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previous artist: salvo beta		there are 9 titles featuring philip samartzis in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: samla mammas manna

$19.05

back in stock as of
april 23rd, 2008

first in stock on
january 25th, 2005

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plunder-phonic

23five incorporated (usa) #23five 005 cd

gum “vinyl anthology” double compact disc set

stormy weather (3:54)
testicle stretch (2:05)
injected by a certain amount of charisma (3:36)
sporadic acts of violence (10:19)
smooth torture in exile (2:17)
involuntary orgasms during the cleaning of automobiles (2:27)
outfits for agony (8:15)
stomach irritations (1:04)
fear (6:24)
arm fuck (3:49)
snowtown (4:03)
cocktail party effect (3:23)
live at hard times, melbourne, australia, 1987 (21:03)
1-800-gum (5:57)
okefenokee (5:56)
cicada material (5:52)
banning (20:26)
melted limp fallout (18:14)
tv eye (2:45)
blood on the floor (13:42)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "injected by a certain ..."

i found a copy of gum’s “20 years in blue movies...” amidst the stacks @ f.e. during the first year i worked there (this would have been... 1997) and didn’t think much of it other than that it was most likely some troubled post trumans water upstate ny solo bedroom noise attempt, albeit one with a terrible title. a few years later i was browsing in twisted village and i came across said record again, only this time it had a note attached to the cover saying something about “experimental turntable music” and i picked it up...

well, i’ve listened to that damn record maybe 30 times since then... it’s become something of a staple of my dj bag, as it works well in most progressive settings from offering a low-end apex to providing an excuse for society ladies to come up to me during art-gallery dj sets and enquire if i’d heard of christian marclay (“yes maam... but this is actually a duo of teenagers from australia from 1988”).

it goes without saying that mr. samartzis (who’s becoming something of a favorite around here for his contemporary electro-acoustic work) and mr. curtis were muons ahead of the current curve of (*gulp*) post-media operators. glad to have this music on an easily accessible disc-set ...

23five incorporated press release...

gum
vinyl anthology
23five005, double compact disc set

in 1986, an australian fellow by the name of andrew curtis posted an advertisement in a couple of record shops around melbourne expressing a desire to start a band with somebody who shared his interests in industrial music. the only person who answered the ad was philip samartzis, who has since gone on to international acclaim for his pristine electro-acoustic compositions published through staalplaat, synaesthesia, and dorobo. back in the late ‘80s, the curtis and samartzis collaboration resulted in the sonically volatile project simply called gum. with little expertise or training, the two gathered up what objects they were familiar with, in particular thrift store turntables and soiled records. eschewing their original attraction to the giants of industrial culture, gum quickly developed an aesthetic privileging the caustic rupture of skipping records and smoldering surface noise, predating the current avant-turntablist aficionados like philip jeck, janek schaefer, and otomo yoshihide.

within a handful of recordings made during the brief span between 1986 and 1990, gum piled thick layers of electrically charged static channeled from their locked grooves. these spiraling repititions and arrhythmic palpitations were suspended in the instant moment of ecstatic release as an infinite crash of overstimulation. thanks to rrr and korm plastics who had published gum tracks on a couple of 7" compilations, gum received a considerable amount of notoriety during the last gasps of pre-digital cassette culture. since then, the two parted ways with curtis turning his passions to photography and samartzis infecting his students at rmit with his cravings for immersive and tactile experiences through sound. yet, gum’s frankensteinian grooves had remained a secret history within the prolific oeuvre of australian sound art.

with the publication of gum’s vinyl anthology, 23five, inc uncovers the bulk of gum’s work, including all of the material from their self-published albums vinyl and 20 years in blue movies and yet to fake an orgasm as well as those aforementioned compilation tracks and plenty of unreleased material.

founded in 1993, 23five incorporated is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound works in the public arena, and to the support and education of artists working with and discussing the medium of sound. for the past 14 years, 23five incorporated has remained at the forefront in bringing the most adventurous elements of sound art to the san francisco bay area. 23five has served as an important benefactor to artists such as john duncan, christina kubisch, francisco lopez, achim wollscheid, matt heckert, zbigniew karkowski, atau tanaka, and many more.

