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a silent place (italy) #asp 16 cd

text of light / my cat is an aliencosmic debris, vol. i” compact disc

  • text of light - "033103 paris"
  • my cat is an alien - "everything falls like cosmic debris"
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asp16
text of light / my cat is an alien: 'cosmic debris, vol.i'
cd digisleeve

cd re-issue of the first instalment in the new "cosmic debris" split art-lp series set up by maurizio and roberto opalio, aka my cat is an alien. this volume i sees the two space brothers from torino, italy, alongside lee ranaldo (sonic youth) and his all-star ensemble text of light* (here featuring alan licht, dj olive, ulrich krieger and tim barnes).

their track "033103 paris" has been recorded live at centre georges pompidou in 2003 and mixed in dual mono by ranaldo & licht at nyc echo canyon studio. mciaa's piece entitled "everything falls like cosmic debris" is a conceptual ouverture to the whole series, performed in april 2006 at their secret recording space called alien zone, located up the italian western alps.

the five-volumes series "cosmic debris" features my cat is an alien alongside text of light, steve roden, keiji haino, mats gustafsson, loren connors & his haunted house band. each cd cover artwork reproduces the full image and details of the acrylic paintings created by roberto opalio for each copy of the original vinyl edition on mciaa's own opax records. cd comes in a digi-sleeve textured cardboard cover.

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 best of 2009 !!! 
alt.vinyl (uk) #av 013 cs
blackest rainbow (uk) #brr-120 cs

mv&eeroad trips • live road 2002-2009 • mv & ee’s anti-temperance bands! • born to jam • grand excursions from the garden heroine” dodecatuple cassette boxed set

  • the mv & ee medicine show 'citybillies'
    brooklyn, ny 5/23/02 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with the bummer road 'the suncatcher blossoms a novatone'
    tonic, nyc 7/18/2005 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with the bummer road 'abstarct blues and egyptian mud'
    campfire sounds, acr, ny 7/15/06 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with the bummer road 'pastis king'
    paris, november 11th, 2006 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with the golden road 'barn joint'
    red barn, amherst, ma, 10/16/07 (feat. j mascis and tom carter) (1st official release)

  • mv & ee with the golden road 'lobstora vs tone crabs'
    floristree auditorium baltimore, md, 6/14/08 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with the wolfpack 'yurt aspects/rural centrifuge'
    wickermania festival, the yurt, goshen, ma 8/2/08 / tinderbox, brattleboro,  vt,  8/3/08 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with jeremy earl '"he's on tonight, saddleback"/"multiple gravitrons"
    cakeshop, nyc, 1/20/09 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with the wolfpack 'mamma zooed'
    the triple, richmond, va, 1/23/09 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee 'smoked bossier'
    art space, shreveport, la, 1/29/09 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee with the golden road 'sequential circuits'
    vintage by the pound, toronto, on, canada, 2/7/09 (unreleased)

  • mv & ee 'pete's pix vol. 2'
    2004 - 2006 (tracks from cambridge uk, colour out of space,  thurston's atp, oxford,  london, and more. features nemochris corsano samarawilliejiggssparrow simoes) (unreleased).   
july 2009 release ; frankly ridiculous 12-tapebible” of live recordings from matt valentine & erika elder, recorded over the past 7-odd years by the duo, in cahoots with pretty much a who’s who from their extended orbit / family / genealogy / lineage :: tim barnes, samara lubelski, willie lane, nemo bidstrup, tom carter, j. mascis, sloow bart, jeremywoodsearl, chris corsano, and many others ...

the whole thing is presented in an “audiobook” style fold-out vinyl case ; each tape is silk-screened with the relevant dates / info, and there’s a four-page legend explaining who played on what, where it was recorded, and who by ... entirely impressive both as a group effort / hug from the band to / from their “taper’s pit” and as a documentary of the pair’s musical evolution ... highly recommended !!!

