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previous record label: or		there are 22 titles on oral in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: organ of corti

$15.84

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threads:
1980s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
field-recordings

oral (canada) #oral 23 cd

bernard bonnier “casse-tête” compact disc

«i can’t sing ...» (6:07)
le grinçant mr. smile (5:15)
vero-la-toto (5:28)
blue marine (5:12)
la demoiselle au corsage vert (7:13)
italian junk food (5:30)
soldier boy (11:22)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "le grinçant mr. smile"

here we go !!!

this has really been a good year for reissues of former creel pone titles ; first the warner jepson set on melon expander, and now this superbly done cd reissue of c.p. #49, bernard bonnier’s “casse-tête,” c/o eric mattson’s oral ...

no bonus tracks, contemporary interview or documentary material, just the classic 1984 “casse-tête” lp, beatifully re-remastered by john sellaekers, housed in a digipak reproducing the original lp-art (i wish every early-electronic reissue was this respectful of the original aesthetic !!!)

regarding the music ::

jackpot! one of my all-time favorite outsider musique concrète / pop crossover gems - now seeing the contemporary light-of-day thanks-for-like-the-umpteenth-time to mr. p.c. c.p...

this one might need a little bit of justification for those of you not exactly jazzed about the concept of a late 70s canadian perrey & kingsley style melding of the electronic avant-garde(s) and... disco-funk. i’ll start by reminding you that mr. bonnier here was responsible for the “realization” of pierre henry’s “cortical art 3” - meaning that he was the one turning the knobs and flipping the switches during that fateful evening back in 1973. what ever happened to mr. bonnier, you ask? well... much like henry’s prior assistant, eliane radigue, bernard went on to compose and produce music of his own using the skills that he learned at apsôme and elsewhere within the french electro-acoustic studio system...

the difference between ms. radigue and mr. bonnier? bernard decided to make a “dance music” record (and i use the term “dance music” lightly here...) using his musique concrète skills/cv... and what a monster pastiche of seemingly in-compatible threads; the field recordings (long stretches of luc ferrari style documentation), synth-weirdness, and epic tape-manipulation(s) of the ina-grm school of composers in a möbius-strip lock-meld with quebecois mid-70s “jerk” (bonnier moved to st-jean-chrysostôme shortly after “cortical art 3”) yielding something even more bizarre than any number of jean-pierre massiera (another francophile experimental electronic/pop music nut; see maledictus sound, horrific child, etc...) productions.

parts of this sound like liquid liquid covering bo-anders persson’s “protoimperialism”, others like jon appleton’s “chef d’oeuvre” recast for zombie-crooner micro-groove lps played through david jackman’s wind-tunnel-of-the beyond. there’s really something in here for just about everyone... hell, even what with my own disaffection for most kinds of dance music this really pushes a few of my very hard-to-get-at buttons (namely the drum-groove-slowly-phasing-out-of-time-in-full-stereo-spread one...)

it’s clear that bonnier was having a great deal of fun throughout, and in fact it’s one of the more fun/friendly entries into the creel pone canon... but don’t let that stop you from checking out just one hell of a weird early-electronic / one-man-against-the-world jam. lovers of sound rejoice ...

oral press release...

bernard bonnier
casse-tête
1984 amaryllis © bernard bonnier 1979
oral cd23

cette réédition met à la disponibilité des auditeurs de musiques concrète et électroacoustique un fleuron de la production canadienne et nous instruit sur le travail exemplaire de bernard bonnier, compositeur canadien né à montréal en 1952, décédé prématurément en 1994 à lévis, à l’âge de 41 ans.

bernard bonnier s’amusa, au propre comme au figuré, à réaliser ce disque atypique et joyeux. même en 1984, année de sa sortie, cinq ans après sa conception, il est d’une grande étrangeté. il le demeure aujourd’hui. casse-tête est un univers folichon conçu à partir de percussions diverses et d’instruments électroniques. comme ses compères de l’époque - robert moog, jean-jacques perrey ou raymond scott - bernard bonnier extirpa des ordinateurs et synthétiseurs auxquels il eut accès à son studio de st-jean-chrysostome, amaryllis, des sons étranges et comiques. à l’instar de pierre henry avec lequel il collabora de 1970 à 1975, bernard bonnier ose. il compose des pièces qui oscillent entre le sérieux apporté par son bagage électroacoustique et l’exploration ludique des possibilités apportées par les musiques de son époque, l’humour et l’auto dérision en sus. il définit un nouveau langage musical, le sien, unique. et les particularités de ce travail hybride résonne encore. casse-tête est un disque important de notre patrimoine culturel. oublié par la majorité, sa mort à un âge peu avancé ayant nui à l’établissement de sa notoriété, bernard bonnier a pourtant offert au canada un de ses plus beaux disques exploratoires.

oral, étiquette spécialisée dans les musiques exploratoires, considère cruciale la parution actualisée sur disques compacts d’archives. la présente parution met à la disposition des auditeurs et des chercheurs un matériel de référence incontournable qui permet de saisir un aspect du cadre historique qui a permis l’émergence des musiques canadiennes spécialisées électroacoustiques et actuelles produites de nos jours. cette réédition optimisée permet également d’inscrire la musique concrète canadienne dans un contexte historique plus large. aujourd’hui, ce disque très recherché peut revivre.

eric mattson, 2008

...

musiciens:
bernard bonnier: synthétiseurs, programmation, percussions, sons concrets, et tous gadgets.
michel mercier: percussions.

enregistré et mixé par bernard bonnier aux studios amaryllis, st-jean chrysostôme sauf «soldier boy», aux studios apsome, paris.

