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previous artist: stereolab		there are 4 titles featuring joel stern in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: josh stevenson

$14.26

new to stock as of
july 27th, 2010

threads:
experimental-instruments
free-improvisation
minimalism-drones
modern-psych

independent exhibitions (australia) #ip02 ep

sky needle “time hammer” seven inch single record

sweet 16 snorks
time hammer
the stain

june 2010 release ; always love a good art-gallery edition of “experimental instrument music” ...

this trio here, consisting of nature strip boss / sound-artist joel stern & visual artists ross manning & alex cuffe goes for a kind of primal tribalism, savaging their self-built instrumental arrays (“latex pump horns”, “elastic dust shovel”, “bass speaker box”) in a monochord kinda way that recalls the monks inasmuchas it does terry riley ...

nice edtiion to boot ; the just over-sized, hand-made-feeling sleeve holds the white-label single in it’s pocketed grasp ... with a slightly different presentation this could easily be seen as veering into alga marghen territory, yet it remains rooted in rock & roll ... very cool single !!!

independent exhibitions press release...

band: sky needle
release: time hammer 7”
date: june 2010
label: independent exhibitions
edition: 200 copies

sky needle is a primitive rock band from brisbane, australia whose ‘musical’ instruments are handmade experimental sculptural objects conceived and built by the artists. these unique instruments produce sounds that sometimes resemble traditional music, and other times birth a form of bizarre new music.

joel stern (latex pump horns)
ross manning (elastic dust shovel)
alex cuffe (bass speaker box)

stern, one third of the collective otherfilm, brings his bag of cheap tricks from an experimental film and sound practice. “rough diamond”, manning takes a sidetrack from serious art shows at the mca and milani gallery, playing with disposable objects of sound. cuffe mutates together his love of scientific and artistic experiments, releasing the frankenstein within.

the music, well, let’s talk about the music. it’s stalking, eerie, the night stumblings of a pot addict; a literal time hammer bearing down the weight of its metronomic corrosive mechanism onto a skull that’s ready to step into flight mode. oh, and the sweet meandering sounds of what could be a kids’ learners trumpet, but in fact… could be that tacky orange pvc piping? as sky needle say, “we are a couple of steps up from banging rocks together in a cave and a couple of steps down from modern music”. you can hear in there, the influences of the repetitive abrasion of late 80’s new york post punk/no wave, but it’s got more rhythm and more soul. perhaps somewhere between post punk and free jazz. hell, why not throw in a bit of african folk, outsider noise and distortionist gregorianism? the one-liner describing their sound: uncle fester discovers alchemy.

sky needle: anxious objects – sarah werkmeister (independent press, issue 1, summer 2009)

$15.54

back in stock as of
july 27th, 2010

first in stock on
november 22nd, 2008

threads:
field-recordings
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète

nature strip (australia) #ns 3006 cd

joel stern “objects.masks.props” compact disc

stradbroke verse (4:57)
panda box (3:58)
concertina for henri mouhot (3:39)
wake in fright (2:18)
pheromone wings (4:44)
dead lakes (4:33)
throat priest (8:53)
fortitudes end (4:12)

september 2008 release ; lush suite of electro-acoustic constructs from naturestrip founder joel stern ...

makes a lovely pair w/ the concurrently-released loren chasse title ...

nature strip press release...

ns3006 - joel stern - objects, masks, props

brisbane based but often found wandering throughout australia and regions far further out, joel stern, has been restlessly, compulsively, devising, capturing, constructing this album on and off over the past 6 and a bit years (2001-2008). created from instrumental debris, snatches of environmental sound (ethiopia, india, toowoomba, his lounge room), and a poetic sensitivity for incoherence, objects.masks.props, is the clearest and most potent reflection yet of joel's musical and artistic approach - somewhere between music concrete, art brut, free noise, cinema, abstraction, and the farmyard..

well known as a catalytic figure in the australian experimental music and film scenes (organiser of audiopollen, otherfilm, glee club), joel cut his chops in the concept-heavy nonsense atmosphere of early 00's london, collaborating with many of the japanese and english artists connected to the 'reductionist' and 'onkyo' movements (let's not name name's) and attending workshops given by amm legend eddie prevost. since returning to australia, joel's has collaborated widely, most notably in electro-acoustic duo form with anthony guerra (resulting in numerous cd's on impermanent, absurd, pseudo arcana) and in expanded cinema form with 16mm filmmaker sally golding as abject leader (resulting in tours of nz, usa and appearances at major film and art fests around australia).

in recent years, joel has been a central player in the burgeoning brisbane underground scene (featured in the wire, signal to noise), in bands such as no guru and sunshine has blown as well as creating large scale chaotic sound sculptures as part of watthaus.

