asher / fourm “selected passages • set.grey” compact disc

• asher - selected passage i (5:30)
  
• asher - selected passage ii (6:52)
  
• asher - selected passage iii (6:35)
  
• asher - selected passage iv (5:56)
  
• asher - selected passage v (5:41)
  
  
• fourm - set.grey 001 [occupying and connecting] (16:31)
  
• fourm - set.grey 002 [parametrics and parallax] (15:00)

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artist: asher / fourm title: selected passages / set.grey cat#: nvo_o23 format: cdrelease date: may 2010 limited edition: 300 selected passagesduring the winter of 2008, i stayed on the campus of a small college in vermont where i had previously recorded the material for a piece titled “intervals”. when i first arrived i made recordings of a small radio which was in my room, i would listen to that radio throughout my stay and captured many different sounds from it. i also spent quite a bit of time both indoors and out recording the environments, and made recordings playing some of the pianos which are in various rooms and buildings on the campus. i returned to my studio with these materials and after experimenting with various approaches to the recordings i ultimately chose only to work with the piano parts. to me these recordings, while only capturing the sounds of the piano and the room it was in, seem to speak about winter and quiet just as well as the sounds of wind and ravens, hushed voices, footsteps in the snow, weather reports, local djs and poor reception. --- in the faint shadows cast by the last light before twilight, i like to roam unthinkingly through what the city becomes (…) as my feet wander i inwardly skim, without reading, a book of text interspersed with swift images, from which i leisurely form an idea that's never completed. fernando pessoa, the book of disquietude --- set.grey the “set” series is a study in generative soundscaping, with an emphasis on reduction and elimination of unneccessary material. the pieces here reflect an aesthetic that jettisons any contextual framework readily perceivable as music, eliminating established references such as layering, blending etc, using purely generative and iterative methodologies to activate audible structures that the artist presents as “sonic sculpture”, or “audible architecture” (archisonics). this is the second part of an ongoing investigation series that began with “set.neutral” (white_line, uk), and will end with set.noir (tba). special thanks to heri at nvo for giving these exploratory works a home, also to mike at smallfish for love and support, maura for love, shinkei and turra without whom… yann novak, and all white_line supporters distributors and collaborators… you know who you are. --- treat every negative as a positive – seek opportunity where others see only hurdles – nothing is ever as it seems … embrace change … if you always do what you always did – you will always get what you always got.

christophe charles / i8u “unter den linden • und transit” compact disc

• christophe charles - unter den linden (30:00)
  
  
• i8u - montag (5:53)
  
• i8u - dienstag (5:33)
  
• i8u - donnerstag (5:52)
  
• i8u - freitag (8:30)
  
• i8u - wochenende (9:26)

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artist: christophe charles / i8u title: unter den linden / und transitcat#: nvo_o22 format: cd release date: may 2010 limited edition: 300 unter den linden the “grundton” of this 30-minute composition is the recording of the concert given at snd studios sheffield (uk) in march 2009, entitled “why is there something rather than nothing?” by mark fell and powered with d&b speakers by tony myatt (mrc, university of york). the sounds of planes have been recorded in mallorca (spain) in 1987, and in pilat (france) in 2009. this music comes after hcdc, composed in november 2008 after the death of daniel charles – his last days were darkened by breathing difficulties, hence the overall presence of the “wind”. the last five minutes were composed in 1987 with telephone bells, a silo and a spanish garbage truck, under the name “unter den linden”. the piece is not related with berlin, but with jules massenet’s “sous les tilleuls” (from “scenes alsaciennes” where bells are heard in a distance and thus modified by the wind), and evokes a peaceful atmosphere just before the bombs begin to fall. christophe charles, september 2009 --- this world of ours is one relative world. any number of other possible or actual worlds are conceivable. each such world is able to reflect all the others without ceasing to be the real world that it is of itself. nishitani keiji --- und transit the conceptual framework of “und transit” was conceived while taking part in a 3 months artist residency in krems, austria (2008/09). while in transit (daily walks) to my studio, i was inspired by a particular passageway in minoritenplatz. like most passageways, which are a means to an end – and are rarely treated as an end in itself – i was immediately struck by the loneliness and practicality of this space as well as the capacity of the users to ignore it on a daily basis. during the course of my residency i collected a number of field recordings in and around krems, in order to create a series of soundscapes based on minoritenplatz’s sound of emptiness through the means of a quadraphonic installation. these compositions represent some of the pieces composed for “und transit”. i8u (france jobin) --- follow your bliss. joseph campell

tim blechmann / seijiro murayama “347” compact disc

• 347 (42:21)

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artist: tim blechmann / seijiro murayama title: 347 cat#: nvo_o21format: cdrelease date: may 2010 limited edition: 300 tim uses several boxes of speakers and seijiro uses a snare drum as a resonance box, with microphones. they put boxes for their music in another box = the space. they create different levels of universe within the space. from micro to macro. always with one clear intention: to improvise listening and to organize sonic space together in a very delicate way. thanks to la comète 347, paris --- wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. when we ignore it, it disturbs us. when we listen to it, we find it fascinating. john cage

heribert friedl “recherche_00” compact disc

• phase 1 (10:56)
  