“contrary to an electronic music delighting itself in soaring above reality in self abstraction, the concrete music of bernard bonnier has a down on earth hearing, and a dancing too, altough now and then out of beat.

bernard bonnier has defined chameleon-music as: «...a mime* trying to beat its parth through the puzzle (casse-tête: literally “head-breaker”) of soliciting madness, sundowns, violence, science, love, death, velveeta* cheese, competition, sex, zen, and mandragora.»

this must be true as well of soldier boy, an issue to the motion: “nothing lost, everything regained”. each and every single sound hear trough this piece has been made from the loop “tell me why...” by means of electro-acoustic manipulations, the mark of bernard bonnier’s concrete music.

following the steps of pierre henry, bernard bonnier has been a forerunner to new-wave, and other “underground rock” music.”

aulnes périn february ‘79

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threads:
electro-acoustic-composition

oral (canada) #oral 22 cd

alexandre st-onge “joseph carey merrick” compact disc

oral press release...

alexandre st-onge
joseph carey merrick
oral cd22

welcome to everyone for this cd launch, the 22nd and the first of alexandre st-onge on montrteal label oral oral. this work is singular, vivid and direct, the 3 parts are glued together as a sound jewel. following his tribute to joseph carey merrick, composed and played at epoxy 5 par alexandre st-onge ce personnage lors de l'vneme, in montreal, may 2007, this not to be missed cd builds a relationship in between two monsters with deep feelings : the author and the man whom filmaker david lynch immortalized in his movie the elephant man.

here are some words (in french only !) from alexandre on that subject:

joseph carey merrick incarne cette ide, dj manifeste sur mon prcdent album mon animal est possible (alien 8 recordings), de communiquer avec des monstres et dexorciser ma monstruosit travers des spectres sonores. ici, la monstruosit signifie la possibilit dune relation avec linsaisissable, elle est lavnement dun tout autre sens qui jamais ne pourra tre confondu avec la signification. travers cette suite de chansons pop lectroniques pour voix, basse lectrique et ordinateur jessaie de faire passer travers ma voix celle de joseph carey merrick. il sagit dun rituel de possession de/par lautre, semblable une planchette ouija, o mon corps/ma bouche est devenu ce clbre moyen de communiquer avec les esprits.

alexandre st-onge, montreal, novembre 10th 2007

biograpy :
alexandre st-onge is a human being, a man of 31 year old for now, a composer, a bass player, and improviser. he also studied litterature and philosophy, but he likes animals, his friends, fanny and the material world more than anything else (is there anything else?). he did five solo cds: lamiti ou les rumeurs insoutenables du dsir (squint fuucker press), kasi naigo (squint fuucker press), une mchoire et deux trous (namskio), image/ngation and mon animal est possible (alien8 recordings). he is also a member of a number of bands, including shalabi effect, feu thrse, mineminemine, et sans (with roger tellier-craig), klaxon gueule (with michel f cote and bernard falaise). as a composer he has collaborated on works for media arts (kondition pluriel), dance (with karine denault, lynda gaudreau, maryse poulin, mariko tanabe et marie-claude poulin, and so on), for theater and for video.

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threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
experimental-instruments
sound-art
live-electronic
concert-recordings
sound-installation
minimalism-drones

oral (canada) #oral 21 cd

sonde “en concert” compact disc

mudiature (0:16)
sahabi iii (6:53)
voix (9:01)
flutes/modulation (5:29)
mudiature (0:19)
les plaques (10:37)
sahabi ii (13:54)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "les plaques"

reissue of this fantastic lp of quebecois experimental-instrument/electro-acoustic improvisation by sonde, originally released in 1978 on music gallery editions & seldom seen/talked about by the experimental music cognoscenti...

this was on my “want list” for years, until i finally found a copy in montréal last year & have been thoroughly enjoying it ever since. sonde’s music fits perfectly in the continuum of free-floating psychedelic improv, from early amm to taj mahal travelers to il gruppo to morphogenesis, etc... yet this has more of an “art gallery” feel to it, especially with the music performed on a series of baschet-brothers / harry bertoia / robert rutman-esque sound-sculptures, electronically processed through tape-echo and ring-modulation in real time.

an absolute joy to have this available on cd, along with a disc of otherwise unreleased “studio” recordings (see below) - highly recommended to any/all fans of sound-art, non-idiomatic improvisation, and live electronics ...

oral press release...

sonde
en concert
cd_21, 2007, label: oral
catalogue :oral cd_21

this cd is the re-edition of an lp made by music gallery editions in 1978. it is (still) dedicated to the composer mario bertoncini who was the band main inspiration at the start for sonde, a quebec band active from 1976 to 1986. for most of the tracks in this recording the band was andrew culver, keith daniel, charles de mestral, pierre dostie, chris howard and linda pavelka.

the notes on the back of the original cover mentioned:

live concert improvisations. some of the pieces are played on new sound sources designed and constructed by members of the group. others use traditional sources in a new context. occasional use of electronic sound modification techniques.

