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$8.24

back in stock as of
august 23rd, 2007

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november 28th, 2003

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crippled intellect productions (usa) #cip 012 ep

howard stelzer / jason talbot “four sides” double seven inch single record set

mills gallery one
mills gallery two
mills gallery three
mills gallery four
extrapool one
extrapool two
extrapool three

awesome. a double 7” single featuring the soporific sonorities of possible the 2nd of third best boston-based single turntable and cassette walkman improvising duo, as recorded in situo...

crippled intellect productions press release...

howard steltzer: tapes. jason talbot: turntable. sides one and two recorded live at the boston center for the arts, mills gallery, boston ma. sides three and four recorded live at extrapool, nijmegen, the netherlands. recorded by jason talbot, mastered by scott smallwood. design by mike shiflet. thank you: blake edwards, frans de waard, joyce and jan-derek at extrapool, edwin van der heide, jessica rylan can’t, gert-jan prins, jeff carey/87 central, dave webber, roel meelkop, peter duimlinks, jason lescalleet.

$15.12

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january 25th, 2008

first in stock on
august 9th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

file under:
free-improv

grob (germany) #grob 543 cd

the bsc “good” compact disc

good

grob press release...

the bsc - good

in vienna, berlin and tokyo musicians are working on stillness, reduction, non-expressivity and micro-differentiation. in cologne, london, new york, chicago, paris, warsaw, this music is performed and written about. but up to now the most exciting of this scene has been happening outside these large cities. for example, in boston. that this city possesses a young and rather large improv scene including labels and venues is well known. there are even a few ”superstars” like the saxophonist bhob rainey and the trumpeter greg kelley, two musicians who have easily liberated themselves from established improvisation patterns. what has been missing till now is a recording that clearly exemplifies the sound of boston. such a thing can hardly be forced, it always seems to happen casually, e.g. when one listens to a concert recording again and again and then suddenly discovers how definitive it is!

such a stroke of luck has arrived with the bsc – good. the bsc is a chamber orchestra from boston led by bhob rainey. joining him are greg kelley (of course), james coleman (theremin), howard stelzer (tapes), liz tonne (voice), vic rawlings (cello, electronics), mike bullock (bass), and chris cooper (prepared guitar), with guests axel dörner (trumpet) and andrea neumann (inside piano).

good is a 37-minute, improvisation process recorded live, which creatively draws on the resources from the reduced parameters of this new improvised music. despite all the stillness, the music is also surprisingly dense and tightly woven together. the music captivates via a noisiness radical maintained throughout the whole piece, and in spite of this (or because of it?), it is lyrical and surreal. the melody of metallic shimmering tonal colors can be heard from the very beginning.

$11.66

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july 3rd, 2008

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december 29th, 2007

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electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
field-recordings
plunder-phonic
playback-music
harsh-noise
musique-concrète
anti-music

intransitive (usa) #int 030 cd

howard stelzer “bond inlets” compact disc

bond inlets (1) (29:07)
bond inlets (2) (24:51)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bond inlets (1)"

december 2007 release; only the second full-length solo release from intransitive label head howard stelzer (after 1998’s “stone blind” - not to mention his ep’s for chondritic sound, gameboy ... and of course the collaborations with frans de waard, giuseppe ielasi, seht, jazzkammer, the cherry point, etc...)

consisting of a single electro-acoustic composition (in two distinct parts), bond inlets works a wide variety of source-material; from distant field-events, super low-end rumbling, and various anti-music lineage crackle and thump; all recorded via stelzer’s main instrumental palette - handheld cassette recorders (whose hysteresis/heterodyning fingerprints can be heard throughout...)

the piece is a veritable study in creaking morass; on part with the venerable crackle of the new blockaders, as dense as the best david jackman / organum materials and one of howie’s finest recorded moments. highly recommended !!!

intransitive press release...

int030 howard stelzer - bond inlets cd

ten years after his debut cd, stone blind (intransitive, 1997), howard stelzer presents bond inlets, his first widely available solo cassette-tape composition. boston-based sound artist stelzer was never happy with his first album, and threw away most of the pressing as soon as it returned from the factory. he took the occasion of his label’s tenth anniversary to dissect the source sounds of that work and filter it through the lens of the interceding decade in order to build a piece that more accurately reflects what his intentions were then and what his aesthetic is today.

bond inlets is subtly emotional work of foreground drone that beats its head against the plastic walls of cassette-tape technology, laying bare the physicality of the process of its creation. the dying motors of cassette players, tape-saturated percussion, and blown-out condenser-mic wail are mixed with elements of new live improvisations and field recordings taken in his neighborhood to create oceans full of no-fidelity murk and evocative hiss. there is an implacable melancholy to bond inlets, with fragments of distant melodies that surface only to be subsumed again into the grime.

