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Oklahoma Gazettefree every wednesday Metro oKCs Independent weeKly vol. XXXI no. 44 noveMBer 4, 200

The birth ofEmbryonic

By Joe wertZ p.19


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For the first time together as a band,The Flaming Lips fertilize a new album in

an experimental metro studio insemination.

The birth ofEmbryonic

BY Joe WeRtz


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from leftWayne Coyne, Kliph Scurlock and Steven Drozd together for DulRoar recording sessions in Oklahoma City.

Shortly after the concert, she pickedup Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,the Lips 2002 release and the bands10th, for which it garnered a Grammy

Award for the instrumental album-closer, Approaching Pavonis Mons byBalloon (Utopia Planitia).

When the Lips released At Warwith the Mystics, Anderson instantlyfell for the The W.A.N.D, a politicallycharged track about power balance thatresonated with her inner rebellion.

The take nothing attitude ofMystics propelled Anderson to attendseven or eight Lips concerts in the fouryears since her introduction to the band.

Her first taste of the Lips latestcame this summer. Taken in both liveat a Seattle festival and as part of ateaser release promoting tracks fromthe then-upcoming album, Anderson

said she wasnt too sold on the echoicpulse she heard on the new song SilverTrembling Hands.

When she heard the rest ofEmbryonic months later, she was simi-

larly uneasy.It was a little weird, Anderson said

Its hard to get into, and I just didntdig it at first.

Dull wombReleased mid-October, the Lips 12thfull-length album is fundamentally dif-ferent than anything the band has everrecorded.

Compared to the polished sonicprogeny spawned from the Yoshimiand Mystics sessions, Embryonicsounds like studio afterbirth visceraland messy.

The new album debuted at No. 8on the Billboard 200 higher thanany Lips album to date and while theresult seems like immaculate conceptionEmbryonic like much of the bandefforts is both planned randomness

and meticulous rearing.Steven Drozd bought a new home

in Northwest Oklahoma City last fall,relocating his growing family from asmall, Belle Isle home to a much bigger

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Since forming in 1983, 11 members have

been considered Flaming Lips and five out-

side producers have helped carry the bandthrough 12 full-length albums, eight EPs, six

compilations and four movie projects.

1984

EP - The Flaming LipsRestless RecordsProducer: The Lips

1986

Hear It IsRestless RecordsProducer: The Lips, Randy Burns

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Oh My Gawd!!!Restless RecordsProducer: The Lips

1989

Telepathic SurgeryRestless RecordsProducer: Wayne Coyne, Richard English,Michael Ivins

1990

In a Priest Driven AmbulanceRestless RecordsProducer: The Lips, Dave Fridmann

1991

EP - Yeah, I Know Its a Drag But WastinPigs Is Still RadicalWarner Bros.Producer: The Lips, Dave Fridmann

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Hit to Death in the Future HeadWarner Bros.Producer: The Lips, Dave Fridmann

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spread in the Quail Creek neighbor-hood. The former home went unsoldfor months, and in February, Drozd,

Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins andKliph Scurlock moved in, christen-ing the hardwood floors, low ceilingsand a single microphone their Dull

Roar Studio, and started recordingbefore writing.Really, it was the first time ever,

since Ive been in the band at least,that wed actually just jam, Drozdsaid while corralling his 4-year-oldson, Daniel, and 21-month-olddaughter, Charlotte, for a day trip toa Bricktown bowling alley. Thatshow the records really different fromanything else weve done.

Gathering around the singlemicrophone and a small Pro Toolsstudio setup Drozd assembled overthe years to dictate his ideas to, theLips hit record and captured every-thing. Over the weeks of late winterand early spring of 2009, he said theband regularly met at the impromptustudio, took turns on instruments,synthesizers and various noisemakers,and laid tape to hours of jamming,playing and meandering.

Later, the four musicians listenedto what they recorded and culledthe sessions down to sections theyfelt represented the most interestingrhythms, sounds and melodic ideas.The Dull Roar recordings weredelivered to Tarbox Road Studioslater that spring, and longtime Lipsproducer Dave Fridmann helpedthe band make sense of the sounds

and edit the DIY sessions into 18Embryonic songs.

Any other self-respecting engi-

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Transmissions from the Satellite HeartWarner Bros.Producer: The Lips, Keith Cleversley11 weeks on Billboard Top 200 afterpeaking at No. 108

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EP - Due to High Expectations TheFlaming Lips Are Providing Needles forYour BalloonsWarner Bros.Producer: The Flaming Lips,Keith Cleversley

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neer or producer would say, Youvegotta be kidding, Fridmann saidfrom the Cassadaga, N.Y., studio. ButI knew going in that was going to bepart of the fun.

