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... happy spring everyone !!! to commemorate our favorite season (and to help* get this place back to some sort of workable condition)* we're having a "spring cleaning" sale !!! please visit the *spring (2013)* cleaning page to view a list** of (recent, mostly 2012) releases that we're now offering at reduced prices (while supplies last, no rainchecks, etc) ...

previous record label: institute for electronic arts		there are 9 titles on intransitive in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: inyrdisk

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$9.98

new to stock as of
january 4th, 2012

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
modern-composition
minimalism-drones
experimental-instruments
sound-poetry
digital-musics

best of 2012 !!!

spring cleaning !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 037 cd

c. spencer yeh “1975” compact disc

drone (6:35)
voice (3:27)
drone (4:40)
voice (4:40)
drone (5:17)
shrinkwrap from a solo saxophone cd (skit) (2:09)
two guitars (7:33)
two guitars (6:09)
drips (skit) (2:35)
au revoir... (6:34)
... et bonne nuit (8:15)

december 2011 release ; ... after a year-long dalliance with pop music (well, his twisted definition of pop music anyways) it’s nice to hear spencer return to the pan-trajectorial approach of his prior solo music, here embodied as a dove-tailing selection of what sound like glass harmonica pieces (i.e. “drone”) & threshold-gated sound poetry (i.e. “voice”) leading into a pair of excellent psycho-acoustic guitar-sculpture-interference studies (i.e. “two guitars”) into a pair of digitally-munged musique concrète etudes (i.e. “au revoir... “ et “... et bonne nuit”) ...

... all of which are areas of exploration previously witnessed across his solo work (only his acoustic & electric violin playing is absent) ; yet here the pacing & narrative arrangement(s) lend a decisive cohesion that makes this so much more than a random assortment of odd extracts & experiments :: it works beautifully as an album-proper & stands as one of spencer’s major works (although i’m not buying this “debut album” crap) ... highly recommended !!!

intransitive press release...

1975
c. spencer yeh

intransitive recordings is extra-proud to present 1975, the debut solo album of tightly-coiled, crackling electronic ambience by c. spencer yeh. while “debut” may seem a strange word to use to describe an album by a guy with such a deep discography, yeh explains that 1975 is like nothing anyone has heard from him before. “one thing is i really wanted to focus on a certain feeling of stasis. so much of what else i do just kinda pushes and pushes forward. 1975 is more vertical than horizontal, even though one can’t escape the horizontal completely.” taking a confident step away from his familiar work as an improvising violinist and vocalist, from the mythology of his rock / noise band burning star core, and from his recent forays into pop music, the omnivorous yeh here reveals himself to be a composer of unsettling electro-acoustic miniatures.

yeh approached his source material with a desire to be transparent, even literal, and to avoid straightforward narrative. the literal is there in the deceptively matter-of-fact track titles — “drone”, “voice”, “shrinkwrap from solo saxophone cd”, “two guitars” — but knowing which sound source is buried beneath these tones does little to remove 1975‘s sense of enveloping mystery. this is sensual abstract music with a light touch, a confident minimalism that only reveals its unsettling depth, sharp corners, and playful malevolence with repeat listens.

for fans of eliane radigue, hecker, pita, or kevin drumm.

born in taiwan, and now based in brooklyn ny, c. spencer yeh is the one constant of the “band” burning star core, whose other members have included mike shiflet and trevor tremaine & robert beatty of hair police. he has collaborated with a staggeringly diverse range of artists, including john wiese, tony conrad, new humans w/ vito aconcci, aaron dilloway, okkyung lee, evan parker, yellow swans, greg kelley, paul flaherty, don deitrich (of borbetomagus), and chris corsano (to name just a few).