ps. note to domestic (i.e. us-based) customers - these are already here in the states - shipping will only be a scant $4 or so via media mail. just thought i’d point that out. been seeing these out for sale in the u.k. for around £47 / $80 (yep, that’s the exchange rate right now !!!) - but always with a shipping tariff of £12 / $20 to the states ... something to think about ...
alt.vinyl press release...

mv & ee - road trips 12 x cassette box set
blackest rainbow/alt.vinyl

limited to 250 copies. pro-dubbed cassettes in presentation case.

the box set documents the mv & ee live experience in various incarnations between 2002 and 2009. the music is entirely unreleased material (with the exception of guitar barn featuring j mascis and tom carter, which was issued as a bootleg cdr in the heroine style, but was actually unofficial). highlights include a 2002 mv & ee medicine show performance, the guitar barn jam with j mascis and tom carter, a new band, mv & ee with the wolfpack, a recent set with jeremy earl of woods, as well as classic bummer road and golden road jams.

the box set will be presented chronologically and culminates in a pete's pix vol. 2 featuring 7 tracks from various dates mainly in the uk (including tracks from the thurston moore curated atp in 2006, and dylan nyoukis' 2006 colour out of space fest - both of which feature chris corsano).


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confront collectors series (uk) #ccs2 cd

tim barnes / mark wastellthe scotch of st. james - live at amplify 2004” compact disc

  • addition (36:45)
confront collectors series press release...
tim barnes & mark wastell
the scotch of st. james
(confront, ccs2) (uk) (cd)

tim barnes: prepared (snare) drum + amplification
mark wastell: amplified textures, tuned metal

recorded live by christoph amann at labor sonor, berlin, may 17, 2004, as part of the festival amplify 2004: addition

released in 2005

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drag city (usa) #dc 202 cd

jim o’rourkeinsignificance” compact disc

  • all downhill from here (4:59)
  • insignificance (5:12)
  • therefore, i am (4:53)
  • memory lame (5:57)
  • good times (4:04)
  • get a room (6:57)
  • life goes off (6:21)
drag city press release...
jim o’rourke
insignificance
dc202 lp/cd

hot damn! we’d heard this new o’rourke was going to be great. but nobody told us it was gonna rock us so!

yeah, jim’ll rock ya — and once you too have heard insignificance, there will be no argument about that. and whether the opener, “all downhill from here,” is a “message number,” of one kind or another, its raucous nature alone pops a hilarious pie into the face of your average o’rourke follower’s expectations, don’t it? it’s a red herring too of course. because in jim’s hands, the screaming love of rock n’roll is still not just “only rock ‘n’ roll.” instead, insignificance consists of rock plus: multiple musical allusions, layers of discreet noises, great playing from all the players and, to top it all off, funny pop tunes laced with lyrical arsenic. as the moving finger of o’rourke points (and clicks...just kidding! insignificance is an all analog affair), moments will come and go — to remind you of other moments. moments will arrive that have no precedent. and different, conflicting emotions will flash within you. he’ll have total control of you, the helpless listener.

and we like it like that!

and that’s just for starters. elsewhere, insignificance widens the screen of the o’rourke sound — whatever that is. as mentioned above, along the way, you’ll find a riff or two that one can truly ride. there’s more than one classic invitation for the lead vocalist to sneer and shout over it all — but of course, our jim prefers instead more to murmur and moan quite melodically, to a most — shh! — sensual effect. there’s a spacious ballad to cool you down, then another one of those sick love songs in the mold of “halfway to a threeway,” as well. it’s all in the name of fun, jim, we know! and it sounds great.

cut quickly with a skeleton crew after two years of indecision, insignificance brims with a newfound — we can’t really call it maturity — it’s more like a newfound immaturity, actually. the man is finally emancipated, speaking out, and telling it like it is. which guarantees not just a view to a bleeding heart of love, but also a more flinty soul of scorn. prettiness — and bitterness — abounds throughout the album. they go together like some loving confection, don’t they? however it may taste to you, insignificance clearly signals a new day for us all.

