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previous artist: alan raventine		there are 5 titles featuring vic rawlings in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: herbert read

$12.01

new to stock as of
october 15th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
circuit-bending
minimalism-drones

chloë recordings (usa) #chloe 008 cd

mawja “live one” compact disc

16 sept 05: wnur, chicago, il (13:07)
21 sept 05: warehouse next door, washington, dc (29:50)

chloë recordings press release...

chloë 008 mawja: "live one"

mazen kerbaj (cornet, objects)
michael bullock (bass, feedback)
vic rawlings (cello, surface electronics)

mary staubitz emailed me asking, "do you and vic want to play with this guy from lebanon?" mary was booking a series of noise shows at the midway café in jamaica plain, ma, and had been contacted, apparently out of the blue, by "this trumpet player from beirut." she wanted to help him out but wasn’t sure what to do, since none of us in boston really knew anything about him. vic and i have had a duo established since 2000, so i knew at least i wouldn’t be totally out to sea with this new guy. i agreed and so did vic: we would meet mazen for the first time at the gig.

we did just that. i walked into the midway the night of the gig and saw a tall middle eastern man standing in the middle. the midway is a very rowdy, noisy joint even when the music is not playing, so conversation was limited to pleasantries, and 30 minutes later the three of us were on "stage" (actually the middle of the floor in front of the tiny stage, the only place we could fit two large string instruments, two amps, and mazen’s table crowded with trumpet preparations). then something happened - music came tumbling out. immediately, and for the entire set, we were in that state of mind that most groups work for months or years to achieve; the music played itself. harsh, mild, tense, limber, awkward in the best ways, and above all, effortless. after it was over we knew we had to play again, soon, and often.

we set about booking a tour for the next time mazen could come to the us. this disc, along with "studio one" on al maslakh, is the products of that intensely creative week. - michael bullock - troy, june 2007

$12.01

back in stock as of
october 15th, 2007

first in stock on
january 10th, 2005

file under:
sound-research
site-specific

chloë recordings (usa) #chloe 005 cd

united states of belt “pancake alley” compact disc

ping pong holiday (19:08)
sleepytown breakfast (21:47)

here’s some very well done lucky-kitchen-lineage aural story-telling, as done by the wonderfully thorough united states of belt (with help from folk like vic rawlings on banjo). their set @ the 2004 intransitive festival was certainly one of the highlights... phonographers take note...

chloë recordings press release...

“chloë recordings and champ records (of troy, ny) have teamed up to present the third release from united states of belt and the first split release for either label.

"pancake alley" is a 40 minute sound collage composed of field recordings made around the usa between 1999-2004. the sounds are unmistakably american; the aesthetic, uniquely beltian. the result is somewhere between a mythic tall-tale and a dream of wandering, as vast and colorful as crossing america in a 1972 airstream excella.

the cd comes packaged in a lushly printed, heavy-stock paper package (with insert) that is itself a work of art: brightly painted signs, fantasy images from youth, and photographs of far-away familiarity. images and design by us of belt; cover painting by mr. joe signs that go.”

$12.01

back in stock as of
october 15th, 2007

first in stock on
november 25th, 2003

file under:
free-improv
sound-research

chloë recordings (usa) #chloe 003 cd

vic rawlings / michael bullock “fall of song” compact disc

as if the
as the
when the
as in the
about the
wherein the
what if the
as we went to
__ ____ __ _____
____-_-____ _____
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_________/_ ____ __ ___ ____

mike and vic are two visionary artists who not have not only fashioned their own rube goldberg-lineage kit out of discarded oscillators, guts of mixing desks, old contact mics, etc... but have developed a language to communicate with each other using these means. said language has a wide vocabulary and, at the time of this recording, was at an all time peak.

chloë recordings press release...

vic rawlings : cello, open-circuit electronics.
mike bullock : contrabass, tone generators

“this disc was recorded in an antique wooden gymnasium last winter, where it was so cold we couldn’t feel our hands. vic plays amplified cello and a rack of electronics he (re)built himself out of exposed circuit boards and salvaged speaker cones. mike plays amplified contrabass and a tone generator originally made for scientists. the result is an unbelievably stark sound world utterly alienated from the glib fluidity usually associated with bowed strings. the pieces on 'fall of song' are by turns deep-frozen and blisteringly hot. the rhythms are those of hands moving over a workbench or methodically slashing tires.

after playing in various bands together since 1996, rawlings and bullock first played as a duo in summer 2000. they will be touring france and the netherlands in october 2003 in support of ‘fall of song.’”