sonde is a group of montreal electroacoustic composers and performers. their compositions were generally conceived for live performance on original sound sculptures. through meditative improvisation, the group's aim was to produce new music with sounds revealed by electroacoustic amplification and transformation. very active from 1976 to 1986, the members of the group included andrew culver, charles de mestral, pierre dostie, chris howard, robin minard, michael o'neill and linda pavelka. since the beginning, keith daniel provided sonde's technical support.
charles de mestral (sonde, 2007)

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threads:
beat-research
electro-acoustic-composition
sound-art

oral (canada) #oral 20 lp

felix kubin “axolotl lullabies” long playing record

binocular headphone music (w/wechsel garland)
inokashida skizze
no fish
ich trume nur in super-8
marche tlpathique
commerce extrieur mondial sentimentale
rudi gullit's head
let's rock
baby
menstruation glamour
trauergondelparadies (w/asmus tietchens)
excuse me
too many segments
heies eisen (w/asmus tietchens)
slides from yesterday
russian robot in n. y.

2008 collection of remix & compilation work (usually these one-offs are closer to the heart of felix’ whole aesthetic, imho) from my man in hamburg, compiled w/the direction/aid of oral’s eric mattson ...

oral press release...

felix kubin
axolotl lullabies
oral lp20

a collection of remixes and compilation tracks 1999-2006. carefully edited by felix kubin and eric mattson, this cd is more than a compilation.

it brings lights on the different activities of a great open-minded composer from hamburg. all these tracks have been composed and recorded by felix kubin unless otherwise stated. they have appeared on rare or badly distributed releases. this cd brings back to live these amazing tracks. the power of this release is to build bridges in between compositions belonging to various so-called genres in electronic music in such a way you will be trapped in one of the most enjoyable and dynamic release of 2007.

carefully brought to you by oral for the pleasure of your ears.

felix kubin lives and works against the gravity with sci-fi pop/noise/animation films/radio plays/experimental broadcasting. as the messenger of exploding lungs he started his label "gagarin records" in 1998 and rules the "syndicate of counte--noise" since 9. 9. 1999.

who hasn't heard of felix kubin - the "whirlwind wizard of the ivories", whose appearances on stages at a multitude of health spas rendered audiences almost speechless ?

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new to stock as of
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threads:
beat-research
electro-acoustic-composition
sound-art

oral (canada) #oral 20 cd

felix kubin “axolotl lullabies” compact disc

binocular headphone music (w/wechsel garland)
inokashida skizze
no fish
ich trume nur in super-8
marche tlpathique
commerce extrieur mondial sentimentale
rudi gullit's head
let's rock
baby
menstruation glamour
trauergondelparadies (w/asmus tietchens)
excuse me
too many segments
heies eisen (w/asmus tietchens)
slides from yesterday
russian robot in n. y.

cd version ...

oral press release...

felix kubin
axolotl lullabies
oral cd20

a collection of remixes and compilation tracks 1999-2006. carefully edited by felix kubin and eric mattson, this cd is more than a compilation.

it brings lights on the different activities of a great open-minded composer from hamburg. all these tracks have been composed and recorded by felix kubin unless otherwise stated. they have appeared on rare or badly distributed releases. this cd brings back to live these amazing tracks. the power of this release is to build bridges in between compositions belonging to various so-called genres in electronic music in such a way you will be trapped in one of the most enjoyable and dynamic release of 2007.

carefully brought to you by oral for the pleasure of your ears.

felix kubin lives and works against the gravity with sci-fi pop/noise/animation films/radio plays/experimental broadcasting. as the messenger of exploding lungs he started his label "gagarin records" in 1998 and rules the "syndicate of counte--noise" since 9. 9. 1999.

who hasn't heard of felix kubin - the "whirlwind wizard of the ivories", whose appearances on stages at a multitude of health spas rendered audiences almost speechless ?

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may 27th, 2008

oral (canada) #oral 19 cd

aun “whitehorse” compact disc

coyba burns
mayburry first class
gentl cut
borghami
cassidy
bastis blond
chevaline
orga
chell
dltag

oral press release...

aun
whitehorse
oral cd19

following the release of the mule album for oral records, aun pulled out his stringed instruments and dusted them off for a series of concerts and new recordings, bringing to life the dark and brooding blackhorse? album and it's more luminous companion cd whitehorse (fall 2007).

echoes of an adolescent past, nurtured to the sound of swans, ennio morricone , zoviet france and some dirty shoegazing came to the forefront, even including a 1990 squeeling guitar solo in the track horsemen. blackhorse? is a raw, forward thinking, highly musical album, firmly based in his diy, no holds barred past.

aun serves as an experimental interpretation of martin dumais music ; where brutality, the dark, the beautiful and the melodic come together with engaging results. ambient is often used to describe the sound of aun, but the music is not intended to function as backround, yielding physical response to the listeners.

before martin dumais was in the somewhat off-kilter and acclaimed electronic duo les jardiniers with jf magnet. les jardiniers released four albums, received two adisq awards (qubec? grammy's) and played internationally until he got weary of more dancefloor oriented production. he also recorded the 1996 album juicebox, with marc leclair who would later be known as akufen. there were several early incarnations of aun like his soon to be re-released o.d.d.s. project (angle rec 2008). initiated at age of 13 and inspired industrial music, dumais used primitive musical equipment to forge his own sound. aun now blends low-fi aesthetics with his fetish of new technology, recognizing the open ended area of aun? work and yearning for more experimentation without the trappings of rock and electronic music.

after three albums for oral records in less than a year, prolific and freed of previous shackles, dumais, continues to record aun material for a fourth release which will include several high profile collaborations.

