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Breylin, Aaron Foster / Luke Martin: Recursive Retent (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Excerpting part of an eight-hour performance recorded over an amplified live environment of a text score for two pianists using one piano, each positioned at the opposite registers of the piano, one player creating a block of note phrases using intervals of a 2nd or 3rd with each note allowed to decay before the next, repeated by the other player following a set of rules. |
Gross, Jean-Philippe / Golden Oriole: Optical Cadillac / Golden Oriole [VINYL 10-inch] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A split 10" vinyl album of two very different works: first French sound artist Jean-Philippe Gross in a sonic assault of garish rhythmic electronic persistence and noise; then the Golden Oriole instrumental rock duo of Kristoffer Riis on guitar and Thore Warland on drums in a compelling work of grooving structure with diverse percussive interaction. |
Harker, Nina: Nina Harker [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Unusual approaches to rock song and instrumentals from this French duo of Apolline Schöser & Nocola Henry in collaboration with Valentine Noiret, Daniel Dariel on Japanese vocals, Louis Claus on Indian flute and Marie-Laure Gucciardi for poetic writing in Italian, &c.; peculiar and compelling, somehow reminiscent of Etron Fou... |
E42.A8: IIII [2 CDs] (Not On Label -- France ) Price: $21.95 In Stock A double CD compilation released to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the electro-acoustic improv space E42.A8 based in Tournai, Belgium, featuring 21 musicians, in varying ensembles, from 2 to 9 people, presenting an eclectic and diverse mix of styles and approaches to experimental music through textures, rhythm, and indescribable sound sources; fascinating. |
Teube : Teube [CASSETTE] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Strange environments of sound from the French trio of Simon Le Vigouroux on double bass, Cyril Noël on electronics and Thomas Coquelet on electronics, in two morphing works connected by name through each side of the cassette, expeditions guided by murky rythmic elements and mutated field recordings, surrounded by rich and darkly tinged sonic elements. |
Coles, Dominic: Everyone Thinks Their Dreams Are Interesting (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A slyly disruptive set of minimalist compositions from New York electronic artist Dominic Coles, recounting six dreams, each described in the liner notes, by using the voice to drive various forms of synthesis on computer and through circuitry, a curious and surprisingly detailed retelling through unexpected tone, punctuation, confrontation and silence. |
Pinhas / Merzbow / Wolf Eyes: Victoriaville May 2011 (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock French guitarist Richard Pinhas, Japanese electronics and noise artist Merzbow, and the American trio Wolf Eyes performed together at the 2011 Victo Festival, with this massive recording one result. |
Nakamura, Toshimaru: Culvert - No-Input Mixing Board 10 (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $18.95 Out of Stock The 10th release in Japanese experimental sound artist Toshimaru Nakamura's No Input Mixing Board (NIMB) instrument series, composing from the ephemeral and extraneous sounds of a mixing board with nothing connected, these assertive pieces composed in his home studio while reflecting on the changes and obscuring of many of Tokyo's small streams and rivers. |
D.L., Jean / Rutger Zuydervelt: Scramblings (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Using electric & acoustic guitars and autoharp over spacious electronics and field recordings, Belgium musician & video artist Jean De Lacoste and Rotterdamn sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, create broad pallets of ringing sounds over which acoustic instruments intone, with cellist Fransesco Guerri joining on one of 8 gently unfolding "Scramblings". |
Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD] (Tubapede -- USA ) Price: $6.00 In Stock Delicate abrasions and corruption of their instruments from the NY duo of Erica Dicker (Till by Turning) on violin and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2), 9 works of improvised soundscape and avant-raw chamber music through prepared strings, tapes, looped feedback, resonant metals, modified snares and liberally bowed surfaces, richly constrained and luxuriously blood-curdling. |