• phase 2 (11:30)
  
• phase 3 (14:00)

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artist: heribert friedl title: recherche_00 cat#: nvo_o20 format: cd release date: may 09 limited edition: 300 as my previous work this work is also an intense examination of one specific instrument. with the album trac_[k]t i was trying to define my musical boundaries on the „hackbrett“. in this work i am approaching the analogue synthesizer yamaha cs-40m. i built up the research in a journalistic kind of way. at first i made a plan of procedures, gave myself a problem formulation. in my first step i was looking for sounds that represent the „soul“ of this instrument. the next step was abstracting these sounds without losing the specific character of the instrument. an unconventional click sound was the result. this sound was then fed with additional information, field recordings, that supported that original sound and put it into new and different contexts. the third step was the analysis of the total information. i tried to maintain a basic sound character in all three tracks and also put it into form by overlapping the basic sound with field recordings and, despite my strong conceptual approach, let arise a musical structure that connects three tracks. heribert friedl, vienna, 2009 intended for a quiet surrounding

asmus tietchens “flächen mit figuren” compact disc

• fmf 1 (4:43)
  
• fmf 5 (10:15)
  
• fmf 3 (3:47)
  
• fmf 6 (5:22)
  
• fmf 7 (7:02)
  
• fmf 8 (9:46)
  
• fmf 5a (10:11)
  
• fmf 2 (3:22)

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artist: asmus tietchens title: flächen mit figuren cat#: nvo_o19 format: cd release date: may 09 limited edition: 300 aufgenommen in den audiplex studios, hamburg produktion: okko bekker

richard chartier “untitled (angle.1)” compact disc

• untitled (angle.1) (36:48)

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artist: richard chartier title: untitled (angle.1) cat#: nvo_o18 format: cd release date: may 09 limited edition: 300 untitled (angle.1) is a stereo composition based on the eight-channel installation untitled. first exhibited february 11 – march 13, 2009 at the art gallery of the university of maryland (usa), untitled is the unique first collaborative project between visual artist linn meyers and sound artist richard chartier, in an installation where optical and sonic patterns intersect. with an architectural transformation of the space, two fifteen foot long by eight foot high walls meet in an enfolding chevron, creating both a sound chamber and a drawing surface. the swirling pale lines and implied forms of meyers’ delicate ink drawing, made directly on the surface of the walls, fuse together with the sound piece by chartier, juxtaposing the organic and the digital into unified sensorial space. with eight audio transducers applied directly to the back surface of the walls, chartier’s stark composition modulates and transfers through the surfaces, echoing the seeping ink and visually vibrating and reverberating patterns. the extended separated audio channels loop in and out of sync over an eight hour period creating new sonic variations.

philip samartzis / michael vorfeld “scheckenrock” compact disc

• krause (18:10)
  
• wams (19:41)
  
• schaube (14:27)

shinkei / luigi turra “yu” compact disc

• wa (11:11)
  
• karesansui (7:51)
  
• roji (4:48)
  
• nagoya koen (12:34)
  
• kin-hin (16:48)
  
• yu (7:19)

jos smolders “gaussian transient (megaphone)” compact disc

• a hum ument was written (7:17)
  
• in that very narrative passage he sat dejected (3:13)
  
• parts of the novel. t of a man as photograph (6:28)
  
• myster t (3:18)
  
• the same sophical things (4:43)
  
• pieces of writings of the the writings of the names (2:27)
  
• a volume perplex (7:15)
  
• the journal of secret scribing and hiding (3:03)
  
• journal contents (6:24)
  
• as yet (3:50)
  
• is only one half of the toge story (8:42)
  
• the first scenes and feelings (11:17)

will montgomery / heribert friedl “non-collaboration” compact disc

• amore (6:04)
  
• berry (5:51)
  
• bolt (6:33)
  
• head (3:21)
  
• led (5:02)
  
• man (4:22)
  
• saw (4:14)
  
• thorn (5:23)

ignaz schick / dawid szczesny “the view underneath” compact disc

• one (1:25)
  
• two (10:15)
  
• three (5:15)
  
• four (3:31)
  
• five (5:58)
  
• six (9:06)
  
• seven (4:54)
  
• eight (2:57

tomas phillips “drink_deep” compact disc

• drink_deep (21:34)
  
• in silence_words away (18:02)

schurer / steinbrüchel “< falte >” compact disc

• < falte > (57:24)

heribert friedl “back_forward” compact disc

• back | 16:09
  
• back_forward | 15:41
  
• forward | 12:27

richard garet “intrinsic motion” compact disc

• endless scenery | 9:49
  
• for shimpei takeda | 9:56
  
• ascending | 11:00
  
• field of monochrome | 25:46

tomas phillips / dean king “á travers le bord” compact disc

• á travers le bord | 37:23

bernhard günter / heribert friedl “trans~” compact disc

• trans~ | 44:41

roel meelkop “>momentum<” compact disc

• zero return (1997)
  
• am birkenwald (2004)
  
• sub version with high end (2004)
  
• locgroove (2002)
  
• nu (2002)
  
• sined (2002)