29 дек. 2012 г.

Eleh



Eleh was formed specifically to pay tribute to early minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue or Pauline Oliveros.

Using a vintage modular analog synthesizer, HP tube test oscillators and occasionally a guitar and a piano, Eleh creates analog drone music with emphasis on the ultra-low end of the audio spectrum.

For the best audio experience, the listener is invited to sit, at least, seven feet away from the speakers.





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28 дек. 2012 г.

Régénération - Dégénérescence



There is, in the Limoges (France) area, a number of neglected industrial sites. If one's walking in these sites he would be able to experience their past activities - more or less recent; it would be revealed by characteristic material or by the site's layout itself. One of these places has hold our attention : an industrial complex of 10 hectares was created at the end of the 19th century on the banks of a river. Its goal was to regenerate hevea's sap in order to manufacture tires, tennis balls, soles, gloves, teats... It helped the just born latex civilization to grow... This decaying factory, disused since some years, was ruined by many fires due to the numerous flammable and polluting materials located on site. Despite the fact that the place is disused, it has got a strong sound identity, a rich sound spectrum.
It was very important for us to introduce this area to you. The interest was to combine the place's discovery with the discovery of the works of numerous artists - working with field recordings made on specific sites. The recording of sound atmospheres of a place could be considered as fixing a fragment of time, space, history (Quite like a photograph).
Representative matters (wood, stone, rubber) of the factory were taken, then sent to the artists. The parcel also contains photographs of the place and a representative sound sample of 15 mn, a kind of sound plotting. This field recording was made by TOY BIZARRE in January and February 1996 and edited by Bruno MOREIGNE. We decided to avoid human sound sources in order to let the place "express itself". With these 15 minutes of sound and the various samples of the place, each artist was able to give its own sound interpretation of the place. The one and only restraints were: to use ONLY the sounds we gave (to do a sound regeneration) and to record a track of 4 mn 30 maximum. All the sound treatment/composition methods were authorized. [You can listen to the original sounds by playing the uneven tracks.]
We can draw a parallel between the rubber regeneration (past activity of the factory) and the regeneration of the factory's actual sound (the result of the decay of the place); that's the core of this project. This parallel also allows us to apprehend the sensibilities, the place's visions of each artist - because they all worked on the same sound basis.




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27 дек. 2012 г.

Andrew Chalk side projects


ANDREW CHALK has been active since 1986 and the output under his own name has been sporadic throughout these early years. However, the last several years have witnessed a surge in activity, and most of Andrew's recent material is now released on his own Faraway Press label.


Ferial Confine (Alias):


Elodie (Andrew Chalk + Timo Van Luyk):


Ghosts On Water (Andrew Chalk + Daisuke Suzuki + Naoko Suzuki):


Isolde (Andrew Chalk + Robin Barnes):


Marsfield (Andrew Chalk + Brendan Walls + Robin Barnes + Vikki Jackman):


Mirror (Andrew Chalk + Christoph Heemann & with the participation of Andreas Martin and Jim O'Rourke on occasional releases and live events):


Ora (Andrew Chalk + Darren Tate):






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15 дек. 2012 г.

Ben Frost



Ben Frost (born 1980) is a composer and producer. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he has been based in Reykjavík, Iceland since 2005. Frost is recognised for his experimental music drawing widely on influences of minimalism, post-punk, black metal and noise.

His work includes Music for Sad Children (2001, independently produced and released), the ambient guitar exploration Steel Wound (2003, and reissued in 2007), described by Pitchfork Media as "an exemplary ambient experience", and the LP Theory of Machines on the Icelandic record label Bedroom Community.

He has worked extensively in contemporary dance and theatre, including award winning productions with Chunky Move and the British choreographer Wayne McGregor. He has created 2 works with German Playwright and Director Falk Richter and in 2013 premieres in his first directorial role for a music-theatre adaptation of the Iain Banks novel "The Wasp Factory.







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Kreng



Kreng (Pepijn Caudron) started as a strictly sample-based project, working with sounds from various sources: free-jazz, first generation electronics, improv, classical modernism, vintage ethnomusical fieldrecordings, etc… The project mutated into a cinematic, theatrical device that has been used by various film and theater directors. Kreng scored more that 20 theatre- & danceproductions, most of them produced by the Belgian theatre-company Abattoir Fermé.