Chessex, Antoine: Subjectivation [VINYL] (Fragment Factory -- E.U. ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Using material from solo live performances in San Francisco, Berlin, Zurich and London between 2010 and 2015, composer and sound artist Antoine Chessex developed the two compositions of this album, extracting his electroacoustic altered saxophone work and developing them into larger works that bridge extreme and psychoacoustics approaches with great sonic depth. |
Dinel, Karbe: MMXX-09: Ouroboros [CLEAR VINYL] (Matiere Memoire -- Belgium ) Price: $24.95 In Stock French sound artist Karbe Dinel creates a complex work of sound that shifts through diverse moods and seamlessly dovetailed sections, using synthesizer and effects to create deep resonating tones and high pitched complements, mysterious grainy ambience, haunting chambers of drifting electronics; a mysterious and compelling journey in the electronic realm. |
Femme / Sunk Heaven / Jeph Jerman / Somnoroase Pasarele: 7 & 7 : VOL. 1 [VINYL 2 7-inch BOX] (SpleenCoffin -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The 1st in SpleenCoffin's double-7" series, each featuring exclusive material and packaged in reclaimed 7" audio reel boxes, this volume featuring audio tracks by French synth duo FEMME; NYC's Sunk Heaven; a piece composed from a group recording of Jeph Jerman, Tim Barnes, Bill Hutson & Ten Byrnes; and a work from Romanian audio artist SOMNOROASE PĂSĂRELE. |
Gorfinkel, Dale: Switches & Hose [VINYL] (Splitrec -- Australia ) Price: $20.66 In Stock Dale Gorfinkel is a multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, instrument creator and installation artist, creating unexpected aural environments exploring acoustic phenomena or creating acoustic sculptures using common materials like switches, balloons, hoses, cages, &c. |
Machinefabriek: As Much As It Is Worth [7-inch VINYL] (Machinefabriek -- Netherlands ) Price: $12.56 In Stock Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, in a 7" release of two tracks developed for a piece commissioned by Marta Alstadsaeter and Kim-Jomi Fischer for their dance piece "as much as it is worth" in 2017, the first an edited version of the final music used for the piece, a complex yet upbeat and bouncy work, the second side expanding and darkening the music. |
O'Malley, Stephen: MMXX-11: ...st-Vast Sommaren [CLEAR VINYL] (Matiere Memoire -- Belgium ) Price: $26.95 Out of Stock A rich and beautiful drone work from Stephen O'Malley recorded at EMS in Stockholm, the title translating to "East-West Summer", as the piece emulates an accommodating evening, electronic crickets introducing and then settling into a slowly rotating and absorbing combination of tones, the flickering crickets returning to fade out the sense of restful night. |
Oceans Roar 1000 Drums: [VINYL] (Sacred Realism -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Their first proper vinyl release since forming in 2008, this studio album recorded in Berlin finds Berlin saxophonist and electronic artist Bryan Eubanks, double bassist Andrew Lafkas, and NY drummer & cymbal player Tod Capp in an extended and dark improvisation, with Catherine Lamb's "secondary rainbow synthesizer" interacting and filtering their work as a 4th member. |
Merzbow / Arcane Device: Merzbow & Arcane Device (Important Records -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Two innovative sonic luminaries--Japan's Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, and New York City's David Lee Myers, aka Arcane Device--remix each other's work, bringing Myer's unique approach to feedback and ethereal electronics to harness Akita's agressive sounds, and in reverse, Akita's sense of disruptive sonics explode Myer's more contemplative feedback music. |
Baby Daddy: Hot Dick (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Carl Kruger and Mr. Stonechiper (Ryan Lewis) in a noise work with a sexual bent, an effective mini-slab of sound in a 3" CD format, a limited edition release from these 910 Noise Collective artists. |
Baby Daddy: S/T [6'' Lathe VINYL] (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock As essential component of the NC 910 Noise Collective, Baby Daddy is the duo of sound artists Carl Kruger and Ryan L. Lewis IV (Obscura Films, Mr. Stonecipher) in a 6" lathe cut vinyl release presenting two succinct tracks: "Computers" merging controlled feedback and aberrant electronic progressions; and "Choices", using rich storms of diverse thick noise. |
