Black Swan Network is a musical side project of

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. With contributions from

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members

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and

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, as well as individual contributions from J. Kirk Pleasant of

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's Roxanne Martin, it was intended to be an experimental project in

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. After their releases, the band members became busier with their other projects, and Black Swan Network appears to be on permanent hiatus.

Releases

Black Swan Network released one full-length album on

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and two

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. The full-length album, '' The Late Music'', was born out of a small message hidden in the liner notes of The Olivia Tremor Control's '' Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle'', requesting that people submit recordings of dream descriptions to the band. The album consisted of seven untitled pieces incorporating the submissions with different other ambient sounds and musical fragments.

Albums

* '' The Late Music'' (

; CD; 1997)

Singles and EPs

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( Flydaddy; CD/12"; 1997) * Happy Happy Birthday to Me Singles Club: June (

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; 7"; 2001)

External links

* The Elephant 6 Recording Company artists American experimental musical groups {{US-experimental-band-stub