Audience
A group of people is looking back on a collective experience, unsure if they were part of this situation or merely outside spectators. While they talk them selves through the event, one starts to mutate as different objects in the environment starts to behave in strange ways. Then the space suddenly completely transforms, and they start to realise how everything in this reality has a changeable and rather diffuse nature. Performed by Karis Zidore, Miriam Kongstad, Jakob Littauer, Cæcilie Trier, …
T.O.
"Last time we heard the powerhouse duo of Chris Shields (Marcel du Swamp, Ro) and Alexander Holm (Sensorisk Verden label boss), they called an audience member during the show on a homemade telephone while shaking dice, giving each other unidentified signs and cues, and presenting their special flavor of musique concrete. Voice, tape, synth (?). Beautiful sound. New record is bonkers" - L. Dusk.
Variables of Uncertainty
"Have you ever sensed a landscape change in front you? The sand under your feet completely change colour or structure. Certain places we enter calls for a different mode of engagement. In front of me is a piece of paper. On the paper a hand have scrippled nervous lines and strokes. Some of these lines form what could be words, others look like broken tools or thoughts never materialized. When I pick up one of the broken tools, i notice how it turns into a word, letters of unknown origin grows ou…
Embedded Listening by Felaia
The first full length solo album by musician and visual artist Felia Gram-Hanssen. Taking on different roles as field recordist, singer, producer and drummer Gram-Hanssen weaves together different parts of her praxis, which results in a diverse sound environment somewhere between drone rock and music concrete. It has been more than six years in the making and now we are so happy to finally release this beautiful work.In the title Gram-Hanssen introduces her own doppeltgänger Felaia, the albums f…
LP2
The sophomore release from vocalist Theo Bleckmann and electronic musician & producer Joseph Branciforte, LP2 is a follow-up, companion piece, and elegant evolution of the shared musical language first developed on the duo’s debut, 2019’s LP1. Branciforte & Bleckmann return with a meticulously crafted album of even greater scope and complexity, further dissolving the boundaries between improvisation & composition, live performance & studio production, human & machine-generated sound.
The duo has…
LACE
Tip! There’s music inside of lace stitching, and electro-acoustic composer, improviser, and harpist Zeena Parkins has spent years finding it. Her lace pieces use images of lace as musical scores for ensembles to play, building webs of sound that emerge from its contours. LACE is a boxset of artifacts including an LP of two of Parkins’ multi-movement works, “LACE I.” and “LACE II.,” presented for the first time on recording. The pieces were performed by percussionist William Winant, electronic mu…
With pats on the head, just one too few is evil one too many is good that's all it is
Tip! The heavyweight trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi return with their 12th and most epic release to date, the triple LP With pats on the head, just one too few is evil one too many is good that's all it is. Documenting the entirety of their final performance at the dearly departed Roppongi home of Tokyo underground institution SuperDeluxe in November 2018, the music spread across these six sides splits the difference between the guitar-bass-drums power trio moves and experim…
Altars
*2023 stock*
A cycle of primitive and ethereal.Building monoliths as Altars. A Hearth.The main centre of these pieces are weathered landscapes, crumbling rocks, erosion eating away at stones, chaos of overgrowth, the deep time of constant crumbling and occlusion. Passage of storms, rebuilding of momentum, weathered souls.A cyclical altar, an eroded homecoming.A lyrical desolation.
From the artist:
"The narrative of the entire record is loosely based on the concept of deep time, a temporal scale …
Un été sans fin
*100 copies limited edition* Perpetual pendulum swings, cyclical and reappearing, same-same but expediting, eternal summer, scorched earth.
Bruno Duplant - Natural & electronic devicesPrimož Bončina - Electric guitar, field recordings
Salvado
*300 copies limited release* Recorded during two days in the spring of 2022, Salvado sees Lettera 22 go all in musique concrete. One single long tape loop worming its way around a room through three reel recorders, only sparingly tampered with in the process. The result is far from uneventful or passive though, as all the ghosts in the old machinery seem to come alive. An album perfect for nighttime immersion. Loud playback recommended.
