An improvisational investigation into two bass drums over two extended recordings from West Coast experimental improvisers Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule, as they apply an arsenal of unusual techniques and engage every inch of the drums with a diverse set of objects, evoking strange sounds, pattering rhythmic echoes, metallic cries and deep rumbling effects.
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Label: Notice Recordings
Catalog ID: NTR067
Squidco Product Code: 30438
Format: CASSETTE
Condition: New
Released: 2021
Country: USA
Packaging: Cassette
Recorded in Berkeley, California on February 12, 2020 (A) and December 18, 2019 (B).
"Erosion is a sprawling yet focused love affair with the bass drum, allowing myriad objects to playfully interact with its grand form. Kevin and Jacob engage with the instrument in an entirely unrelenting way, traversing textural, pointillist sections, as well as rippling metallic drones.
Notice's admiration of Kevin and Jacob's work goes back to circa 2008, with Kevin's album with Tetuzi Akiyama and Christian Kiefer on the much-loved Digitalis Industries, and Jacob's album with Tony Dryer and Jack Wright on Bug Incision Records. Since then, 2019's Invasive Species became a stand-by, on which Kevin played and Jacob mastered.
Erosion finds the two merging their techniques in a very palpable, sensuous way. As if rendering an amorphous sculpture in minuscule gestures: gathering, releasing, reapplying material in a structured improvisation; new patterns emerge yet resist completion, as if working with weighted feathers which are impossible to manage. The length of Erosion, each piece clocking at 40 minutes, allows for this sense of fascinating endlessness; a constant process of extraction and application of reemerging sonic forms."-Notice Recordings
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Kevin Corcoran "Kevin Corcoran works with percussion, field recordings and electronics with an open interest in sound as medium as it moves through contexts of music, art, communication and place. As a percussionist he is focused on techniques which extend the sonic possibilities of the instrument by emphasizing textural sound, friction, sympathetic vibration, sustained tones and the use of found objects with an interest in freely arranging events in duration rather than marking time by rhythm. Whether working in sparse sound with a single drum and cymbal or frenetic contexts on the drum kit, improvisation is crucial to his practice as generative method and non-hierarchical exchange of ideas. Through field recordings he observes and interacts with sites and objects with specific interests in abandoned architecture, urban excess, and intersections of infrastructure and open space. Electronic sound features in his work through the use of cassette tapes, computer software, feedback systems and various means of amplification. Based in San Francisco, California, he collaborates across disciplines and borders having performed in the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan with musicians, dancers, filmmakers, writers and visual artists. In addition to making live and recorded sound and music, he has exhibited sound installations and experimental video works. Beyond his own work he is a co-organizer of the concert series Re:Sound which takes place in an abandoned munitions magazine on Mare Island and operates under 23Five, a long running nonprofit dedicated to the increased awareness of sound in the arts." ^ Hide Bio for Kevin Corcoran • Show Bio for Jacob Felix Heule "Jacob Felix Heule is a percussionist and electronic musician focused on sound-oriented improvisation following the traditions of electro-acoustic improv, noise, and 20th-century composition. His playing embraces both rough-edged intensity and disciplined instrumental technique." ^ Hide Bio for Jacob Felix Heule
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Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. Eskers 40:20
SIDE B
1. Intertidal 40:41
Cassettes
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Percussion & Drums
Duo Recordings
Objects and Home-made Instruments
West Coast/Pacific US Jazz
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