$15.75

new to stock as of
january 24th, 2008

threads:
sound-poetry
electro-acoustic-composition

incunabulum (netherlands) #inc 005 cd

dan warburton / frederick farryl goodwin “compendium maleficarium iii” compact disc

id (2:30)
mclean hospital (1:26)
hells angels in a bar (2:38)
woyzeck in limbo [in floating aquatic tutu] (1:35)
atheist (1:42)
woyzeck in the inferno [in burning saffron robe] (2:15)
cannibal rector (1:34)
the cardinal (3:51)
the cardinal (2:49)
virgil’s cow (1:06)
ophelia (2:12)
violence (5:48)
mcgowan’s bull (0:52)
loose strife (1:30)
the crows (4:14)
the porno booth (4:27)
the death camps (6:02)
dr. death (5:11)
a history primer (3:35)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "a history primer"

january 2008 release ; a text-sound project featuring the words of “american poet and former hardcore singer” fred goodwin w/music composed by dan warburton (w/a huge list of contributors... philip samartzis, aki onda, jac berrocal, jean-luc guionnet, etc... )

incunabulum press release...

incunabulum inc005
dan warburton / fred goodwin
compendium maleficiarum iii

twenty years in the making, compendium maleficarum iii is the extraordinary and totally unclassifiable encounter between the apocalyptic writing of american poet and former hardcore singer fred goodwin and the music of english composer / violinist dan warburton.

featuring appearances by pascal battus, alexandre bellenger, jac berrocal, frédéric blondy, françois fuchs, bertrand gauguet, jean-luc guionnet, bruno meillier, aki onda, philip samartzis and fabrizio spera.

$15.01

new to stock as of
july 11th, 2006

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free-jazz
musique-concrète

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microphonics (australia) #microphonics 02 cd

philip samartzis “unheard spaces” compact disc

the follow-up to “soft and loud” !!!

absense and presence (2006)

1_ 3m38s
2_ 6m34s
3_ 4m16s
4_ 6m51s
5_ 4m09s

unheard spaces (2006)

6_ 6m46s
7_ 7m44s
8_ 10m35s
9_ 8m53s
10_ 7m40s

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "absense and presence (2006) - 5_ 4m09s"

brand new (summer 2006) release of electro-acoustic work from mr. philip samartzis - the long-awaited successor to the best-selling “soft & loud” (cd: microphonics - lp: plates of sound)

microphonics press release...

absence and presence (2006) 25:40

absence and presence was originally written for five musicians and four loudspeakers positioned throughout the site of performance in order to explore the traction between amplified and acoustic space. the performance was predicated on a set of directions that determined the combination of musicians at specific times and the duration of their performance. within these structural parameters the musicians chose what they played and how they responded to one another. the idea was to create a series of exchanges between two or three musicians at any one time but never have all musicians sounding simultaneously. therefore large tracts of action and inaction inform the composition as each musician waits their turn to shape the trajectory of the piece.

the recorded version of absence and presence uses a non-linear recording methodology that places each musician in a separate physical location so as to incorporate the specific acoustics generated by the diverse spaces in which the musicians found themselves. i then requested each musician recreate their performance from memory without hearing the other musicians play. the musical and spatial results were used to form the basic structure of the piece, whilst editing, layering and over dubs were utilized to forge a more cohesive result from the constituent components. finally i invited michael vorfeld to improvise to certain sections of the piece to add a further layer of complexity to the arrangement in order to blur the distinction between the constructed and the improvised.

unheard spaces (2006) 41:40

unheard spaces comprises field recordings of venice conducted over a three-week period in march 2000. the focus of the composition is on the way sound permeates venice to highlight the specific acoustics that characterize the aural dimension of this labyrinthine city. as one of the most recognizable cities in the world, and the subject of countless artistic works, i was interested to know whether it was possible to portray venice in new and innovative ways by focusing exclusively on its sonic character. inspired by luc ferraris presque rien (1995/france), as well as luchino viscontis death in venice (1971/italy/france), nicolas roegs dont look now (1973/uk/italy) and paul schraders the comfort of strangers (1991/italy/uk/usa), unheard spaces uses narrative to locate the listener within a set of complex sonic interactions resounding within the myriad of passageways, piazzas and canals that constitute the lugubrious city. the composition was originally arranged and mixed in eight-channel surround sound for the la costruzione del suono festival staged in mestre, italy in 2004. this cd contains a stereo mix down derived from the eight-channel surround mix.