Blouin, Hugo / Claude Bourque / Paul Gregoire: L' Ossuaire [2 CDs] (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Recordings of an installation piece built in Iles-de-la-Madeleine in the summer of 2013, a large sculpture made of resonant metal pipes with propane torches and whale bones, used as a huge musical instrument allowing three people to play simultaneously from different sides. |
Chefkirk: An Obscura Edit (Obscura Films -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock A collection of digital video artworks presented by Orgeon sound and noise artist Chefkirk, combining improvised drone and powerful electronics into energetic works, edited and sequenced with visuals by Obscura Film's Ryan Lewis (910 Noise), presenting 8 pieces of abstract and gripping sound with complementing colorful object and silhouette motion animation. |
Chefkirk / S27E152 : Immediate Shred [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, hand-painted & numbered; Side A presents S27E152, aka Brisbane's Tristan Eyles, using field recordings and image synthesis; Side B is Chefkirk, aka Roger Smith, combining concrete sound with improvised drone and harsh electronics. |
Cheval Gris: Candor Cloak (Bad Architect Records -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Combining the work of 18 artists chosen to interpret a series of sacred rites that took place deep within the woods by an elite shaman of an Amazon tribe, including Squidco's own Carl Kruger & phil zampino, Cheval Gris (Ryan Lewis) weaves an incredible story in sound, a virtual soundtrack of rich aural environments, concrete elements, and ritualistic sound. |
Chrysakis, Thanos: Elytra (Auf Abwegen -- Germany ) Price: $17.95 In Stock "Elytra" are the protective fore-wings of beetles & crickets, which are raised and scraped to create a resonating and projecting sound; Greek composer and sound artist Thanos Chryaskis composed these seven works of deeply detailed, resonant and layered sonic interaction as a form of emulation to the action of the elytron, each piece an absorbing sonic experience. |
Dog Hallucination : call aesthetics [3-inch CD] (Aubjects -- USA ) Price: $5.95 In Stock D. Petri and Doggy P. Lips create rich sonic environments of processed guitars layered with strong tribal percussion, here in a followup to the 2015 release "Mitzi" is the 23 minute 3" CD EP named after various permuations of the equation 1-3. |
Elggren, Leif : Motor For An Unknown Vehicle (Opening Of The Grave) [VINYL] (Fragment Factory -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Swedish conceptual artist Leif Elggren developed this second album in his trilogy using "The Motor", a soundwork that he's built over many years from basic fragments of sound used in installations and performances, aggregated here in an expanded form as a continuous drone, harsh on the surface but complex in its layers and sonic collisions. |
Faint Glow / Justin Scott Gray : Quantum Ouch [CASSETTE] (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Part of a series of 8 split release cassettes, hand-painted & numbered; Side A presents dark soundscapes from Jeff Winter, aka Faint Glow, in slowly unfolding electronic works; Side B a variety of electronic approaches from arpeggiated to slowly abrasive grumbling. |
Foussat, Jean-Marc / Simon Henocq : Nopal (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock An unusual and gripping album of electronic improvisation on guitar and synthesizer between keyboardist Jean-Marc Foussat and guitarist Simon Henocq, taking alien and abstract landscapes into intense territory over two monumental tracks. |
Gorfinkel, Dale: Switches & Hose (Splitrec -- Australia ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Dale Gorfinkel is a multi-instrumentalist, improvisor, instrument creator and installation artist, creating unexpected aural environments exploring acoustic phenomena or creating acoustic sculptures using common materials like switches, balloons, hoses, cages, &c. |
Hawkins, Chester: Metabolism Quartet / Nocturne For Poppy [CASSETTE] (Zeromoon/ Intangible Arts -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Electro-psychedelic explorer Chester Hawkins presenting two live performances in Washington DC -- one recorded in isolation at Intangible Arts' studio (4th September 2018) and one in public at Rhizome community arts space (8th September 2018) -- improvised autopsies of Lutoslawski's String Quartet by means of three granular synth engines and one tape-edit/concrete emulator. |