as a bonus while listening to insignificance, one can reflect upon how often catchy little tunes can be extended to, well, extended length — five to seven minutes per pop song is a lot, if you think about it — without resorting to needless jamming (or even mindful jamming). instead, o’rourke and co. take the option to extend the construction of whatever great song is at hand, leading to the thing we call “further development(as opposed to “furthur development,” which has it’s time and place as well). time gets compressed, and before you know it, insignificance has sprung all sorts of moves on you and moved on out. it’s a vital, breathless experience that leaves all wondering where we’re going to be the next time o’rourke comes out with it. until then, the truth of insignificance hurts a little bit.

still, you’ll have to admit — insignificance is another triumph!

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drag city (usa) #dc 162 cd

jim o’rourkeeureka” compact disc

  • prelude to 110 or 220 / women of the world (8:46)
  • ghost ship in a storm (3:54)
  • movie on the way down (7:37)
  • through the night softly (4:47)
  • please patronize our sponsors (3:04)
  • something big (3:13)
  • eureka (9:11)
  • happy holidays (1:36)
drag city press release...
jim o'rourke's reputation as an inaccessible avant-garde music boffin is shattered by the beguiling charm of eureka. after more than a decade of abstraction, experimentation, and improvisation, o'rourke unleashed this playful curveball as if to prove he was human after all. lush and complex arrangements decorate these slightly bizarre songs. the nearest comparison is probably van dyke parks's 1968 magnum opus song cycle. both albums are richly rewarding if you're prepared to persevere beyond the initial strangeness.

nimble acoustic guitars dominate the trance-like opener "women of the world" (written by deadpan scottish absurdist ivor cutler). o'rourke is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, and his playing is imaginative and full of rich texture, but there's nothing po-faced about eureka. a light and happy mood is sustained throughout the album. the latin-flavored "something big" takes its cues from the exotic pop of esquivel, and is a joyful highlight.

...

eureka is an album by american musician jim o'rourke. it was released on drag city in 1999. it is named after the 1984 nicolas roeg film of the same name. it is one of three albums recorded by o'rourke that are named after roeg films.

"women of the world" is an ivor cutler song and "something big" is by burt bacharach. "prelude to 110 or 120", "movie on the way down" and "through the night softly" are named after chris burden performance pieces.

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experimental intermedia (usa) #xi 127 cd
xi records (usa) #xi 127 cd

michael j. schumacherroom pieces” double compact disc set

  • room piece xi (2002)

  • piece in 3 parts (2002)
  • still (2002)
  • untitled (1999)
  • still (2002)
experimental intermedia press release...
michael j. schumacher
room pieces

much music has been written to guide listeners through the course of a preconceived form. although michael j. schumacher's music is distinctly his own it has been inspired by david tudor and morton feldman as well as la monte young. like their music it is about hearing sounds in themselves, about allowing the ear to register sonorities and then the hearing imagination may go to work, navigating amongst temporal realities and imaginary spaces, negotiating between a sense of control and perceived randomness, stasis and movement, finitude and limitlessness, schumacher thrives on those creative tensions. at its most personal and expansive his singular music has the capacity to convey "intimate immensity." (julian cowley, from the liner notes).

room piece provides a unique solution and musical experience in reference to "the room." generated by a specific method and possessing a decidedly emotional character, room piece is not merely "ambient music" but creates a bridge between the "eventfulness" herad in cage-ian and serial music, and the new american drone music that has arisen intuitively to create the sound of a vibrant universe with rich interior activity.

piece in 3 parts uses two 30-second samples of violinist jane henry improvising and a 40-second sample of percussionist tim barnes playing a gong. the samples are then processed by computer. part i is a dense and passionately executed body of layered mutations of the source string sounds. variations on the gong source begin part ii with bass tessitura resonances that fold into each other. the sounds gradually accumulate into a surreal polytextured mobile. the first still is an exquisite and static density with interior movement, a quiescent and serene soundscape that "the listener can explore in his/her own rhythm." the second still presents wonderfully crafted sounds compacted of different internal rhythms as constant and and fixed and thus ultimately "still" in their effect.