$17.49

back in stock as of
december 27th, 2007

first in stock on
november 3rd, 2005

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digital-musics

plates of sound (usa) #pos 001 lp

philip samartzis “soft and loud” long playing record

untitled 8;43
untitled 2;42
untitled 9;40
untitled 5;30
untitled 4;24
untitled 11;15

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "untitled"

here’s the vinyl version of one of my top 10 favorite records of 2004 - philip samartzis’ “soft and loud.” this item is entirely special for many reasons, the main one being that mr. joey rhyu - the force majeure behind the fledgling plates of sound imprint - decided to form said label to issue this record on vinyl, domestically, after (like many of you... well, 10 of you at least...) being wooed enough by my description of here on mms to check it out... this is exactly the kind of interconnect i had in mind when i started the shop; finding homes for challenging music(s) from afar... completely warms my heart...

what results; not just your average vinyl reissue, no sir... instead, this is beautifully mastered & rendered in full rti-spec: 180-gram vinyl, full color everything, each copy hand-numbered, even including an insert with the lines in english on one side, japanese on the other... the works; just about as deluxe a package anyone could ever hope for. my only gripe is that it’s limited to 500 (something like this should, you know, in a perfect world, be around for a while...)

here’s the original description i wrote of the cd version on philip’s own microphonics label (now o/p) when it first arrived (all six pieces from the disc are on the vinyl) :

the debut disc from philip samartzis’ own microphonics label, a set of masterful ina-grm-lineage sound-collage pieces constructed from location recordings, acoustic phenomena, and slight digital processing over the last 3 odd years. this record is quickly becoming one of my favorite discs of 2004, somewhat unfortunate that its circulation is finally taking root now during the waning days of 2004 (i’ve sent my “bests” lists out long ago). stands out like a marshmallow-coated ostrich in the landscape of hack cdr-only releases of improv scrabblings from rank and file composers... nuanced, dramatically jarring, and cohesively constructed electro-acoustic epics of the highest order. i strongly urge anyone who hasn’t heard any of philip’s work (or, in fact, anyone who wants to hear a sparkling example of digital-age musique concrète) to give this a few repeated listens. wonders will be revealed...

plates of sound press release...

originally conceived for eight-channel surround sound playback, soft and loud is comprised of field recordings made in japan between 1999 and 2001 that were later arranged and mixed in melbourne over a three year period.

the objective of the field recordings was to document a variety of common environments in order to investigate the behaviour of singular events and their relationships to other sounds occupying the japanese soundscape. of particular interest is the cohesion with which artificially generated sounds are incorporated within the generally subdued natural acoustic environment.

soft and loud is the first release to be published on samartzis' microphonics label, and is the first in a series of works based on his investigations into surround sound spatialisation for installation art.

“philip samartzis is currently co-ordinator and lecturer in sound within the media arts course area of the school of art & culture, rmit university, where he is engaged in research into surround sound and immersive environments for installation art.

some of the outcomes from his research has informed a number of exhibitions including; unheard spaces (2004) presented at the candiani cultural centre, mestre, italy; presence & absence (2002) presented at statenlogement, hoorn; transparency (2001) presented at fondation cartier pour l'art contemporain, paris; soft & loud (2001) presented at central tafe gallery, perth; and dodg'em (1999), a collaboration with martine corompt, and first prize winner of the national digital art awards organised by the institute of modern art in brisbane.

as an independent curator he has organised two immersion festivals (1999 & 2001) as well as variable resistance, a series of international sound art presentations for the australian centre for contemporary art. samartzis has also curated variable resistance: ten hours of sound from australia for the san francisco museum of modern art and the podewil arts centre in berlin.

as a solo artist he has performed widely in australia, japan, europe and the united states, and has published four solo compact disks, residue (1998), windmills bordered by nothingness (1999), mort aux vaches (2003) & soft and loud (2004).”

$12.01

back in stock as of
december 3rd, 2008

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

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room40 (australia) #edrm407 cd

philip samartzis / lawrence english “one plus one” three inch fan compact disc

faster than cold (5:37)
gut bucket blues (6:22)
goin’ back home (5:51)
phosphorescent clouds (3:08)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "faster than cold"

room40 press release...

philip samartzis & lawrence english
one plus one

the turntable has enjoyed a varied history in the realm of performance and experimental music. from the early phonographic works of john cage to the spliced cut-ups of christian marclay in the 1980s, the device has proven to be a versatile tool for the creation and transformation of sound.

following a joint billing at brisbane’s metro arts space in 2002, melbourne based composer philip samartzis and sound artist lawrence english shared a 30-minute performance that was to become the beginning of their on-going turntable duo. both samartzis (a member of the legendary australian turntable group gum) and english (a regular player with dj olive, janek schaefer and others) have long histories of live actions utilising turntables and together each of them brings a wealth of gestures and unique sonic qualities to the instrument.

recorded in early 2006, this edition captures the initial studio works from these two artists and seeks to reflect on the potential of the cyclical nature of vinyl and the surface noise that envelopes the very medium itself.

