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Jim's lungs and lips cut air across edges, generating tones - primordial fluti...
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Jim Denley-flutes
Peter Farrar-hot plates, orbeez, submerged tiles
Dale Gorfinkel-airdrums
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UPC: 5904224873578
Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPR1210
Squidco Product Code: 36116
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Tempe Jets on unceded Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia), on January 8th, 2023 (vent 2), and September 4th, 2023 (vent 1).
"Vents is seemingly a musical wind trio - humans playing with flutes, airdrums, bubbles... Although, in each set-up, material has its own vitality.
Jim's lungs and lips cut air across edges, generating tones - primordial fluting. He stops the end of his tubes to generate novel tones and to allow for pressure explosions and key flutters, mixing voice with this expression.
The 'airdrums' are an instrument invented by Dale consisting of a latex membrane made from a large balloon that is stretched over the shell of drum. It is part wind instrument, part percussion and is played by blowing lightly (and occasionally singing) into a tube which rests on the membrane, causing it to vibrate and reverberate. It creates bass and sub-bass frequencies as well as various overtones. It is very sensitive and even slight changes in the position of the tube or changes in air pressure can alter the sound radically.
Peter performs with dry microporous ceramic tiles and stones immersed in tubs of water, orbeez (small, colorful, gel-like beads made of a special type of polymer that can absorb water and expand to many times their original size) and hot plates. Hydrophones and a directional mic amplify an extraordinary plenitude of polyphonic musicality where micro-dissipative structures-billowing bubbles-birth clicks, whistles, wheezes, cries, tones, long glissandi, and polyrhythmic sequences. Material here is pressure-system relations, musical structures venting from matter-energy."-Relative Pitch

Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Jim Denley "Jim Denley was born in Bulli, Australia in January 1957. Wind instruments and electronics are core elements of his musical output. An emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been central to his work. He sees no clear distinctions between his roles as instrumentalist, improviser and composer. Collaborations, his radio feature for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, won the Prix Italia in 1989. His interest in radio has continued with the ABC over 17 years. In May 2006 he recorded a program for the ABC in the Budawang Mountains, south-west of Sydney, which has now been made into a CD, Through Fire, Crevice and the Hidden Valley. This received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Musics category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2008. He has been to the Budawangs again to record a new program for the ABC, Co-existence. The ABC will enter the 2006 recordings in Prix Italia 2009. In 1990 he was a member of Derek Bailey's Company for a week of concerts in London. He co-founded the electroacoustic text/music group Machine for Making Sense. In 2006 and 2007 he received a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts to research and develop his concept of Meta instrument. As part of this he formed the group Metalog - they toured Australia July 2008. He has played throughout Australia, Europe, Japan and the US with artists such as Chris Abrahams, Clare Cooper, Keith Rowe, Joel Stern, Robbie Avenaim, Jon Rose, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshide, Fred Frith, Phil Niblock, Trey Spruance, Clayton Thomas, Tess de Quincy, Axel Doerner, Adam Sussman, Ami Yoshida, Oren Ambarchi, Tony Buck, Ikue Mori, Satchiko M, Malcolm Goldstein and Annette Krebs." ^ Hide Bio for Jim Denley • Show Bio for Peter Farrar Peter Farrar is a Sydney-based saxophonist known for his work in improvisational and experimental music. He has been involved with several avant-garde ensembles and is recognized for his innovative approach to the saxophone. ^ Hide Bio for Peter Farrar
4/30/2025
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Track Listing:
1. Vent 1 22:55
2. Vent 2 20:49

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Improvised Music
Jazz
Free Improvisation
Australian Improvisers, Composers and Experimenters
Trio Recordings
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