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
august 10th, 2010

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise

best of 2010 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 036 cd

failing lights “s/t” compact disc

moon on the first hunt (2:25)
revealing scene (6:18)
serve in silence (6:37)
telling artifacts (4:40)
the comfort zone (18:32)

august 2010 release ; here’s one i’ve been waiting on for ages (or at least as long as it’s been seen howie told me was doing it) :: the intransitive debut of wolf eyes / hair police member mike connelly’s failing lights project !!!

mike’s issued a steady stream of excellent cassettes (largely via his own gods of tundra label) over the past five years, but it wasn’t until he foisted a few copies of the “a cruel picture” 3-disc box upon us back in 2008 that it really clicked for me :: this wasn’t a set of grimy, sewer-escaping sludge but in fact a rather subtle set of chiming minimalism, forged with the same nuance (albeit rendered in far crispier fidelities) as travellers like yoshi wada & charlemagne palestine ...

lo & behold, this disc continues on where “cruel” left off ; offering an uninterrupted chunk of minimal crackle, hissy vocal filigree, ring-modulated guitar klang, and tape-mangled bells, all ebbing & flowing throughout like characters in an altman movie, culminating in one hell of a rising organ drone ...

i, too (much like steve, dom, and ... henry ... below) hear this as the crown jewel in mike’s extensive discography ... highly recommended !!!

ps. i’ve put up an extra-long sound-sample of the piece/disc’s triumphant final section as it’s a gorgeous slow-burner whose subtleties would be lost on a regular 2-minute job ... enjoy !!!

intransitive press release...

int036 failing lights cd

mike connelly's failing lights cd is a deep trip into darkness, density and dimension. this work is not random noise. connelly is able to bend sound and texture at will, with a great deal of control. he sculpts huge amounts of space and intensity with a great deal of grip. really good!

- henry rollins

...

with the first full-length cd of failing lights, mike connelly melds his diverse and obscure personal musical interests into one inspirational album. patience. minimalism. refinement. restraint. filthy dirty home recording, executed with the cutting skill of a sound-art composer and the heart of folk music. an amazing album, by far his best!

- dominick fernow, prurient

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never before has the solo force of mike connelly been so clearly on display. failing lights is a dark necessity, an important document from one of underground music's most important figures.

- steve lowenthal

...

an evocative work of bleak electronic atmosphere and suffocating dread, failing lights is the intensely personal vision of michigan (via lexington, ky) artist mike connelly. while he has toured the world as 1/3 of legendary industrial/noise units hair police and wolf eyes, connelly spends his days crafting a much different sound on his own. under the failing lights flag, he has selfpublished a nearly uncountable number of cassettes and cdrs of rough drones, detuned improvised grit and unstable acoustics in tiny editions that quickly vanish into collector-land. intransitive is proud to present the defining – and first widely available – failing lights statement, an album of sinewy horror with a fine-tuned beauty within its darkness.

a single piece in five sections, failing lights begins with disquietingly barren negative space. as the album creeps forward, it steadily dispenses sheets of diffuse throat-scratch and skittering strings, culminating in a blast of molten organ. not noise, ambient, improv, black metal, or anything else: this is failing lights .

available august, 2010. edition of 1000, in shrink-wrapped jewel case featuring full color artwork by the artist.

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
october 7th, 2009

threads:
free-improvisation
modern-composition

best of 2009 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 035 cd

nmperign “ommatidia” compact disc

glass (6:42)
variation ii (5:54)
prey (6:42)
fault (4:37)
variation v (6:33)
dalton (7:33)

october 2009 release ; ... was surprised to learn that, after a decade of recorded music (ranging from their selektion-label set, to two “live” discs on twisted village, to their american tapes “cover” of “salt peanuts”) that this, effectively bhob rainey & greg kelley’s swan-song (bhob up & moved to new orleans a few months back) also does double-duty as their debut “studio” album ...

there’s a bit of dissent as to who birthed the contemporary “reductionism” movement in improvised music ; that’s ultimately neither here nor there, save for the fact that these guys were my personal entry-point into the spectrum of near-silent, gestural improv ... their concerts here in town over the years have certainly forced me to re-think how to listen to music ; the exhilaration not only of the micro-volumes at which they play (far more terrifying than any jet-engine noise or rock/metal concerts i’ve been to ; even a stray cough or shuffle could be many decibels-fold above their playing, causing a near-complete inversion of performer-audience relations) but also the clean break from idiomatic “free improv” and/or “modern classical” modes is always palpable ...

