my cat is an alien / steve roden “cosmic debris • vol. ii” compact disc

• steve roden - e-bows and rainbows (13:08)
  
• steve roden - my dog is a yufo (6:52)
  
• my cat is an alien - everything waves like cosmic debris (19:38)

steve roden / tu m’ “broken. distant. fragrant.” compact disc

• details and ornaments (6:22)
  
• flowers drawn (8:16)
  
• fountain (8:36)
  
• geographies (8:24)
  
• paper bridges and small soft buildings (6:29)

“catalogue en/of 001-030” book and triple compact disc set

• ekkehard ehlers / joseph suchy - 14 (03:09)
  
• heimir björgúlfsson - stream conversation at the bottom... (07:44)
  
• stephan mathieu - densette (03:09)
  
• jan jelinek - ice 695 (04:57)
  
• alejandra & aeron - fear liath more (04:16)
  
• tv pow - snow covered bush (05:36)
  
• the rip-off artist - tv test tone (03:08)
  
• wander - wander (edit) (05:05)
  
• oren ambarchi - stacte.4a (excerpt) (05:41)
  
• stilluppsteypa - horror larsen (06:36)
  
  
• stephan mathieu -  „once“ (guitar) edit (05:03)
  
• pan american - calle tipica (06:15)
  
• terre thaemlitz - marcel duchamp air de paris pt.2 (02:22)
  
• tarentel - latency 6 (06:21)
  
• mirror/dash - sweetface (edit) (05:04)
  
• david grubbs - comic structure (act one, scene one) (04:10)
  
• nobukazu takemura - etude for contrabass (12:26)
  
• rob mazurek - thought (edit) (05:07)
  
• efzeg - pay (remix) (04:10)
  
• steve roden - out of the sun (08:22)
  
  
• text of light - 052202 tonic (edit) (05:53)
  
• tim hecker - radio marti (edit) (05:51)
  
• jazzkammer - all men are brothers (edit) (05:05)
  
• andrew zealley - nocturne i (06:06)
  
• merzbow - 1633a (edit) (06:29)
  
• ultra-red - (jack) tactic (tracks 1973-1983) ten minutes..(10:05)
  
• maja ratkje - erwartung (edit) (04:43)
  
• kammerflimmer kollektief - eiderdaunen, gezupft (05:04)
  
• alva noto - counter  (02:02)
  
• the aluminum group - subtitle #2 (john-john’s plane) (07:15)

museum kurhaus kleve press release...

catalogue en/of 001-030 museum kurhaus klevebook + 3 cd’s in box 2005 the deluxe exhibition catalogue which is documenting en/of's first 30 editions, as presented at the museum kurhaus kleve, germany, may-june 2005. the catalogue (package) includes a fully illustrated book (with essays by aa bronson and jörg heiser), complete with artwork reproductions and a second, die-cut tray book that holds 3 cd's with 30 tracks totally. 24 x 18 cm, 124 pages, 62 images, and3 cd's. german/english isbn 3-934935-23-0

“graceful degradation : variations” compact disc

• steinbrüchel - shimmer (10:35)
  
• kenneth kirschner - april 17th, 2006 (5:35)
  
• heribert friedl - rehsa (8:07)
  
• john hudak - snd8 (8:55)
  
• steve roden - gration degradaceful (5:16)
  
• jason kahn - am wasser (5:05)
  
• ubeboet - untitled #305 variation (17:26)

sourdine press release...

sd-001: graceful degradation: variations 2.2008 cd limited to 500 copies featuring: heribert friedl, john hudak, jason kahn, kenneth kirschner, steve roden, steinbrüchel and ubeboet. the source recording for the compositions featured on this album still exist on a single 90 minute cassette, made by the intermagnetics corporation from santa monica, california. there are still some bits of led zeppelin here and there which remain among my recordings, but mostly the tape is full of recording i made. i remember working with this tape for several months over the summer and into fall of 2005, in my apartment in brooklyn; i would spend hours going through the material and trying to find different combinations of the recordings of the sounds which are stored on it. after a certain period of time working with the material i put together some pieces for an album release and thought i was done. but in the end i went back and continued working, it is the material from this second period of work which has been used by the artists featured on this release. the concept of graceful degradation in relation to memory as well as system failure, seemed quite fitting to the work i was doing, as well as to the work of other sound recording artists. there is a relationship that develops between our own memories and recordings made and archived using various data storage and retrieval technologies which i am very interested in; i initiated this project with this interest in mind. as a continuation of the graceful degradation of my original recordings i asked seven artists to use the material in their own ways to create a new piece. each artist put the material into their systems of working with sound and came up with the results featured on this album. i am very honored to have their contributions and pleased to present them on this first release on sourdine.

“geluidpost” double compact disc-recordable set

• machinefabriek - cello recycling (11:47)
  
• janek schaefer - come on up... (19:00)
  
• rudolf eb.er's runzelstirn & gurgelstøck - schlechte musik (10:19)
  
• merzbow - bloody sea of taiji. stop the mass slaughter of dolphine in japan. (9:37)
  
  
• (ad)vance(d) - 4chairs+bats (10:47)
  
• studenten sonologie - phonography (11:36)
  
• steve roden - to these four horizons (14:00)
  
• francisco lópez - untitled #0908 (10:17)
  
• staplerfahrer - mode of perception (12:47)

october 2009 release ; neat fold-out double-disc edition covering a series of pieces curated by martijn hohmann for a “listening room at art gallery lokaal01” in breda, nl ... the set ships flat (actually smaller than your average dorado gatefold) but opens up like so :: some great work here, including all-exclusive pieces from machinefabriek (crackly, cheap-reverb plugin rework of aaron martin’s cello), janek schaefer (neat, plunderphonic flamenco piece), runzelstirn & gurgelstøck (classic, aktion-heavy rudolf), merzbow (washing-machine rhythms into a synth blow-out) ... ... then (ad)vance(d) (formant-filter drones & assorted static), justin bennett’s students (ground-hum rich field recording overlay), steve roden (automatic-feeling mystery clank & reed drones - get lost in the long sound-sample), francisco lópez (rainforest hiss), and staplerfahrer (grainy, noisy grisple) ... most pieces hover around the 10-minute mark, as such there’s enough room for them to say what they need to without feeling hurried ... as site-specific compilations go this one’s a keeper ; highly recommended !!!

universaal kunst press release...

various artists - geluidpost 2cdr featuring exclusive tracks by: machinefabriek janek schaefer rudolf eb.er merzbow (ad)vance(d) sonologie studenten steve roden francisco lopez staplerfahrer geluidpost (sound post in dutch) is a listening room at art gallery lokaal01 breda the netherlands. it's basically a room with a three-seat sofa and a set of speakers. you can't get any closer to the primary principle of listening.. every two months a soundartist or composer is invited to create a new piece for geluidpost. during 2007 and 2008 geluidpost was curated by martijn hohmann. all nine works created during this period are compiled on this 2cdr. it's limited to 250 copies. nice multi-foldout cover.