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previous artist: paul hession		there are 7 titles featuring steven hess in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: hetero skeleton

$6.01

new to stock as of
july 12th, 2005

file under:
site-specific
sound-research
free-improv
minimal-drones
electro-acoustic

autumn (usa) #leaf 002 cd

greg davis / steven hess “live at buddy gallery in chicago, illinois - january 21st, 2004” compact disc recordable

(25:53)

autumn press release...

steven and i have been improvising together for a little over a year now. we worked through alot of material where his improvised percussion was processed in realtime by my laptop. in my quest to get away from computers, we started improvising with natural objects, small percussion, and toy instruments. and after my playing experience with jeph in az, i decided that steven and i should focus our improvisations around natural objects because this is something we both have dabbled with for some time. so we began to collect things as best we could in the city. we walked around my block and down steve's driveway, tearing up trees and grass and bushes to find things that sounded good. i even went and ordered a few dried plants and seed pods online and bought some bamboo and polished stones at pier1. unfortunately this is what we had to resort to in chicago. we played a couple times a week until the buddy gallery show, exploring different sounds. buddy gallery has become a squatted, trashed out, free for all, anything goes kinda gallery. they have been holding improv sessions there on wednesday nights for at least a year now. so we show up and wait around a bit for dave (the show organizer) to arrive. we set out a sky blue quilt on the floor that my mother made for me and arranged our huge battery of natural objects and small sound makers while the other band, steltch (you know the kind of band with a guy with a samick guitar playing 'ragtime doll' through a whammy pedal and other assorted fx, a trombonist with pick up mic through cheap digitech multifx, guy playing 'weird' scales on some unknown moog synth, and 4 to 5 drummers) set up and soundchecked indefinitely. our set was augmented by a dying fire alarm beeping at regular intervals, a loud fan drone from the power amplifier for the speakers, the 'el' train out back, creaky floors and talking and coughing, and even a random drum or cymbal hit by a member of steltch getting bored or restless. despite ample battery power, my minidisc decided for some reason to stop recording after 25 minutes and 53 seconds. we continued to play for another 15-20 minutes after that but we think this recording is just enough. we left after the 1st or 2nd piece by steltch. (greg davis)

$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

untitled (4:00)
untitled (4:59)
untitled (4:21)
untitled (5:59)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "untitled (4)"

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?

$17.41

back in stock as of
july 7th, 2008

first in stock on
may 7th, 2007

threads:
free-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-improvisation

entr’acte (uk) #e37 lp

mouths / haptic “1v2e b/w danjon scale” long playing record

mouths - 1v2e
haptic - danjon scale

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "haptic ‘danjon scale’"

entr’acte press release...

mouths / haptic
1v2e / danjon scale (e37)

mouths is a project by jon mueller and jim schoenecker using percussion, analogue synthesizer, shortwave radio, and human voice. their focus is on combining elements to create a chorus of sorts, culminating in all 'mouths' emitting their voices together without negating one another. this version of 1v2e, recorded live in concert in milwaukee last year, features the addition of werner moebius on computer and devices.

haptic, a chicago-based trio, consists 0f steven hess (pan amerlcan/dropp ensemble/on/fessenden), joseph muls (jonathan chen/ dropp ensemble), and adam sonderberg (civil war/dropp ensemble). initially conceived as a vehicle for live collaboration, haptic has since incorporated a different, rotating fourth member for each performance. for danjon scale, haptic's second published composition, the emphasis was on constructing a larded unfurling of sonorous informatlon.

first edition of 200 copies.
12"/2006

$15.67

back in stock as of
july 7th, 2008

first in stock on
august 21st, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones

entr’acte (uk) #e29 cd

fessenden “capture/create” compact disc recordable

capture
create

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "capture/create"

debut release by this new chicagoland-area group featuring greg davis-collaborator / dropp ensemble member steven hess...

entr’acte press release...

fessenden
capture/create (e29)

this chicago-based electro-acoustic improv trio consisting of joshua convey (bass), stephen fiehn (cd players, guitar, ipod), and steven hess (drums, vibraphone) has been working together since mid–2004. capture/create’s two tracks were recorded straight to minidisc using a strategically placed stereo microphone.