Jerkagram / Martin Escalante : Parkour (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 In Stock Ater a concert in Los Angeles with Martin Escalante on the same bill, the twin brothers, guitarist Derek Gaines and drummer Brent Gaines, asked the extreme saxophonist to join them in the creation of a new, cathartic form of improvisation, filled with angst and dramatic release, ending with an extended journey in sound and squawk; a gripping album of gritty improv. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Avalanche (2 CDs) (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A double CD of experimental composition from Malaysian sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, hypnotic works of strangely repeating glitch that bookend shorter works of rich percussive abstractions, including a work with processed voice and an extended percussive "Ritual", singular pieces reflecting Kwang's curious mind and long experience merging aberrant and subtle sound. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Hands (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A fun and unusual electronic album from Malaysian sound artist Goh Lee Kwang's, whose instrument of choice is an old Roland Jupiter analogue synth, with toy keyboards, saxophones, bass and drums also thrown into the pot and merrily melted down by Max/MSP. |
Kwang, Goh Lee: Innere Freuden / Internal Pleasures (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $11.95 In Stock The title of this work for a cross-wired analog DJ mixer from Goh Lee Kwang translates to "Internal Pleasures", as he finds unexpected sounds from the noise floor of his equipment, which he develops into 7 untitled sound works of hiss, hum, controlled feedback, and rich sound. |
Kwang, Goh Lee / Tim Blechmann: Findars (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock A work for heavy electronic drone and glitch, Herbal International Label founder Goh Lee Kwang presents this live performance from Malaysia's Finders Art Space in Kuala Lumpur, for 36 minutes of mysterious intensity that settles and fills the listening space like a pall. |
Liedwart, Kurt / Petr Vrba: Punkt (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock The debut album of free electronic music explorers Kurt Liedwart on synthesizers, cracked homemade and everyday electronics, and Petr Vrba on synthesizers and electronics, where each track is built upon a permutating sonic foundation of well-paced compositions that transition between hypnotic abstract structural forms and textural and timbral experimentation. |
MacLise, Angus: Astral Collapse (Quakebasket -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Black marker strike through barcode, but otherwise new direct from Quakebasket label - last copies available. Experiments in sound from early Velvet Underground member Angus Maclise performing on vocals, prepared tape, cembalum, bells, arp synthesizer and field recordings, joined by Hetty Maclise on organ, piano and autoharp. |
Meelkop, Roel: Oude Koeien (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Sound artist Roel Meelkop compiles various limited vinyl 7", 10" and lathe cut releases from Korm Plastics and related labels, along with one work made for this release, showing the variety of approaches and concepts Meelkop applies to his fascinating sound work. |
Monteiro, Alfredo Costa / Miguel A. Garcia: Aq'Ab'Al (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Audio experimenters Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Miguel A. Garcia join forces in an album titled after "Aq'ab'al", the Mayan Astrology Sign about polar opposites--dawn and dusk, hot and cold, black and white--which represents renewal and change, through a series of opposing audio events, forceful sounds of texture, feedback, and intervention. |
Moodring: Scared of Ferrett (Silber Media -- USA ) Price: $10.95 Out of Stock Moodring is centered around Rollerball's Monte Allen & Mae Starr, mixing rock with sound & noise, tinted with a free post-jazz flavor in deep doom filled grooves and ghostly vocals. |
Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored.: Success in Cheap Prices (Bor Land / Soopa -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 In Stock |
Mr. Stonecipher: The Fleeting EP (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock The solo harsh dream sound project of media and sound artist Ryan Lewis, delving deep into his childhood traumas through sound, which he developed as an outlet and meditative release for the artist using sound. |
