21 сент. 2015 г.

Secret Pyramid



Secret Pyramid is the solo project of Vancouver-based musician Amir Abbey, whose previous output includes The Silent March cassette (to be reissued on vinyl by Students of Decay in early 2014). Movements of Night finds Abbey further develop and refine the haunting, faraway sound-world that earned the aforementioned release well-due praise. “A Descent” opens the record; its title aptly portends the track’s dirge-like drones and throbbing cycles of low-end. Throughout Movements of Night, Abbey deftly navigates the properties of sleep and unconsciousness, charting a course that is equal parts harrowing and funereal, tranquil and sublime. Juxtaposing the everyday with the obscured, the half-there melodies and arcs of hazy guitar histrionics of “Closer” dissolve into “To Forget,” a track that posits a more familiar, tangible atmosphere in which radiant drones are tethered to a driving bassline, recalling perhaps a lost ’70s Popol Vuh Herzog soundtrack. “Escape” closes the album on a nostalgic note, akin to the feeling of waking from a wondrous dream which one knows one cannot revisit. With Movements of Night, Abbey casts his net into the abyss of the unconscious and returns with a potent paean to the dreamworld.




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6 сент. 2015 г.

Jimmy Billingham

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Jimmy Billingham is an enigmatic fellow. He has a brace of shifting musical projects that ply sound into various forms dependant on which pen-name he feels likes working under on a particular day. His discography is large and widely dispersed amongst the ‘tape scene’- a web of labels that share an ambition and DIY aesthetic – his name could be mentioned in the same breath as guys and gals like Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Hobo Cubes, Pulse Emitter or even Emeralds or Bee Mask and his is a friendly and familiar face to any who follow the community. The scene is based more centrally and commonly in America with the grand majority of music and labels based there, so it’s surprisingly rare to find a producer so deeply embedded in the culture that lives in the UK, as Billingham does.






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24 июл. 2015 г.

François Bayle


French composer (27 April 1932, Tamatave, Madagascar). Studied in Bordeaux (1946-1954), at the Paris Conservatoire, with Olivier Messiaen (1958-1959) and at the Darmstadt summer courses (1960-1962) with Karlheinz Stockhausen, among others. Joined the Service de la recherche de l'Office de la radio-télévision française (ORTF) in 1960, recently established by Pierre Schaeffer.

In 1966 Schaeffer put Bayle in charge of the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM). From then on he remained active as a composer, an administrator and a music theorist. During these years he organized concerts, radio broadcasts, seminars and events celebrating individual composers, supported technological developments (Syter, GRM Tools, Midi Formers, Acousmographe) and was behind major innovations, such as the Acousmonium (an orchestra of loudspeakers) and the INA-GRM recordings label. He also founded in 1992 the Acousmathèque with a repertory of 2000 works composed after 1948.

After leaving GRM in 1997, he founded his own audio-numerical and multiphonic studio, the Studio Magison, where he has devoted himself to research, writing and composition.



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21 июл. 2015 г.

Scanner



Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.

Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: musicians Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham and Random Dance companies, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley, Derek Jarman, Carsten Nicolai and Douglas Gordon. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music.

In 2004 his Sound Surface work was the first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission and in 2006 he produced Night Haunts for Artangel for 2006-2007, whilst sound-designing a new car horn for the USA. In 2007 he sound-designed new British horror film Reverb, and released Art Pop, with his rock group Githead.He has performed and created works in many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.




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17 июл. 2015 г.

Rutger Zuydervelt



Machinefabriek is the alias of Rutger Zuydervelt. Rutger's music combines elements of ambient, noise, minimalism, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic experiments. His pieces can be heard as an attempt to create sonic environments for the listener to dwell in. Finding tension in texture, tone and timing, the result can be very minimalistic at first glance, but reveals itself upon closer listening. The devil is in the details.

Rutger was born in 1978 in Apeldoorn (The Netherlands) and now resides in Rotterdam. He started recording as Machinefabriek in 2004. After a series of self released cd-rs, his official debut Marijn was issued in 2006, with great critical acclaim. Since than, a solid stream of music was released on labels such as Type, Important, Home Normal, 12K, Entr'acte, Dekorder, Digitalis, Experimedia and Staalplaat. He performed all over the globe, from Canada to Israel and from Russia to Japan.

Rutger collaborated (on record and/or live) with numerous artists, such as Steinbrüchel, Jaap Blonk, Aaron Martin, Peter Broderick, Frans de Waard, Mats Gustafsson, Steve Roden, Gareth Davis, Stephen Vitiello, Michel Banabila, Dirk Serries and Dead Neanderthals, amongst many others.

He frequently works with film makers, like Makino Takashi, Mike Hoolboom, John Price, Paul Clipson and Chris Teerink, for whom he composed a soundtrack for his documentary about Sol LeWitt. Rutger's music was also used in Edward Burtynsky's documentary Watermark and Josh Fox' Gasland and Gasland Part II.