the language they’ve jointly developed over the years, comprised both of modern-composition-lineage “extended techniques” and timbres lifted straight from early electronic music, is unquestionably theirs & theirs alone (despite the hordes of acolytes and straight biters) ; here they finally display it all in impeccably-captured detail in an anechoic chamber-like setting ... frankly bhob’s knee-muted multiphonics & greg’s trumpet-barrel scrapings have never sounded better, and the interplay between the two has, after so many years spent honing their collective craft, reached a third-mind zenith, resulting in an uncanny amount of “happy accident” style moments across the album’s six “song-length” pieces ...

this intransitive releases comes as a high-detail digipack, coated in a set of bee close-ups (by irene moon, no less) that perfectly articulate the music’s often microscopic inflections ... improv album of the year, hands down ; highly recommended !!!

intransitive press release...

int035 nmperign “ommatidia” cd

nmperign are one of the most celebrated and influential bands in contemporary improvised music. yet surprisingly, more than a decade after their debut, greg kelley (trumpet) and bhob rainey (soprano sax) have never recorded a studio album as an unaccompanied duo … until now!

the music is spare and peerlessly inventive as always, but the mood remains light and joyful, with a subtle undercurrent of absurd humor. while improvised music can sometimes seem airless and precious, ommatidia opens the window on a sunny afternoon… the album’s gusts of breath, percussive splatter, and controlled explosions form six succinct pieces that feel alive and vital, while still speaking in nmperign’s utterly unique sonic language. a perfect way in for newcomers and a revelation for long-time fans, ommatidia is the essential nmperign.

previous nmperign albums have employed guest musicians – notably close collaborator and tape loop saboteur jason lescalleet, but also luminaries such as gunter mueller, axel doerner, andrea neumann, and burkhard beins – and subversive or dodgy recording techniques; their 2 x lp on siwa was recorded entirely to micro-cassette and cassette walkman, while an early cd on selektion was edited from live mini-disc recordings. intransitive is proud to present the nmperign album that fans have been waiting for: the core duo, beautifully recorded in an actual studio with excellent microphones.

when not making nmperign music, greg kelley performs with the aggressively psychedelic noise unit heathen shame (along with wayne rogers & kate village of major stars), minimalist chamber group the undr quartet, and raucous rock band life partners. rainey regularly tours with folk/pop duo damon & naomi and leads the bsc, an eight-piece electro-acoustic improvising ensemble. they live in boston and new orleans, respectively.

limited edition cd comes in full-color digipack designed by mike shiflet.orded in an actual studio with excellent microphones.

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
october 7th, 2009

threads:
site-specific
field-recordings
experimental-instruments
modern-composition

best of 2009 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 034 cd

lethe “catastrophe point #5” compact disc

catastrophe point #5 (1) (22:10)
catastrophe point #5 (2) (22:00)

october 2009 release ; a strikingly rich recording of sound-events transpiring “at no 20 warehouse [disused grain warehouse in front of nagoya sea port]” ; triggered/channeled & documented by kiyoharu kuwayama ...

yoshi wada’s “lament” and/or toshiya tsunoda’s recent work for ensembles are both great reference points here ; kuwayama’s use of naturally-occurring ambiance (rain falling through the ceiling) & held tones (amplified through what sounds like just a massive acoustic space) work beautifully in painting a vivid sonic picture, with his “performances” on the assorted site-specific detritus merely augmenting the ongoing tapestry of automatically unfolding sound-events ... highly recommended !!!

intransitive press release...