Mr. Stonecipher / Joshua Marquez: Faux [CASSETTE] (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock A split cassette between Wilmington sound artists Joshua Marquez, a Filipino-American composer, guitarist, and activist who explores the liminal space between tone and noise; and Mr. Stonecipher, aka Ryan L Lewis IV, a sound artist and filmmaker who works with dramatic sound and feedback of a cinematic quality, often employing unusual objects as source. |
Mr. Stonecipher Vs. Somnaphon: The Horsemaster's Daughter [CASSETTE] (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock A cassette release joining 910 Noise and Ack Recordings from Ryan Lewis and August Traeger, harsh American noise that "will destroy the speakers" (Feast of Hate and Fear). |
Ohta, Takamitsu: Three Relations Among The Flock [CASSETTE] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Takamitsu Ohta, known for his work with artists Anne-F Jacques & Ryoko Akama, in three unexpected recordings using the microphone and speaker of small devices with recording and playback ability, from five to fifteen such linked devices creating surprisingly stacatto and expressive voices from feedback, each piece aptly named for the resulting articulation each combination creates. |
Regler: Regel #4 (HNW) (Rapid Moment / At War With False Noise / Decimation Sociale / Pilgrim Talk -- Malaysia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Anders Bryngelsson and Mattin make up Regler, a project of varying genres performed on rock instruments, following sets of rules to create conceptual sound works; Regler #4 deals with harsh noise walls, generating a 30 minute piece of thick, savage sound. |
Riggs, Christopher: Cash Recycling Machine (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Price: $12.95 In Stock An unusual sound work, the 3rd in a series made up of tracks of equal length with a different track length for each project, with sonic material made from home-built guitars & a quadrophonic amp setup. |
Somnaphon: An Aligment of Various Things (Bicephalic -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Assembling 13 tracks from obscure compilations released from 2011-2012 by the various monikers of 910 Noise artist August (September) Traeger, a wide-ranging and captivating set of approaches to sound & noise work. |
Somnaphon: Florida (ACK Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock The third part of Somnaphon's trilogy, a complex record that ranges from destructive sounds to convoluted construction of rhythm and noise, with the Pony Grabbers on 1 track. |
Somnaphon: Normal People (ACK Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 In Stock Unusual noise work from Somnaphon (August Traeger) in a 3" CD format, weaving acoustic, electronic, and destructive digital sound into five varied and decidedly not normal pieces of sound. |
Somnaphon / Mr. Stonecipher / Food World: Hayagriva (private label -- USA ) Price: $4.95 In Stock A 5 minute video of a horse-headed suit lost in a sonic world eerily devised by 910 Noise artists Somnaphon, Mr. Stonecipher, and Food World; a brief but disturbing visual and auditory reflection. |
SSL (Gorfinkel, Dale / Robbie Avenaim): Sonic Systems Laboratory (Splitrec -- Australia ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Two unusual approaches to the vibraphone in a duo--Dale Gorfinkel using the tremolo mechanism, additional motors, bows and creative percussive techniques; and Robbie Avenaim using homemade electronic sticks and vibrating objects to create rhythms and textures. |
Subliminator, The: Recalibrated (Scared Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Ex-Spaceseed wordsmith/gizmoist Serson Brannen explores the outer limits of high tech spoken word space art . |
Wabi Experience : Wabi Experience (Mikroton Recordings -- Russia ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Czech improviser and sound musician Tomislav Federsel started work on this project in 2002, remixing in experimental forms the songs of Czech folk musician Wabi Danek, a project Federsel scrapped and rebuilt three times, Jaroslav Tarnovski joining in this ultimate version of the rich, imaginative and well-considered renderings of Danek's music. |
Ward, Jason: If You Had Wings (910 Noise -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock Guitarist and 910 Noise artist Jason Ward in a release that explores concepts in sound and string, music that ranges far and surprises with both lovely playing and distressed processing. |
