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Ben Owens presents the 1st of his "Birds and Waters" series, two long, unedited works created at the Experimental Television Centre in Owego, NY, using David Jones' image processing system including a multi-input syncable sequencer and a bank of oscillators. |
In Stock Shipping Weight: 3.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() Two inserts included featuring video stills by Owen. Edition of 200. Type II Chrome cassette tape, C94. Silk screen printed sleeve designed by E. Lindorff-Ellery and printed by Sonnenzimmer in Chicago. Label: Notice Recordings Catalog ID: NTR018 Squidco Product Code: 22144 Format: CASSETTE Condition: New Released: 2011 Country: USA Packaging: Cassette Recorded at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York, in May 2010 by the artist. Personnel: Ben Owen-electronics, David Jones' image processing system Highlight an artist name or instrument above and click here to Search ![]() SIDE A 1. cs-100507-s1 46:47 SIDE B 1. 100509-07 47:39 ![]() Cassettes Electro-Acoustic Sound, Noise, &c. Electronic Forms New in Experimental & Electronic Music Recent Releases and Best Sellers Friends of Squid |
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![]() "Those with a certain taste will be familiar with Ben Owen's subtle yet stunning design work with his Brooklyn-based Winds Measure Recordings imprint, which also releases his own carefully crafted music in both collaborative and solo form. These are two masterfully textured sidelong pieces exemplifying his attention to craft, process, and detail at the most painstaking levels, while still embracing the sonic imprecision of the cassette tape medium."-Notice Recordings
"I wish I could figure out exactly what it is that I routinely enjoy about Ben Owen's work that differentiates it from others plowing roughly the same territory. As before, the best I can do is posit that it revolves around choices made and that those choices, in one sense or another, coincide with my taste, with what I would do or, more likely, what I wouldn't do but would look back and think I should have done. This cassette release (which I heard on disc) contains two substantial sides, over 47 minutes each, both realized at the Experimental Television Center in Owega, NY in 2010, using A system developed by David Jones (presumably not our David Jones) in 1974 that includes sequencers, oscillators and image processors. Side A shifts from area to area, some intense and full, some all but silent, the latter often redolent, on closer examination, with hums and wooly static, here smooth, there very, very rough. What to say except that both the selection of sounds as well as their duration/sequencing sit perfectly, keeping one rapt and delighted. Side B is a bit of a tougher go only because it's essentially a single drone, kind of a thicker variant of a Sachiko M piece. There are striations, though, and they're apparent on reasonably close listen even before the ocarina-like, wavering tones appear. The long hum. I haven't had the opportunity to really lay this out loud, though I imagine it would sound great. I enjoy it as is even if I somehow find it missing that extraordinary level of attention that Sachiko manifest. Still and all, very fine. A strong, absorbing recording, well worth seeking out."-Brian Olewnick, Just Outside Two inserts included featuring video stills by Owen. Edition of 200. Type II Chrome cassette tape, C94. Silk screen printed sleeve designed by E. Lindorff-Ellery and printed by Sonnenzimmer in Chicago. ![]() At The Squid's Ear! Get additional information at Brian Olewnick's Just Outside ![]() Artist Biographies: • Show Bio for Ben Owen Ben Owen works with sound using various approaches including improvisation, recording, listening, and composition. His instruments are simple electronics - played, mixed, re-patched in their own trajectory of small sound, broken and accidental. Over the past few years he has been interested in presenting works, performing and recording in outdoor spaces. His focus is in the sustained, immersive, minimal soundscapes that interact within a defined space as well as an outside environment. -Ben Owen 4/23/2018Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography. ^ Hide Bio for Ben Owen |
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