Hailstone Temple
*100 copies limited edition* Camilo Ángeles and Joanna Mattrey present a striking set of pieces culled from an improvised live set at Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, recorded and filmed February 2022, with a dual recording and video release presented here as “Hailstone Temple”. Both musicians have fascinated Notice Recordings for quite a while, and both exhibit deep relationships with their instruments: flute and viola, respectively. Ángeles originally caught our attention via the TVL …
Manuale di cultura industriale (Book)
*2023 stock. Italian language edition* This edition of "Manuale di CUlturea Industriale" entirely revised, updated, and increased by more than fifty percent from the previous edition edited by Paolo Bandera, remains the reference text of an uncompromising counterculture that has been able to resist the blandishments of the market for twenty years.
Music, performance, radical philosophies noisily sing the end of the industrial age. From here all "hard" musical forms have taken inspiration, from p…
Skandinavisk & Maskeret
2023 Stock, few available. Comes in transparent PVC cover. Slip stamed 'Antikvarisk' Inner label design differs from original release. Limited edition of 40 copies.
Piece For Corroded Digital Audio Tape
*Limited edition of 20 copies.* Audio constructed with analogue Function Generator, and Panasonic SV 3800 DAT Recorder. BASF 15 minutes master tape, physically altered.
Kodemusik 1
*Limited edition of 25 copies.* Second volume of the Kodemusik series of limited edition releases containing repurposed or "upcycled" morse code training records. Each release has two records that can be mixed together and eg. slightly pitched differently. This way complex syncopated rhytems can arise, as well as new verbal meanings contained in the code sequences. Jonas Olesen is a renowned Danish composer and sound artist. Born 1979. Formerly lecturer in electronic composition and history at t…
Get's
Tip! Geins't Naït was founded in Nancy, France, in 1986 by Thierry Merigout and Vincent Hachet, both students at the Architecture School of Nancy. A year later Laurent Petitgrand joined the band. Their sound is often described as an equivalent of bands like Einstürzende Neubauten, Coil or Test Dept., but Geins't Naït is not pure classic Industrial. While Geins't Naït offers rough pieces of music as an extension of its punk attitude, Petitgand refines them to create some musicality within the pos…
Zwosch, Zwosch & Zwosch
Tip! 200 copies. Comes in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, designed to our house style by Rutger Zuydervelt. Liner notes by Guy Peters. Live concert at Festival DME - Lisboa Incomum, recorded by Mariana Vieira and Jaime Reis on the 30th July, 2021. Title inspired by Kurt Schwitters. Mastered by Dirk Serries.
Hunt At The Brook Again / Hunt At The Brook With Neil Metcalfe
Tip! In Vital Weekly 1397, I reviewed a CD by Dirk Serries, Benedict Taylor and Friso van Wijck they released on the Portuguese label Creative Sources Recordings. Now, the Portuguese entered Serries' label New Wave Of Jazz. The improvised music scene is small but very busy. A trio consisting of Carlos "Zingaro" on violin, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and José Oliveira on percussion. They played on July 30, 2021, in Lisbon and for the title, they took inspiration from Kurt Schwitters. I think the…
Trilogy Live
Tip Tip Tip! Triple CD / Limited to 150 copies - reverse board printed sleeve / 6 panel digisleeve on Midira Records. Scatterwound aka Dirk Serries (Belgium) and N (Germany) return to Midira Records with a fulminant triple album called “TL” (Trilogy Live), housing three festival sets of the pre-pandemic era. The album shows how the duo adapts their improvisational sets to the locations they were playing. All starts with an early recording from 2017, where Scatterwound played a cumulative set in …
Music for Sixth-tone Harmonium
Composers Fredrik Rasten and Ian Mikyska present new compositions for Alois Hába’s unique sixth-tone harmonium, performed by Miroslav Beinhauer, who has single-handedly revived the instrument after decades of slumber. Alois Hába, Czech composer and pioneer of microtonal music, commissioned a number of microtonal instruments in the 1920s and '30s, including the sixth-tone harmonium, two of which were built. Hába himself wrote only one solo piece for this instrument, and also included a part for i…