Besides films, Rutger also composes music for dance pieces, like Alix Eynaudi and Kris Verdonck's EXIT (premiéred at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Alexander Whitley's The Measures Taken (for the Royal Opera in London) and multilpe pieces by Spanish choreographer Iván Pérez.

Then there's Rutgers installation work, in which the dialogue with the environment plays an important role. He did projects for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NAi (Dutch Architecture Institute), the new Armando Museum MOA, Sounds Like in Saskatoon (Canada), the Into the Great Wide Open Festival and Netwerk in Aalst (Belgium). 






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30 июн. 2015 г.

William Basinski



William Basinski is a musician, composer, auteur who has worked in experimental media for over twenty years in NYC, expanding the boundaries of the aural landscape. A classically trained clarinetist, he studied jazz saxophone and composition at North Texas State University in the late 70s. In 1978, inspired by minimalists such as Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he began developing his own vocabulary using tape loops and old reel to reel tape decks. He developed his meditative, melancholy style experimenting with short looped melodies played against themselves creating feedback loops. His early studies with piano and tape, from 1980-82, Variations: A Movement in Chrome Primitive, is scheduled for release for the first time on David Tibet's London label, Durtro in September 2003.

In 1982, he began experimenting with pulling sound from the airwaves. By sampling short melodies from Muzak radio onto tape loops of varying lengths, slowing them down, and mixing them together with a symphony of shortwave radio static in real time, he created his Shortwave Music series. A selection of these pieces was released to critical acclaim in 1998 by Carsten Nicolai's German avant-garde label, Noton. The culmination of these studies, the 1983 masterwork, The River, a 90-minute "music of the spheres" was released on Raster-Noton in Dec 2002. Using current available cheap technology, Basinski created an "instant" 90 minute video for The River, by running the music through the audio-visualizer program, ArKaos that came with his Apple Powerbook, videotaping the animation off the screen and editing in I-movie. This was shown at Voxxx Galerie in Chemnitz, Germany (home of raster-noton) from May 26-June 17,2002 to launch the release of the 2 CD box set.

Basinski's Watermusic, was released on his own label, 2062, in February 2001. A 60-minute, tranquil, shimmering ambient piece created on the Voyetra Synthesizer over a period of months spanning the turn of the century, Watermusic has received critical acclaim and is available through distributors in America, Europe and Japan. His new pieces, The Disintegration Loops, were created in August 2001. In the process of archiving and digitizing old loops, Basinski discovered a group of bucolic loops that began to disintegrate during the recording process. These pieces seem to portray the life and death of the American pastoral landscape. The 6 pieces are being released in sequence on 4 CDs, starting in June 2002. As of April 2003, Disintegration Loops 1 and 2 have been released to rave reviews as well as Watermusic II, and a compilation of loop pieces from the early eighties, Melancholia. 2062's releases are available through DIE STADT, FORCED EXPOSURE and various other international distributors as well as through his website, MMLXII.com. A 63 minute video with Disintegration Loop 1.1 had its world premiere at the 2002 Rotterdam International Film Festival. It consists of one static shot of lower Manhattan shot from his roof in Brooklyn on the evening of September 11th, 2001, as that fateful day turned to night. His latest collaboration with artist, James Elaine, a thirty minute ambient film study Variations, was previewed at Tribeca Temporary Gallery in November 2001 and its world premiere at Rotterdam. These two films are currently touring the festival circuit. Variations will be released as a special DVD edition by IDEA RECORDS in fall 2003. Another very early tape loop piece from 1979, A Red Score in Tile, was released on Christoph Heeman's 3 Poplars in limited edition LP and CD in May 2003 and is distributed by DIE STADT, Germany. Keep an ear out for Basinski's new hour-long monthly web-radio show, The Slipstream on wps1.org debuting in September 2003.




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21 июн. 2015 г.

Women Take Back The Noise


Women Take Back the Noise is a massive three CD compilation featuring 53 tracks from 47 female musicians, sound artists and noisemakers. Curated by Ninah Pixie, this project was three years in the making. Noise has traditionally been viewed as a rather male-dominated genre – although in this regard one could say that it merely mirrors the music business, or indeed society as a whole – and this compilation attempts to give voice to those women making making music/art in this area. Most of the names here are unfamiliar, although there are a few better-known artists such as TG’s Cosey Fanni Tutti and Blevin Blectum included, alongside newer up-and-coming acts such as Experiment Haywire.
The discs have been carefully sequenced and compiled to provide a cohesive listening experience, and are themed into three volumes: Orgonauta, Scheherazade and Vociferous. The first disc is fairly dreamy and ambient, and the music gets increasingly noisy and intense as you work your way through to disc three. The closest thing I’ve heard to this previously would be Virgin’s Ambient 4: Isolationism compilation from the ’90s.
Highlights include ‘Wired’ By Cosey Fanni Tutti, which features thick droning feedback guitar over lugubrious beats; the eerie, 3D occult noise loops of ‘Current’s by Choronzon; and the turgid, menacing atmosphere of ‘Lucid Interval’ by Wisteriax.
Special mention must also be made of the packaging. Instead of a standard booklet, the liner notes are presented on a couple of dozen postcards, with photos and weblinks for every artist. The three CDs, postcards and stickers come in a hand-assembled plastic sleeve with special circuit-bent noisemaker included – now if that isn’t inviting you to take the noise into your own hands, I don’t know what is…