int034 lethe “catastrophe point #5 cd

catastrophe point #5 is the latest in kuwayama kiyoharu’s signature series of compositions that explore the charged, mysterious atmosphere of disused industrial sites. for this album, lethe turns his attention to an abandoned warehouse by a pier in his hometown of nagoya, japan, using objects discovered in situ to perform a ritual of sonic resurrection. he brings a dead space back to life, giving it a voice and allowing it to speak. metal chains, sheet metal, broken machinery, and factory debris are bowed, struck, and dragged across the concrete floors of the massive hall, reverberating and responding as kuwayama and his microphones scuttle across the desolate terrain. growling cello and unstable horns underscore the torrents of percussive clatter. catastrophe point #5 is a haunting album of volatile, malevolent ambiance.

kiyoharu kuwayama began working with sound in the late 1980s, using half-scale violin, cello, and found junk objects in the group minotaure. in 1999, he and violinist rina kijima formed the improvisational acoustic duo kuwayama-kijima to bring their instruments outdoors and perform in environments with unique acoustic properties, notably underneath a highway overpass and in a construction site. between 1999 and 2003, kuwayama organized the five-day-long lethe.voice.festival in an unused grain warehouse.

lethe’s previous release on intransitive was tsurumai, a stellar collaborative cd with dutch noise legends kapotte muziek. he has also appeared on albums with bassist matt heyner (malkuth, cold bleak heat, no-neck blues band), jonathan coleclough, hidekai shimada (agencement), carter thornton (enos slaughter, izititiz), kiyoshi mizutani, and campbell kneale (birchville cat motel).

for fans of christoph heemann, surface of the earth, the new blockaders, z’ev, or organum.

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
may 21st, 2009

threads:
sound-poetry
lo-fi
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
site-specific

best of 2009 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 033 cd
schöne hjuler-memorial-fond (germany) #shmf siko14 cd

kommissar hjüler / mama bär “asylum lunaticum” compact disc

hjcvgrimmelshausen (8:59)
lichtblicke (6:42)
ehrfurcht (25:17)
meine erste zeitmachine (13:00)
de nye rigspolitichefen (10:37)
lauf in eine herde (1:13)
asylum lunaticum (8:33)

june 2009 release ; first widely available release from this now-legendary german couple (yes, he’s actually a cop !!!) collecting something of a “greatest hits” from the legions of “artist edition” cd-r’s, tapes, and lathe-cut records “issued” (mostly ... un-issued) over the last 10-odd years via their der schöne hjuler-memorial-fond ...

a great bringer-up-to-speed for the uninitiated, this offers a broad range of their inimitable styles ; right off the bat there’s komissar doing his best anton bruhin imitation (listen to the sound-sample), mama speaking about 1/4 normal speed through a wobbly cassette over a police-siren, mama singing to her son while riding a bicycle through the countryside for 25 minutes (amazing !!!), komissar bulding “his first time-machine,” etc ...

state-of-the-art contemporary “private universe” antics ; highly recommended !!!

intransitive press release...

available june 1, 2009

int033 kommissar hjuler & mama bär – asylum lunaticum cd

intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, the music of kommissar hjuler & mama bär has been a well kept secret for too long. hjuler & bär have self published their dada esque sound poetry experiments on small edition lathe cut lps, tapes, and cdrs for years, usually adorning them with elaborate junk sculptures and paintings. intransitive is proud to collect their best recordings so far onto a single, widely available cd so that anyone can hear the music without making a major financial investment.

the husband and wife duo uses deceptively simple means – typically just their voices, a cassette tape recorder and a microphone – to create astonishing suburban dramas that are somehow both sweetly charming and staggeringly psychotic, sometimes at the same time. join kommissar hjuler and mama bär as they perform acts of banal heroics, like exploring the basement... taking their son for a bicycle ride... walking with a red shirt into a field of cattle... pondering reforms made to the danish police system... all viewed through the unhinged lens.

kommissar hjuler & mama bär are painters, sculptors, film makers, and musicians based in flensberg, germany, near the danish border. their artwork has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals around the world. they collaborated with like minded artists such as thurston moore, arnulf meifert, john weise, runzelstirn & gurgelstock, jan iwers, and af ursin, among many others.

asylum lunaticum is not just another name or title, it's an almost too harmless a description of the family hjuler/bar. over decades, kommisar hjuler provided me with his sick but mind blowing art. so rare their works are, it's truly time to dig 'em out and show the world! this cd shall do so.

rudolf eb.er (r&g / schimpfluch commune int.)