$12.01

back in stock as of
december 3rd, 2008

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

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room40 (australia) #edrm406 cd

philip samartzis / kozo inada “h [ ]” three inch fan compact disc

h [ ] (20:33)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "h [ ]"

room40 press release...

australian electro-acoustic composer philip samartzis is an increasingly vital presence in the australian sound community. his work over the past decade and a half has offered a prophetic vision for each of his chosen formats and aesthetic approaches.

on h [ ] samartzis is joined by minimal japanese composer kozo inada, who brings with him an equally refined and austere sound sensibility. between them, these two composers collaborate to produce a highly detailed work that juxtaposes, obscures and ultimately unites pure electronics with environmental recordings. these elements are set to work against and within one another, the results causing the listener to reconsider which sounds are emanating from the interwoven tapestry of source materials.

celebrating the rich tradition of acousmatic sound and musique concréte, this composition provides a potent reminder of the potentials of sound as a transformative and (imagined) narrative medium.

$12.81

back in stock as of
april 23rd, 2008

first in stock on
november 18th, 2003

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
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guitar-themed
musique-concrète
digital-musics

23five incorporated (usa) #23five 902 cd
san francisco museum of modern art (united states) #sfm 902 cd

“variable resistance • ten hours of sound from australia” compact disc

oren ambarchi - stactedit (2000)
robbie avenaim - impulse control disorder (2002)
philip samartzis - soft and loud (2001)
david brown - were holes mended? (2002)
jim knox (xonk) - never mind the ruddocks (2002)
jim knox (xonk) - fuck to mandatory detention (2002)
jim knox (xonk) - prophylactic liquidation of our pig government (2002)
thembi soddell - violation (2002)
darrin verhagen - p2 (2002)
pimmon - steps gaps (flicker) (2002)
délire - fxcr_2_r2 (2002)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "were holes mended?"

this disc, along with “motion - a movement in australian sound”, will provide an air-tight compendium on contemporary out-sound workings in the outback. nice to see my man jim knox on a tangible artifact...

23five incorporated press release...

variable resistance: 10 hours of sound from australia
23f/sfm 902, compact disc

over the past three or four years, the australian experimental musical community has flourished, thanks in part to the tireless globetrotting from artists like oren ambarchi, pimmon, and philip samartzis. variable resistance — a co-presentation between 23five incorporated and the san francisco museum of modern art — originally celebrated this australian renaissance with a 10 hour ‘listening event’ in september of 2002. from those ten hours, curator philip samartzis distilled the best tracks to be featured on this cd compendium. variable resistance is a title that encapsulates the tone and extent of the work on hand, referencing not only the electronic gizmo (the variable resistor) as key to many of the featured homespun constructions filtered through state of the art dsp filters, but also as an applicable non-definition of those artists who “offer variable resistance in how they are defined and the positions they occupy in a broader cultural context, fragmented, and dispersed among remote cities and divided by enormous physical and psychological space.”

within this disc, the australian aesthetic finds itself reflecting a number of ideas previously mined throughout the history of electronic music from mego’s fascination with the streaming micro-textures of digital fragmentation to metamkine’s conceptual riddles within their cinema pour l’oreille series to the brazen noise-junk collages from merzbow and otomo yoshihide. yet, variable resistance resolves its uniqueness by smashing these references with brutish noise and demonstrative force applied to the stereotypically delicate sensibilities of electro-acoustic composition. for instance, samartzis’ collages of environmental, plundered, and digitized sound meld into psychologically abrasive narrative scalded by toxic agents; pimmon transforms agitated chunks of granular synthesis into cybersonic lullabies; and david brown’s jarringly angular duet between a prepared guitar and a squeaking door stands as a steroid injected homage to pierre henry’s musique concrete classic variations pour une porte et un soupir. along with samartzis, brown, and pimmon, variable resistance also features exclusive compositions from oren ambarchi, robbie avenaim, philip samartzis, xonk, thembi soddell, darrin verhagen, and delire.

$15.01

back in stock as of
june 17th, 2007

first in stock on
august 26th, 2006

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musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition

gruenrekorder (germany) #gruen 002 cd

“der michel und der dom” compact disc

philip samartzis - displacement
roland etzin - dunkelrote blumen
stefan funck - ohne klavier
asmus tietchens - dry and sex
suspicion breeds confidence - die unbemerkte revolution in waldmichelbach
gregory büttner - domichel
hans schüttler - obnoxius
martin moritz - jesusscooter
christoph korn - iii. 5/04
lasse-marc riek - heiliggeist
-21 costa gröhn - feldaufnahmen von michel und dom

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "lasse-marc riek - heiliggeist / gregory büttner - domichel"

gruenrekorder press release...