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oral (canada) #oral 18 cd

aun “blackhorse” compact disc

hue hue tenang
inkblot
unta eyeless
cyan card rejector
post post
broken fibonacci
horsemen
twylark rope

oral press release...

aun
blackhorse
oral cd18

following the release of the mule album for oral records, aun pulled out his stringed instruments and dusted them off for a series of concerts and new recordings, bringing to life the dark and brooding blackhorse? album and it's more luminous companion cd whitehorse (fall 2007).

echoes of an adolescent past, nurtured to the sound of swans, ennio morricone , zoviet france and some dirty shoegazing came to the forefront, even including a 1990 squeeling guitar solo in the track horsemen. blackhorse? is a raw, forward thinking, highly musical album, firmly based in his diy, no holds barred past.

aun serves as an experimental interpretation of martin dumais music ; where brutality, the dark, the beautiful and the melodic come together with engaging results. ambient is often used to describe the sound of aun, but the music is not intended to function as backround, yielding physical response to the listeners.

before martin dumais was in the somewhat off-kilter and acclaimed electronic duo les jardiniers with jf magnet. les jardiniers released four albums, received two adisq awards (qubec? grammy's) and played internationally until he got weary of more dancefloor oriented production. he also recorded the 1996 album juicebox, with marc leclair who would later be known as akufen. there were several early incarnations of aun like his soon to be re-released o.d.d.s. project (angle rec 2008). initiated at age of 13 and inspired industrial music, dumais used primitive musical equipment to forge his own sound. aun now blends low-fi aesthetics with his fetish of new technology, recognizing the open ended area of aun? work and yearning for more experimentation without the trappings of rock and electronic music.

after three albums for oral records in less than a year, prolific and freed of previous shackles, dumais, continues to record aun material for a fourth release which will include several high profile collaborations.

$15.84

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may 27th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
beat-research
digital-musics

oral (canada) #oral 17 cd

01ek “suicide prevention” compact disc

mellow marsh
white rabbit
play your organ for me
furniture for the dead
present
nostalgium
antigone
baptism (a ship to namuh)

oral press release...

01ek
suicide prevention
oral 17

somewhere between psychedelia, techno, electroacoustics, and post-rock, suicide prevention is the product of a 14 year old pact of music or death. like a dual with the past, the record was motivated by an ineffable will to live. it is made up of a series of propositions for reasons to act. though musically eclectic, the album meticulously weaves a coherent symbolic gesture. filled with rich textures, warm and noisy acoustic recordings, complex synthetic algorithms, and haunting nostalgic melodies, this album addresses the organic sensibility of the listener.

alexander wilson (01ek) is an interdiciplinary artist, musician, theatre director, and theorist based in montreal, canada. he composes electro-acoustic music, produces experimental videos, interactive media and architectural installations, and directs physical theatrical events in immersive environments. his artistic propositions invariably materialize philosophical interrogations into the structure of meaning, the potential for human agency, and the metaphysics of the body, space and time. co-founder of parabolik guerilla theatre, he is currently directing $ymbolocaust, an experimental play which will open in may 2007, in montreal. his interactive architecture installation, hinge_dimension, a collaboration with interaction designer and architect karmen franinovic, was commissioned by the enter_unknown territories media-arts festival, in cambridge uk (april, 2007). his multichannel audio-video collaboration with filmmaker seth poulin, decay line, is premiering at elektra 8 festival, montreal, may 2007. alexander is half of the experimental music duo, lan d'amrique, with alexandre st-onge.

in 2006, he directed the ambitious, social reproduction machine (version 3), a technological micro-theatre installed in the back of a rented moving-truck, parked in downtown montreal. in 2005, alexander composed the operatic soundtrack of the parabolik guerilla theatre production, a ship to namuh, directed by melanie verville. in recent years, alexander has realized many videos and installations for which he also composed the original music, such as the social reproduction machine (version 2) (interactive video-installation, gallerie bourget, 2006), genesis: three magi (centre skol, 2005), execution (centre skol 2005) and anti-sacrifice (presented at the amsterdam film experience festival in october 2006), and holey space, sync!, and dance with me, society for arts and technology, 2000- 2002.

alexander is currently completing fqrsc and sshrc-funded research into the dynamic relations between the body, meaning and space-time, as part of his masters in fine art, at concordia university, montreal.

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threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
experimental-instruments
sound-art
sound-installation
minimalism-drones
concert-recordings
live-electronic

oral (canada) #oral 16 cd

sonde “en ondes” compact disc

new water tree (7:18)
sweet gaspésienne (18:24)
a piece of paper (5:53)
l’acier bien trempé (6:55)
plastic would (9:39)
l’acier bien trempé (électronique) (9:56)
onderground (4:59)
allo à l’eau (7:34)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "l’acier bien trempé"

excellent compilation of work by this quebecois sound-art/improv group, dating from 1976 to 1986.

sonde were a collective mainly comprised of andrew culver, pierre dostie, charles de mestreal, and (on this disc, but not “en concert”) noted sound-artist robin minard...

