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previous artist: sharif sehnaoui		there are 2 titles featuring seht in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: wolfgang seidel

$11.66

back in stock as of
july 3rd, 2008

first in stock on
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

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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

$11.27

new to stock as of
june 21st, 2005

file under:
electro-acoustic
guitar-themed
lap-top
minimal-drones
sound-research

last visible dog (usa) #lvd 057 cd

seht “the voice of the taniwha” compact disc

[preamble]
[gas reg stn + carrilon]
make the baby jesus cry some more 6:46
ac gtr. #2 2:23
requiem for john fahey 10:54
[homage to abbas kiarostami’s ‘the runner’]
we can speak quite freely (’evocation of the apparition of babel’ remix) 7:38
[middle-eight]
canned laughter 5:21
[short composition for prepared formica table]
from us who have so many 5:39
st. valentine’s day 2003 10:23
[epilogue - 13 seconds over aro st.]

2003 release from celebrate psi phenomenon artist stephen clover; almost sticks out like a sore thumb from the c-psi-p pack for being quite hi-fi (in comparison at least.) most pieces here are concerned with very thoughtful processing of guitar sounds; there’s a very nice 11 minute invocation of fahey’s ghost via fingerpicked acoustic guitar over some mean low-end square waves (not unlike something jim o’rourke would have done a few years back), a few almost mille-plateaux-esque resonance studies, and a bit of prepared acoustic sound-gathering... not to mention the guitar-free pieces, which combine field recordings and found dialogue with musique concrète-lineage collage work. listens/reads more like a composers’ album than a collection of home-studio after-hours experiments, might be the one to start with if’n that’s your proclivity...

last visible dog press release...

while the post-corpus hermeticum sound may seem a different beast altogether than your copy of le jazz non, the change, with inspection, is at best superficial. minimalism and drone remain, but while 'maximalist' minimalism has dissapeared, minimalism itself remains with heavy sound sampling and warped (ie destroyed) electronics. seht is most certainly one of the newer generation to rise out of the ashes of hcorp, and much to his advantage, since the ensuing silence seems more his tool than the blare of guitar feedback. here a sensitive ear is lent to even the most mundane field recordings, yielding this recording, a mix of acoustic guitar improvisations, drone, field recordings and electronics.

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