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Works, 2020
**CD in gatefold carboard wallet, 300 copies. To be released in mid July 2020.** Works, 2020 includes two new compositions, Different Speeds for Decay Instruments (for electric piano; the score of this piece adorns the front cover) and Music for Glass, Plastic and Rubber. Japanese musician Reizen is based in Tokyo, he composes and performs using mainly drone and minimalist techniques. He plays electric guitar, the inside of pianos, and creates works of phonography. He formed the drone quartet Ne…
Ocean Front Property
**CD in gatefold carboard wallet, 300 copies. To be released in mid July 2020.** Ocean Front Property represents a desired experience juxtaposed with a banal reality. The work investigates the idea of longing to be somewhere else, a mirage of aspired imagery and sound, made within the landlocked province of Alberta, where the nearest ocean is over 1000 kilometres away. The objects, spaces and sounds act as metaphors, part of a concrete existence they reside in, but contrasted with the imagined e…
Miniatures
Edition of 300. Miniatures was recorded between 2016 and 2018 in Oslo and Vienna. It is a collection of short electronic sound objects, situations, landscapes, or puzzles. With influences stemming from early minimalism and composers such as
Eliane Radigue and Maryanne Amacher the influence of 80s home taper
works such as those of Jeph Jerman’s Hands To and John Hudak can also be
heard in Nelson’s work; eschewing the elements of pseudo-spirituality,
passive listening and pastoral subject matt…
Untitled (9 patterns)
Edition of 300. Music for acoustic guitar and four cassette players. Emiliano Romanelli (b. 1979) is an Italian musician with a background in visual art. His work includes sound installation, live performance and composition; they are based on the generative systems and the perceptual relationships between sound, light and space.
Combinations (3) Cd
6 electronic pieces recorded between May 2016 and February 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Richard Francis (aka Eso Steel) has been active as an experimental music composer and improviser since 1996. His work over the years has explored different techniques of sound generation and processing, with a focus on the collection and digital processing of various natural and artificially produced sounds from the surrounding environment. He has released solo and collaborative…
9 Enclosures
9 short pieces, based on cassette recorders and small electronics. Recorded and edited between August 2017 and February 2018. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Luciano Maggiore (Palermo 1980) lives and works in London. Active musician in the field of electroacoustic music, in recent years he has developed a strong interest in the mechanisms of sound diffusion, using speakers and several analogue and digital devices (walkmans, CD players, tape recorders) as principal instruments. His interest is focus…
Even when they speak of space
New Giuseppe Ielasi full lenght album. Music for whistling, microphone and digital degradation. Recorded in november 2016 and august 2017. to be played at low volume.
Elemental Studies
book, 44 pages, color photos, 100 copies. A photographic survey of Ohta's wonderfully minimal installations.
Takamitsu Ohta is a contemporary artist, Born in Osaka, Japan. He is using material from the exact place and builds his own works. By a process of transformation, he makes things visible that everyone knows of, but doesn’t pay particular attention to in daily life. He features sound recordings and cassette loops.
3 Pauses
Electronic music realised between 2014 and 2016, to be played at low volume...
mixed occasions / stryam
Mixed Occasions is what remains of a work that was initially conceived to include a spoken narrative, but was eventually abandoned. It serves also to acknowledge the many kind reviews I have received of previous works where field recordings are thought of as a potential sound source, despite not being the case. This does.
Stryam is a formal arrangement of the same materials prepared and used for a performance at Hideous Porta 8, Dec 2013. Organised by Vasco Alves and Louie Rice (The othe…
Aliossi
26 minutes. recorded between april and august 2013. Enrico Malatesta (1985) is a percussionist active in the field of contemporary music; his personal activity and research is aimed to extend the sonic and multimaterial possibilities of percussion instruments through simple gestural techniques, able to realize complex polyrhythms and multiple sounds between performer, instrument and vastness.
His live performances and collaborations have been presented throughout Europe, North America, Ja…
Willy Nilly
Composed in 2012 as a closed archive of sounds and actions to be recombined in different forms and then presented on various occasions during the first half of 2013. The version for this cd is the almost exact replica of the one diffused during a concert in Nantes, Cable festival, May 2013. thanks to Anne-Laure Lejosne, Christophe Havard and Will Guthrie. Edition of 200 copies in letterpress sleeve.
The prepaid piano & replayed
**Restocked**In line with the prepared works of John Cage, Pekler has also tackled the piano with a modern twist that we could only imagine Cage would delight it. The A side of this long player contains participatory recordings wherein audience members of a performance in Berlin were invited to call mobile phones placed inside the performers piano (hence Pekler’s play on Cage’s original title) which would vibrate the strings and the signal would be passed along to a modular synthesizer via conta…
Planta
A new musique concrète piece by Renato Rinaldi. Entirely based on sounds recorded in the Planta quarry, located in Menàrguens, Spain. “Planta” is one of the sections of a larger installation realised by Renato Rinaldi, Armin Linke and Giuseppe Ielasi as part of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. Total running time: 16’44″
Architect
Three studies on what surrounds us and which remains sometimes invisible.
Denser materials
Performed by Cory O’Brien using snare drum, amplified plexiglass and analog synthesizer. Recorded in Spring/Summer 2013, Washington, DC.
Takahiro Kawaguchi
mixing (guitar by katsuyoshi kou, composed by takahiro kawaguchi); skit2; tuning (tuning by yosuke yamagishi, guitar by shinjiro yamaguchi, composed by takahiro kawaguchi); skit1; watching (story by cal lyall, composed by takahiro kawaguchi); doing (improvised by giuseppe ielasi and takahiro kawaguchi). Recorded by Takahiro Kawaguchi, except 6 recorded by Attila Faravelli. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, photography by Ujin Matsuo. Inspired by “Realm of the dead” by Hyakken Uchida.
Stereo recordings
Restocked! A set of unprocessed location recordings by italian sound artist Attila Faravelli: three different perspectives on a colony of woodworms, a self-built aerophone and a little surprise. More information on Attila’s projects can be found here - Edition of 200 copies in letterpress sleeve.Attila Faravelli is an Italian sound artist and electro-acoustic musician based in Milano. His solo music is released by Die Schachtel, with Andrea Belfi he is half of the duo Tumble (Die Schachtel), …
Sex god sex
“Sex God Sex” is a self-built heavy beat machine, here presented in two versions: a long track recorded on the standard machine and a shorter variation with the portable folding version.Edition of 200 copies in letterpress sleeve. Born in 1963. in 1989, Minoru Sato started activities under the name “m/s”. he established a label called “WrK” for creative activities in 1994, and had been running the label until 2006. he has an interest in a relationship between a description of nature and an art r…
White Metal
“White Metal” is a new piece by Michael Pisaro, realised by the composer and Miguel Prado. “When I first heard that Michael was thinking of working on a project with the name “White Metal”, I contacted him, excited to know more about it. At first we talked about general aspects of the piece, without knowing the route it would take, beyond a couple of conceptual premises. At some point, Michael suggested that this project be included in his “Grey Series” a series of noise-oriented scores he was …