Korena Pang

Korena Pang was a name used by Jeff Mangum for his sound collage work, which he debuted during his 2002 show on New Jersey radio station WFMU.^[1] The name first appeared in the liner notes to the 1996 Neutral Milk Hotel album On Avery Island, and has been used interchangeably with another pseudonym, Alfred Snouts.^[2] Mangum described the process of constructing sound collage pieces during a rare interview with Pitchfork the same year:^[3]

"I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me [...] That record was more just a collection of twenty different home recordings, whereas the montage work I'm doing now is like a thousand sounds in one minute. Now I'm able to go out into the world with my field recorder, record sounds, and bring them home to collage on the computer. The raw sounds can really move and come alive that way. I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources."

Discography

• Angela, David And The Great Neopolitan Issue by Guignol (Cenotaph Audio; CD; 2001)
• A Hawk and a Hacksaw by A Hawk and a Hacksaw (Leaf; CD/LP; 2004)
• AUX, Vol. 1 compilation, song: "excerpt from Dogbirthed Brother in Eggsack Delicious" (Ideas for Creative Exploration; CD; 2005)

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