$11.66

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july 3rd, 2008

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december 15th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
playback-music
musique-concrète
minimalism-drones

intransitive (usa) #int 028 cd

seht / howard stelzer “exactly what you lost” compact disc

untitled (2:47)
untitled (8:36)
untitled (7:02)
untitled (2:02)
untitled (26:24)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "untitled (5)"

unpredictable collaboration between new-zealand based sound/artist stephen clover (more commonly referred to in lengthy discographies as seht) and cambridge, ma based composer/improvisor howard stelzer.

what starts off as something akin to one of howie’s woozy cassette-based improvised performances quickly graduates into a suite of 4 extended meditations on audio fidelity, real and imagined space(s), and time-frozen concrète - as the drones progress, they get farther and farther away yet more electrified, culminating in the gorgeous final piece (sounding not unlike a sunn 0))) soundcheck recorded through the wall from the restaurant-kitchen next to the venue...)

superlative work from both; an excellent gateway into either/or universe ...

intransitive press release...

int028 seht & stelzer exactly what you lost cd

this first album of cross-hemisphere hum by seht (the nom de musique of one stephen clover) and howard stelzer emerged organically via tapes shared through the post between new zealand and boston over the course of a year or so. without any spoken agenda or external organizing concept from the start, the music willed itself into a darkly psychedelic, implacably melancholy haze. a quick scramble of caffeinated tape action kicks things off, then the album rapidly dissipates into a thick, black sleep of environmental debris and humid fog. worn loops were played into various outdoor acoustic environments (playgrounds, front porches, trees, other prosaic spots), then fed back into low-tech machines for further harmonic decay. shapes form in the shadows and slip away as the edges blur. after a few attempts to heave itself up onto its feet, exactly what you lost eventually huffs its last breath and dissolves in a cavern of industrial tics.

• seht’s previous work has been published by celebrate psi phenomena, last visible dog, digitalis, and pseudoarcana.
• howard stelzer has recorded albums with giuseppe ielasi, john olson (spykes, wolf eyes), the bsc, the cherry point, frans de waard (kapotte muziek), and jason talbot.

intransitive recordings
electronic music for people who like that sort of thing, est.1996

$11.66

back in stock as of
july 3rd, 2008

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playback-music
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intransitive (usa) #int 021 cd

howard stelzer / jason talbot “songs” compact disc

teeth (3:44)
drawing a blank (4:06)
hands down (6:32)
chairs
hammocks
couches (2:57)
the once over (6:23)
blank (4:19)
stitches (6:10)
getting the band back together (3:41)

not to play favorites but howie and jason were probably my favorite act working boston’s noted free-improv ‘chowdlin circuit’ during their existence as a duo... their shows were always just this side of chaos with howie on multiple cassette walkmen and jason manipulating a single turntable’s various mechanics, occasional outbursts of dry-mouthed banter (“hello, we’re matmos from san francisco”), dirty limericks, etc... right before the end they finally hunkered down in the twisted village basement for a long winter’s night of recording. and wot a set. nice short bursts of sound with both reverence and pity for what came before. very unusual and ultimately quite gratifying...

intransitive press release...

intransitive recordings is proud to present the long-awaited debut cd by howard stelzer and jason talbot.

"songs" contains eight concise pieces of electro-acoustic music created from cassette tapes and a single turntable. since the duo's inception on 1999, they have worked toward developing a unified, improvisatory sonic language by approaching their machines in a decidedly instrumental manner. for their first album, stelzer & talbot take inspiration from artists such as schimpfluch-gruppe, p16.d4, sbothi, as well as musique concrete and contemporary free improvisation, arriving at a voice entirely their own. the duo's music demonstrates a raw passion and energy, anchored by tense silences.

"songs, generally, are evocative," writes michael bullock in his liner notes, "and evocation is nostalgic. these guys are neither. stelzer and talbot play sounds that are palpable outgrowths of the manipulation of household electronics; concretions of gesture, not abstractions of memory."

stelzer and talbot have toured extensively, collaborating with artists as diverse as kevin drumm, martin tetreault, haco, gert-jan prins, keith fullerton whitman/hrvatski, roel meelkop, le quan ninh, nmperign, christian renou/brume, brendan murray, brent gutzeit, jack wright, ron lessard, and jason lescalleet. in addition, stelzer has performed with axel doerner, jos smolders, jerome noetinger, lionel marchetti, james coleman, and andrea neumann, and is a member of bhob rainey's large ensemble the bsc, whose first cd is forthcoming on grob this summer. stelzer runs the intransitive recordings label, and talbot the kissy records label. they live in boston, massachusetts.