untitled offers a musical image where the "still" is now a drone consisting of multiple frequency-modulated sine tones beating against each other to create a richly dynamic rhythmic counterpoint. ("blue" gene tyranny, from the liner notes)

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little enjoyer (usa) #le 07 cd

mattin / tim barnesachbal al atlas” compact disc

  • untitled (8:58)
  • untitled (13:49)
  • untitled (13:14)
impressively harsh free-improv blasts from mattin & tim barnes (with tony conrad guesting in spots) - all over the map from the pounding “power electronics” of the opening piece (reminds me of a lasse marhaug sets ca. 2004) to the twitching full-freq. overload of the second, to the high tones of the last.

those expecting a delicate, pointilist micro-improv set from the pair (with mattin toned down) will be... shocked to say the least - to instead get the opposite (barnes turned up). an excellent disc, the best mattin i’ve heard on record as-of-yet, and nothing like barnes’ recorded output to date...
little enjoyer press release...
all music by mattinbarnes
additional music on track ___ by the fucked syndicate!
recorded in stereo from our touring mono soundsystem
baltimore•pittsburgh•columbus•chicago•detroit•buffalo(w/tony conrad)•newyork

tim barnes -prepared drum & effect pedals, analog feedback, gong
mattin - gnu/linux computer feedback

art by nyc

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north east indie (usa) #nei 36 cd

chuck bettiscommunity of commotion” compact disc

  • playful moaner (5:14)
  • mood orifice (4:37)
  • bleeding orphan (2:21)
  • deathmetal dancehall (4:41)
  • atheist revolt (1:48)
  • angry rainbow (2:30)
  • holographic universe (6:51)
  • doumbek chanter (1:52)
  • sleep terets (3:53)
  • motion narcolepsy (3:42)
north east indie press release...
chuck bettis and friends:
community of commotion
release date: january 18 2005

chuck bettis - laptop on all track/vocals on trks 4, 5, 6

with

ikue mori - laptop trk 2
toshio kajiwara - turntables and electronics trk 2
audrey chen - cello & vocals trk 6
tom boram - synth and electronics trk 4
chriss sutherland - vocals, flute, & hand-drums trk 8
aaron brenner - midi & analog synth trk 10
melissa ip - spoken poetry trk 3
colleen kinsella - vocals trk 1
caleb mulkerin - zither, xylophone, & wine bottles trk 1
jerry lim - beats trk 5, synth trk 7
mick barr - guitar trk 5
tim barnes - percussion trk 6

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pan (germany) #pan 20 cd

andre vidabrud: volumes i-iii” triple compact disc set

  • purrls (2:55)
  • child real eyes (5:26)
  • cello solo (4:34)
  • blues shuffler (2:55)
  • new day (4:49)
  • wire in my heart (3:47)
  • piece of... (1:11)
  • high enough, that if you fell, you would break just a little (2:53)
  • plate, chicken, feed (5:03)
  • who let the gods out? (5:46)
  • wu two (4:01)
  • put it in your pocket (3:20)
  • antiscones (2:04)
  • tie me up (4:28)
  • brudika (4:00)
  • knoibs (2:52)
  • rising (4:59)
  • gypsy star (4:06)

  • broken tape (13:29)
  • oclaclavee (12:26)
  • axelradre (19:57)
  • kastle 5 (5:12)
  • falling kastle (2:52)
  • kastle e89 (5:46)
  • shields kastle (4:38)
  • woodwing (11:14)

  • x (3:25)
  • staring intently (5:01)
  • lady mandala (4:30)
  • a delicate situation (4:08)
  • gypsy star (3:19)
  • the three two (3:43)
  • 39 flowers (4:26)
  • solution s (7:04)
  • wenn dein haar (6:48)
december 2011 release ; ... by far the most ambitious project pan’s bill kouligas has taken on (thusfar ... although i hear there’s a marginal consort 4xlp in the works !?!?) is this sprawling, triple-disc set of recordings centered around saxophonist andre vida ...

