Electrocardiograph Of A Cathode Ray Tube
"Electrocardiograph of a Cathode Ray Tube is an audiovisual project which applies a bio-medical sensing technology to an obsolete media apparatus. For decades CRT televisions mediated our perception of the world beyond our direct experience, our imaginations modulated by their machine rhythms. This performance uses brainwave / heart-rate monitors to pick up the electromagnetic resonances of the CRT screen and render them audible. The television is transformed from object to subject." Stephen Co…
Lepidópteros
Angélica Castelló (Mexico City 1972) is a recorder player, composer, improviser, sound artist, curator, teacher living in Vienna. She plays mainly the “Paetzold” which is a sub great bass recorder, along tapes and electronics. As a composer, she writes music for her own instruments and for ensembles as well. The last few years she has done various installations which combines music, performance & visual arts. Even though her source of inspiration, such as literature or visual arts, often have sp…
To The Scaffold
To The Scaffold is the new solo material from Clay Kolbinger (Math Balance Volumes, Private Anarchy) under his Termite Acropolis moniker. Decaying tape music is spread across the 6 pieces of this tape, completing a foggy wilderness.
I was a teacher
Limited Edition of 100 copies Includes artwork insert by the artist** Swiftly following his appearance on The Slaves' ace 'Spirits Of The Sun', Birch Cooper really cuts loose on his homebuilt electronics across 'I Was A Teacher'. It's his 1st solo album proper, following the vectors of last year's 'Weird Lesson' tape into burned-out, post-apocalyptic terrain, manifesting bleak visions of fried circuitry and chattering synth noise with a cryptic internal logic that's part human, but more machine…
L'Appendino 1849
100 copies only. Limited edition LP with individual trifold poster colour cover. Music assembled from original tape recordings dated 1979-1980. Sounds from several acoustic sources, magnetic tapes, environments. In Giancarlo Toniutti own words: "A jumble from within very old materials, tapes (1979-1980) comprising musical intentions, in their own way, read and reread, built and rebuilt, hung and hung back up. With no epenthesis. In a continuous stream of small precarious and chiseled magmas, sou…
The Debatable Lands
In December 2017, Howlround (Robin the Fog) was invited to
perform at "The Winter Solstice Soundscapes" for the recently opened
record store "Vinyl Café" in his home town of Carlisle, Cumbria.
Inspired by the reception to his first ever performance in the great
border city, he covered his parent's dining room table with the same
equipment, stretched loops of tape around his mum's seasonal
candlesticks when she wasn't looking... and this LP is the result. The
only equipment used on the alb…
Cargo
Steady motions between the Mediterranean Sea, Asian peripheries and Northern European expanses. Blurred traces of extraction, collection and distribution; entangled bodies; translocality; placelessness and non-time. In between the infrastructure: voices from an uncertain past; the possibility of a dead-end street; touching and releasing the ground. Recommended way of listening: half asleep / in transit. Ludwig Berger is a composer and artist based in Milan and Zurich. His work includes electroac…
Soundings
Soundings, Simon Scott's debut studio album for Touch finds the composer and sound ecologist using field recordings from various cities around the globe; modular synthesizer treatments; live strings and laptop electronics to create an album of transition and shifting time zones. The recordings were edited and composed in hotels rooms across the world as Scott was constantly on tour as the drummer for Slowdive, who successfully reformed in 2014. "Hodos", the album opener, begins with 85 mph Storm…
Path of the Wind
Edition of 200 copies. The unprocessed field recordings of Eisuke Yanagisawa were made all around Japan (2014-17) using Aeolian Harps (a stringed wind harp). On his fourth solo record since 2009, Path of the Wind includes seven tracks with a run time of over forty minutes, each named after their location or single subject as titled. Kyoto-based Yanagisawa is an ethnographer and filmmaker as well. "The Aeolian Harp (also called Wind Harp) is a string instrument that is played by natural wind. It …
Highway / Nightmare
Nobuo Yamada is a Japanese experimental/noise artist, known to me from his side project Artbreakhotel, and some collaborative works The New Blockader, Toshiji Mikawa etc. Highway / Nightmare is the 2 long compositions that are included to this beautiful cassette. Here, Nobuo managed to create a very interesting soundscape, probably improvising with various materials. A very charming work, of a quite acousmatic work that will got your attention.