Zygote zeitgeistSongs on previous Lips albums allstarted with a seed lyrically, rhythmi-cally or musically planted by one ofthe musicians on their own, Drozd andCoyne both said. Even early albums,like Hit to Death in the Future Head,Transmissions from the Satellite Heartand Clouds Taste Metallic, recorded

with then-guitar player Ronald Jones,were largely filled with songs penned bythe musicians working solo, Drozd said.Independent songwriting fills out mostof the Lips discography, including thebands well-regarded 1999 release, The

Soft Bulletin, a 14-track album he andCoyne largely arranged on their own

with four-track tape recorders.After 2006s Mystics, Drozd said

the musicians told Fridmann who

both Drozd and Coyne cite as a de factoband member they were going to dosomething different.

We did early on say, This wouldbe a different way to do it. Instead ofcrafting the songs at home and thenbringing them to the studio, lets justplay something and, even if its boring,play something for a while, Drozd said

Coyne is quick to diminish himselfas a musician and songwriter, althoughDrozd claims the latter is the wild-haired front mans strongest suit. Onprevious albums, Coyne said the group

was reluctant to follow its own lead.We thought, Well, were not that

good, why would we want to go whereour music has taken us? Why dont wego where we feel like theres more skilland more discipline and all these sortsof things you can think of as reining in

your kind of self-indulgent side or what-ever? Coyne said from his OklahomaCity home. As we approached this,there was a side of me that thought, Idont know what would happen if we let

emBRYonic

Wayne Coyne mans a synthesizer at a makeshift studio set up inside StevenDrozds then-empty OKC home.

1997

ZaireekaWarner Bros.Producer: The Lips, Dave Fridmann,Scott Booker

1999

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2001

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2002

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Producer: The Lips, Dave Fridmann,Scott Booker16 weeks on Billboard Top 200 after peakingat No. 50

2003

EP - Fight TestWarner Bros.Producer: Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann,Scott Booker

2003

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all that go. What if we just kind ofplayed what we felt?

At Tarbox, tens of hours ofthose open-ended jams were dis-tilled into snippets and overdubbed

with extra instruments and vocals,Fridmann said, including guest cam-

eos by Ben Goldwasser and AndrewVan Wyngarden of Brooklyn duoand indie darling MGMT, and sing-ing, screaming and animalistic howl-ing added to three of the new songsby Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Christened by listeningEmbryonic didnt find fertile ears

with Anderson until she put thealbum on repeat. Playing the recordover and over, she stopped search-ing for songs and was eventuallyabsorbed by the noise.

Its an exploration, an experi-ment. Knowing that changes yourmind-set about listening to it, shesaid, as Your Bats, track eight onthe new album, hazily droned in thebackground. Theres not as muchof a story as their other albums have,but its haunting. There are soundson here that are unlike anything Iveever heard.

Anderson is used to having herattention snagged by a catchy lineor hook and said that stricter struc-tures dominate her other rock n rollfavorites bands like Tool, Queensof the Stone Age and the Red HotChili Peppers acts that grab andconnect her to a particular line, lyricor melody. Embryonic is some-

thing else entirely, Anderson said.Not all music needs to do that.

A song takes you some place spe-cific, she said, but listening is anexperience.

2006

At War with the MysticsWarner Bros.Producer: The Lips, Dave Fridmann,Scott BookerEight weeks on Billboard Top 200 afterpeaking at No. 11

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EmbryonicWarner Bros.Producer: The Lips, Dave FridmannTwo weeks on Billboard Top 200 afterpeaking at No. 8 as of press time

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OklahOma Gazette OctOber 13, 2010 17

Architecture was merely the centerof Bruce Goffs imagination.He was a painter, a musician and,

above all, a collector. Like the spirepositioned in the middle of the EugeneBavinger House, his building designsare the most publicly visible. But asthe Norman home uncoils like a greatseashell, encapsulating nature whilesimultaneously redefining it, so, too,

did Goffs mind.Environments, ideas and advice were absorbed and re-imagined.Elements, disciplines and materialsotherwise independent became inte-gral and interconnected.

Goff had a hand in some 500designs throughout his career, whichbegan in 1929 when with no for-mal education or training he wasmade partner of an architecture firmin Tulsa. By the time he died in1982, 140 of his designs had beenbuilt, many right here in Oklahoma.But others went beyond the means financial and material to bemade. Until now. >>>

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SKETCH TO SCREENThe Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Artin Norman and the Price Tower ArtsCenter in Bartlesville are the co-cura-tors of a new exhibit highlighting 11 ofGoffs unrealized designs. The unbuiltstructures include the Crystal Chapel, anondenominational church proposed forthe University of Oklahoma; the JohnGarvey House, planned for Urbana, Ill.;a proposed design for Oklahoma CitysCowboy Hall of Fame; and the VivaCasino and Hotel, which was almost builtin Las Vegas.

