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Things That a Mutant Needs to Know

by Various Artists curated by Reinaldo Laddaga

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Album download includes the PDF of the book with the 55 texts that the music is based on. Compiled and edited by Reinaldo Laddaga and designed by Isabelle Vigier.
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    A beautiful book edition of the 55 stories that the music is based on. Selected and edited by Reinaldo Laddaga. Design by Isabelle Vigier.
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Some Places I (Silvia Borzelli) 02:09 video
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Some Places II (Yannis Kyriakides) 00:55
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Some Places III (Barbara Ellison) 02:58
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Some Places IV (Francisco López) 02:17
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Some Places V (Yannis Kyriakides) 01:34
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Some Places VI (Felipe Waller) 01:49
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Some Animals I (Reinaldo Laddaga) 01:55
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Some Animals II (Francisco López) 02:04
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Some Animals III (Barbara Ellison) 03:02
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Some Animals IV (Felipe Waller) 01:52
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Some Animals V (Gabriel Paiuk) 02:27
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Some People I (Reinaldo Laddaga) 02:28
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Some People II (Justin Bennett) 02:30
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Some People III (Santiago Santero) 01:34
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Some People IV (Claudio Baroni) 02:19
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Some People V (Santiago Santero) 02:22
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Some People VI (Ron Ford) 01:00
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Some Travels I (Silvia Borzelli) 02:14
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Some Travels II (Alan Courtis) 02:42
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Some Travels III (Christine Abdelnour) 02:05
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Some Travels IV (DJ Sniff) 01:45
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Some Travels V (Anne La Berge) 00:50
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Some Travels VI (Andy Moor) 03:02
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Some Leaders I (Claudio Baroni) 02:37
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Some Leaders II (Francisco López) 01:43
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Some Leaders III (Gabriel Paiuk) 01:48
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Some Leaders IV (Reinaldo Laddaga) 02:06
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Some Leaders V (Alan Courtis) 03:32
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Some Families I (Yannis Kyriakides) 01:53
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Some Families II (Andy Moor) 02:48
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Some Families III (Alan Courtis) 02:24
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Some Families IV (Anne LaBerge) 03:01
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Some Families V (Anne La Berge) 02:40
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Some Families VI (Machinefabriek) 02:34
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Some Romances I (Reinaldo Laddaga) 02:15
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Some Romances II (Justin Bennett) 02:15
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Some Romances III (Machinefabriek) 02:29
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Some Romances IV (Barbara Ellison) 01:55
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Some Romances V (Claudio Baroni) 03:02
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Some Illnesses I (John Butcher) 02:59
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Some Illnesses II (Anne La Berge) 01:06
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Some Illnesses III (DJ Sniff) 01:08
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Some Illnesses IV (Ron Ford) 02:57
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Some Visions I (Machinefabriek) 02:02
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Some Visions II (Christine Abdelnour) 03:09
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Some Visions III (Justin Bennett) 02:55
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Some Visions IV (Claudio Baroni) 02:08
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Some Visions V (Christine Abdelnour) 03:35
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Some Events I (DJ Sniff) 03:01
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Some Events II (Silvia Borzelli) 02:31
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Some Events III (Alan Courtis) 02:10
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Some Events IV (DJ Sniff) 03:00
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Some Events V (Francisco López) 00:55
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Some Events VI (Yannis Kyriakides) 02:54
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Some Events VII (Reinaldo Laddaga) 02:20
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about

‘Things that a mutant needs to know, more short and amazing stories’ is a collection of fifty-five short tales and fifty-five brief musical works composed by a momentary collective of eighteen musicians. It is published by Unsounds in the form of a book with two CD, but also as an iBook, in english and spanish.
The text was conceived by Reinaldo Laddaga as an imaginary second volume of an anthology published in 1956 by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares called Short and Amazing Stories. Much like theirs, the anthology comprises an assortment of tales written or compiled by the most varied of authors (from Lucian of Samosata to Virginia Woolf, Emanuel Swedenborg to Blaise Cendrars): a diverse parade of walking trees, burning dresses, illnesses mysteriously cured, and deaths surprisingly reversed.
The music consists of sonic readings and reactions to the stories, composed by Christine Abdelnour, Claudio Baroni, Justin Bennett, Sylvia Borzelli, John Butcher, Alan Courtis, DJ Sniff (Takuro Mizuta), Barbara Ellison, Ron Ford, Yannis Kyriakides, Anne La Berge, Reinaldo Laddaga, Francisco López, Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt), Andy Moor, Gabriel Paiuk, Santiago Santero, and Felipe Waller. They are fragments offered to the incidental, mutant reader to be listened to as s/he peruses the texts—soundtracks to the little films that they suggest, musical puzzles and mirrors that reflect the elusive events in the tales as if in placid or turbulent waters.
Reinaldo Laddaga is the author of eight books and the scripts for two music theater pieces. His latest books (in Spanish) are A Prologue to my Father’s Books, Aesthetics of Laboratory, and Three Secret Lives: John D. Rockefeller, Walt Disney, Osama bin Laden. His latest piece for the stage is Summer Maneuvers (with C. Baroni and F. Marcaccio). He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York.

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released December 1, 2013

Album is conceived by Reinaldo Laddaga and features Christine Abdelnour, Claudio Baroni, Justin Bennett, Sylvia Borzelli, John Butcher, Alan Courtis, DJ Sniff (Takuro Mizuta), Barbara Ellison, Ron Ford, Yannis Kyriakides, Anne La Berge, Reinaldo Laddaga, Francisco López, Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt), Andy Moor, Gabriel Paiuk, Santiago Santero, and Felipe Waller.

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Music label for contemporary composition, experimental, improvisation, sound art. Unsounds was founded in 2001 by guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex), composer/sound artist Yannis Kyriakides, and designer/visual artist Isabelle Vigier.

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