cd/2005

$12.01

back in stock as of
november 16th, 2005

first in stock on
july 7th, 2005

file under:
free-improv
lap-top
minimal-drones
sound-research
electro-acoustic
site-specific

longbox recordings (usa) #lbt 033 cd

greg davis / steven hess “decisions” compact disc

021703 (11)
042903 (02)
021303 (02)
042203 (05)
042203 (06)
060303 (15)
060303 (11)
041803 (04)
041803 (07mix)

just got some fresh copies of this, one of mms’ all-time best sellers, direct from mr. greg davis during his trip down the mountain for the 2nd entschuldigen nacht... get it while it’s fresh!

always a pleasure to hear greg in full-on electro-acoustic mode; here working in tandem with the fantastic chicagoland drummer/percussionist steven hess (see: bosco & jorge, his duo “on” with sylvain chaveau, the dropp ensemble, and on stage with black forest / black sea, aram shelton, etc...) the pair do their damnedest to emulate laotian insect-population buildup via hess’ pointillist tap & greg’s fft-smear. by far the most patient & abstract work in either of their respective canons, well worth investigating...

longbox recordings press release...

greg davis - laptop
steven hess - drums and percussion

all tracks are live improvisations recorded direct to mini-disc between february and june of 2003 at steven’s apartment. fades and minor edits were applied afterwords. track 2 is from a recording of a live performance at the empty bottle, chicago on 29 april 2003.

a truly fine and austere statement from our favorite electric troubadour and the percussive fog known as steven hess.

“steven hess has been a student of his record collection since the mid-'70s. comfortable playing in a range of settings - rock, jazz, experimental, steven currently plays with the post-folk unit bosco & jorge out of chicago. he tours throughout the united states and can be heard on recordings that are available worldwide. his philosophy on sound and rhythm: less is more. steven has played, or otherwise collaborated with, such artists as: ben miller (destroy all monsters), fred longberg-holm, jon mueller, matt turner, rob mazurek, cynthia dall, adam sonderberg, aram shelton, john and frank navin (the aluminum group), and greg davis, to name a few.”

$12.01

back in stock as of
october 1st, 2005

first in stock on
july 7th, 2005

file under:
free-improv
lap-top
minimal-drones
sound-research
site-specific
electro-acoustic
modern-composition

longbox recordings (usa) #lbt 029 cd

dropp ensemble “the empire builders (music for theatrical performance)” compact disc

introduktion
grå (1-3)
dessutom

very nice sprawling minimal electro-acoustic improv from a global group of collaborators featuring eric la casa, steven hess, brendan walls, wolfgang fuchs, adam sonderberg, and others; offered as the score to a chicagoland production of the titular boris vian play. hess’ close-mic’ed cymbal rupture is especially “on” throughout...

longbox recordings press release...

sam dellaria, electronics
wolfgang fuchs, record playe
steven hess, percussion
eric la casa, field recordings
aram shelton, alto sax
adam sonderberg; contact mics/guitar
brendan walls, electronics
alexander wallner, guitar

composed and assembled by dellaria/sonderberg, february - march 2003 in chicago, il. recorded by dropp ensemble (chicago, paris, sydney, vienna).

this disc features music commissioned for the play 'the empire builders' by boris vian. consisting of three long tracks, the music is quiet and meditative, due in part to the fact that it is a soundtrack, and to support the plot and action of the play. this plot and action though is not about comfortable ambience. rather, the sound clearly identifies the play's themes of paranoia, rising tension, and escape. the soundtrack focuses on the psychological turmoil that the play addresses via its characters. the quiet and dark spaces explored on the recording are a successful quest in transmitting the unspoken fear, the unknown, and the doom of complacency experienced by the characters, making the recording able to stand on its own beyond the physical viewing of the play.

“the more adam and i work together, the less involved we are in the sound producing elements on our records. most of what we did on "the empire builders" was assemby, that is selecting recordings from material provided to us by members of the ensemble. the bulk of "introduktion" was electonics, guitar and percussion recorded live in what appeared to be an old meat locker. "grå" is modified recordings of adam's boiler room. dessutom was assembled from recodings given to us by wolfgang, alexander and eric. ta da.” - sam dellaria

$7.01

back in stock as of
april 25th, 2008

first in stock on
april 12th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones
concert-recordings

utech (usa) #ur 032 cd

fessenden “inside the ice factory” compact disc recordable

(no tracklisting)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "inside the ice factory"

utech press release...

artist: fessenden
title: inside the ice factory
format: cdr
edition: 200
length: 44'
trx: 1
catalogue number: ur-032
recorded:
the ice factory, chicago, il, 11/4/05.

joshua convey [bass]
stephen fiehn [guitar, cd players, ipod]
steven hess [drums]

previous artist:
paul hession

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next artist:
hetero skeleton