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
may 21st, 2009

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
musique-concrète

best of 2009 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 032 cd

jim haynes “sever” compact disc

: (18:38)
:: (6:24)
::: (9:37)
:::: (17:18)

june 2009 release ; superb, creaking concrète studies from jim haynes ...

there’s been a spate of music concerned with “decay” over the past few years (especially from the harsh noise & power electronics sectors) ; yet little of it posit decay as anything less than a malevolent force (decomposition, erosion, etc ...) which is why jim’s take on it really stands out ; decay at the molecular level, almost imperceivable in real time but quite apparent in an exploded-view ...

the four pieces here involve field recordings (often made so far away from any given’s sound’s source that their room reflections and natural dispersion obliterate any trace of them) and subtle processing ; just enough to accentuate what’s already there - the gradual, organic change of chemistry over time ...

highly recommended !!!

intransitive press release...

available june 1, 2009

int032 jim haynes – sever cd

it gives me great pleasure to present sever, the third solo album by san francisco-based composer jim haynes, whose singular music evades simple attempts to describe it. the process of decaying and wearing down materials is implied in sever; its passages of rough clang and cyclic scraping metal seem implacably tangible, as if one is witnessing time-lapsed erosion in action. for me, sever conjures images of oncoming storms, abandoned industrial sites, huge empty warehouses, creaking glass, ships rocking in a port, the middle of the ocean far from land. sever is an engaging album of evocative, highly visual drone music made up of layers upon organic layers that are in constant motion, and yet seem somehow still.

jim haynes has exhibited at westspace (melbourne, australia), diapason (new york), jack straw productions (seattle), and works (san jose), eyedrum (atlanta). he has collaborated with loren chasse (as the duo coelacanth), keith evans, steve stapleton (nurse with wound), and irr.app.(ext.). he runs the acclaimed helen scarsdale label, and works as the editorial director for 23five, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound arts within the public arena. he has written extensively on sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music experimentation for the wire, the san francisco bay guardian, metro pulse, the sound projector, and chunklet.

$11.76

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
december 15th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
playback-music
musique-concrète
minimalism-drones

best of 2006 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 028 cd

seht / howard stelzer “exactly what you lost” compact disc

untitled (2:47)
untitled (8:36)
untitled (7:02)
untitled (2:02)
untitled (26:24)

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

$11.76

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
march 22nd, 2008

threads:
analogue-synth
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

best of 2008 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 020 cd

nerve net noise “meteor circuit” compact disc

#1 (3:05)
#2 (6:02)
#3 (5:58)
#4 (9:21)
#5 (18:32)
long mail to boston (4:29)

march 2008 ; a warehouse (or, at this level, under-bed) find of copies of the long unavailable 2002 intransitive debut from nerve net noise - quite literally the last copies in circulation ...

if the band’s 2008 “dark garden” invaded your sense of well-being, consider this the root-of-all-evil ...

intransitive press release...

nerve net noise is the synthesizer duo of tsuyoshi nakamaru and hiroshi kumakiri, who confused and irritated just about everyone with their cd "160/240", published by the meme label several years ago. each nerve net noise album is an astoundingly thorough exploration of one aspect of what thier rough and barely controllable homemade synthesisers can do.

