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previous artist: gunter hampel		there are 4 titles featuring robert hampson in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: hanatarash

$11.66

back in stock as of
december 24th, 2007

first in stock on
november 19th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
musique-concrète
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition

crouton (usa) #crouton 31 cd

robert hampson / steven hess “s/t” compact disc

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crisp, minimal sound-research set from main’s robert hampson & chicagoland percussion maverick steven hess (fessenden, duos with greg davis, etc...) - not the musique concrète process-piece set you’d expect; more a set of digital treatments of hess’ attack-based material(s) into gritty, granular clouds punctuated with hess’ acoustic percussion.

quite stark... but ultimately a pretty bold step in a new direction for hampson (hess is in familiar territory)

crouton press release...

crouton no.31
robert hampson/steven hess:
"s/t"
cd

a sensible combination, brought to light by a chance contact resulting in a fairly lengthy process of recording, listening, and mixing. robert hampson, is, of course, the visionary behind sound behemoths loop and main, and even served a highly productive position within godflesh, organum, and also collaborated with jim o' rourke. steven hess is a percussionist who provides comfortably obscure rhythms and textures for pan american, fessenden, on, and haptic.

together, hampson and hess create a delightful peephole into the space where resonance from various percussions exist. these are the indirect moments that are just as real as those obvious times when a drummer nails the snare drum in 4/4 time. this is the stuff that for without, the attack, the beat, the percussion itself, would be lifeless pricks of meaningless sound. these recordings are filled with the active and excited ghost of interaction with material; highly unreal at times, and undeniably human at others. for those familiar with their previous endeavors, this is certain to please. for others, you are about to hear the collaboration of two people who know exactly what they are doing, and have created an even more powerful joined effort. clearly tasty.

cdep released in an edition of 500, packaged in mulitple layers of clear material. see?

$15.51

back in stock as of
may 1st, 2012

first in stock on
may 4th, 2011

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
digital-musics
field-recordings

editions mego (austria) #emego 105 ep

cindytalk / robert hampson “five mountains of fire b/w antarctica ends here” ten inch single record

cindytak - five mountains of fire (9:40)
robert hamspson - antarctica ends here (9:36)

2010 release ; ... lovely split 10”, with a piece each by gordon “cindytalk” sharp & main’s robert hampson ...

editions mego press release...

emego 105 / cindytalk / robert hampson
five mountains of fire / antarctica ends here
10"

cindytalk - five mountains of fire

gordon sharp: electronics
paul middleton: drums
dan knowler: guitar
gary jeff: percussion
sherrill crosby: electronics

pre-mixed /re-played by gs at roi vert, okamoto, japan, march 2009.

robert hampson - antarctica ends here

dedicated to john cale
recorded and mixed at thirst 2007–2009 in london and paris
design: dave coppenhall

cindytalk’s gordon sharp and robert hampson (loop. main. ..) are 2 characters of legend circulating on the periphery of london (and beyond) underground music over the last 2 plus decades. it may come as s surprise then that this stunning split 10" is the first meeting of these two singular minds.

'five mountains of fire' by cindytalk is a cracking track taking their recent brittle electronic experiments and charging them with firecracker like percussion to create a pleasantly disorienting soundscape. flip it over and hampson delivers the practical polar opposite with antarctica ends here. an exceptionally beautiful piece utilizing piano and carefully placed electronics so as not to break the ice, a tribute to john cale's 'antarctica starts here' (from 'paris, 1919' album).

$7.99

new to stock as of
may 7th, 2003

file under:
guitar-themed
minimal-drones

tigerbeat6 (usa) #meow 064 cd

main “transiency” compact disc single

transiency i
transiency ii
transiency iii
transiency iv

guitar-sourced medium-form piece for mr. hampson... i recall with glee fleeing to newbury comics every monday for months looking for new installments of mr. hampson’s “hz’ series of cd5s on beggar’s banquet. beatiful, sublime little things... full of mystery and just gorgeous artwork. now we get tigerbeat6 editions, poorly printed with garish photoshop nightmare dna-strands. fortunately the music’s still the same, the spirit’s still there. for that electric guitar - musique concrète crossover hampson really can’t be beat. brilliant stuff...

$14.51

new to stock as of
march 9th, 2012

threads:
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
digital-musics

touch (uk) #to:71 cd

robert hampson “vectors” compact disc

umbra (17:08)
ahead – only the stars (13:12)
dans le lointain (20:00)

2009 release ; ... in conversation with robert over the past 6 months (since working at the grm on & off over the past half-decade, he actually ended up moving to paris for good) i realized that i’d never actually heard this one, and that we (at mms) were somehow missing a good chunk of the last 2/3 yearsworth of touch releases ...

... here we get a triad of digital-age musique concrète pieces ; a clean break from robert’s work as main in that the software processes heavily utilized throughout tend to make more of a sonic impact than the source material (which, yes, is comprised of drones, in-situ “field” sound & assorted instrumental color ... albeit torn to shreds via the grm’s “tool-kit” & re-cast well below & above their natural spectral ranges) ... the results are strikingly event-heavy ; while steeped in atmosphere, the rich animations & automations are at the heart of the work(s), showing a great technicality & an incredible amount of attention paid to detail and/or compositional filigree ...

touch press release...

to:71 - robert hampson "vectors"

released: 2009
touch # to:71
cd in digipak - 3 tracks
artwork & design by jon wozencroft

umbra (2006) - is the second commission for grm. this 16 channel piece had it’s debut performance on the acousmonium - grm’s speaker orchestra - at salle olivier messiaen, maison de radio france, paris “the umbra (latin: shadow) is the darkest part of a shadow. from within the umbra, the source of light is completely concealed by the occulting body. in astronomy, an observer in the umbra is said to be in the shadows experiencing total eclipse.” this phenomenon is a direct influence on the work in the sense of the way that sounds are cast in the shadow of others, slowly becoming more distinct and featured as the piece progresses, materialising and then casting a shadow of their own.

ahead – only the stars (2007) - commissioned by vibrö for a performance at the planetarium de poitiers in 7.1 surround ratio. inspired and dedicated to the astronauts of the nasa mercury missions space program and possibly the greatest pilot ever, chuck yeager. after the introduction of jets blasting across the soundstage, the piece is then interspersed with radio transmissions (com. bleeps and static, with dialogue removed) that form the framework.

dans le lointain (2008) - the third commission for grm. a 2 channel stereo piece, it’s debut performance on the acousmonium - grm’s speaker orchestra - at salle olivier messiaen, maison de radio france, paris. sounds of shortwave radios, recorded by hampson in the very early 80’s and recently rediscovered on a cassette, are manipulated through very traditional techniques utilised by early tape experimental works of the grm and collected with more modern forms of digital manipulation. the title (in the distance) refers to the distance radio signals can travel, but also the distance of time that elapsed since the shortwave recordings were made on a four track recorder and dubbed onto cassette by hampson around 1981/82.

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gunter hampel

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