Armed with four 8011 DPA hydrophones, DPA 4060 omni mics, a Telinga parabolic reflector mic and a Sound Devices 744T digital hard disk recorder, Jana Winderen studies and records wild places which have a particular importance in our understanding of the complexity and fragility of marine ecosystems. The recordings were made on field trips to [...]
Although Rephlex is mainly known as the label founded by Mr. Richard D. James (and Grant Claridge). Although the label has put out releases by crowd-favorites such as Bogdan Raczynski, Global Goon, and Cylob, it’s also long been a champion of very off-kilter releases by artists with minds that work sort of like mad scientists [...]
John Elliott, aka 1/3 of the Emeralds, embarked on an anonymous journey into washed out synthdrone-psychedelia some two years ago. The results were released on an obscure triple cassette, and eventually made their way into the hands of the marvellous Digitalis imprint, who’ve done us all a great favour by pressing them onto a measly [...]
Almost a decade on from its original release via Mille Plateaux offshoot Ritornell, Afternoon Tea still feels like a vision of the future. A quintet of extreme electronic experimenters come together for a journey into the digital borderlands between computer music and free improvisation, as captured over a series of live concerts held during the [...]
The composition is scored for four superimposed soprano saxophones, handled – of course – by Krieger. It is explained that playing the CD at the extremes of the audible range warrants the best consequence for this particular recording: soft volume to get a sort of microtonal ambient, loud for a deeper psychoacoustic experience characterized by [...]
Maybe it’s just the album cover, maybe it’s the reverb, but there’s a distinctly outdoor feel to this latest offering from Alpine explorers Noetinger, Marchetti (microphones, speakers, tape recorders) and Voice Crack’s Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl (as ever on “cracked everyday electronics”). It’s practically impossible to tell just from listening what “instruments” they’re actually [...]
Philipp Wachsmann, violin, viola, electronics, tape compositions. Point of departure (20.03) In air (01.27) White (09.37) Inversion (05.39) Triangle (09.50) Line (04.13) Informel (06.23) Artist’s imprint (04.01) Mass (09.38) Performance and collaboration with Sarah Eckel in her exhibitionin the Synagogue in Oerlinghausen; recorded on 11/12 October 1996. Cover (reproduced above) designed by Eckel and Eckel. [...]
The collaboration of Britain’s premier free jazz giant with a favourite post-punk pioneer, Passage To Hades could easily have led to a kind of musical hell, a collision of cultures sufficiently watered down to bear the label Avant-Lite. But Jah wobble has learned much since his days alongside John Lydon in PiL, thanks in large [...]
I remember saying when Ian’s ‘Tegami Beauty’ release came out on U-Cover that he was going to be a name to watch over the coming years and it turns out I was absolutely right. Not content with co-running the excellent Home Normal label and putting out varied net label releases, he’s now really come into [...]
Early in 1991 I received a commission from Professor Hans Landesmann, the person responsible for the concert planning of the Salzburger Festspiele, to compose a string quartet. The Arditti Quartet was to play the world première in 1994. My first reaction was – as often before in such cases – that I would not write [...]
