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Domestic Engineering
The exciting new CD from Pythian Productions
Release date: September 31, 2000
Tracks | Reviews | Interview | Buy
Domestic Engineering, Pythia's debut album, captures the quintessense of everyday life, incorporating sounds of home from the washing machine to the garbage disposal. This truly unique masterpiece is sure to become a best seller! Its power, beauty, creativity, and exquisite seasoning ensure that its popularity will not be a passing fad, but that it will dwell in the hearts, minds, and history books of generations to come. Forever and ever. Amen.
TRACK LISTING
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0. Prelude: Making the Bed 1:49
1. Preparing Breakfast 3:16
2. Cleaning after Breakfast 3:56
3. Doing Laundry Part 1: Washing 2:58
4. Paying the Bills 12:43
5. Doing Laundry Part 2: Drying 3:02
6. Mopping the Floor (extended version)6:39
7. Doing Laundry Part 4: Ironing 4:14
8. Preparing Lunch in D minor 5:13
9. Cleaning after Lunch 5:01
10. Vacuuming(Parts 1 and 2) 8:23
11. Oiling the Hinge 2:35
12. Doing Laundry Reprise 2:49
13. Preparing Dinner 14:00
14. Cleaning after Dinner 9:37
15. Dusting 10:07
16. Changing the Lightbulb (Remix)1:55
17. Smoke Detector Beeps 3:27
18. The Grand Finale: The Final Household Appliance Symphony 4:28
What Reviewers are Saying about Domestic Engineering
"Truly phenomenal...This beautiful and innovative recording keeps the listener mesmorized from the first rustling sheets of 'Making the Bed' to the dramatic 'Final Household Appliance Symphony.'"
~Ubi Fui News
"Finally, a CD homemakers with which homemakers can relate. Domestic Engineering brings us in touch with our true feelings about home life...Highlights include 'Preparing Breakfast,' 'Oiling the Hinge,' and 'Vacuuming.' Even the lengthy 'Preparing Dinner' and 'Paying the Bills' do not lose their appeal. And the finale simply defies description!! Buy and listen for yourself!"
~The Best of Times
"Domestic Engineering sends the listener on a fantastic voyage of emotion...from anger to dispair...and when it is over, the listener is left with an ineffably exquisite sense of elation."
~The Present Times
Cynical critics often have noted that Pythia is associated with the newpapers that published the three (3) preceding reviews. Pythia has repeatedly stressed that, although this is true, her affliation has had no effect on the objectiveness of the reviews. Furthermore, to placate those who still question her, she has included the following reviews from sources with which she is not so directly connected.
"I didn't hear Domestic Engineering. I must have been in the bathroom when it was being played. Besides, vacuum cleaners wreck havoc on the environment! And where is the track "Applying Spray-on Make-up"? I wrote the track for this album specifically. Of course, you do realize that I wrote this album. . ."
~Gore 2000 Committee
"This CD is good. . . but we really need to talk about campaign finance reform instead."
~Dont-blame-me-i-voted-mccain Committee
Critical cynics then accused Pythia of using time-sensitive political reviews. They said people would soon not understand the meaning of the reviews, and they censured Pythia for mixing her music with politics. Pythia stated resolutely, "I am a radical libertarian, so take that!" Furthermore, to molify those who still question her (which may be preventing them from buying her CDs), she provided the following reviews, which are not affliated with any candidate in the 2000 presidential election.
"This is clearly demeaning to the female race. Such an album created by a man would be commendable, but Pythia does not seem to realize that a woman's place is not in the house. This is a new millennium, and women must get out into the corporate world, and gain control over men."
~Natural Association for the Advancement of Women
"This is the next step of so-called 'industrial music.' As this work of Pythian Productions exemplifies, domestic engineering is as much of an industry as steel or chemicals."
~Industrial Workers of the Microcosm
"Fantastically commonplace and mundane. This is the true 'Fanfare for the Common Man.' Ever hear the actual 'Fanfare for the Common Man'? It's the Olympic song! What's the deal with that?! You mean to tell me Olympians are common men?"
~[the yet untitled organization]
Cynical cynics and critical critics alike were unrelenting in their attacks on Pythia. They snubbed, "Isn't a little curious that all her reviews come from groups instead of individuals? Hmmm?" Our bold and noble hero, Pythia, promptly retorted, "No. No, it's not. This isn't Amazon.com, you know." Futhermore, to appease her enemies and, more importantly, to fill up more space on her webpage, Pythia devised and posted the following reviews from individuals.
"This CD really sucks! Don't waste your money! Come on, people, how can you like this garbage? It's just a bunch of sounds of household appliances, for heaven's sake!! And where is Doing Laundry Part 3? Not that I would want to hear more..."
~Random person from the street
"Toookai muahence oajwhenf ojawhnfe oa iohano hsohe!" ("But I never hear these sounds in the home where I live!")
~NaafhoeanA-OHfneabe
"[in a slow monotone] Needs sounds of changing Depends. Must change Depends. Must...ooooo..."
~Senility Estates employee
"Well, I think you should move in here. We'd just love you too; yes we would!"
~Senility Estates resident #1
"Uh. So you are my aunt? No, you say the proctor ate the purfume with the grapefruit? Oh yes, I used to put things in squirrels too."
~Senility Estates resident #2
"mmmmmmmmmm..."
~Senility Estates resident #3
An interview with Pythia
Good morning, Pythia.
Good morning, interviewer.