Myers, David Lee: Xenography (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Xenography is the ability to write in a language which the individual has not learned, an apt description of the rich dialects sculpted from feedback sources and expertly routed through circular circuits of sound processors by New York sound artist David Lee Myers, AKA Arcane Device, captured and layered into these astounding electronic compositions. |
Comte, Richard / Sebastien Lespinasse: Traverser Noir (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Translating to "Cross Black", French guitarist Richard Comte provides a set of four diverse soundtracks, from deep turbulent darkness and sonic decay to crisply ringing guitar resonance, over which sound poet Sébastien Lespinasse intones with solemn import his dark words of imagery and observation. |
Comte, Richard: Derive de la base et du sommet (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Translating to "Base and vertex drift", French guitarist Richard Comte (Hippie Diktat, Vegan Dallas) present four darkly ominous solo works on electric guitar through slowly shifting chords and deep reverberation, punctuated with ringing tones and light moments that peer through sonic clouds, his ambience a backdrop to alternations of lucidity and submersion. |
Comte, Richard: Innermap (Coax -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Addressing the perception and representation of physical space through 9 solo guitar works of sonic textures and treatments imbued with rich solo playing, each track named by coordinates of remembered towns and cities, creating a succession of interconnected sonic landscapes of drones, resonance and clear tones as a metaphor for an internal, mental, cartography. |
Comte, Richard: Innermap [VINYL] (Coax -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Addressing the perception and representation of physical space through 9 solo guitar works of sonic textures and treatments imbued with rich solo playing, each track named by coordinates of remembered towns and cities, creating a succession of interconnected sonic landscapes of drones, resonance and clear tones as a metaphor for an internal, mental, cartography. |
Hippie Diktat: Black Peplum [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Using raw and primal rhythms, deep textures from amplified baritone saxophone and trance approaches to rock instrumental music balancing Steve Reich and Sunn O))), the French Hippie Diktat trio of Antoine Viard on baritone sax, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar has toured Europe since 2011, here in recordings at l'Ecluse, in Reims from 2013. |
Hippie Diktat: Fire On (Self Released -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Six raw instrumentals bridging free jazz and free rock forms, clearly influenced by both Brötzmann and Sunn O))) (as referenced in the track "SunnA)))") from the French Hippie Diktat trio of Antoine Viard on amplified baritone sax, Julien Chamla on drums and Richard Comte on guitar, recording at l'Ecluse, in Reims in 2013 for six ruggedly inspired tracks. |
Hippie Diktat: Gran Sasso (nunc. -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Stripping down their performance matter to its most minimal expression, their work developed since 2011 as they've toured the European alternative scene, the Hippie Diktat trio of Richard Comte on electric baritone guitar, Julien Chamla on drums and Antoine Viard on amplified baritone saxophone work an energetic and heavy set of Steve Reich-ian grooves. |
Onda, Aki: Nam June's Spirit Was Speaking To Me [VINYL] (Recital -- USA ) Price: $25.95 Out of Stock NY sound artist Aki Onda pays tribute to multi-media pioneer Nam June Paik (1923-2006), a work inspired after Onda's series of performances at Nam June Paik Art Center in South Korea, here using submerged and anonymous radio signals as a shamanic invocation of Paik's work; includes a 20-page booklet with photos & a remembrance of Paik plus 2 essays on radio-wave phenomena. |
Niblock, Phill: Working Touch [USB CARD] (Touch -- UK ) Price: $36.95 In Stock A massive archive of drone & ambient composer Phill Niblock's films and music, from recordings made between 2013 and 2016 in festivals and studios around the world, orchestrated with primarily acoustic instruments using rich and closely related harmonics, paired with moving images of people from around the world engaged in work; hypnotic and engrossing. |
