“Smells Like Content”
Before The Books broke up, they released four albums that combined composed music and found sounds. In this episode, Nick Zammuto explains how he crafted the song Smells Like Content, off of their 2005 album Lost and Safe, out of unlikely sources, like geometry, chance encounters, and a corrugated PVC pipe.
This video demonstrates how Nick Zammuto creates rhythms within the locked groove of a vinyl record:
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For a transcript of this episode, click here.
footnotes
After The Books ended, Nick Zammuto started a solo project, called Zammuto. Check out the new Zammuto record, Anchor, and read Nick’s extensive notes on the making of each track on the record on his blog.
