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previous artist: the north sea		there are 7 titles featuring michael northam in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: northern

$15.12

back in stock as of
november 22nd, 2011

first in stock on
august 24th, 2006

threads:
harsh-noise
musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
minimalism-drones
live-electronic

best of 2006 !!!

blossoming noise (usa) #bn 012 cd

francisco lópez “absolute noise ensemble” double compact disc set

a two-disc lopez collage freakout !!

untitled sonic metaorganisms:

06.16.00
11.03.00
01.21.01
06.08.02
09.22.02

untitled sonic microorganisms:

untitled sonic microorganisms

blossoming noise press release...

total running time: 1:44:58

francisco lópez's absolute noise ensemble 2cd set featuring: alain wergifosse, albert mestre, antón ignorant, carlos medina, césar góngora, christian dergarabedian, daniel menche, ferrán fages, francisco lópez, games addiction, ilios, io casino, joe colley, jorge haro, koji asano, masami akita, mego laptop orchestra, michael gendreau, michael northam, oren ambarchi, philippe faujas, roc jiménez, ruben garcía, russell haswell, shunichiro okada, víctor nubla, zbigniew karkowski, zipperspy, alan courtis, amy denio, antonio garcía, audiopeste, bernhard günter, don campau, elliott sharp, eric muhs, frank koustrup, geoff dugan, gonçalo falcâo, john hegre, john hudak, john wiggins, jon tulchin, jorge mancini, jørgen teller, lasse marhaug, ludovic poulet, mason jones, mike honeycutt, minuit, ralf wehowsky, reznicek, scott konzelmann, stephen fenton, steve peters, tetsuo furudate, wojciek.

deluxe gatefold packaging.

$14.41

new to stock as of
august 2nd, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition

edition... (usa) #edition xxxii cd

michael northam “memoirs of four discarded objects” compact disc

noeud (10:05)
brosse (11:52)
ressort (11:34)
carrillon (12:32)

edition... press release...

xxxii

m. northam: memoirs of four discarded objects cd

wandering through vacated paths of life one takes notice of the drift metal left forgotten along the side of roads - the last remains of the once useful now superfluous - therein these forgotten things lay stories of molecular processes, an elemental re-contextualization perhaps one can see these as a deposit of time along a route from worth to worthlessness.

with this in mind four objects were chosen to translate this ephemeral state into a sonic topography making into memories this re-animated still nature. the objects were played, manipulated and the resulting sounds electronically mined and re-contextualized to create immersive fields of sound - as a multidimensional painting - each reflecting an observation of the materials internal qualities - physical and analogical.

$9.43

back in stock as of
february 25th, 2009

first in stock on
august 25th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

ferns (france) #rhizome 02 cd

michael northam “go” three inch compact disc

go (20:24)

august 2006 release ; heavy piece from michael northam, composed in the wake of his father’s passing back in 2005 ...

ferns press release...

based on various sources including spring cars themselves recorded at the terre haute raceway september of 2005. this work is a monolithic testament of the force of life of a man who lived it fully until the end. as well, a meditation on the samasaric metaphor of the oval track—the circle of life we are all riding along and are bound to go.

limited to 500 copies.

“the only constant is change” - richard northam (1926-2005)

ferns_rhizome_02

$18.48

back in stock as of
march 2nd, 2010

first in stock on
january 27th, 2009

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

best of 2009 !!!

olde english spelling bee (usa) #oesb-18 lp

kodama “turning leaf migrations” long playing record

there were seedling from the terraced lake side. doppled sprouting points where winters and springs where beginnings and endings met and these things stuck inside of each other like honey drops uprooting mycelium in the night forest of grmade we spoke with the bubilant sage while we crawled our dance around a fungus stump courting the tiny folks to come and play (18:42)
wandering around inside of ourea we blew into the breathing of the stochastic rushing water - and once again, the mirror was too steams to cross the voracious throat then even falling couldn’t forge a path to send back the frozen land that sleeping river has seen the bombs that just sank into its phlegmatic walls backing up into a cultural ditch we slobbered through the din of the alcoholics’ babble hiding out in shelters where we bounced the wireless in circles, back on top of itself - so much so that the water didn’t come in we waved our leaves over broken branches piles on top of each other endlessly to obscure the spring where even once we slept by the arctic ocean when cloud drops bounced on our strings we rose on top and sang to the stars - so far that the differences were yet to be seen... (22:05)

january 2009 release ; the debut issue from the duo of michael northam & hitoshi kojo ...