$15.12

back in stock as of
january 25th, 2008

first in stock on
august 9th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

file under:
free-improv

grob (germany) #grob 543 cd

the bsc “good” compact disc

good

grob press release...

the bsc - good

in vienna, berlin and tokyo musicians are working on stillness, reduction, non-expressivity and micro-differentiation. in cologne, london, new york, chicago, paris, warsaw, this music is performed and written about. but up to now the most exciting of this scene has been happening outside these large cities. for example, in boston. that this city possesses a young and rather large improv scene including labels and venues is well known. there are even a few ”superstars” like the saxophonist bhob rainey and the trumpeter greg kelley, two musicians who have easily liberated themselves from established improvisation patterns. what has been missing till now is a recording that clearly exemplifies the sound of boston. such a thing can hardly be forced, it always seems to happen casually, e.g. when one listens to a concert recording again and again and then suddenly discovers how definitive it is!

such a stroke of luck has arrived with the bsc – good. the bsc is a chamber orchestra from boston led by bhob rainey. joining him are greg kelley (of course), james coleman (theremin), howard stelzer (tapes), liz tonne (voice), vic rawlings (cello, electronics), mike bullock (bass), and chris cooper (prepared guitar), with guests axel dörner (trumpet) and andrea neumann (inside piano).

good is a 37-minute, improvisation process recorded live, which creatively draws on the resources from the reduced parameters of this new improvised music. despite all the stillness, the music is also surprisingly dense and tightly woven together. the music captivates via a noisiness radical maintained throughout the whole piece, and in spite of this (or because of it?), it is lyrical and surreal. the melody of metallic shimmering tonal colors can be heard from the very beginning.

$12.01

new to stock as of
september 12th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
circuit-bending
minimalism-drones

sedimental (usa) #sed 050 cd

tim feeney / vic rawlings “in six parts” compact disc

1. (7:38)
2. (8:33)
3. (6:46)
4. (9:22)
5. (5:22)
6. (13:21)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "2."

a continuous improvisation (presented... you guessed it :: “in six parts”) by boston’s vic rawlings (long the hidden jewel of our vibrant improvisation community due to his brilliant open-circuit playing/instrument designs and electronically-enhanced cello) and tim feeney (a younger entrant on percussion & electronics) captured at firehouse 12 in new haven, ct in december 2005.

a tense set of raucous hysteresis-laden electronics, post-lachenmann “extended techniques” (both players appear far more interested in the so-called “non-musical” properties of their respective acoustic palettes; nary a clean attack from feeney’s percussion array, nor a double-stop from vic) ; with the faint whisper of a dying capacitor/zener diode never far out of earshot... marvelous.

sedimental press release...

tim feeney / vic rawlings - in six parts (sedcd050)

vic rawlings is as careful and focused as any musician/improviser working today. over the years he has honed his prepared cello and electronic, open circuit ‘device’ performances down to sparse, tight, violent little assaults. his many collaborative projects run long and deep in boston (undr quartet, the bsc) and beyond (nra, mawja) and this (relatively) recent partnership with the youngster tim feeney has produced immediate and excellent results as well. this release also finally gets rawlings properly into the sedimental roster, something that is long overdue.

so what do we have here? feeney, a percussionist, is less a foil than a multiplier of the rawlings aesthetic. the first five parts are static, lean, and pinpointed explorations of high pitches, specific gestures of scrapes and buzzes. cold, but organic. sparse, but rich. feeney does provide a modicum of warmth as heard on part six, the final section of the disc, which acts an emotional counterweight to the previous five. a rhythm emerges, slowly unfolding, repeating, a know-able signpost amid the desolation, a way out, but not exactly towards home.

previous artist:
alan raventine

...and that's everything in stock featuring vic rawlings.
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next artist:
herbert read

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