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previous record label: roir		there are 16 titles on room40 in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: roomtone

$26.94

new to stock as of
october 27th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych

room40 (uk) #rm423 lp

for barry ray “new days” long playing record

through holes, glass & stone (4:46)
david (3:12)
a dark blue heat (6:02)
aurora, dancing… (4:41)
hummingway (4:23)
the porcelain horse (1:27)
if mingus was your mother (1:50)
morgonstund (2:42)
blending light (8:48)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "a dark blue heat"

deluxe vinyl edition of the debut album by the duo of john chantler and carina thorén; the records housed in machine-sewn “lino-print” sleeves that, frankly, are quite lovely.

room40 press release...

available on cd and heavyweight vinyl. the vinyl edition is limited to 300 copies cut by the legendary rachad at dubplates & mastering. each cover is an original lino-cut print by carina thorén that extends over the front & back covers... cd is the 'standard' room40 triple gatefold style with totally different artwork to the lp.

for barry ray is the husband and wife duo of carina thorén (sweden) and john chantler (australia). after a number of compilation appearances, long gone cdrs and lathe cut records under various guises, the pair bunked down over the winter of 06/07 to lay the foundations for ‘new days’, kicking off things christmas morning with the gift of a london turned silent and a sky free of planes.

on ‘new days’, the sound moves from the wash of organs and lofi analog detail that opens the record to ecstatic blasts of freeform percussion and electronics, some hypnotic distorted keyboards and looped flute tones. dom garwood (alexander tucker / ladywoodsman et al) dropped by for a meal and laid down some clarinet parts. the records second half increases the sense of space. an old swedish folk melody is buried beneath waves of fuzz while loren connors-esque guitar notes step gently in the wake. two short interludes follow, the thrum and pause of ‘the porcelain horse’s analog tape manipulations and the heavily processed guitar loop of ‘if mingus was your mother’ - its intimately suggested backbeat gently peeled back by computer interventions… the record closes with a piece of extended quietitude – acoustic guitar and piano notes ring out against great chunks of silence.

$12.01

back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

threads:
digital-musics
electro-acoustic-composition

room40 (australia) #rm418 cd

lloyd barrett “mise en scene” compact disc

exhale
sentinel
swarm
a silhouette for balance
scenery
the machine belly
canopy
post war vaseline

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "a silhouette for balance"

room40 press release...

for well over a decade, australia's lloyd barrett has been issuing all manner of intricate sound works – from diligent examinations of postconcréte sound and abstracted rhythmic projects to spacious ambient works.

in 2005, he committed himself to create mise en scene, a work drawing on the concepts of filmic sound and exploring the possibilities of philosophies suggested by authors and theorists such as michel chion.

the resulting album heralds a bold statement of intent from barrett. deeply evocative, maintaining moments of extreme intimacy and vast remoteness, this record is characterised by highly realised imagined sonic language. it speaks to the notions of acousmatic composition and delivers a document rich with decomposed found sound, unfamiliar texture and instrumental passages reflective of electroacoustic methodology.

"there is no auditory container for sounds... music communicates with all times and all spaces of a film, even as it leaves them to their separate and distinct existences"(michel chion: 1990).

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

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august 23rd, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition

room40 (australia) #rm416 cd

greg davis / jeph jerman “ku” compact disc

first strata
second strata
third strata

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "second strata"

first mass-market release (after two/three cdr releases via greg’s autumn “leaves” series) from the duo of greg davis and jeph jerman; a perfect co-realization of each’ aesthetic... jeph’s “acoustic power electronics” via assorted natural detritus; greg’s pristine digital embellishments & assembly.

room40 press release...

the act of conjuring remarkable sound from found objects is at the very heart of this recording from american musicians greg davis and jeph jerman. having met in arizona some years back, davis and jerman commenced working together on a series of recording projects.

improvising with a range of implements and devices ranging from sticks, stones and lo-fi electronics to prepared instruments, gongs and broken percussion, the pair sought to develop a personal language that reflected their individual approaches but also created a shared sensibility and aesthetic quality. placing their work in a range of environments, most of which orbit around jerman’s ranch in cottonwood, davis and jerman create a richly textured array of sounds from the most modest of sonic tools.

each of the works featured here collects together multiple improvised sessions, which have been edited to create a flowing sense of movement and space. these tempered post-concréte works resolve a joint interest from these two musicians in the act of freeform found sound improvisation and experimentation.

sleeve design by john chantler.

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

room40 (australia) #rm414 cd

reinhold friedl / michael vorfeld “pech” compact disc

pech (20:48)
keks (13:10)
torf (16:33)

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

room40 press release...

pech is the latest duo recording from inside pianist reinhold friedl and avant- percussionist michael vorfeld. over the past five years, this pair of german musicians have created some of the most engaging and imaginative electro-acoustic music, exploring the potentials of subtle performance techniques and refined compositional approaches.

on pech, the duo seek to uncover the hidden and masked character of their instruments - the piano is altered via various preparations and unconventional ways of bringing the strings to vibration, whilst the percussion and other various stringed instruments transgress beyond the rhythmic into a humming textural mass. the result of these two musical workstations meeting is simply breathtaking and reveals a range of provocative and commanding qualities from these traditional instrumental set-ups.

