(RecRec, 1989) From June 4th through July 16th 1989 the floor of one of the Shedhalle galleries, Zürich (Switzerland), was covered with copies of a record titled Footsteps. During the six weeks of the installation, people were invited to walk on the records-willingly or not, they had to step on them to reach the adjacent [...]
Very dark improvisations of Mark Wastell and Mattin recorded in a dis- used safety box in what it used to be a bank near the City, in London. The bass frequencies are going to make you feel like you are trapped in the rectum of King Kong. It comes with a 20 pages booklet with [...]
Metamkine 1997 In the first of these two silences, Castellani blends internal combustion engines and the squeaky wheels of a farm cart with low drones and vaguely organ-like sounds, along with both natural and harshly processed bird calls. Blends is perhaps a bit of a misnomer. While there are long stretches where sounds gradually crescendo [...]
Terre Thaemlitz es un artista multimedia premiado. Escritor, orador, educador, mezclador de sonido, Dj y promotor de la casa Comatonse Recordings. Su trabajo combina la crítica a diferentes temas de identidad socio-política– incluyendo los problemas de género, la sexualidad, etnias y racismo – con una visión crítica sobre la producción mediática comercial. Esta diversidad de [...]
Australian sound artist Lawrence English seems to be on a tour of electronic music’s most distinguished labels. Having already released via his own Room40 imprint, English contributed to the likes of Cronica and Grain Of Sound before last year arriving at Touch (for whom he released Kiri No Oto) and now in 2009, 12k. A [...]
Improvising guitarist Derek Bailey has expressed the belief that “If you’re going to explore uncharted territory, it’s okay to carry a compass, but not a map.” It’s obvious; if you know where you’re going and have plotted the most efficient or scenic course to get there, you may arrive without mishap but deprived of much [...]
(Matchless 2008) Recorded at Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, England on January 13, 2008. The tinniest sound is amplified by intention. Other noises are transformed into counterpoint. The music begins. Tentative suggestions are offered, politely ignored, admonished or not noticed. Serendipitous slips of the wrist are canonized — pursued by conflagrations and spectacular shell bursts. [...]
(1998) Born in 1931 and highly active, Arne Nordheim is considered by most as the greatest living Norwegian composer, his chamber music, orchestral and various other work spanning a 40 year period. He started to get international recognition in 1960 with his orchestral work ‘Canzona per Orchestra’ and soon after began to explore the use [...]
Robin Hayward: tuba Annette Krebs: guitar, objects, mixing desk, tapes Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Annette Krebs in Berlin Self-released by Annette Krebs in 2007 bagatellen: Hayward and Krebs have been performing together both as a duo and in larger ensembles like Phosphor for some time now. It’s an interesting reversal of the traditional role-playing [...]
Once you start following Jean-Luc Guionnet’s career, you cannot help but be amazed at the number of roads his creativity can follow. A composer of electro-acoustic music and a free improviser on the saxophone, for Pentes he turns to the church organ. Recorded over two days of April 2001 in Notre Dame des Champs (Paris) [...]