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19 июн. 2015 г.

Anti Ittna Haapapuro


Projects: Aeoga, Arktau Aon, Arktau Eos, Aural Holograms, Dolorian, Halo Manash, I.Corax


AEOGA one of the other musical Project of Anti Ittna, based in Northern Finland, which began in 2004 as a way to exaust mind and body in order to obtain a condition of non-consciousness and to receive, realize and to create material based on both primal and absent vision.To walk AEOGA's path, it's to float in an immerse cosmic sea bathed in shadow figures and black holes devouring themselves all the time…

“Coav” was unleashed in July 2004,stimulating,penetrating,fractal explorations of dark trance-inducing drones focusing into ritualistic-tribal ambient with predomiant emphasis on dissonant abstractions and incredible work of subliminal chants, spoken passages floating behinds dense atmospheres created through 8 chapters developed here in “Coav”. Thin bell sounds and percussive elements marching together at moments arriving to a maximum level of reality in which AEOGA's is as a key to enter undefined magickal space where each enigmatic explorations of man converges. In our opinion Anti Ittna,is one of the best exponents of ritualistic art expressed through sounds, visuals and magickal atavisms. Cover shows us an automatic drawing shape similar to the work of British magician and artist Austin Osman Spare, an abstract reality revealed through “Coav”. And Cd comes in a 3 panel matte paper sleeve placed between two matte black squares. There is a small piece of knotted rope stapled to the front square, which rest in a diagonal side, suits in the larger backing piece. Limited to just 1.000 copies. There is a world that reveals itself slowly behinds 8 chapters through these explorations and is where the strength, essence of Coav is.

“Zenith Beyond The Helix Locus” was evoked in Oct 2005 presents a somber collection of 15 desolated movements, exploring ancient cosmic dimensions and blacken atmospheres of cold-blood red emotion, with enigmatic ritualistic enviroments; tonal soundscapes open doorways to a lull of trance inducing instrumentation. To experience this surreal dimension of AEOGA is to explore minimalistic ambience and evocative instrumentations centered in complex and dynamic atmospheres.The whole compositions are dense ethereal and somber with orational invocations which emerges suddenly provoking a state of gnosis, due the in deep unlimited sonic mantras, developed by AEOGA.this album is brilliant, perfect in the sense of vacuity and penetration we experience when working with such musical expressionism, altered forms of consciousness evoked beyond the Red Zenith Votex, purple seas weaving are the realities we perceive when hearing and visualizing AEOGA. More than just music AEOGA is a perfect mutation of self-illumination through dissolution. ©




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12 июн. 2015 г.

Michael Prime



Michael Prime presents himself as a sound ecologist, a title that describes his two passions: music and life. Active on the avant-garde music scene since 1985, he gained a solid reputation playing in electronic ensembles like Morphogenesis and Organum. Prime studied ecology and worked in that field for many years, conserving wildlife habitats in South London. This work led to the development of techniques used to translate environmental and organic sound sources into music. He co-founded the live electronic improvisation group Morphogenesis in 1985 with Roger Sutherland, Adam Bohman, Ron Briefel, Clive Hall, and Fred Sansom and released a string of records with them on Streamline, Paradigm, Vintage Electronic Records, and his own label Mycophile. In 1988, he started performing with the group Organum and released with them a 7" for Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier in 1989 and a string of CDs in the 1990s. He has collaborated with such avant-garde luminaries as Jim O'Rourke and Eddie Prevost and formed the group Negative Entropy in 1997 with Geert Feytons of Noise-Makers Fifes.

Michael Prime's art is mostly focused on letting the listener hear sounds that surround him but of which he remains unaware. This goes from the choice of environments in which he performs (caves, railroad tunnels, forests) to the type of sound sources he uses. On his 1998 CD Domestic Science he manipulated sounds from household appliances like a refrigerator and a washing machine. But his most influential album is the 2000 release L-Fields on which he ingeniously uses bioelectric recordings of hallucinogenic plants to create haunting electro-acoustic works. He developed a technique allowing him to interact with plants, translating variations in their bioelectrical field into sound produced by an oscillator. He performed live with plants on numerous occasions.




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