brought together under the tutelage of mario bertoncini, sonde worked mainly with sound-sculptures, often utilizing real-time electronic processing to augement their alien textures. this collection runs the gamut from pure documentation of said instruments, to concert recordings, pieces for radio broadcast, and film music (the almost ghedalia tazartès-esque “ondergroud” ; drum machines & all!)

just as essential as the live-disc.

oral press release...

sonde
en ondes
cd_16, 2007, label: oral
catalogue :oral cd_16

this cd is the second release ever of sonde, the previous one being sonde en concert edited in 1978 by music gallery editions. this cd is thus quite important, bringing to light part of the group's archives. optimized with today's sound tools, all these recordings deal with waves of different kinds, sound waves of course but also organic and brain waves. the live concert recordings of these pieces, with the exception of l'acier bien trempé (électronique), were broadcast by cbc-montreal approximately in 1984 at the request of the producer gilles poirier, hence another of the meanings of the expression «en ondes».

sonde is a group of montreal electroacoustic composers and performers. their compositions were generally conceived for live performance on original sound sculptures. through meditative improvisation, the group's aim was to produce new music with sounds revealed by electroacoustic amplification and transformation. very active from 1976 to 1986, the members of the group included andrew culver, charles de mestral, pierre dostie, chris howard, robin minard, michael o'neill and linda pavelka. since the beginning, keith daniel provided sonde's technical support.
charles de mestral (sonde, 2007)

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oral (canada) #oral 15 cd

aun “mule” compact disc

mule
cray
meldal
mules
flint
trupgrater
rakke

oral press release...

aun
mule
cd_15, 2007, label: oral
catalogue :oral cd_15

all tracks written and produced by martin dumais
recorded at wave room montreal, fall-winter 2006
photography: julie leblanc
design: martin dumais, eric mattson
fabriqué au québec. made in canada
(c) martin dumais socan 2007

aun is martin dumais, who has been one of the figureheads of the montreal electronic scene since its genesis. growing up in a classical music household and travelling with his church organ enthusiast father to hear the worlds richest organs, was a large part of the nurturing of a large and rich musical palette. recording and playing live since the mid 80's, he was, with jf charette (new electric dog), part of the award winning eclectic outfit les jardiniers that won 2 adisq awards, the grammys of the quebec music industry.

he is a key contributor to the development of electronic music in montreal and its distribution internationally, while also working as a music producer for television and art exhibitions. in 1992 he received a commission from montreal‚s st-joseph oratory to rework the music for their yearly easter presentation of the way of the cross and has also awarded several canadian grants to pursue and refine is creations. his hautec label produced most of the first releases of early leaders in the current local scene: akufen (with whom he recorded the 1996 album juicebox), deadbeat, champion... martin is also a renowned dj, holding several residencies since 1992 (laika, bily kun...) including a 4-year stint at the mythical foufounes électriques. he has also performed live and dj'd at international festivals: sonar, mutek, francofolies (québec and france), the montreal jazz festival and at various spaces in the uk, france, argentina, switzerland, belgium and germany and north-america.

the aun project is a return to his first love -- deep, melodic lush drones and sometimes-harsh angular electro-ambient textures. while in its own personal space aun's mule album sits at the side of the tonal work of phill niblock, with an imbedded and stark penchant for the early industrialists and echoes experimental avant guitar artists, juxtaposed to melodic timbres, chiming beauty and desolation uncommon of most drone and noise recordings. produced with both digital and analog hardware, guitar and acoustic recordings, this rich and provocative music will be performed live to ensure maximum perspective. a follow up to this delicate and strong release is already planned for oral records in the next year, including collaborations with internationnaly renowned creators. activities surrounding this release include performances : at 50/50, an event curated by oral producer eric mattson on april 13th, at the 2007 mutek festival, a performance which will be recorded by radio-canada, and a winter european tour.

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sound-art
film-video

oral (canada) #oral 14 cd

jean-pierre gauthier “porté disparu dans une quincaillerie” digital versatile disc and compact disc set

dvd
anima (2003)
battements et papillons (2006)
beak (2005)
chants de travail (2006)
sonic defrost (2005)
sorrowfulecho (2002)
effondrements (2006)
species: rut (2004)
tribute to a barking dog (2004)
the race (2004)
the janitor’s room (2006)
le concierge est parti dîner (1998)
le grand ménage (1998-2000)
le son de choses : sémaphores (2004)
uncertainty markers
série 1 (2005)
uncertainty markers
série 2 (2005)
uncertainty markers
série 3 (2005)
remue-ménage (2000)
remue-ménage (2006)
sporadic exchange (2003)
son en vrac (1999)
star and cross country skiing (2004)
tuttotondo (2003)
cd
le son de choses
c’est un départ
rut
dégel sonore
ventilation
échotriste
ventilation
balai
vache et anneau
anima
la bête et ses comparses
tiges et électroaimants
marqueur d’incertitude
dégel sonore 2
improvvisto
porté disparu dans une quincaillerie

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jean-pierre gauthier
reported missing in a hardware store
dvd+cd_14, 2007, label: oral
catalogue :oral 14

reported missing in a hardware store includes a dvd, a cd and a bilingual booklet on the work of jean-pierre gauthier, a montréal artist known for his kinetic sound installations. the dvd presents 23 installations produced since 1997, while the cd brings together 16 tracks from the artist’s studio research and sound installations. a text by media curator nicole gingras enhances our understanding of this unique body of work. a list of the works reproduced is included in this boxed set. a prolific artist, jean-pierre gauthier has participated in several media art and sound art events and exhibited his work in museums and galleries both in canada and internationally.

