for ruined pianos and pianos on the edge of ruin A piano is said to be Ruined (rather than Neglected or Devastated) when it has been abandoned to all weathers and has become a decaying box of unpredictable dongs, clicks and dedoomps, with not a single note (perhaps excepting D) sounding like one from an [...]
2nd cd was released sept 2009 on new norwegian label HUBRO, with collaborations with Mariam Wallentin (wildbirds and peacedrums), Ståle Storløkken (supersilent) and Giuseppe Ielasi // David Stackenäs – acoustic guitars, preparation and low-budget electronics. Ingar Zach – prepared bass drum, gonger, percussion, sruti box og drone commander. Guests: Ståle Storløkken – synth, Mariam Wallentin [...]
The double bass is the poor cousin of the violin family: Double bass player Stefano Scodanibbio elicits new sounds yet unheard from this giant among strings. // Sei Studi (1981/1983) 01 Joke 02:03 ? 02 Dust 06:47 03 Upward 02:03 04 Faraway 03:40 ? 05 On turning 05:02 06 Farewell 05:22 Due pezzi brillanti (1985) [...]
Contained in an exhibition catalogue for the kinetic scupltor Nicolas Schöffer. Hardbound (9.5″ x 12″) 153 pages including a foreword by Jean Cassou and contributions by Guy Habasque & Jacques Ménétrier. Published in three versions, each with the same text in a different language: English, French or German. Collection La sculpture du 20ème siècle (The [...]
New York-based composer and sound artist Andrea Parkins initially conceived this project as Faulty (Per-Objective), an hour-long, ten channel site specific audio installation premiered in 2007 at the Diapason gallery. This CD condenses the work into an album’s worth of amplified textures, contact mic recordings, live processing and electric accordion, resulting in a very tactile [...]
A and B recorded on July 14, 1984 at Yellow Springs Institute For Contemporary Studies and The Arts (Chester Springs, Pennsylvania). C1 recorded on April 5, 1984 at Ohio State University At The American Society of University Composers Nineteenth Annual Festival Conference. C2 to D2 recorded on December 8 & 9, 1984 in the almost [...]
Maps And Diagrams is back with a series of new limited 3″ CD EP’s. Each will be limited to 50 copies, we’ll have 40 to sell and once they’re gone they’re gone. They come lovingly created in a hand stitched cork sleeve and a (small) random selection will come with a free notepad. He’s spent [...]
This pair of great French musicians had a previous duo recording in 1994, but it’s now difficult to find. It was such a marvellous encounter that a second session has been greatly anticipated. Here it is, 13 years after, and with a Portuguese edition. A double bass and an accordion, nothing more because they have [...]
Recorded throughout the first half of 2008, Euphonia sees Lawrence English and Tom Hall team up to explore a range of extended processing and compositional techniques. Inspired in equal parts by the openness of Cluster’s Kraut explorations, echoes of Eno’s ambient works, contemporary field recording and minimal electronics, Euphonia creates a uniform sense of warmth [...]
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 [...]