Kreng produced a remix for Badawi’s Unit Of Resistance Album (Badawi = Raz Mesinai who also records for John Zorn’s Tzadik label)

The debut album, titled ’ L’Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu’ is now released on the excellent Miasmah label (artistic co-ordination by Erik Skodvin, aka Svarte Greiner / Deaf Center).




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14 дек. 2012 г.

20' To 2000



20' to 2000 is a Raster-Noton's monthly series of twelve CDs released over the course of 1999, with each month's artist contributing a 20-minute project expressing "possibly a manifest of the millennium". Each disc was packaged in a thin plastic slipcase with a hollow core. A separate kit containing twelve magnets fit into the core and allowed the individual discs to be joined into one set (pictured). This series received the "Golden Nica" award from Ars Electronica in 2000.

  1. Komet - Manhatten / January
  2. Ilpo Väisänen - Untitled / February
  3. Ryoji Ikeda - 99 :: Variations For Modulated 440Hz Sinewaves :: / March
  4. CoH - Into Memories Of S-Tone. For Gavin Bryars / April
  5. Byetone - Untitled / May
  6. Senking - Untitled / June
  7. Ester Brinkmann - |||||.|.... / July
  8. Scanner - Cystic / August
  9. Noto - Time..Dot / September
  10. Mika Vainio - Untitled / October
  11. Wolfgang Voigt - 20 Minuten Gas Im November / November
  12. ELpH - Zwölf / December




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10 дек. 2012 г.

(Microscopic Sound)



If you're not quite sure what you're getting into with the purchase of Microscopic Sound, the title of the disc actually gives some hint as to what lies within if you take it literally enough. Instead of going the route of the big-beat or even putting together one of those electro-lounge compilations that seem so popular these days, Caipirinha (known for their pioneering of interesting electronic artists) has gone with music that is stripped down to it's most basic level. Part of the time, it's like aseptic ambient music. Something that sounds like the first compositions that robots would come up with upon their takeover over the human race.

Okay, so maybe that's a bit much, but the key to this disc is that sounds have been stripped-down to their most base level. For the most part, the synth sweeps, goofy samples, and beats that you may be used to in electronic music are gone. Instead, Microscopic Sound is dominated by music composed of pure tones and noise (yes, there is such thing as pure noise).

The disc starts off with super high frequency blips on "Crystal S2" by Noto. After a few moments of these little high-end chimes, the track actually starts into some semblence of rhythm with a super low-end hum and squirts of feedback. It's almost disconcerting to listen to given the offset tones and it almost makes one feel as if they were stuck inside the belly of a huge computer that is about to blow a circuit and short out. Ryoji Ikeda's (who has appeared on other Caipirinha releases) "Zero Degrees" follows things up with an stacatto blasts of white noise and an ever-building pop that sounds like static cling playing to a metronome. Eventually, he also drops in some serious low-end and a tone that doesn't sound completely unlike a blip that accompanies nearly every tracking device in movies. He doesn't stop there, though, and eventually several other elements are added to the track, making it sound somewhat like an Autechre track if it were even more sterile.

"Rotor" by Produkt and "Studio 1 Variation Gelb" by Thomas Brinkman break out of the mold of the first several tracks by doing a bit of something different. With some squishy little noises that recall Cologne, Germany area musicians like Mouse On Mars or Mike Ink, they also have a beat (although dancing to it may cause severe disorientation), which most of the tracks on the disc slide by without. After that, the disc goes into the Pole-esque track "Comp Twee" by Goem and the two more upbeat tracks ("Rom" by Digital and "Zenith" by Sound Track). "Reihen" by Komet would sound like a fairly typical track of ambient washes, but has several different weird tones and blurps that come in over the soft sounds.

Overall, it's a very challenging disc for someone who hasn't listened to much electronic music. As mentioned above, many of the artists on the disc use sounds that are pure tones (that help to create a very machine-like listening environment). While sometimes this creates an environment that reminds one of sitting in a room full of wind chimes, other times it's just plain startling. Still, it's a very interesting idea for a compilation, and a good way to hear a lot of different artists that you probably wouldn't get the chance to hear unless you did some serious scavenging. It will probably challenge you, but sometimes that's a good thing.




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