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oral (canada) #oral 13 cd

myléna bergeron “chronopée (2)” compact disc

ourdir 3 (4:10)
parmipuk* (7:02)
pioneer ny (4:54)
ourdir 1 (2:07)
dire (5:40)
agami (3:46)
ourdir 2 (5:07)
décarie 1 (8:28)
vert (4:52)
nosica (5:10)
ubac (2:40)
décarie 2 (7:49)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "pioneer ny"

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myléna bergeron
chronopée (2)
cd_13, 2006, label: oral
catalogue #: oral cd_13
release date: october 1, 2006

first full-length solo work, not self-released. unlike most of field recording based pieces, composition is here the master key. a new release on oral, the label directed by eric mattson, music curator for mutek festival and independent producer for: mutek_rec. a "must" have for all lovers of experimental, subtle but intriguing releases. carefully mastered by john sellekaers-metarc (ant-zen, klanggalerie, noise museum, quatermass, sub rosa).

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oral (canada) #oral 12 cd

joe colley “waste of songs” compact disc

bruise voltage and field error (3:24)
(jaw tension) no thought left alive (5:52)
arc and wrong lifetime (18:56)
internal apocalypse and half asleep (8:32)
calibration for moskovskaya headpressure (4:07)
lung crack and tuning sickness (6:31)
the last audience (15:09)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bruise voltage and field error"

awesome disc of brutal sound-art & energy field studies by joe colley ...

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joe colley
waste of songs
cd_12, 2006, label: oral
catalogue #: oral cd_08
release date: september 1, 2006

first full-length solo work, not self-released. unlike most of field recording based pieces, composition is here the master key. a new release on oral, the label directed by eric mattson, music curator for mutek festival and independent producer for: mutek_rec. a "must" have for all lovers of experimental, subtle but intriguing releases. carefully mastered by john sellekaers-metarc (ant-zen, klanggalerie, noise museum, quatermass, sub rosa).

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oral (canada) #oral 11 cd

angel / hildur gudnadottir “in transmediale” compact disc

in transmediale (75:05)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "in transmediale"

angel == pan sonic’s ilpo väisänen + schneider tm’s dirk dresselhaus.

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angel & hildur gudnadottir
in transmediale
cd_11, 2006, label: oral
catalogue #: oral cd_11
release date: september 1, 2006

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oral (canada) #oral 10 cd

carl michael von hausswolff “the wonderful world of male intuition” compact disc

130 hz + 147 hz (0:32)
h.m. dalai lama. quoted from a kaos cassette (kaos 1986 026) recorded 1985 (0:21)
twelve levels of sense flow (8:20)
willem de ridder. quoted from "this glass is a bicycle" (2nd cassette promo) (0:14)
flooded lamphun temple and confused hawks. (for navin) (8:54)
gregory bateson. quoted from a kaos cassette (kaos 1986 001) recorded 1968 in london (0:25)
kurenniemi's digital controller. dico . (for erkki) (5:38)
alvin lucier. recorded during a lecture in borås, sweden 1990 (0:07)
ouroboros. (for vainio) (6:16)
john c. lilly. quoted from "the dolphin experience", recorded in santa fe, 1969 (dolphin tapes, 1997) (0:13)
undetected signal. (probably from james irwin in 2006) (3:01)
albert hofmann. quoted from "erinnerungen eines psychonauten" (cd supposé, köln, 2003) (0:05)
scended . (for thirlwell) (5:31)
friedrich jürgenson. quoted from the 1/4 tape (3 july 1980) (0:12)
"är livet en dröm eller verklighet". composed and sung by f. jürgenson from an unpublished tape (2:37)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "gregory bateson."

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"the wonderful world of male intuition" is an astounding masterpiece dedicated to male intuition : all a program. it will be followed by a second opus later this year dealing with the horrible sides of male intuition....

the wonderful world of male intuitionoral cd10

1997 as quiet as a campfire or analogue motoric and electro-magnetic silence disturbed by intuitive slumber / mingling or dodekaphonic drones interfered by known and unknown digital phenomena
1997 to make things happen in the bunker via the micro way 3.50 stars 1
2001 strm
2002 a lecture on disturbances in architecture
2005 there are no crows flying around the hancock building

leech (cd), raster-noton
rats (cd), laton
various - the north is protected (10"), sähkö recordings
three overpopulated cities built by shortsighted planners, an unbalanced and quite dangerous airport and an abandoned church (cd), sub rosa
various - an anthology of noise & electronic music / third a-chronology 1952-2004 (2xcd), sub rosa
various - mesmer variations (2xcd), ash international
comments: music influenced by the work of friedrich mesmer. dbl.cd in oversized plastic wallet with 8 cards
various - rhythm science (cd), sub rosa

...

biography

carl michael von hausswolff was born in 1956 in linkping, sweden. he lives and works in stockholm.

since the end of the 70s, hausswolf has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument. his compositions from 1979 to 1992 are constructed almost exclusively from basic material taken from earlier audiovisual installations and performance works, which consists essentially of complex macromal drones with a surface of aesthetic elegance and beauty. in later works, hausswolff has retained the aesthetic elegance and the drone and added a purely isolationistic sonoric condition to composing.

between 1996 and 1998 hausswolff boiled away even more ornamental meat from the bone: his works are pure, intuitive studies of electricity, frequency functions and tonal autism within the framework of a conceptual stringent cryption. hausswolff's music has been performed throughout europe and in north america.

he has often collaborated with other artists (such as erik pauser, leif elggren, andrew mckenzie, johan sderberg, zbigniew karkowski, graham lewis, david jackman, jean-louis huhta and kim cascone). hausswolff's audiovisual works have also found outlets in pictorial art.

on the 27th of may 1992 at 12 noon gmt, alongside leif elggren, he proclaimed the kingdom of elgaland-vargaland, a new country established as a work of art.