as i pore through more & more records that were “put together in an afternoon,” it’s reassuring to hear / see / hold such an artifact borne of pure care / effort over a (comparably) long period of time ; from the fine inking of the lp’s cover / insert (detailed below) to the “not a gesture wasted” nature of the enclosed music, largely informed by the sturm & drang end of the musique concrète canon (a few contemporary touches are thrown in, such as the ringing digital sawtooth waves that dot the first “side”) with an omnipresent sense of the absurd (wouldn’t have caught it blindly, but yes, tazartès is a great touchstone for the kinds of arbitrary-yet-sensible edits herein) ...

definitely my personal favorite of this january oesb batch ; highly recommended !!!

olde english spelling bee press release...

oesb-18 kodama "turning leaf migrations" lp

brand new release - limited to 500 - this one's a monster - one of the best oesb releases to datekodama is the ongoing recording project of two well-known visual and sound artists - hitoshi kojo and michael northam - and this is their first widely available release as a duo. recorded in various improbable locations whenever they crossed paths over the course of several years and then finally edited and assembled in a cluttered garage in the west side of indianapolis. there is a decidedly more improvisational feel and crisp psychedelic aura to these recordings when compared to their other work and one can hear the influence of ghedalia tazartes in how the various recordings were stitched together.

to quote hitoshi kojo:

we are the spirit of forest. our howling has been offered to the many goddesses of the valleys. teething our emptiness they, licking the stars, until white holes appear in our sky through them towards regenerative guides of the tonal-morphic omni-verses.

using found objects to seduce voices from unlikely sources as well as traditional instruments of wind, wires and wood. kodama weaves between emotional poetry and dynamic forces of noises. the recordings have a strong atmosphere of each location - the top of a mountain in switzerland, a campground in ohio, lofoten island in norway, the arctic circle in finland, niagara falls, etc. it includes a lot of the dirts of the raw recordings, but also incredibly beautiful moments such as the session with an owl in a slovenian forest, an alpine summit singing meditation under the vast galaxy, and an encounter with the small people through strange ritual...

limited pressing of 500 copies.
covers & insert printed on 2-color offset press
with illustrations and design by hitoshi kojo.

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 8th, 2010

first in stock on
december 1st, 2008

threads:
sound-art
field-recordings
experimental-instruments
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
musique-concrète

orogenetics (usa) #oro jg/mn cd

john grzinich / michael northam “the absurd evidence” compact disc

jgrzinich - incubation (31:22)
jgrzinich / mnortham - through the membrane (7:08)
jgrzinich permeate (20:06)

1998 release ; collaborative work between sound-artists john grzinich & michael northam, released on this bobby j (earlier imprint run by olde english spelling bee’s todd ledford) sub-label ...

this has long been one of my favorite discs by the pair ; stretches of impossibly present crackling fireplace ambience are cut with super-muted machine-room drones and long stretches of low-end psycho-acoustic interference ...

orogenetics press release...

1-3 assembled by jgrzinich
2 assembled by jgrzinich/mnortham
1997-98 at the orogenetics studio

design by mnortham
thanks to dla for a certain contigent
factor and to carmen for putting her
hands into the dirt.

