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Áine O’Dwyer – Locusts + Gegenschein - LP Bundle
Locusts and Gegenschein follow up the highly acclaimed ‘Music for Church Cleaners’ release from Irish artist Áine O’Dwyer. Whilst continuing to explore the church organ as the primary instrument, these two releases steer away from Church Cleaners in both sonic content and themes explored.
Hecker - A Script For Machine Synthesis - CD
The latest work from Florian Hecker A Script for Machine Synthesis is an experimental auditory drama and a model of abstraction. A Script for Machine Synthesis presents a complex simplicity that spirals in an unending manner as an audio image of the uncanny valley. It is the third chapter in the trilogy of text-sound pieces Hecker has collaborated with the philosopher Reza Negarestani. A resynthesized voice outlines procedure as procedure itself unfolds.
Marcel Duchamp - The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp - LP
Originally released by Multhipla Records, The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp is a collection of experimental pieces composed in 1913 by the legendary artist, and executed by Petr Kotik and the S.E.M. Ensemble in 1976.
Employing chance operations and non-musical sounds, Marcel Duchamp’s musical œuvre predated some radical concepts developed forty years later by John Cage.
Christina Kubisch & Fabrizio Plessi - Two and Two - LP
TWO AND TWO is the outcome of the ambitious research developed by Christina Kubisch and Fabrizio Plessi in 1976, a collaborative effort towards the merging of visual and sound elements into a new form of intermedia. Influenced by the aesthetics of Fluxus, the duo produced a highly complex and articulated performance, involving two camera operators and several video screens, as well as a variety of objects and unconventional instruments. The results is structured into four parts inspired by the natural elements, in which single instruments loose their different sonic characteristics to become inseparable parts of a unique visual/acoustic process.
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien - T Shirt
Where reality and lies mix.
black print on soft white tee.
Kleistwahr - Music for Zeitgeist Fighters - LP
New album by the much revered solo project of Gary Mundy (Ramleh / Broken Flag).
2 pieces of intense, emotional and purgative electronics miles away from audiophile realms. “Welcome to 2017. I’m laughing because I’m thinking of music and I’m thinking of death. Welcome to the Captagon, the room is dizzy and moving.
The DJ’s turntables are on fire and the heat hits me full on as I walk onto the dancefloor. Distorted sounds like the bass rumbles or high frequencies are moving from one wall to another, tracer fire and the screams of soldiers in makeshift cages. Perilous geography. Some coded references to sobbing teenagers on tape or scattered corpses in plazas.
I’m laughing because of what we all must look like. You perhaps with a biro scrawled note pinned to your chest. Not taped to the front of your shirt, but actually securely pinned to your flesh. Imagine us all like that. Not fucking photoshopped or some shit like that. Maybe a painting, with flames in the distance and the howling of the dogs. Can’t see in or out.
Fucked forever in mountains and cellars and attics and seas. Really don’t want to ruin the fun and generally I’m up for anything but this fucking shit cannot go on, can it?" Philip Best, Austin, Texas - USA - January 2017
Ariel Guzik - Cordiox - LP - VON Archives
In the history of all Von releases and in our quest for understanding the cross overs of visual and sound phenomena, Cordiox stands as the most hermetic and fabulous, not only for its immense quality and the importance of it as a document, but also because it follows up the tradition of invoking spectral imaging, visualising the invisible through sound and echoing cross-temporal vision. – Von Archives
Incredible spectral ambient invocation from hitherto unknown Ariel Guzik, producing the first great drone album of 2017. Huge recommendation if you're into Harry Bertoia, Thomas Köner, Eliane Radigue etc. A haunting play of space, place and parapsychology, Cordiox was recorded using a custom-made installation displayed at the National Pavillion in Venice back in 2013. The sound sculpture comprised of a main cylinder and 180 strings spaced out like a harp, effectively transmuting its environment and the presence of visitors into the four steeply psychedelic pieces on this record. Using the church as a huge, unpredictable resonator, Guzik draws us into the church’s symphonic microcosm of frequencies, creating a feedback system that allows the building to speak as though revealing EVP. Most crucially, the sounds captured are impossible to pin down; they could never have been mechanically or digitally produced, instead offering us a glimpse at a fleeting moment in space and time, never to be repeated. For these hectic, overwhelming days, spending an hour of your un-distracted time locked away with this record is like tonic for the mind; at once soothing, moving and thought provoking - an exceptionally beautiful reminder of the passage of time. -Boomkat
Dominions is the second full-length release from Canadian electroacoustic composer Sarah Davachi, following 2015’s Barons Court. A slightly more demure approach is at work here, shifting from the brooding textures of her previous work to softer tones and more delicate movements in structure, as in side openers ‘feeler’ and ‘ordinal’. Recorded primarily at her home base in Vancouver, Davachi returns with her typical assembly of electronic equipment, mostly consisting of vintage synthesizers as well as the Orchestron, a rare optical sampler known for its low fidelity charms. The five compositions on this release breathe new life into these obsolete machines, pausing only for the stringed cacophony of the album’s closer. Melodics emerge almost as an after thought, suggesting something farther and more distant, echoed in the disjointed imagery of local artist, Daniel Presnell.
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Excerpt from William Basinski's new CD release, Cascade. To be released on April 28th, 2015 on 2062. Distribution by Secretly Canadian Distribution. catalogue number 2062.1501 http://www.mmlxii.com/products/545658-cascade
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Keith Fullerton Whitman - PAN ACT Festival - Goethe Institut - Boston, MA - June 20th 2013
Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present PAN_ACT BOSTON: A festival featuring artists at the forefront of underground dance and experimental music from Germany, the UK, Japan, and Boston from the PAN Records roster. NIGHT ONE: June 20 Keith Fullerton Whitman About the artist: KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN is a Boston-based electronic musician who has recorded albums informed by a wide array of genres, including ambient music, drone, early electronics, drill and bass, musique concrète, and krautrock. He studied computer music at Berklee College of Music, where he was exposed to modern electronic music composition and synthesis. His studio and live setup usually consists of a modular synthesizer, sometimes augmented with computers or analogue instruments, such as guitar or oud. Whitman has released albums on Pan, Planet Mu, Kranky, No Fun Productions, Root Strata as well on his own Entschuldigen and (now defunct) Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge labels. Soundboard audio provided by Ernst Karel http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/ http://www.pan-act.com/ http://nonevent.org/ http://ek.klingt.org/