der michel und der dom | gruen 002 | audio cd
klangkunst aus feldaufnahmen von der kirche st. michaelis und dem jahrmarkt hamburger dom

klangkompositionen, soundscapes und remixe von: gregory büttner, roland etzin, stefan funck, costa gröhn, christoph korn, martin moritz, lasse-marc riek, philip samartzis, hans schüttler, suspicion breeds confidence, asmus tietchens

der michel und der dom ist ein (klang-)kunstprojekt, bei dem die hamburger hauptkirche st. michaelis ("michel") und der jahrmarkt "hamburger dom" klanglich miteinander verwoben werden. ausgangspunkt waren von costa gröhn an beiden orten gesammelte tonaufnahmen. diese wurden im frühjahr 2003 und 2004 erstellt und in jeweils unterschiedlicher auswahl an zehn klangkünstler zur weiterverarbeitung übergeben. ausschließlich auf basis des klangmaterials sollten bis zu siebenminütige kompositionen entstehen, unabhängig von und ohne kenntnis der anderen arbeiten - mindestens ein teilstück der michel- und eins der domaufnahmen sollte vorkommen. auf der cd spiegelt sich das spannungsverhältnis zwischen dokumentarischem purismus und kreativer eigenleistung wieder. den 10 remixen folgt eine auswahl der ursprünglichen feldaufnahmen.

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the michel and the cathedral | green 002 | audio cd
sound art from field photographs of the church pc. michaelis and the fair hamburg cathedral

sound compositions, soundscapes and remixe of: gregory buettner, roland etzin, stefan funck, costa groehn, christoph grain, martin moritz, let leaving riek, philip samartzis, hans's shaker, suspicion breeds confidence, asmus tietchens

the michel and the cathedral are in (sound)kunstprojekt, with which those will verwoben klanglich with one another hamburg main church pc. michaelis ("michel") and the fair "hamburg cathedral". starting point were of costa groehn at both places collected clay/tone photographs. these were provided in the spring 2003 and 2004 and handed over in different in each case selection to ten sound artists for subsequent treatment. exclusively on basis of the sound material siebenminuetige compositions should develop, independently of and without knowledge of the other work up to - at least one section of the michel and one of the cathedral photographs should occur. on that cd is again reflected the stress ratio between documentary purism and creative own contribution. a selection of the original field photographs follows the 10 remixen.

$14.02

back in stock as of
january 11th, 2007

first in stock on
december 15th, 2004

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
digital-musics

synaesthesia (australia) #syn 002 cd

“strewth! a compilation of abstract electronic music from australia and new zealand” compact disc

candlesnuffer - bathe him in paper
delire - idiot savant vs the centre of effort
philip samartzis - nhk tokyo
zy’z x - the mating dance of alexander’s horned spheres
auigiugui - lila lite up bocca
zy’z x - two oxen or 1024 chickens?
cray - untitled i/o
zy’z x - scr_tch-plinth
xonk - primate training
squinch - mono intertia and the last utility
oren ambarchi - kozel
zy’z x - third swarm dynasty
matthew thomas - approach
darrin verhagen - here’s to the death of 1 over f
netochka nezvanova - poztgenom!knuklearporekomplekz
dion workman - for i/x
david franzke - cc kid
rosy parlane - shado

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "philip samartzis - nhk tokyo"

one of the two releases (the other was the fennesz/parlane collab 3”disc that’s now sadly o/p) that kicked off the synaesthesia label... a sometimes-subdivision of mego run out of the shop of the same name by a riotous young fellow named mark harwood.

heaps of exclusive material from philip samartzis, oren ambarchi, dion workman, rosy parlane, etc...

synaesthesia press release...

where this compilation succeeds is in it's ability to encompass the wide variety and all round high quality of the pacific rim's damaged and exploratory audio activities. however, in a single volume this compilation lays forth an initial reading of such activities, a chart to navigate the various creative threads unfolding throughout the region if you will.

stylistically the 60+ mins represented here runs the gamut from the hendrix meets ina-grm collision of candlesnuffer, "head in a television" static of philip samartzis, narrative driven kung-fu electroacoustics from delire, skittering schizophrenia of auigiugui, unusual vocal excursions of cray, gentle abstract beauty courtesy of matthew thomas, some subtle yet unnerving sonics of darrin verghagen and netochka nezvanova and some truly stunning alien frequencies unearthed via dion workman's mini disc feedback set up. along with numerous other inventive approaches strewth takes a cut-section of this disparate scene, presenting a broad range of challenging music packaged in standard jewel case with 12 page informative full colour booklet.

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