... running the gamut from in-situ solo & duo improvisations (there’s a representative run in the sound-sample there to your left) to noisy, synth-based freakouts & rather tumultuous group-mind workouts (many featuring his former mentor / teacher anthony braxton ... but also folks like axel dörner, tim barnes, matt valentine, and rashad becker) it’s clear that andre’s something of a renaissance man ...

... comes in a “pan lp-style” mini screen-printed outer-jacket with a triple-disc pack inside coated in imagery & documentation ; very cool set ...
pan press release...

andre vida 'brud: volumes i-iii' (pan 20)

brud is a three volume compilation of recordings from 1995 to 2011 by andre vida, morphing seamlessly between a sense of total irreverence and the sublime. his spontaneous compositions and notated works are the angled mirrored counterparts of a transient saxophone driven performance language, drawing on elements of 1970s performance art, new music, improvisation cult, folk and pop hybrids, channeling them into asymmetrical tunes of feral beauty.

brud traces the development of vida's wayward language through 16 years of copious ruminations. the three delightfully polymorphic perverse discs unite sparkling solo sax, pieces for cello and woodwind sextet, synth / concrete electronic music, nocturnal improvisations, rare 90's new york free jazz compositions, and the kreuzberg suite — a distilled culmination of a hundred nights of berlin mayhem into ecstatic swinging lyricism. both solo works and as well as various collaborations with anthony braxton, rashad becker, axel dörner, matt "mv" valentine, tim barnes, helen rush, olaf rupp, clare cooper, clayton thomas, brandon evans, elisabeth king, steve heather and many more.

andre vida is a hungarian american saxophonist, composer and lyricist living in berlin. more downtown cheeky grin than mere caveman smile, he is cosmically notorious for continuing the rahsaan roland kirk one man horn section legacy with hydra headed style. he has been at the forefront of several major developments in experimental music, being mainly in anthony braxton’s original ghost trance ensemble, as founding member of new york collective the ctia, subsequent ‘freak folk’ groups such as the tower recordings, and his extensive collaborations with electronic music visionaries jamie lidell, tim exile and kevin blechdom, elton john, gonzales, cecil taylor, ornette coleman to name but a few, sewing up some heavy threads in downtown sax patchwork refracted through a borgesian lens.

the 3xcd is a limited edition of 1000 copies, and is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which itself is housed in a one-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with artwork by andre vida and bill kouligas.


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pan (germany) #pan 11 lp

billy baourban disease” long playing record

  • urban disease (1)

  • urban disease (2)
march 2010 release ; as-ever a confounding set from mattin’s billy bao, heard here in a fleshed-outorchestral” variant with taku unami, tim barnes, barry weisblat & margarida garcia all contributing in some fashion ...

the whole “song-by-song cover of amon düül's psychedelic undergroundconceit isn’t really that far off (even if it was intended as a smoke-screen) ; when you can decipher the band through mattin’s layer of gain-destroyed post-processing there’s a certainjammy” feel that belies most players’ roots as “serious improvisers” ...

great, if bewilderingly odd music, cut with long snatches of silence (silent grooves actually ; the inclusion of which pushes the total run time to something like 50 minutes) ...
pan press release...

billy bao 'urban disease' lp (pan 11)

'urban disease' is the new radical work by billy bao, mattin, taku unami, tim barnes, barry weisblat and margarida garcia.

it's important to remember that before mattin and anarchism ruined his life, billy bao was a bit of a troubadour who accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and warbled wild songs of protest in his native nigerian patois. this new album, his third on vinyl, finds billy in a transitional phase toward the end of 2006, before the gaztetxes of bilbao burrowed into his marrow, before mattin became the merle to his g.g., before billy turned into herpes sore in the mouth of global capitalism.