I’ve been listening to a preview of Domestic Engineering. Wow! The “Paying the
Bills” demo has to be the best song I’ve heard in my life. Can we expect work of this
calibre throughout the rest of the CD?
Of course! I really committed myself to the making of Domestic Engineering. Maybe I
drained my imagination, though. I don’t know. I have only a vicarious taste of the
domestic engineering industry.
Domestic Engineering is an extremely unique style of music. I’ve never heard
anything like it in my life. Did you have any musical influences in your composing?
There’s a bit of influence of a rather obscure ensemble called Random. I am not a fan of
Random, but the song “Baking Donuts” gave me some inspiration. Dad’s Sound Effects
record was another huge influence on me.
Because Domestic Engineering is so unique and promethean, you might meet
unfavorable criticism--which of course is unwarranted! What will say to critics who
accuse your music of being a bunch of sounds of household appliances?
I will tell them that they are correct! That’s what the music is--and what is should be! I
expect censure from philistines. Isn’t that the way it always is with masterpieces? When
Da Vinci first displayed his painting of Mona Lisa, a lot of people who knew Mona
formed a protest group. “This isn’t art!” they fulminated. “Why, it looks just like her;
where is the creativity? You might as well take a stinkin’ photograph!” Like
Domestic, the painting was a realistic facsimile of something from real life. The art that
hides by its own art, you know. I believe that critics are those people who cannot bear to
face reality; perhaps they find something alarmingly personal in Domestic that they would
rather avoid.
Your work definitely has an extremely personal, emotional quality to it. I would have
thought you had drawn from past experiences; it’s amazing that you can do so well
without!
I agree. I have been known become somewhat of an actress at times, so I guess that’s
what I was doing with Domestic.
If not personal experience, what inspired you?
I had a sense of duty. The world needed Domestic Engineering. It is such a down-to-earth
piece of music, which I believe does an extremely great job of relating the joy and agony
of quotidian household tasks. As I said before, I was not familiar with these tasks. After
creating and experiencing Domestic, I can feel them.
So, in essence, this is your way of praising important but otherwise unnoticed tasks.
Would you say that you are the champion of the common man?
Ha! Sorry, I couldn’t help but notice that you said “common man” rather than, say,
“common woman,” as if you are a bit of a feminist. You definitely implied that house work
should not be thought of as a woman’s domain. Fifty years ago, people would not
even have been able to comprehend that question! Now, I’m no feminist by today’s
standards, but--oh sorry, you were saying. . .
That is a wonderful point, Pythia! I was asking--
Oh right, your question! I would not call myself “champion of the common man” for fear
that people would think me a socialist, which is simply not true. Of course, the phrase
generally also refers to proletarians rather than home-makers as the “common men.”
It seems like it was about time for someone to support the domestic engineers; after
all, that is the oldest profession!
Actually, there were no domestic engineers until their were houses. The first people were
nomadic hunters and gatherers. The earliest profession was biologist.
Biologist!?
Yes, biological nomenclature, specifically. Adam was involved in that from the start.
Anyway, I was goiing to say, before you interrupted my train of thought, that as
far as music for the "common man" goes, the song that comes to mind is Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common
Man.” Now, I always think of Olympians when I here it. It takes special physical
adroitness and lots of dedication to become an Olympian, and fewer people are Olympians
than domestic engineers.
So
where are all the domestic engineering songs? The closest thing is “I Brush My Teeth.”
No one else even sings about house work, let alone depicts it in vivid sonic realism as I
have done. Most people--
excluding myself--have had direct experience with domestic engineering, so you’d think
that music would relate this, but noooo. We have an entire genre of “industrial music,”
and yet, before my album, there was simply no music on the market to celebrate
homemakers. Sure, there were songs to praise common jobs, such as “People in Your
Neighborhood”--
Oh yes! I hear you are quite a fan of Sesame Street music.
Somewhat. Songs like “Would You Like to Buy an O,” “I Love Trash,” and “Cookie
Disco” really turn me on. Some songs are dull, though. You know, I’ve written my own
versions of “Would You Like to Buy an O” and “People in Your Neighborhood.”
Wow! Any chance that those will be bonus tracks on Domestic Engineering?
No. Domestic is a concept album about a full day of household tasks; adding Sesame
Street songs would terribly upset the mood.
But you are also quite a talented lyricist, I understand.
Yes, if you want to think that. Of course, Domestic doesn’t really have any lyrics--unless
you want to call that stuff on “Paying the Bills” lyrics!
[Laughs.] Whatever you call it, that song certainly is filled with emotion! What a
fantastic song!
It is a personal favorite of mine, along with “Smoke Detector” and the “Laundry” series.
Do you have anything else you would like to say?
In case you missed it before, I am not a Socialist, not like that soi-disant
poet-of-the-common-man Carl Sandbag! I guess I am the true champion of the common
people--the most common people of all--but I am by no means a socialist. I am a
Capitalist. No mixed economy either. I’m a 100%, all-natural, free-market, laissez-faire
Capitalist.
Well, Pythia, it has been a pleasure and an honor to speak with you. Good luck to you
and may Domestic Engineering become more popular than Ricky Martin!
Wait a sec, aren’t you going to buy my lunch?. . . Hey, where did you go?. . . Hellooo!. . .
Are you still here?. . . Hello??. . . hmmm. . .
This magnificent CD can be yours for only $19.95! That's right, only $13.95!! They're sure to sell fast. Pre-order yours today to be sure to receive a copy!
Orders can be mailed to i_saw_the_potato@hotmail.com
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