Green Ways
Green Ways documents a collection of live recordings, drawn from in situ performances given in Doon, Dungarvan, Plaistow, Shoreditch, Singö and Stratford across 2018 by Graham Lambkin and Áine O'Dwyer. It celebrates the filíocht of rural and urban acoustic environments with a playful economy of means, and offers a special salute to the rich heritage of Carnahalla.Áine O’Dwyer and Graham Lambkin are multi-disciplinary artists whose work explores the nexus between music, text, illustration, theate…
Perfekt Termisk
2015 Release, edition of 300. The sound material on this record is made with recordings of internal
sounds found in obsolete media, and sound generators. Sound sources:
Revox reel to reel recorder, Beocord reel to reel
recorder, oscillator, Leader
LFG function generator, metronome, electromagnetic microphones.Perfekt Termisk by Sandra Boss is full of "carefully placed cracks and peeps over a wobbly tape adding another level of transformation. All of the seven pieces are rather sparsely orch…
Il Museo Selvatico
Since launching in 2009, Oren Ambarchi’s
Black Truffle has been making quiet waves in the underground,
its growing catalog unfurling the unexpected aural connections
which only appear when a label is led by an artist’s ear and
heart. Initially orbiting around Ambarchi’s own output, and that
of the community which immediately surrounds him, the imprint
has increasingly endeavoured to establish cross-generational
links, issuing and reissuing stunnin…
Mellow Toes
"Mellow Toes comes as the second excerpt from my Schnarcharchiv (snoring-collection). This growing collection contains audio-recordings of sleeping humans, friends, and animals in all places and states of rest, sleep and nap, captured during night- and daytime since 2009. It all started during my daily afternoon-naps when I observed my own body getting hyper-sound-sensitive on its way to sleep. In these situations my chest, my arms, my toes turned out to become my biggest ears. It made me search…
Impressões De Uma Ilha (Unguja)
A site-specific recording sporting a straightforward approach that i’ve grown to love in the works of Gonçalo Cardoso. An album of modern day exotica, a genre i usually pretty much dislike, yet Cardoso steers his vehicle easily aside the trapdoors and potholes. Combining found sounds, sparse playing and field recordings he creates a world that both invokes Treasure Island, and An Essay On Exoticism. Indeed questions are raised. But especially certain emotions are shared. Cardoso acts both like t…
Chasser (1ere etude naturelle)
Lionel Marchetti (1967) is a notable French electroacoustic improviser and musique concrète composer, visual-sound artist, a writer and a poet. Self-taught at first, he later studied musique concrète with Xavier Garcia. Lionel Marchetti is a pioneer improviser, using various electronic instruments, analog systems with modified speakers, REVOX reel-to-reel recorder etc. He has collaborated with musicians like Jérôme Noetinger, Xavier Garcia, Xavier Charles, Seijiro Murayama, Emmanuel Holterbach, …
Lips & Un Canto Della Tonnara
Hiele Martens is the duo of Roman Hiele and Lieven Martens Moana. Lips is a musical story about a Lord of Castle daydreaming about his favorite fetish... and other things. It has compositions created in the Worm studio (Rotterdam, Netherlands) on The Putney, ARP 2500, Serge et al; combined with our own midi, voice and other techniques. In eight short songs, we sing the Lord’s favors, whishes and fears. This record was originally released may 2017, in a currently sold out and limited edition of…
Composiciones Nativas
Subtitled "Music for Native Peruvian Instruments and Magnetophonic Tape (1978)" this is a wonderful collection of pieces composed between 1976 & 1978 at the Royal College's EMS by Peruvian composer Arturo Ruiz del Pozo. Ranging from extended tape-loop meditations to application of mystical folk instrumentation & enharmonic percussion sonorities, this is an incredibly eye-opening survey of the work of a composer of whose work I was completely unfamiliar prior to this issue.Like many countries in …
Codex Amphibia
Field recordings realized by Thomas Tilly, December 2016 Guiana. This project comes from a research field session realized with Antoine Fouquet, Research associate at The French National Center for Scientific Research; “Ecology, environment and interactions in Amazonian systems Lab” (LEEISA); and the “Evolution and Biological diversity Lab”. Comprised from unprocessed raw field recordings and interspersed sinewave structures by Thomas Tilly, 2017. Mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening L…
Wovenland
Serie of recordings made by Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami in different locations and then processed through different playback speed, noise gate or parallel editing.For 15 years, the Yokohama based artist Toshiya Tsunoda has been releasing remarkable acoustic works into a world that he seems to hear like no one else. His CDs are the most idiosyncratic and rigorous to be found among the many field recording releases of recent years, though his work is just as easy to place in the sound art frame..…