"billy doesn't believe in hypnagogia," we're told, "because he always sleeps with one eye open, and when he dreams, all he sees is aids denialists, german shepherds, and soldiers disguised as un peacekeepers." before taku unami fucked it up, this session found bao relaxed and in high spirits as he conducted a pickup band of itinerant improvisers through a song-by-song cover of amon düül's psychedelic underground. margarida garcia lent her astounding skill and highly personal idiom on the electric double-bass, in her hands an instrument with the tension of string on wood and the disruptive potential of a crackle box. barry weisblat, meanwhile, teased out a century of drone from a cornell lunchbox of filament and circuitry. who better to play drums and percussion than the sainted tim barnes? mattin, thumb and forefinger compulsively pinching or stroking his hitler mustache after every take, funneled billy's malaise through laptop, percussion, and folk instrumentation. there was even, astonishingly, a women's choir on hand, eerily filling out the atmosphere with wordless vocals and incantations. but this is after, and the result is a fragmentary, extremely loud hippie jam session punctuated by stretches of uneasy silence and scrape.

the lp is mastered and cut by rashad becker at d&m, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. it is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve with original artwork by new york artist henry flynt.


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room40 (australia) #edrm410 cd

text of lightrotterdam.1” compact disc

  • rotterdam.1 (19:24)
2006 release ; raucous blast of electric free improv from alan licht, lee ranaldo, ulrich krieger, tim barnes, and dj olive ...
room40 press release...
text of light
rotterdam.1

recorded at the rotterdam international film festival in january 2005, this explosive piece from text of light typifies their abilities as a vivid freeform improvisational unit. ranaldo and licht’s measured guitar work sets a basis on which kreiger’s blaring saxtronics, barnes’ percussive explorations and dj olive’s swirling turntable incursions can intertwine and augment one another. this piece ebbs and flows, each of the players listening intently and guiding the proceedings with disarmingly sublime yet focused intensity.

like all their recorded works to date, this piece was delivered in tandem with a live film projection – this interaction between 20th century abstract and experimental film and live improvised performance at the very core of the unit.

text of light on rotterdam 1 are:

alan licht: guitar
lee ranaldo: guitar, electronics
ulrich krieger: sax, sax-tronics
dj olive: turntables, powerbook
tim barnes: drums, percussion

recorded by martin van rappard and edited by lee ranaldo and alan licht.

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sedimental (usa) #sed 032 cd

michael j. schumacherfour stills” compact disc

  • 14:53 featuring charles curtis
  • 15:41
  • 13:39
  • 23:01 featuring tim barnes
sedimental press release...
for this recording, tim barnes played percussion and charles curtis played cello. george bishop, jr. read a text by daniel schmid, gertrud aigner danced on a creaky floor, and the composer played electric guitar and midi grand piano. oberheim and yamaha synthesizers made additional sounds, and recordings of radio static, a steam heater, and e. e. cummings reading a poem were used. the music was executed in “real time”, direct to stereo, using algorithms written in max/msp software.

charles curtis’ cello recorded at regenbogenstadl, polling, germany, by uli schägger. tim barnes’ percussion recorded at quakebasket, new york city. midi grand piano recoded at avatar, quebec city, canada, thanks to jocelyn robert.


sedimental’s first release for 2002, four stills, is from new york composer/guitarist michael j. schumacher. schumacher has a strong presence on the experimental scene with his refined guitar “drone” compositions but parallel to this activity he has been working with number system applications of sampled material through electronics, a direct extension of his audio installations. schumacher is also internationally recognized along with his wife and artist ursula scherrer, who designed the artwork for this release, for the outstanding studio 5 beekman space (now diapason on 6th ave.) that provides a sympathetic environment for audio artists to execute installations. the participants in this project read like a who’s who of leading-edge composers and experimental musicians.

our reaction to material originally considered for four stills was nothing short of breathtaking. where as much digitally generated material succumbs to a hermetically closed world of glitches and electronic landscape schumacher’s work opens up this environment, despite the density of the material, into a breathing, organic spaciousness while still maintaining the intimacy inherent in the form.

the four stills are expressions of the number system that i have used since 1989 in my electronic compositions. these numbers form the basis for dozens of rhythmic processes executed by the computer, from playing a midi grand piano, to deciding a range within a sample buffer to play, to determining larger structural aspects such as the alternation of sound and silence within a particular part. the fact that they are prime numbers prevents predictable patterns from emerging. the limit of six maintains structural coherence. the four stills were recorded direct to stereo in real time. though the sounds used in a given piece are predetermined, their interaction with each other over time is left to chance.