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oral (canada) #oral 08 cd

nathan mcninch “a brief audio history of agriculture” compact disc

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "e"

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nathan mcninch
a brief audio history of agriculture
cd_08, 2005, label: oral
catalogue #: oral cd_08

a brief audio history of agriculture "this project began with an unlikely source : a t-shirt, which readif you eat, you have an interest in agriculture . from conversations about the ways in which agriculture and farming practices have shaped our lives in north america derived primal ideas on a language to represent agriculture. early in the spring of 2004, as the snow was just melting, i made some recordings of myself "playing" a derelict rusty piece of farm machinery abandon in a field. i was quite taken with the sounds i was able to record and with the extent to which i was able to "play" the machinery as an instrument. it was in these recordings that i discovered both the language and the story of this cd : a history of agriculture told using sounds created with the tools of agriculture. initially the piece intended on developing using some sort of timeline, starting with the most basic elements: seeds, soil, water... and progressing to modern day mechanized tools. a combination of the old and the new; the banging and scraping of antique metal milk containers combined with the soft humming of a contemporary milk tank coolant unit. more subtle aspects of the history of agriculture, migration, drought, a recent move away from "the family farm"... were brought in. and here it is: the brief audio history of agriculture, all on one cd.

- nathan mcninch

field-recordings and manipulation of found objects darcy and nathan mcninch.
all additional recordings, instrumentation, processing, and composition nathan mcninch

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oral (canada) #oral 07 cd

mr. schmuck’s farm “good sound” compact disc

not all crows are black
don't give up, what is death ?
my favourite caucus airchamber

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "don't give up, what is death ?"

mr. schmuck’s farm = schneider tm’s dirk dresselhaus + hildur gudnadottir ...

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mr schmuck's farm
good sound
cd_07, 2005
catalogue #: oral cd_07

good sound: hildur & schneider met in 2004 in berlin's partyzone and found out they were both living in the same neighbourhood. soon the idea came up to do some music together. one fine day hildur came over to schneider's house/studio and brought her cello. before they even started talking or drinking coffee, the track my favourite caucus airchamber was recorded. after that they met occasionally to play some game of bowls in the park or have one or two drinks together. a couple of weeks later the second track inspired by a common love of sun ra music ( don't give up, what is death? ) was recorded just like the first one...but this time she also brought her zither, accordion, saw & pearlchain.... no talking, no specific ideas, no direction: just hildur playing over and over the acoustic instruments and schneider processing them live on his mixing-desk. a couple of weeks later hildur moved back to iceland to finish her electro acoustic studies and schneider visited some jail to work on german gangster-rap with some prisoners. when hildur came back to berlin to join angel for their drone-set in october 2004 at ausland, berlin, the time was right to record the track not all crows are black . then, one afternoon, the schmucks appeared at schneider's studio, but this is another story...

hildur played: cello, saw, accordion, zither, pearlchain, fender twin reverb
schneider played: fender twin reverb, kaoss pad, vermona retroverb, memory man deluxe, eq's, doepfer unit + spring reverb

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oral (canada) #oral 06 cd

kaffe matthews / martin tétreault / léon lo “labo mtl” compact disc

le couteau au manche rouge
le bureau jaune-orange
le poisson gris
les deux chaises vertes
la valise (?) brune
la cage
le traineau orange
la porte aux six yeux
les quatre enthousiastes

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "le traineau orange"

slightly lower price. electro-acoustic free improv trio session as released on a new label run by eric mattson (some of you may know him through his involvement w/the yearly mutek fest in montréal). kaffe, long one of my favorite all-around musicians, and certainly the first person i ever witnessed using a portable computer to process sound in a live setting, sounds immaculate herein, her lisa-driven bleepage cutting a rift through tétreault’s modified turntablism and “small electronics”, plus léon lo’s effected violin. a masterclass really, certainly essential if you’ve found resonance amongst any of the solo works by these three denizens...

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kaffe matthews: électroniques
martin tétreault : tourne-disques, petits électroniques
léon lo : violon et effets

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oral (canada) #oral 05 cd

david kristian “the mariana trench” compact disc

pacifica (14:43)
14 islands (6:12)
sounding weight (5:07)
the abyssal plain (8:52)
bathymetry (7:08)
deep inside the mariana trench (20:00)
multibeam echosounders (6:02)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "14 islands"

not to date myself, or david kristian for that matter, but i remember the first few 12” releases he did on his own discreet/indiscreet imprint from those halcyon days of the late 90s, when the drill n’ bass output of the spymania and bovinyl labels sent shockwaves around the world, resulting in themic experimentation by folks like mr. kristian here.

of course since then kristian has redefined himself as a masterful electro-acoustic composer, releasing many purely analogian affairs on alien8, mostly named after bits of ems gear (cricklewood was the name of the little keyboard that went with the synthi). here, kristian is in fact wearing his gear-list on his sleeve, but the approach is entirely different... instead of using top-notch era synthesizers, he limits himself to only the lowliest of units on the synth totem-pole, casio’s vl-tone (think trio’s “da doo da da” and you’re there) and a few electro-harmonix and mxr/line6 hardware effects. the result is a single 68-minute loop-based study in gradual tonal shift... surely as deep as the title implies. very cool stuff...