"meteor circuit" explores rhythms and beats, but it's no minimal glitch album, and neither is nnn a "noise" band; they are after something much more elusive and beautiful than mere obvious full-bore screech. with a strange new angle on electronic improvisation, they twisted knobs until their machines produced rhythmic pulses, then hit record and let the instruments decide what would happen next. the "natural" imperfections of the synthesizers' circuitry determined how each piece would evolve with little or no interaction from the artists. they then edited the works into a coherent, intense and (it must be said bluntly) immensely bizarre album.

there isn't anyone else doing quite what nerve net noise is doing, and no convenient genre or style that they fit into, which is why they are one of intransitive's very favorite groups and why we are especially proud to present "meteor circuit" to you now. following two albums on kazunao nagata's cult zero gravity label and last year's stunning "various amusements" cd on hronir (and, of course, the infamous "160/240" on meme), "meteor circuit" is the first nerve net noise cd published in the us.

nakamura records more accessible techno-pop under the alias tagomago. he also records using the alias toki-meki science for nobukazu takemura's childisc label. the band describes their sound as "electric noise music, but not academic, not mere noisy sound. we think that our music is not so much noise music as new kind of pop music".

$13.44

back in stock as of
january 4th, 2012

first in stock on
may 21st, 2009

threads:
musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
sound-poetry

best of 2009 !!!

intransitive (usa) #int 014r cd

lionel marchetti “knud un nom de serpent (le cercle des entrailles)” compact disc

la quêtedes pouvoirs (10:32)
silence fauve (0:09)
haut-le-corps (esquisse d’un langage crépupsculaire) (22:44)
silence blanc (0:09)
un temps tu fus animal (chant du damagomi) (13:25)
silence simple (0:09)
porte du chachat et extraction maligne (5:02)
silence du chaman blanc (0:09)
porte de la mort et des lacets - à michel chion (6:22)
silence crâne (0:09)
to be or not to be ; s’infiltrer dans la roche ; il renaît de ses os (11:30)
silence final (0:09)
treize - porte du malheur (0:14)

june 2009 release ; long-awaited “re-edition” of this collection of early pieces (the initial 1999 run was certainly the first i’d heard from him) composed between 1993 and 1995 (i.e. between his two metamkine “cinema pour l’oreille” 3”cds “mue” & “la grande valée”) by contemporary musique concrète composer lionel marchetti ...

seven pieces, each separated by a different quality of “silence” ; the tying bond here is the use of both ethnic folk music (specifically field & location recordings of vocal ululation & almost sound-poetry lineage glottal activities) ... at any given point there are at least two or three elements working in a dissonant unison, causing a pervasive sense of displacement that runs through the album’s core ...

this 2009 version comes with new artwork & liner notes by bhob rainey. highly recommended !!!

intransitive press release...

available june 1, 2009

int014 lionel marchetti – knud un nom de serpent (le cercle des entrailles) cd

back by popular demand! lionel marchetti's classic album of harrowing tape music from 1999, knud un nom de serpent (le cercle des entrailles), was published by intransitive in 1999, quickly sold out, and remains the most requested title to be resurrected from our back catalog. we're thrilled to make knud available again, now with a striking new cover design and an appreciative essay by bhob rainey ( nmperign , the bsc ).

the gripping drama of knud un nom de serpent illustrates marchetti's idea of popular music as shamanic ritual, a gateway to ecstatic altered states. armed with fierce wit and a razor blade, he smashes together sounds from all over the world into a hallucinatory cyclone of jamaican reggae, french chanson, american avant garde vocalists, thai pop songs, nature recordings, spoken text, and more. the result is a chilling work of furious, obliquely narrative tape collage and tense, frightening scenes. as marchetti explained to the wire magazine, "i've always been interested in the idea of the medicine man. someone who by sheer force of imagination transports you into another world, part artist, part healer. maybe that's what a composer is."

lionel marchetti (france, 1967) is a self taught composer of musique concrète. he has built his own recording studio, and has composed in the groupe de recherches musicales in paris since 1993. marchetti also performs improvised music with microphones and loudspeakers as a duo with jérôme noetinger, as part of the group quintetavant , and with the collective le cube , which performs live music and interactive film. marchetti's book la musique concrète de michel chion was published by éditions metamkine in 1998.

also available:
int031 lionel marchetti & seijiro murayama “hatali atseli (l’echange des yeux)” cd

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institute for electronic arts

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