$17.36

back in stock as of
april 7th, 2008

first in stock on
april 13th, 2007

korm plastics (netherlands) #kp 3023 cd
brombron (netherlands) #brombron 08 cd

giuseppe ielasi / howard stelzer “brombron 08: night life” compact disc

ruin 1 (7:22)
ruin 2 (7:12)
ruin 3 (4:54)
losing our taste for the nightlife (10:42)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "night life"

korm plastics press release...

howard stelzer / giuseppe ielasi - brombron 08: night life
korm plastics kp 2023
cd only
release date: january 1st 2006

korm plastics is proud to present the eigth release in the brombron series. originally a co-production between staalplaat and extrapool, it is now hosted by co-curator frans de waard. in the year 2000 frans de waard and extrapool started the brombron project. two or more musicians become artists in residence in extrapool, an arts initiative in nijmegen, the netherlands, with a fully equipped sound recording studio. these artists can work in a certain amount of time on a collaborative project; a project they always wished to do, but didn't have the time or the equipment to realize.

"i was introduced to giuseppe ielasi over email in 1999 or 2000 (i don't remember presicely), by a guy who ran a music magazine in italy called blowup. he was writing about cds on my label, intransitive, and suggested that i get in contact with his friend giuseppe, who was starting a label called fringes in milan. giuseppe and i exchanged some cds of our music, corresponded for awhile, and discovered that we had much in common.

giuseppe came to the us to promote his "right after" album with domenico sciajno, and we got along immediately. we're about the same age, have a similar temperament, play a similar sort of music, are from a similar kind of background, are excited about records, we love to eat, we're both kinda nerdy... yeah, giuseppe is my kind of guy! we had spoken about collaborating at a few points over the years, but somehow it just never happened, probably because we're so busy with our various projects and labels. so when i was offered a brombron residency, i thought it would a perfect opportunity to spend some time hanging out and playing music with giuseppe.

the method we chose was to first proceed to the closest coffee shop for a breakfast of cheese and meat sandwiches (me) and cookies (giuseppe), then we'd record improvisations for a few hours until lunchtime. i primarily used cassette tapes and giuseppe used a guitar, but we also both played synths and electronic doodads and microphones, and i made some tape recordings around the city that i brought back in to our improvisations. our minds were open, and we experimented without deciding in advance what sort of album we might be making. we'd then take a long walk, go to the nijmegen record shops (where plurex records are still cheap!), have some lunch, maybe also a snack, and then start to edit out the good bits from the morning. we'd also add some effects and change some parts, use the recordings as source material in a small way. then we'd return to the record shops to buy the records we hesitated on in the afternoon, have some dinner and relax. the next day, we'd wake up, have coffee, and do it again. our pace of working and comfort matched quite well. for the final few days of the residency, we started to piece together our bits until they worked as compositions. then we edited some more until the album emerged.

about the title.... we gave a duo concert at extrapool as part of the requirements of our residency. there was an art opening happening at the same time, so the gallery was packed with people. it was a lot of fun, but it also made us both feel a bit strange; we're somewhat awkward in social situations, and didn't know anyone at the extrapool party except for frans and roel meelkop, who drove out from rotterdam. after our set, we split to go get more fried dutch snacks. along the walk, we talked about how we used to go out to parties more often when we were younger, but now we aren't even so old and we generally enjoy staying at home where it's quiet, listening to records and reading. giuseppe was reminded on the song by arthur russell, "losing my taste for the nightlife". maybe we are. or, maybe that's just how we felt on that evening. it doesn't matter, really, i suppose."

- howard stelzer. cambridge, ma (usa) december 2005

$6.55

new to stock as of
april 7th, 2008

my own little label (netherlands) #moll 015 cd

howard stelzer / frans de waard “torn tongue • volume 2” business card compact disc recordable

torn tape (3:01)
virtual scissors (2:44)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "torn tongue • volume 2"

my own little label press release...