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david kristian
the mariana trench
cd05, 2005 label : oral
catalogue # : oral cd05
release date : march 15, 2005

the mariana trench is located in the pacific ocean, just east of the 14 mariana islands near japan. it is the deepest part of the earth's oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself. it was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction, a phenomena in which a plate topped by oceanic crust is forced below another plate topped by oceanic crust.

the mariana trench cd was put together from two very long loop improvisations recorded during snow storms. the equipment used was relatively simple; a toy synthesizer and many classic guitar pedals operated with great care (the calm of the snow storms made that possible). the results were then mixed and processed through more sophisticated effects in order to give the listener the impression that the whole recording had taken place thousands of fathoms deep.

let there be no interruption in your descent, as you experience david kristian's deep and challenging mariana trench. markers have been provided for you to use as reference points in the event that you start getting the bends during the album's 68 minute running time. headphones and any other audio diving gears are highly recommended.

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oral (canada) #oral 04 cd

“volt-aa” double compact disc set

christof migone - cierzo (3:35)
francisco lópez - live at volt-aa (23:41)
alexandre st-onge - fatigue (12:08)
skoltz_kolgen - ostria (9:29)
tim hecker - 21:35:9:11:02 (21:34)
champion - chain smoking (16:04)
myléna bergeron - les chevaux (5:38)
champion - international le (5:39)
kaffe matthews - a french canadian handbag (17:07)
paarcand - mut 900 ms (12:18)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "tim hecker - 21:35:9:11:02"

collection of live-sets and pieces composed for/performed at a series of concerts that took place in montreal in 2002 under the “volt-aa” banner; notable in that it includes extended (~20 minute) pieces by tim hecker, francisco lópez, and kaffe matthews.

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compilation
volt-aa
2 x cd04, 2005
numéro de catalogue: oral cd04

this disc consists of original parts, recorded in front of an attentive public at the time of the volt-aa evenings in the year 2003, in montreal. the artists taking part in these evenings were invited to work according to following topics:

amnesia (•) 11:09:2002
change (••) 17:10:2002
irony (•••) 04:12:2002

works which are then diffused preach by their originality and the unit presents a great coherence. this double disc proposes varied spaces where contemplation, the diversion, sound research are honoured. there exists for all the open and curious amateurs of experimental electronic music. this recording was made possible thanks to the assistance of the funds of the music of canada and the service of the music of the arts council of canada.

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oral (canada) #oral 03 cd

christophe migone “south winds” compact disc

notus
anemos
ruach
ostria
nalpas
mistral
cierzo
foehn

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "foehn"

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christof migone
south winds
cd03, 2003

south winds is the result of a session of recording started by christof migone with petomane (joseph pujol 1857-1945) of the extracts were then assembled in montreal. petomane was a fartist in the moulin-rouge in paris and presented spectacles where, with his "second mouth", it imitated musical instruments as well as known airs. for the project south winds, pujol and migone explored these somatic winds in response to the ontological statement of artaud: "the bottom my being it is the volume of my body". artaud and petomane both originating in marseilles, city which is furrowed by the mistral, a wind which "has the bad habits to scatter the tiles of the roofs, to collapse the chimneys, to blow the children in the channels, to break down the walls on inhabitants who did not suspect nothing". south winds will have the same impetuous effect and it will confirm that the body is a noisy place. the body emits and transmits, it cannot be contained. south winds is a test on the flatulent one and the incontinent one.

“i am the ground and of the ground. i like neither the air nor the light but the infernal night of my bottom and any bottom because i is the bulky assassin, the bottom my being it is the volume of my body.'' antonin artaud

“and in fact only the mouths sing, but the hands, but the feet, but the buttocks, but the sexes, and the very whole creature which is liquified in sounds, voice and rate/rhythm” aime césaire

“suddenly the colon of the clamping plate resounds, and the nonfood bowl of pure fire once again took its usual way towards the pole of the pluriel devil.” alfred jarry

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oral (canada) #oral 01 cd

œlab “sparks series s1*s8p*s8” compact disc

s1 (7:00)
s8p (21:00)
s8 (9:35)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "s1"

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ælab
sparks series s1*s8p*s8
cd01, 2000

canadian music centre (cmc), staalplaat
musique: stéphane claude
mixage, mastering: ælab
production: ælab, eric mattson

sparks series s1*s8p*s8 is a remix of the video series soundtracks. the sparks series is a modular audiovisual essay which finds its inspiration in the life of inventor nikola tesla (1856-1943). s8p antennas, transmission is a multi-channel performative essay (40mn) integrating a central interpretative component (20mn) which deals with the metaphorical interpretation of antenna principles and transmission. this piece mixes documentary facts within a larger experimental genre, engaging a physiological response to the root subject of the project, the electromagnetic medium.

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