Posts tagged Doug Haire
16.08.09 framework
Aug 20th 2009
well folks, we are finally back in the studio after a long, long time away – i hope you enjoyed your chance to hear so many of the framework:focus programs again during our summer repeat schedule, but i hope as well that you’re as pleased as we are to be back with these piles of new material. this week we started the long task of getting through them – in fact we didn’t even quite catch up with what was waiting to be played before we left! we framed our show with a fantastic new piece (in fact a work-in-progress, he informs us) by chris watson – a stereo mix-down of a quadruple hydrophone array recording the surf in tortuga bay on the galapagos islands. from within this bay we sampled sounds frommeri von kleinsmid, joe colley, jim hoult and a glorious project from a few years back by doug haire - nineteen american waysides features location recordings of america’s lost highways, in which are installed bizarre distant manipulations of old 78 rpm records, wafting by in the distance, amongst the rumble of traffic or insects. this really is a beautiful example of themed phonography – check it out!
we also featured a framework intro recorded during our travels by estonian ceramic and installation artist mariliin kindsiko – now, there were many more of you we met out there who promised intros, don’t think we’ve forgotten! we’ll be looking out for them in the post soon…
mariliin kindsiko / framework intro
recorded in an estonian forest while mushroom picking in a light rain
doug haire / tarkio, mt 3:30am/sumatra, mt 2pm / nineteen american waysides / anomalous
two clattering engines weave while a disembodied voice wanders in the distance…
joe colley / future screaming / psychic stress soundtracks / antifrost
circuit glitches and found sounds build to a pulsating crescendo
chris watson / tortuga bay / - / -
in the midst of a massive surround seascape
doug haire / i-15s at id/ut border 4pm / nineteen american waysides / anomalous
trafficless midday roadside – we’re left only with the insects and the odd 78 additions…
jim hoult / wave organ / - / -
beautifully minimal reverberations of waves captured by enclosed space
meri von kleinsmid / the rats in the walls / ex vivo / mimeograph
if these are rats they can have the walls, and the ceiling and floor as well
doug haire / myrtle beach, sc midnight/abilene, ks sundown / nineteen american waysides / anomalous
whistling harmonics make way for singing traffic and wildlife
meri von kleinsmid / ethereal tether / ex vivo / mimeograph
dense rumble of birds, a tin can 1/4 full of water, traffic and voice
joe colley / all of us are monsters and all of us think the others are monsters / psychic stress soundtracks / antifrost
a bass rumble is agitated by a metallic squeak until it cracks
doug haire / alto, tn midnight/melstone, mt 2:30pm / nineteen american waysides / anomalous
one last sampling of swirling roadside ghosts…
chris watson / tortuga bay / - / -
…brings us back to the sea
originally aired on 09.09.05
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed!
Related posts
live in Seattle – the Seattle Phonographers Union Thurs July 23
Jul 20th 2009
Earshot Jazz presents The Seattle Phonographers Union
Thursday July 23
7:30 pm
$7-$15 sliding scale
Chapel Performance Space
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th floor, Seattle, WA (corner of 50th St. in
Wallingford)
The Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of Seattle sound artists who
improvise with unprocessed field recordings from around the world. we strive
to create compelling juxtapositions of everyday and esoteric sounds to
arrive at surreal soundscapes.
Presented by Earshot Jazz, “The Second Century” series presents groups whose
members appear to have their fingers on the pulse of change in the art form.
The goal of the Second Century series is not to grant greater credence to
any particular way of creating jazz, nor to rule out any way of deploying
its previous stylistic turns. But moving ahead, through whatever combination
of mining the past and making use of new ideas, is the key: The series aims
to detect some of the directions jazz and jazz-related musicians are taking
to enliven their playing and our listening.
The members of the group are Steve Barsotti, Pete Comley, Christopher DeLaurenti, Doug Haire, Susie Kozawa, Dale Lloyd, Perri Lynch, Robert Millis, Toby Paddock, Steve Peters, and Jonathan Way. Barsotti explains the group’s relation to jazz: “While the SPU may sonically sound distant from the traditional jazz intrumentarium, our unusual approach honors the core of jazz and all improvised music: listening.” They proceed without a predetermined format, scores, charts, or even cues. “Collectively, we wait and listen,” says Barsotti. “Without conferring, we trust our ears to listen to ourselves and each other, fashioning immediate juxtapositions, gradual contrasts, and subtle layers.”
The uncanny results are strangely provocative. And, as Barsotti says, “some members do not believe what we make is music; others within the SPU stoutly do.”
www.seapho.org
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed!