Monday 31 May 2010



*available now in very limited numbers*

various artists - 'the Isolde scores'

Michael Pisaro, Philip Thomas, Jez riley French & Daniel Jones, Anastasia Chrysanthakopoulou, Maile Colbert, Greg Stuart, Barry Chabala, The Coastguard Allstars....

limited edition of 50 copies were printed, of which only a small handful will be available for sale - the rest being given to Isolde & to friends of the artists involved.

to purchase one of the very few publicly available copies of this title buy any other engraved glass or . point engraved release & add this special disc to your order for £12 (postage inc).

nb. you must purchase at least one other title in order to buy 'the isolde scores' (engraved glass is a not for profit label with all proceeds going to fund future releases & 'seeds & bridges' events....

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Thursday 27 May 2010

forthcoming: AUDINANCE SURVEYED: europe's first soundwalk library.

OUT NOW

Jez riley French - 'instamatic # 6 - prague'

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72 minute cdr on taiyo yuden disc / mounted on art card
limited edition of 100 copies

£8 UK / £10 rest of world

'earlier this year I visited prague again for a few days....the few days turned into a week due to volcanic ash closing the airspace over europe....I walked around prague sometimes recording, sometimes not....just walking & listening & looking - for my own pleasure....on the eventual long coach journey back to the UK I listened back to the recordings & found them to have captured 'something'....an evocative representation of the rich filigree of sounds that came & went on those walks....'






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extracts from a review by Richard Pinnell ('the watchful ear' website):

...the CDr that I have settled upon is the sixth in the Instamatic series released on riley French’s Engraved Glass label, a recent release that blends together field recordings he made while visiting Prague last year. The Instamatic series is based around this kind of travel recording, little snapshots of a place and time, a bit like leafing through a few pages of someone’s photo album....There is something that I always enjoy about this kind of site-specific field recording...Once the nature of the album was clear to me then I slipped right into the music, trying to understand where every sound came from, trying to identify where the joins sat from one set of sounds to the next, spotting the sound of approaching cars way off in the distance, listening to passing footsteps for as long as I could before they became subsumed in the next set of sounds to come along...The recording quality of this music, as with all of riley French’s work is excellent, and the disc comes attached to another oversized glossy card sporting one of Jez’ excellent photos. The real joy here is in the sounds though...if you enjoy a well made set of field recordings simply for what they are- a moment in time captured for later perusal then this CD is a really nice listen. If you are bored wherever you are, or like me sat at home after a dull day, its nice to be able to shut your eyes and find yourself somewhere else.





YANNICK DAUBY - Overflows
CD

1 track - 44:36 min

Yannick Dauby, originated from Mediterranean Alps and currently based in Taiwan. Sound and location, sound and community, sound and ecology, are the main topics of his projects.
Overflows is a composition based on field recordings in natural, industrial and urban environments dealing with the overwhelming of listening.

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Friday 14 May 2010


Hiroki Sasajima "Nille"

Tokyo sound artist Hiroki Sasajima has recently been marking his own territory into field recordings.
From his early close contacts with mesmeric forms of ambient music, he has quickly veered towards a much more daring & fully grown sound assemblage where substrates of discreet & substantive drones serve as spine to astoundingly enhanced & almost prehensile processed field recordings...simultaneously these give out an extraordinary zen imbued concision & purity...
Hiroki has undoubtedly an acute ear for sonic details & striking microtextures, managing to interiorize with a natural grace precise portions of his immediate experienced environment...
After various contributions to netlabels on the cutting edge (Mandorla, Ripples, Q-Tone, Impulsive Habitat...) and first physical releases
("Renz" on Q-Tone, & "Monogenic" on SRA...),
Hiroki is now very much in demand, and assured to extend his explorations alongside many yet unpaved roads...
There at the birth of his undeniable talent, Mystery Sea is VERY thrilled to present you his engulfing specific opus "
Nille"...

Rubbing of surfaces, minute frictions
in open spaces, cavities, corners, somber alleys & backyards...
"
Nille" fathoms elements in search of their inner memory,
listening to their own voice,
breathing new life to small debris or vegetal remains...

Sustained by primordial hums,
"
Nille" dissects and restores,
each noise becoming a receptacle, a refuge,
a lodge for ambered moments & atoms in motion...

Gazing at everything outside,
"
Nille" ingests literally the landscape
picking up its most intimate flux,
the sublimated in the apparent well-known...

"Nille" merges with its surroundings and every object,
and from a single animistic reflection in a neglected pool,
it can stir you up to unsuspected, elating interaction...


U03 | nicholas szczepanik & juan josé calarco

CD ltd to 250 copies Cover design and treatments by Daniel Crokaert - Based exclusively on photos by nicholas szczepanik and juan josé calarco

track listing

1. evacuating somewhere to nowhere mp3 excerpt
2. through a reminiscent reagent
3. altered perceptions of past experiences

info

Lack affix isn’t so much about one particular location as it is an homage to the memories of the places we can’t vividly remember. This is about the imagery conjured when certain senses are triggered. It’s about our mind’s recreations of memories past; at once familiar, but also different in some inexplicable way. (Nicholas Szczepanik)
Washington DC

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Since a couple of years I’ve been living in different areas very far from the centre of the city and for Lack Affix I tried to capture this particular feeling I used to get during the nights by the time I lived at the most overcrowded districts; those extremely distant-blurred sounds of night activities as trucks delivering boxes, police helicopters, construction sites working on full hours, gas stations filled with taxis coming and going but mostly that undefinable, abyssal texture of a huge city at very late hours.
As Nicholas was sending me his re-works on my raw stuff and his own recordings for me to work on, we went more into this direction. So, I focused even more on recordings from the same streets and specially from terraces and inside subway entrances to reconstruct the sounds as I used to hear them those times ago; hopefully, even to recover some peaceful sensation I’ve never felt again so far, no idea if related with the dulling sound of those crowded districts or not.
(Juan José Calarco)
Buenos Aires, Argentina

length

40'41

Brandon LaBelle - 'Acoustic territories' - new book


Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives – it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an “acoustic politics of space” by unfolding auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and related ideologies.

Brandon LaBelle traces auditory life through a topographic structure: beginning with underground territories, through to the home as a site, and then further, to streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself. This structure follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation. Acoustic Territories uncovers the embedded tensions and potentiality inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us.

Table of Contents

Introduction: your sound is my sound is your sound 1. Underground: Busking, Acousmatics, and the Echo
2. Home: Ethical Volumes of Silence and Noise
3. Sidewalk: Steps, Gait, and Rhythmic Journey-Forms
4. Street: Auditory Latching, Cars, and the Dynamics of Vibration
5. Shopping Mall: Muzak, Mishearing, and the Productive Volatility of Feedback
6. Sky: Radio, Spatial Urbanism, and Cultures of Transmission
Bibliography
Index