for celia green who was holding her second homepage and any info on em:t. but there was very little on em:t, though the e-mail address was up and running; chris allen answered a very short clumsy e-mail of mine, that was asking basically about future releases and where i could get hold of written works, and voiced my naive opinion on celia green's narration direction.
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 97 16:26:00 UT
Dear Matthew
We have not done another track with Scanner because we consider one such track to be sufficient. We are not really interested in doing a series of similar "cellular eavesdroppings".
Coco, Steel & Lovebomb do tracks for other labels and they have not submitted a track for inclusion on em:t recently.
Celia's album was a special project - though we may produce further tracks for em:t compilations. We wouldn't consider using text written by other authors as this would effectively mean Celia would become a voice over artist, which is not really her ambition.
"Unpopular Essays" is published by Oxford University Press and should be available at any branch of Waterstones or other University bookshop.
Emit 2297 "BEATSYSTEM" is out now - catalogue number EMIT2297 and should be available from your usual stockest.
GAS2 is due for release in February or March 98, as is MIASMA2. Qubism have no plans for another album and SLIM should begin recording for SLIM2 in late 98.
I hope this answers your questions.
Best Regards Chris Allen Time Recording/Emit Audio
i then sort out as much information on both celia green & the ipr
from there on in; & begun to pester every local music shop within a fifty mile radius
of my house for any new em:t works. word had got around in mid-1998 to the man
in quarterdeck that t:me recording ltd. had ended. i felt sad, and
wrote a theory that 'time' did not exist, that 'space' is the only medium we can
rely upon. shortly followed by a small paper called
'endure the human endurance' - which never got finished due to the fullness of content
i gained on this angle once i read
'the human evasion' by celia green.
the incompleteness seemed to mirror the hole that every other album i bought
afterwards seemed to eluded the strong ethos's of t:me.
then my life took the route with strong hydroponic buds and pushing the em:t CDs that i had onto borrowed sound systems; holding back the increasing antagonism of my art school criteria, with punch essay writing that was integrating and quoting the aphorisms of t:me & the ipr. i started to transcribe and memorise all spoken words. my axis of single-mindedness took me up to the door of the establishment; all the while deciphering more and more the tracks of em:t - it was and has been my largest learning curve. in the few days of the new millennium, which was to be the "catalogue number '0001'. sound like a reset button." i entered a nervous breakdown.
i was removed for two months; and turned straight to the works of the ipr & t:me when i got home, which i was denied. maul treatment and withholding one's voice of acceptability is the current preferred cure in cerebral health circles; rather then asking the patients their preferences. needless to say i pulled down the bookshelves that held decrepitude and broken board games, pulled at images that were hung on the wall upside down, and lost my balance of sight to the labyrinth of social rights of passage. i've had to reassemble everything that i have encountered since, with the added resistance of daily dopamine suppressing medication and a dissipating post traumatic stress.
it was an absolute joy to read the liberating idea's and thoughts of the ipr, and to hear my collection of sounds once again, that mean a great deal to me. the mind if it wants can destroy you or transport you, through a transition of time and space; the only reference points we have on these journeys is the minute calculations and configurations that we record; our repeated neurone pathways. it is the systems of explanation that we form with our brain, that holds us; release happens only when one wants freedom to overwhelm one, and that is found within loose associations'. i was told by me cpn (community psychiatric nurse) to "focus & filter" - some of the best advice.
consciousness is but layers of attention.
my sister has said to me since that i might have been lost to my own muses. but it is more the fact that when you are lost from your interests that you have departed. to create exhilaration one only has to accept more then one is willing to take on. there often comes a point for me when banality of understanding familiarly ideas, forces me to leap.
subtract banality.
after a year of assembling, i started to use the internet; again my first port of call, was to look for information on t:me recording ltd. division em:t and celia green & the ipr. & found both celia green's third site and the current site and a few other site that support the ipr; and em:t.cc of course.
after seeing what em:t.cc had to offer as a library of t:me, i sent images of what i had that the site did not, and got involved with the team. i'm still fascinated with the exceptional detail that t:me achieved with regards to accumulating music and information that rewards.
& happy days are here again with the launch of em:t records™ -- "the collectors' series for enquiring minds in an anxious age" keeps gathering. (perpendicular thumb.)
Hue, June 2003