Dempsey, Craig Lee : 22:00 (CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD) (Marthasville Fine Audio Recordings -- USA ) Price: $7.95 Out of Stock Atlanta, GA sound artist Craig Lee Dempsey (US Prisms, Ben Trickey Full Band, The Weight, Thoroughbred) issues his first fully solo album of ambient drones developed from guitar and synthesizer sources, with rich implied rhythmic pulses that slowly evolve through the six pieces on this cassette & download release, all six pieces adding up to 22 minutes of sound. |
Lami, Giovanni / Giovanni di Domenico: Retrogress [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $8.95 Out of Stock Four recordings from the collaboration of Italian sound artists Giovanni Di Domenico and Giovanni Lami, two prolific experimenters using real time manipulation of sounds that include piano, electronics and subliminal pulses, creating haunting cycles of muted progressions enveloped in harmonic environments, both tranquil and energetically compelling. |
Haters, The / Kavader: De Haters Und Kadaver [CASSETTE] (Tribe Tapes -- USA ) Price: $8.95 In Stock A split cassette of dark industrial noise from the long-running experimental sound unit The Haters founded by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, in a cantankerous 10 minute buzz saw drone; and a "Venemous Agent" from the Israeli noise band Kadaver, aka Michael Zolotov, in a cycling work that builds to an oscillating throb of metalic and rumbling sources; edition of 75. |
Dadge, Chris / Tim Olive: Nice You! (845 Audio -- Japan ) Price: $10.95 In Stock After a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter and Bug Incision lAfter a performance in 2019, Kobe-based Canadian sound artist Tim Olive and Calgary percussionist, experimenter & Bug Incision label leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces using Dadge's amplified percussion, small instruments & electronics, as well as Olive's magnetic pickup/electronics system, running through a number of guitar & bass amplifiers.abel leader Chris Dadge recorded these two studio pieces using Dadge's amplified percussion, small instruments & electronics, as well as Olive's magnetic pickup/electronics system, running through a number of guitar & bass amplifiers. |
Hirose, Junji: SSI-7 (Hitorri -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Known mostly as a saxophonist on the Japanese improvised music scene, Junji Hirose has also released a series of albums using self-made analog noise instruments, here using a device where balls and small objects are placed on a large, shallow, round metal plate and moved by a compressor, here in four tracks with different objects and one with no objects at all. |
Jerman, Jeph: Popular Fictions [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tsss Tapes -- Italy ) Price: $8.95 Out of Stock Two side-long compositions from audio explorer Jeph Jerman, assembled using recordings of objects including "mouth, stone, wood, glass, metal, paper, plastic, radio" plus field recordings made through the spring and summer of 2020 in and around Cottonwood, AZ, joined with audio contributions from Doug Theriault, Chris Reider, Julie Schubert, &c. |
Jun, Yan / Zhu Wenbo: Twice (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Beijing sound artists Yan Jun and Zhu Wenbo developed this hour-long sound composition from independent recordings, a set of abstractions through recordings in the field, mechanical and electronic devices, human voice and utterance, acoustic and electronic instruments, &c. &c., made cohesive and compelling through independent time assignments by each artist; inexplicably interesting. |
Myers, David Lee: Prototype Of The Veil (pulsewidth -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock David Lee Myers began creating feedback music in 1989, originally under the name Arcane Device, developing unique approaches to harnessing feedback between audio devices in ways their manufactures did not intend; since 2014 he has used a set of new devices that allow intense control and beauty through vibrational interactions, as heard in this, his 18th solo album of feedback music. |
Myers, David Lee: Reduced to a Geometrical Point (Cronica -- Spain ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Using feedback matrices, oscillator banks and multi-processing, NYC sound and feedback artist David Lee Myers, A.K.A. Arcane Device, references the quote from metaphysics scholar Frithjof Schuon--"You must detach your life from an awareness of the multiple and reduce it to a geometrical point before God"--which he manifests in four focused works of rich, slowly evolving sound. |