015 howard stelzer & frans de waard - torn tongue volume 2 (businesscard cdr)

howie and i have been working for years on various things, which found their origins in a spoken word tape. volume 0 was part of kapotte muziek's 4cdr boxset on audiobot and volume 1 was released by absurd, all ages ago. we planned to work on a volume 2 and i made some sketches for it, but we never got around doing anything with it. until now. howie and i returned to the four small sketches and made two new pieces out of that. probably the world's shortest collaboration. howie does a great dense tape piece whereas my piece is quite collage like and a bit louder than usual.

$17.36

new to stock as of
april 7th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics
modern-composition
playback-music
analogue-synth
guitar-themed

port (japan) #pt 003 cd

roel meelkop / giuseppe ielasi / howard stelzer / frans de waard “zondag” compact disc

untitled (1) (7:19)
untitled (2) (4:19)
untitled (3) (9:00)
untitled (4) (7:20)
untitled (5) (7:09)
remixed by evala (7:05)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "untitled (1)"

... stellar sunday-afternoon extrapool session featuring howard stelzer, giuseppe ielasi, frans de waard, and roel meelkop improvising with their chosen tools (roel & frans on analogue synths, howie on cassette tapes, giuseppe on guitar) - certain warm crackle resounds throughout - excellent rainy-day listening ...

port press release...

title : zondag
artist : roel meelkop + giuseppe ielasi + howard stelzer + frans de waard
cat no : ptcd003
format : cd
total : 42'22"

roel meelkop : roland sh101
giuseppe ielasi : guitar, electronics
howard stelzer : cassettes
frans de waard : korg ms20

recorded on a sunday in january 2005 at geluidwerkplaats extrapool, nijmegen, the netherlands

mixed by frans de waard, march 2005
revised by roel meelkop, june 2007
mastered by kimken at kimken studio 2007
designed by port (supported by graph)

a transborder collaborating album comprised of four leading figures in the world’s experimental music scene, which includes; roel meelkop whose musical activities date back to the 80's when he started thu20, and even now he still stands on the front line of holland’s electronic music scene; frans de waard, known as a representing artist in the european sound art scene thorough his projects such as staalplaat, kapotte musiek; giuseppe ielasi who organizes own label fringes recordings in italy; howard stelzer who organizes intransitive recordings in america. as if answering to their pieces, evala, an organizer of port, carefully added a bonus track by destructing and restructuring them, which came out as an outstanding remix with the ultrahigh-density. the achingly beautiful album floats between improvised and electronic music with a vibrantly disturbing quality.

$12.48

new to stock as of
march 31st, 2008

threads:
minimalism-drones
playback-music
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
field-recordings

students of decay (usa) #sod 49 cd

skeletons out “in remembrance of me” compact disc

in remembrance of me (36:21)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "in remembrance of me"

march 2008 release ; the debut album from two of my favorite people working in tandem ; howard stelzer (who you know from his excellent intransitive label & the records he releases of his own music on it) & jay sullivan (who’s remarkably un-prolific despite also running a label himself; we break more records) ...

these two venture out into the countryside, tools on-hand (a battery of portable cassette decks & walkman, a single dansette turntable covered in contact mics, respectively) to witness to not so much a campfire as a full-on village-destroying bonfire - the telltale arcs of splintering wood perfectly replicated in surface noise, the keeing, high-frequency / temperature escape-vectors ditto via varispeed hand-on-the-motor cassette jockeying ...

a single, carefully considered piece with, despite being ~~wholly improvised~~ constructed from improvisations, a very evident narrative ... the duo’s approach to their respective playback-manipulation setups has little to do with an otomo / marclay-style plunderphonic cut-ups than the more textural work of people like michael northam / john grzinich & jeph jerman (the latter, i’ve surmised, is a big touchstone for both) ...

superlative work ; listening at a fair clip on this dreary day takes me far away from these brightly fluorescent-lit environs into some moss-bedded troglodytic lair ... frankly, it kinds of sounds like the best thing in the world right now. highly recommended !!!

students of decay press release...

sod-49

skeletons out - "in remembrance of me"

"in remembrance of me" is the debut release by the boston based duo skeletons out, comprised of howard stelzer and jay sullivan. stelzer and sullivan make use of tapes and vinyl respectively, using these spare, deceptively crude means to conjure strikingly developed, transportive aural landscapes which are equal parts lush and expansive and claustrophobic and atrophied. the record begins with breakdown, as swarming, hissing tapes flutter, and amidst stuttering, resonant clatter a rusted automaton buckles, faltering, afraid, before pistons fire anew and it rises, heralding the slow imploding collapses which will inevitably follow, as though rising from this detritus.

