{"id":3770,"date":"2012-02-21T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:19:58","slug":"dixies-death-pool-the-man-with-flowering-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/02\/21\/dixies-death-pool-the-man-with-flowering-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"DIXIE&#8217;S DEATH POOL &#8211; The Man With Flowering Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3771\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/02\/21\/dixies-death-pool-the-man-with-flowering-hands\/dixie_death_pool\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3771\" title=\"Dixie_Death_Pool\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dixie_Death_Pool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.20579353836365044\">Lee Hutzulak\u2019s latest work will change the way you think about any household object you lay your eyes upon. <!--more-->The twelve tracks, some improvised, some not, all feature a mind-bending mix of homemade instruments (in one interview, Hutzulak mentions stretching lamp springs over a cast-iron frying pan) and live recordings. Wild and wonderful as this idea is, it doesn\u2019t always translate to good sound. On <a href=\"http:\/\/radio3.cbc.ca\/#\/blogs\/2011\/11\/LISTEN-Dixies-Death-Pool-Sunlight-Is-Collecting-On-My-Face\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSunlight is Collecting On My Face,\u201d<\/a> there\u2019s a consistent buzzing and static clicking that\u2019s so annoying I just want to swat it away. \u201cScience Fiction\u201d closes with two minutes of nothing BUT this, which is only just bearable. It\u2019s both fun and utterly hopeless to try and name the sounds I hear &#8211; a swing creaking, a vortex of chalk, an elephant in a monsoon, violins playing while spider silk streams out of the strings. Tiny monkey fart into junkyard tires. Yeah, okay, I know what this must sound like&#8230; Well, YOU give this a listen before bedtime and then tell me what you\u2019re thinking, mister! This collage of sounds isn\u2019t particularly charming or calming. In fact, when I hear horrible gnashing cat teeth, I don\u2019t like it at all. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not interesting or thought-provoking. Perhaps I should like it more because of that very fact. Try it yourself. (Leisure Thief, <a href=\"http:\/\/dixiesdeathpool.com\" target=\"_blank\">dixiesdeathpool.com<\/a>) <strong>Adrienne Yeung <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Hutzulak\u2019s latest work will change the way you think about any household object you lay your eyes upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[329,453,1060],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-experimental","tag-indie","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}