Onda, Aki / Nao Nishihara: Kouya-e-to (Ftarri -- Japan ) Price: $15.95 In Stock NYC performer Aki Onda and Yokohama sound artist Nao Nishihara began collaborating in 2015 while Nishihara was residing in NY on an Asian Cultural Council grant, returning in 2016 for this live performance exploring the architecture and acoustics of ISSUE's 22 Boerum Place theater, installing handmade instruments and analog equipment within a visually arranged set-up. |
RLW & Srmeixner: Just Like A Flower When Winter Begins (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An interesting mixture of sound and spoken word originally recorded as a DJ set by RLW for a birthday celebration that was remixed with help from Stephen Meixner. |
Zethson, Alex: Residy (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The Residy, or remains of a unique variation on JS Bach's Goldberg Variation no. 21, performed live by pianist Alex Zethson who maintains the structure, rhythmic movement and note order of Bach's composition, while dispersing the notes and intervals into two synths and an E-bowed grand piano to evoke these meditative and expansive interpretations. |
Itakura, Bun / Mishio Ogawa : Stardust (Ultragash -- Japan ) Price: $8.95 In Stock A flowing twilight electro-jazz cover of the standard "Stardust" from Japanese guitarist Bun Itakura and vocalist Mishio Ogawa, expanding the melody and Ogawa's phrasing with encompassing electronics and percussion from Takefumi Kobayashi; backed with an experimental "Mystery Making Factory" using paint brush, harmonic tone guitar, and mbira. |
Lipscomb, Jon: Conscious Without Function (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Swedish guitar improviser Jon Lipscomb (LOPLOP, Swedish Fix) takes his listeners on a rugged trip across the strings, using distortion, tremolo and rapid-fire technique as he mines territories between free improv, noise and rock, his nimble mind stopping to explore areas of interest then cascading into new, turbulent environments; frightfully powerful. |
Olive, Tim: Okay Grand Dependable [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Verz Imprint -- UK ) Price: $6.60 Out of Stock A mysterious set of four works using magnetic pickups to create a diverse set of soundscapes, from ringing tones to cantankerous scratchy earthquake zones, with radio captures alone or on top of those environments adding a sense of mystery to each piece, sometimes providing enigmatic voices, sometimes static, sometimes strange signal and carrier waves; fascinating. |
Dilloway, Aaron / Jeph Jerman: Casual Collisions (White Centipede Noise / New Forces -- USA / EU ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Originally released in 2013 on CDR, this meeting of sound artists Jeph Jerman and Aaron Dilloway show the skill, subtlety, and disruptive sonic skills of two innovators, using objects, damaged electronics, electronic loops and live acoustic sound to create large tapestries: 4 pieces that defy characterization through diverse approaches to impactful sound. |
Davis, Greg: New Primes [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (Greyfade -- USA ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Using custom-written software to translate prime number sequences into a tonal palette of rich, compatible sounds, Vermont-based electronic musician and sound artist Greg Davis investigates the compositional properties of those numbers by paring the representation of each sequence into a network of pure sine tones which interact with fascinating harmonic and rhythmic structures. |
Street Tentacle (Chan / Wang / Bryerton): Preserves (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Assertively probing like a squid raging out of the sea, Street Tentacle is the trio of Chicago tenor saxophonist Jeff Chan, guitarist Da Wei Wang also on electronics, and drummer Jerome Bryerton on drums, cymbals, gongs, bowed metal & assorted percussion, in five assertive improvisations of an everything including the kitchen sink style; daunting and domineering! |
Barnes / Jerman / Nordwall: The Oortcloud [It Wasn't Until Weeks Later] [VINYL] (STELLAGE -- Russia ) Price: $19.95 In Stock A performance in Gothenburg, Sweden as part of the contemporary acoustic and electronic society Geiger in their monthly public recording "Geiger Sessions", by sound artists Tim Barnes, Jeph Jerman, and Joachim Nordwall, in a concert of rich and highly textured noise, referencing the astronomical Öpik-Oort cloud described by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort. |
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