stelzer and sullivan traverse the same barren netherworld valleys as mirror at their most blasted, while foraging deep within coppices akin to the natural decay states which inform the aesthetics of corrosion at work in much of loren chasse and jim haynes' output. think of "in remembrance of me" as a fugue caked in mud, one which beckons you deeper and deeper down into its manifold ravaged and entropic depths.

mastered by ernst karel with artwork by justin meyers.

cd (ltd. 500)

$7.01

new to stock as of
july 23rd, 2007

threads:
harsh-noise
playback-music
concert-recordings

troniks (usa) #tro 256 cd
pacrec (united states) #pacrec 128 cd

jazzkammer / howard stelzer “tomorrow no one will be safe” compact disc

jazzkammer - requiem for officer bobby barker (18:10)
howard stelzer - last night at bld (19:14)
jazzkammer & howard stelzer - tomorrow no one will be safe (20:19)

troniks press release...

jazzkammer & howard stelzer - tomorrow no one will be safe cd
pacrec128

ever wonder what would happen if two norwegian noisemen travelled across the usa with an obsessed tape improviser? tomorrow no one will be safe documents the 2004 jazzkammer / howard stelzer us tour, featuring a track each (jazzkammer: richmond, virginia / stelzer: columbus, ohio), as well as a collosal collaboration between the two (bloomington, indiana).

live compositions of space & silence punctuated with feedback screech and tape squeals, always threatening to self destruct but somehow maintaining its sense of tense exploration. edition of 500.

$15.23

back in stock as of
september 25th, 2008

first in stock on
february 16th, 2007

threads:
free-jazz
free-improvisation
harsh-noise
guitar-themed
modern-psych
circuit-bending

ecstatic peace! (usa) #e# 107 cd

“less self is more self (tarantula hill benefit)” double compact disc set

chris corsano - (live at the) phoenix & pheasant
burning star core - let's play like violins do
lovid - the fall of glome mountain
trebville exchange - twenty parasols aimed high
lee ranaldo - spkr test 3
jessica rylan - please come to meet me there
the lum and abner of morocco - june 21, 2005 #1
chuck bettis - circuit fucker
talibam! - you grandpa
carlos giffoni - afraid of blood
aaron dilloway - on tarantula hill
jack rose - amp
maria chavez - jebus
pengo - esquimaux
leslie keffer - tarantula hill 3/16/05
lexie mountain - befit it
graveyards - untitled
mark morgan - alright this next fucking guitar jam is called landscape annihilation
dj dogdick - nuthin' be makin' any sense
the haunting - a living room
to live and shave in l.a. - tarantula hill sept.11.04
howard stelzer - optimism
dreamcatcher - against all odds
mouthus - no sleeper here
nate young - a song for twig harper
nautical almanac + leslie keffer - live radio music

ecstatic peace! press release...

various
less self is more self 2cd set (tarantula hill benefit)
cat: e#107

tarantula hill, the preeminent east coast usa clubhouse for traveling noise and other obscurant pleasure musics of the early 21st century, was ravaged by fire in march 2006. t hill was also the abode of nautical almanac, a remarkable dada love-sound noise trio consisting of carly ptak, twig harper and max eisenberg. located in baltimore, maryland these fine folks feted the likes of all that is amazing in the underground community of post-free zone music/art/performance. as an irreplaceable venue/hangout it will be completely missed and mytholigized.

lots of cool benefit gigs have happened in honor to tarantula hill since the blaze. ecstatic peace decided to help by throwing together a double cd compilation of artists who had intimate association with the joint.

an amazing array of participation here, all kinds of wolf eyes breakdowns: aaron dilloway, nate young, the graveyards (w/ john olson), the haunting (w/ mike connelly), to live and shave in l.a., leslie keffer, jessica rylan, mark morgan (of sightings), chris corsano and tons more.

musically the cds flow with an astounding dynamic of sound idea exhibiting a scene in glorious rapture to the outer grasp.

$6.51

back in stock as of
february 28th, 2008

first in stock on
january 16th, 2007

threads:
lo-fi
harsh-noise
plunder-phonic
playback-music

hanson (usa) #hn us4 cs

“underground series vol. 4” cassette

machinegun warfare
damion romero
sickness
howard stelzer
cornucopia
darksmith

hanson press release...

fourth volume in the hanson underground series. 6 artists on a c-30. this volume contains: machinegun warfare, damion romero, sickness, howard stelzer, cornucopia, & darksmith.

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