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Month Of Sundays A/V Performances
	Month Of Sundays A/V Performances Furthernoise.org hosted a month of Sunday afternoon live audio visual internet performances throughout June 06 in the online file mixing platform Visitors Studio. It featured some of the most innovative international A/V artists mixing remotely in various geographic locations and time zones and mixes were also broadcast to audiences at E:vent, (London) Watershed, (Bristol) & The Point CDC Theatre, (New York).
	feature by Roger Mills


Christoph De Boeck - Sound Incorporations
	The Sound Incorporations DVD-ROM documents a research event that took place in Antwerp, Belgium on May 8th, 2004. The DVD contains a set of video presentations given by various artists. The symposium was hosted by the Performance Studies department at the University of Antwerp, MUHKA (Museum of Contemporary Arts) and APT (Arts Performance Theatricality postgraduate programme).
	review by Alex Young


Cichaczem
	Robert Curgenven is a sonic nomad who takes much of his inspiration from the 'Subtleties underlying living in challenging landscapes and climates'. He should know too as he has spent the best part of the last 6 years living in a small outback town in Australia's Northern Territory working in community cultural development with remote indigenous communities.
	review by Roger Mills


Clark - Boris Hauf
	Clark, a 7 track CD released on Sijis by Boris Hauf, is aesthetically well-placed in Sijis territory. Fragments of techno juxtaposed with modernist contemporary experimentation make it liable to pique the interest of many an electronic music connoisseur.
	review by Alex Young


Distortion is Truth - Robert Poss
	Named after the fact that the original line-up had three "Susans" in the band, Robert Poss was one of the others, that weren't called Susan. After numerous line-up changes the bands core members revolved around Poss and Susan Stenger.
	review by Mark Francombe


Double Exposure - Winduptoys
	After catching a Wind Up Toys live set a few years ago I remember being impressed by Robert & Jeremy's DIY ethic when it came to making all sorts of bleeps & glitches. Everything from flexed, amplified rulers to bird whistles & vocalisations sent through analogue processors, their palette of sound limited only to their imaginations.
	review by Roger Mills


Erg
	It came packaged in a DVD case, some material placed under the clear outer casing with a sun-like shape printed on it. Just the thing for a bright summer morning. Inside, the CD design echoes the sun symbol, hand printed and accompanied by a sole sheet of paper outlining the artist name and track titles.
	review by DJC de la Haye


Every Vein Leads To My Heart
	Press play on Mathieu Ruhlmann's ‘Every Vein Leads to My Heart' and in a moment's time you'll feel like you're stepping tenuously into a dramatic, cavernous monastery. Dreamily bowed cymbals and metals ring out through encompassing reverbs, their inharmonic frequencies drifting towards each other in vain attempts to find their equal, but instead reconciling their differences to form beating-oscillations.
	review by DJC de la Haye


Lacunae Collapse
	With one of those slightly irritating goth-esque names that you can never quite remember, Lacunae consist of Kasten Searles, Arson Bright and one A. Peluso, and, intriguingly, they have never actually met!
	review by Mark Francombe


Odd Numbers - The Blessing
	From the opening bars of the syncopated 4 bar riff on Equal and Opposite, I'm locked into the beat of the opening track of Odd Numbers, The Blessing 'Live at the Bell, Bath. I'd seen them a couple of times before in Bristol and was curious to hear how their live be-bopped groove would translate onto the home stereo.
	review by Mike Willox

August 06

Welcome to the new issue of Furthernoise.org. After an amazing month of sunday afternoon A/V internet performances in June we now have all the mixes up online. See MOS feature for more details on the performances and artists involved including the best of the Open Mixes which saw live internet jamming pushed to new limits.
New Reviews
New guest reviewer this month Mike Willox, is flagging up the Bristol art jazz super group The Blessing with his impressions on their live album Odd Numbers.
In the editors reviews I take an antipodean sojourn into the field recordings and piano drones of Rob Curgenven in his 3 track album Cichaczem followed by the highly charged electro skank of Melbournes' Winduptoys new album Double Exposure.
Alex Young features the 2004 symposium Sound Incorporations with interviews & lectures from Christoph De Boeck, Kim Cascone, Thomas Crombez and others as well as a segwaying into the land of Sijis with a review of Boris Hauf's recent release Clark.
DJC reviews include the all encompassing reverbs and inharmonic frequencies of Mathieu Ruhlmann's ‘Every Vein Leads to My Heart' as well as it's antithesis in the electro noise of Wirewall.
Our man in Oslo, Mark Francombe goes in search of the real meaning of Lacunae as he deliberates on the 'Fantastically musical and damned catchy, I'm hooked' band that has never even met each other, in their release Collapse.
New Releases
SynchNonSynch, the home of our own doyen of art noise guitar Marc Francombe is giving away a compilation of tracks from all his releases on the label. Having attracted the attention of the Wire Magazine earlier this year, this is a great opportunity to get your hands on some of his most outstanding tracks. Synch is available as a free download from the link provided.
Heartsease is the new album by Shona Mooney which features our own DJC on Bass guitar & electronics. A heady mixture of Folk, Celtic, Scottish flavours and is available through Footstompin Records.

NEWS

Call for Submissions
Appropriate Re-appropriations: an invitation to hit sounds with a fairly large stick.
Furthernoise has teamed up with Freesound presenting a special file sharing opportunity. Part exquisite corpse, part Chinese whispers, part peer2peer ping pong.
Over the past few years the amount of audio available to re-use and manipulate governed by creative commons licensing has grown massively. Freesound (amongst others) has been a major part of this, building up an astounding library of audio which is available to anyone to download and use within the confines of the Sampling + License.
We would like to highlight this and encourage new ways of using these archives of plunderphonic delight to create an ever expanding terrain of innovative new sound.
We invite submissions of compositions which creatively use at least 1 audio sample from the Freesound library to be included in our next net release Appropriate Re-Appropriations. For each sample used you must upload one of your own to the Freesound library. Details of which must accompany your submission. For further submission guidelines go to Fn net label on the top bar.

If you have any comments or feedback about anything in this issue please contact us.

Enjoy !

Roger Mills
Editor