$12.61

back in stock as of
september 16th, 2011

first in stock on
january 27th, 2009

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
jewelled-antler
musique-concrète
minimalism-drones

the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 014 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 014 cd

loren chasse / michael northam “the otolith” compact disc

the broken house (6:09)
spinning cloth (6:18)
waiting (2:59)
cataract (10:29)
the spectral harvest (9:02)
crag (2:48)
regeneration (8:16)
eggeater's retreat (12:37)

october 2008 release ; first signs of this on-going collaboration (materials herein date back to 2003) between jewelled antler’s loren chasse & michael northam ...

extremely present / well-recorded pieces utilizing field-recorded events & naturally occurring sonic phenomena as source material ; often stripping the sounds of their geographic significance and/or spectrally reducing environments to ghostly fragments of their actual selves (as is the case of the piece excerpted in the sound-sample) ...

droning psychedelic ragas, indeed ...

the helen scarsdale agency press release...

hms014
loren chasse & michael northam
the otolith
cd

release date: october 2008

the recordings of loren chasse and michael northam begin and end with the great outdoors. yet, the well-documented wanderlust of these two kindred sound artists is only part of the equation. field recordings of wind, water, and stone intertwine and hybridize within private rituals of droning psychedelic ragas that return as a folklore reiterating the mystery of the natural world around us. through his numerous contributions to the multi-faceted jewelled antler as well his solo work, chasse has long postulated the microphone as an extension of his ear, which magnifies and probes the surface of the earth for a tactile grit that permeates all of the sounds that he generates. northam claims his inspiration from vast geographies, microscopic detail, and severe weather, which he compacts through various techniques to explore what is between improvisation and acousmatic composition. both chasse and northam entertain such notions through an alchemy of arcane instruments: autoharps, ouds, flutes, bells, gongs, bowed wires, harmonium, and northam's magnetic table harp.

the otolith is the result of several years of work, with sounds gathered collectively in the san francisco bay area and throughout europe. the album speaks as a bramble of fence wire and chaparral scrub oak, acquiring an unkempt collection of rubbish, cobwebs, insects, and soil within its tangle. as the wind pushes in one direction, this mass emits a quite if scratchy melody as if the ghost from a forgotten song; but when the wind changes directions, it bellows a rasping din of metal and vine cracking against itself. this sodden calliope tumbles into a miasma of droning atmospheres, softly rasped distortion, and very subtly rendered lulabies lurking deep within the overgrowth.

hand letter-pressed in an edition of 700 copies.

$15.69

new to stock as of
august 18th, 2006

threads:
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed
electro-acoustic-composition

ee tapes (belgium) #ee 17 cd

“the walls are whispering... volume iii” compact disc

shifts - vertonen 19 (7:06)
mnortham - moth tongue (7:23)
oren ambarchi - bank account blues (4:25)
azymbol - dementia (6:16)
seth nehil - knotknit (9:58)
eric lanzillotta - furtive skulking (5:41)
fear falls burning - his own in grim (8:20)
af ursin - kydsak (4:52)
yannick dauby - sanguine (5:20)
felix kubin - achter de schermen (4:12)
acid_soma - fully working (5:03)
contagious orgasm - let's go actively this week (4:46)

neat compilation on the belgian ee tapes label, featuring a host of exclusive material from a few mms perennials (oren ambarchi, seth nehil, felix kubin, etc...), sealed inside a fold-out 7” sleeve...

ee tapes press release...

"final part of this compilation trilogy, and maybe the most adventurous one of the series, digging further into the experimental worlds of minimal | weird | field-recordings | drones | noise | whatever… did anyone say “dark ambient” ? again we managed to gather a superb international-artistic crew :

af ursin (be)
oren ambarchi (aus – published by touch music)
contagious orgasm (jp)
yannick dauby (fr)
fear falls burning (be – aka vidnaobmana)
felix kubin (de – aka felix knoth)
eric lanzillotta (usa – ex-anomalous records)
mnortham (usa)
seth nehil (usa)
shifts (nl – aka frans de waard)
absolute newcomers acid_soma (gr)
azymbol (be)

worth a very special mention is yannick daubys track “sanguine” that won the second price on an international festival for unpublished music in taipei (taiwan)! the full metallised cd comes housed in a heavy cardboard 7” cover(colour : shiste) with gold and black offset-print." -ee tapes.

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