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 Twenty Hertz profiled: Romancing the Drone
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Twenty Hertz is a musical platform for Paul Bradley and other sympathetic artists, including Monos, Keith Berry and Ubeboet. Since eponymous debut in 2003, on sometime collaborator, Colin Potter’s ICR label, Bradley has released a stream of textural works exploring the drone-based landscape. Sounds drawn from natural environments are combined with instruments - chiefly guitar – and shapeshifted through DSP manipulations into rich sonorous driftzones.
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Explorations in Sound, Vol 3: Music of Sound - Various Artists
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Explorations in Sound, Vol 3, The Music Of Sound is a compilation of sound works inspired by the tones, drones and rhythms of everyday life. Drawing on the ideas of Pierre Schaeffers' Musique Concrète movement, contributing artists were invited to respond to the tones, timbre and rhythms present in everyday acoustic sound, and field recordings.
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La Reponse est aux pieds - José Luis Redondo
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José Luis Redondo's album of solo guitar compositions is a testament to Redondo's dexterity and imagination. Using an unusual collection of stringed instruments, he accentuates the noises that most guitarists try to remove.
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Musick for Two Machines - Barry Chabala & Phil Hargreaves
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Musick for two machines is a double CD release, designed to be played on two CD/ MP3 players simultaneously, with both machines in shuffle mode. It is another collaboration in a line of Phil Hargreaves releases created via long distance file sharing on the net.
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Palimpsesto - Thanos Chrysakis, Dario Bernal Villegas and Oli Mayne
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Deriving from the Greek words for ‘again’ and ‘to rub smooth’, a palimpsest is, traditionally, a parchment that has been rubbed clean and then reused, each re-writing leaving its own faint traces. The musicians featured on Palimpsesto have set out to achieve this through sound:
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Signal - Various Artists
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SIGNAL, the first CD release by a UK label called Finetuned, compiles a broad spectrum of sound art, phonography and electro-acoustic composition. If I had to generalize, SIGNAL tends to feature pieces that are composed of abstract hums, meandering noises, or incidental digital artifacts devoid of human composition.
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Slope - Steve Jansen
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Steve Jansen plays an integral, though easily overlooked, role in the efforts of one David Sylvain in his endeavors as Nine Horses. On Jansen's first solo work, his first opportunity to step to the fore, one can hear tell of what he says only through the voice of another, through an intermediary.
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Substrate, L'Inondation -Yui Onodera & Mathias Delplanque
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This tendency to dote on the sea, would it be owing to metaphor or metamorphosis? The latter is infinitely compelling, but then there is that transfixing tale, recounted by Emil Cioran, of the sea as consisting of God's tears. Hence our desire to drown in it, as a short-cut to God through his tears.
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The Subliminal Relation Between Planets, Dark Night - Andrea Marutti & Edward Ruchalski
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A black surface from which no light escapes, a white dwarf that, having shed its envelop, burns unremittingly at the core, Andrea Marutti's work pushes dark ambient to its limit. The Subliminal Relation Between Planets, while continuing in this vein, sees his work spill over onto another logic, one that tears it open, lifts it up out of itself, and gives it a luminosity, dim and red.
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NEW ON FURTHERNOISE.ORG - JULY 2008
NEWS
Furthernoise.org is pleased to announce the launch of our new net release compilation Explorations in Sound, Vol 3. Music of Sound.
Inspired by the ideas of Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Concrète, contributing artists were invited to respond to the natural tones and rhythms in raw acoustic or constructed sound and field recordings. Inherent musical and rhythmic motifs were then developed through live performance, orchestration, or studio manipulation.
What results is an innovative and eclectic set of tracks from invited international artists known for their work in this field. It is available as a high quality mp3 compilation, free to download from the site with folded printed sleeve. More information including artists statements in the Exploration in Sound feature.
FEATURE & REVIEWS
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This issues feature is on the Twenty Hertz label and it's multifarious releases by artists such as Paul Bradley, Monos (Darren Tate and Colin Potter), Keith Berry and Ubeboet. Review by Alan Lockett.
La response est aux pieds by José Luis Redondo. Review by Caleb Deupree.
Musick for Two Machines by Barry Chabala and Phil Hargreaves. Review by Roger Mills.
Palimpsesto by Thanos Chrysakis, Dario Bernal Villegas and Oli Mayne. Review by Stacey Sewell.
Signal compilation by various artists on the Finetuned label. Review by Derek Morton.
Slope by David Sylvian collaborator Steve Jansen. Review by Max Schaefer.
Substrate, l'Inondation by Yui Onodera and Mathias Deplanque. Review by Max Schaefer.
The Subliminal Relation Between Planets, Dark Night by Andrea Marutti and Edward Ruchalski. Review by Max Schaefer.
EVENTS
Oramics, South Bank Centre, London. June 27th
A celebration of the life and work of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram. This series of events celebrates the launch of the Daphne Oram Collection at Goldsmiths and the South Bank Centre in London. It includes a new digitised archive of a large collection of reel-to-reel tapes, papers and artifacts including a website to act as a portal to the collection.
Symposium: The Life and Work of Daphne Oram. Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London. 12.00 Free.
Concert: The Life and Works of Daphne Oram. Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London. 7.30pm | £3/£6
Oramics Late Night Gig 10pm
The Front Room (Queen Elizabeth Hall), South Bank Centre, London. A free gig featuring contemporary female AV pioneer People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) and Theremin exponent
Ninki V. Booking for all events.
SOUNDWAVES FESTIVAL 2008. Brighton, 13-29 June. Various venues & times.
"Music Outside The Box" Highlighting the diversity of sound art practices with concerts, workshops, audiovisual installations and more plus a programme that includes performances of works by Terry Riley, Louis Andriessen, Jonathan Harvey, John Cage, Béla Bartók, Arvo Pärt and others. Booking.
Liquid Architecture 9, Brisbane Powerhouse 4th & 5th July.
Australia's premiere festival of audio arts returns to Brisbane this July for an incredible line up of sound and exploratory music from across the globe. This year, the festival pulls together artists from Germany, France, Portugal and Australia, all of whom test for the very edge of contemporary practices in sound. Booking.
Resonate + Lucid Lounge at Frome Festival, Frome, UK. Masonic Hall, Wednesday 9th July.
An evening of electronic music, improvisation, collaboration, music video & live visuals.
8pm till late £5. Website
I hope you enjoy this new issue and we always welcome all comments, feedback or proposals.
Roger Mills
Editor
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