The exhibit wraps at Fred Jones onJan. 2, 2011, and will reopen at PriceTower, where it will show from Jan. 21through May 1, 2011.

Two of the included designs were

built, but destroyed by fires. Fashionedaround the Star of David, the Pi LambdaPhi Fraternity house on the OU campus

was ravaged by flames in January 1963,while Bartlesvilles ShinenKan burneddown in December 1996.

The museums, along with a teamof architects, designers and artists from

around the country, worked for years toassemble Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind,

which opened last week at FJJMA.The exhibit includes scores of original

sketches and a handful of his paintings,but organizers realized early on that twodimensions alone wouldnt do justice toGoffs imagination.

The idea began with FJJMA directorGhislain dHumires, a France native whosaid he knew of Goffs Bavinger House

well before he knew anything aboutOklahoma. Shortly after arriving at theNorman museum in 2007, dHumiresstarted building the framework for theexhibit, which he hoped would detail notonly Goffs unrealized projects, but thearchitects work as an artist and his legacyas an influence to all creative disciplines.

Its amazing how inspiring BruceGoff has been with generations of archi-tects, but also painters, musicians and art-ists, he said.

DHumires quickly set about con-tacting The Art Institute of Chicago andthe Price Tower, collecting informationand securing permissions for sketches,

plans and paintings. Things fell into afairly traditional art show format, until hemet with Brian Eyerman, an OU-trainedarchitect and president of Skyline Ink

Animation Studios in Oklahoma City.Thats when everything switched,

dHumires said. I was going to have allthe sketches and maybe one or two TVscreens with virtual renderings, but hecame about and said, Why dont we doeverything virtual?

Eyerman and his Skyline team startedwith sketches. Some of the drawings werepresentation images penned more for

visual and investor appeal than architec-tural accuracy, while others were detailed

with dimensions, elevations and writtendescriptions. Eyerman digitized the imagesand fed them into a computer-aided

drafting program, which allowed Skylineto build a three-dimensional frameworkfor the buildings. The calculations werethen transformed into a series of virtual,animated tours, which explore each of the11 nonexistent structures and the BavingerHouse, the only building in the exhibitstill standing.

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price-lessTwo of the homes re-created for BruceGoff: A Creative Mind were projectsattached to Joe D. Price, who wasGoffs strident supporter, patron andfriend.

Price, then an OU engineering stu-

dent, met Goff when he was directingthe universitys architecture program.

During this time, Goff insistedthat Price attend a lecture given by leg-endary architect Frank Lloyd Wright.Later, Prices dad, Harold C. Price,starting making plans to build a newheadquarters for his oil pipeline andchemical firm, Bartlesvilles H.C. PriceCompany.

Joe Price set about convincing hisdad to have Wright design the build-ing, which expanded from a simplestructure into the 19-story Price Tower.The tower opened in 1956, and Goffmoved in, leaving his OU post for a

private practice with a studio.Friends with both Wright andGoff, Price remembers wrestling withdeciding between the two renownedarchitects for the commission of a one-bedroom home he wanted to buildon a corner of his familys farm inBartlesville.

Feeling Goff would tailor thedesign to his requests rather thanWright, Price went with Bruce.

I had asked Bruce to separate mefrom Bartlesville, Price said from hishome in Corona del Mar, Calif., wherehe lives with his wife, Etsuko, in ahome designed by Bart Prince, one of

Goffs best-known students. I wantedto walk in that house and be living inmy own world.

The world Goff first sketched hadelevated and suspended portions thatrequired structural steel, which provedtoo pricey for Price.

This was shortly following thewar and steel really wasnt used toomuch in housing, he said. The bidfor the steel alone was higher than Ihad budgeted for the building.

The original incarnation of thePrice Studio was never built, but Gofflowered the design to the groundand swapped in wood for steel. A

bachelors studio was built, which Gofflater expanded into the ShinenKanmansion after Prices wife moved toOklahoma from Japan.

The unrealized Price Studio andShinenKan are among the tours pre-sented in A Creative Mind. Price saidhe was blown away by an early, roughversion of the studio animation.

I didnt have those funds at thattime, but I would have loved to havelived in that house, he said. It wouldhave been wonderful.Joe Wertz


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