"these pieces are extensions of my installation pieces, which evolve over long time periods, and are also created in real time by generative algorithms. however, in contrast to the installations, which utilize distance as an important perceptual feature and employ as many as 16 independent channels of sound, allowing for meaningful variations in texture, these recordings, being limited to two channels, are more compact in their presentation of the sonic material. they therefore remind me of certain styles of painting, which present the spectator with a static field of color that is experienced in no particular order. though the music obviously unfolds over time, the analogy seems appropriate to me, since the dense textures (sometimes as many as 27 simultaneous parts) invite a contemplation of the many layers of sound and their relation, not in time, but in space.


sedimental is honored to make available the rarely heard digital works of schumacher to a wider international audience-a dynamic composer who has provided a unique aesthetic forum for some many like-minded composers as well.

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new series framework (belgium) #new series framework #2 cd

ulrich kriegerfathom” compact disc

  • fathom (50:19)
december 2010 release ; ... essentially, this is a text of light record (only christian marclay & william hooker are absent) albeit one containing a single composition (by krieger)for contrabass saxophone, 2 electric guitars, close-mic’ed percussion and 2 cds” ...
sub rosa press release...
new series framework #2 / ulrich krieger
fathom

700 copies limited edition / cd digipack
sr306

features
ulrich krieger
lee ranaldo
alan licht
tim barnes

new series framework

an extension of our concrete electronics noise, a brand new mix-up of unusual conceptions of sound material by young unknown composers, well known not-so-young composers and old but clever composers.

ulrich krieger studied classical saxophone, composition, electronic music and musicology at the manhattan school of music (new york), the universität der künste (berlin) and the freie universität (berlin). since the late 1980s he became more and more interested in american music and its different approaches (chance music, process music, just intonation, multi-stylistic, minimalism, drone). in 1991 he moved to new york. in the 'cage of saxophones' series krieger recorded the complete saxophone and any-instrument works of john cage for mode records. the first one focuses on drone music (cage, tenney, niblock), while the second focuses on pattern music (reich, glass, riley) in the early 1990s he started working on a more electronic approach. he began developing an original amplification for the saxophone and various live-electronic signal processing set-ups. in the electronic experimental field he collaborated with rock, noise and ambient artists like karkowski, merzbow, koener, toeplitz. he also worked with the berlin ensemble "zeitkratzer" for which he transcribed lou reed's metal machine music.

text of light is a 2001 founded formation with lee ranaldo and alan licht, performing along with films of experimental film maker stan brakhage (1933-2003).

metal machine trio began in 2008 together with lou reed and sarth calhoun as an experimental free rock project.

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syr (usa) #syr 6 cd
sonic youth (usa) #syr 6 cd

sonic youth / tim barneskoncertas stan brakhage prisiminimui” compact disc

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blasted recording of sonic youth playing to the films of stan brakhage w/tim barnes from this event ::

syr press release...

sonic youth the syr series

having completed construction on their manhattan studios in 1996, sonic youth suddenly found themselves in a position to create unadulterated by the tyranny of time and space. as a result of their natural writing process, whereby collective improvisation congeals over time into song structures, they began to amass a small mountain of tape, most of it containing raw, wild, spontaneous music they reckoned wouldn't be "commercial" enough for geffen to release.

yet the material seemed just as essential and true to their mission, and showed an important side of the band and their process that was usually inacessible to their fans. so instead of a problem, sy saw an opportunity — they decided to release these secret sonic glimpses themselves. sonic youth recordings was born.

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