$12.01

back in stock as of
october 9th, 2012

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

threads:
digital-musics
electro-acoustic-composition

room40 (australia) #rm418 cd

lloyd barrett “mise en scene” compact disc

exhale
sentinel
swarm
a silhouette for balance
scenery
the machine belly
canopy
post war vaseline

room40 press release...

for well over a decade, australia's lloyd barrett has been issuing all manner of intricate sound works – from diligent examinations of postconcréte sound and abstracted rhythmic projects to spacious ambient works.

in 2005, he committed himself to create mise en scene, a work drawing on the concepts of filmic sound and exploring the possibilities of philosophies suggested by authors and theorists such as michel chion.

the resulting album heralds a bold statement of intent from barrett. deeply evocative, maintaining moments of extreme intimacy and vast remoteness, this record is characterised by highly realised imagined sonic language. it speaks to the notions of acousmatic composition and delivers a document rich with decomposed found sound, unfamiliar texture and instrumental passages reflective of electroacoustic methodology.

"there is no auditory container for sounds... music communicates with all times and all spaces of a film, even as it leaves them to their separate and distinct existences"(michel chion: 1990).

$12.01

back in stock as of
february 16th, 2008

first in stock on
january 28th, 2005

threads:
digital-musics
site-specific
field-recordings
electro-acoustic-composition

w.m.o/r (germany) #w.m.o/r 05 cd

mattin / rosy parlane “mendietan” compact disc

arnieta i (5:53)
arnieta ii (4:12)
bera ii (4:03)
paresi i (4:58)
bera i (7:38)
paresi iii (7:21)
bera iii (4:42)
ikasta (7:34)

site-specific / field-recording-based collaboration between mattin & rosy parlane ; from their roost high up in the basque hillsides, the two worked in real time with environmental sounds, processing them via computer software into the 8 pieces on this disc. the results range from gorgeous/subtle bristling drone-work (foreshadowing rosy’s magnificent pair of albums on the touch label) to more hostile/rectified realizations (mattin’s doing, no doubt ...)

w.m.o/r press release...

mattin / rosy parlane
medietan
w.m.o/r 05 cd deleted

“between the 4th and 9th of october 2001 rosy parlane and myself went with laptop computers, microphones, digital camera, md and headphones to different mountains in different locations in the basque country. our aim was not to just document our trip but rather subtly to intervene with the surroundings, by improvising and interacting with the environment”

mendietan is basque for ‘in the mountains’. this work begins in the basque mountains where mattin and rosy parlane rest their computers and microphones on sleeping bags and begin a private process of aural intervention and documentation. the processed sounds on mendietan are never performed ‘publicly’, confined to headphones and a minidisk recorder. they exist privately within the public space. what remains outside of the private sphere? the visual cue, ambiguous technical activity at a distance. without aural clues, a possible audience has no choice but to invent an agenda, actively misinterpret the scene.

the work continues when mattin presents a set of still images to four writers and asks them to perform the role of an active audience; to create/expose possible narratives in the work independently, without access to the sounds that were produced.

mendietan is realised in material form as a cd and photo/essay booklet. the link to the performance context has been severed and can only be constantly reinvented, based on the evidence of these multiple impressions. it is possible that mendietan is characterised by the calmness of the ‘environment’, and the ‘disruption’ of the intervention, but this assumes an original calmness/neutrality that is impossible to verify. only the physicality of the final product can be verified. the rest is a fiction, a creation out of nothing.

joel stern

previous artist:
stereolab

...and that's everything in stock featuring joel stern.
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next artist:
josh stevenson

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