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

room40 (australia) #rm413 cd

dj olive “sleep” compact disc

sleep (48:00)

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

room40 press release...

dj olive's seminal sleep session was originally recorded and compiled in late 2001 and circulated amongst friends and on an australian tour as a cdr. the disc shares the same sentiments as buoy and exposes dj olive's talents at crafting gently shifting spatial ambience. rich textures and deep tone are carefully intermixed and combined with olive's unique turntable style. the results are quite simply spellbinding - epic, with a markedly personal sensibility.

sleep is part two of a trilogy of ambient records for room40.

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation

room40 (australia) #rm412 cd

robin fox / clayton thomas “substation” compact disc

direct couriers (4:11)
shuffle (8:04)
dust on the diodes (27:37)
bird song (4:45)
between downpours (19:05)
substation (reprise) (1:37)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "direct couriers"

room40 press release...

apart from being recognised as two of australia's leading improvising musical forces, clayton thomas and robin fox are also acknowledged for their unrelenting experiments and divergent acoustic approaches in relation to their instrument of choice.

over the past 3 years, robin fox has developed some of the most powerful live processing tools in australia through his research with maxmsp. clayton thomas on the other hand has expanded his performance styles, moving between blistering free jazz explosions to introverted and delicate expanded preparations on his 100 year old double bass.

the results of this pairing, as you'd expect, are as diverse as they are spectacular. unrelenting double bass movements are reprocessed into microtonal washes of sound - vibrated objects are transformed into uncharacteristic acoustic phenomena. this record expands on the techniques of electro-acoustic traditions and aligns both acoustic and electronic sounds in an integrated sonic environment where the lines between player and machine, instrument and processing are blurred and redefined.

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 27th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings
digital-musics
minimalism-drones

room40 (australia) #rm411 cd

steinbrüchel “opaque (+re)” compact disc

steinbrüchel | opaque | 9.46
chris abrahams | falling into places | 6.43
ben frost | verdurathugan | 10:00
taylor deupree | forest/opaque | 5.48
oren ambarchi | lost time not found again | 2.29
toshiya tsunoda | untitled | 8.52

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

gorgeous collection of contemporary concrète/acoustmatic music in its tonal incarnation; starting with the immaculate original piece by the swiss sound-artist ralph steinbrüchel, then following suit(e) with versions by the necks’ chris abrahams, ben frost, 12k’s taylor deupree, oren ambarchi, and finally toshiya tsunoda (whom, it appears, recorded the piece as played back in a room using a microphone inside of a glass bottle!)

room40 press release...

in spring 2003 steinbrüchel received an invitation from the swiss music festival 'taktlos' in berne to contribute a track for their listening room equipped with a surround 5.1 sound system. during the two-day festival in november 2003 steinbrüchel's track 'opaque' was played back in cycle mode (among tracks from various other artists).

the listening room focused on the experience of being able to listen to music in a very quiet and large environment - unlikely to most home listening situations. additionally the possibility of working in surround gave the musicians a chance to create very special audio sculptures in the space.

this disc collects 'opaque' and reinterpretations by oren ambarchi (aus), taylor deupree (us), frost (aus), toshiya tsunoda (jp) and chris abrahams (nz).

each of the contributing artists was chosen for his unique working method (oren for his work with guitar, taylor for processed sounds, frost guitar feedback, toshiya for fieldrecordings and chris for piano). to make the remixes more varied and special, each artist received only three samples/soundfiles from the original track, but none of the artists have received the same samples or even have heard the original track by steinbrüchel before the release of the cd.

$12.01

new to stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
field-recordings

room40 (australia) #rm408 cd

m. rösner “alluvial” compact disc

lost in the shift (5:14)
drift (5:40)
decay (3:24)
blurred hues (4:31)
ton (4:46)
subliminate (4:33)
field (3:18)
process (3:52)
untilted (10:41)

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

room40 press release...

m. rösner is a sound artist based in the south-west of australia. surrounded by open spaces yet within close reach of the city, an infusion of place and time is evident in all m. rösner's works.

working with minimal organic fragments gathered from acoustic instruments and microphone recordings that are digitally processed, m. rösner aims to create abstract compositions that are at the same point in time acoustic and electronic, organic but also digital, freeform and yet standing still.

in 2004 m. rösner released his album post on uk label 12x50. he has recently remixed the matinkarri bridge in finland for sonic artstar's singing bridges compilation. his sounds works have received airplay and appeared in art installations across the globe. alluvial is rösner's most focused work to date.

m. rösner also records and plays live under the pablo dali moniker. pablo dali retains the acoustic elements but has a more structured rhythmical sound. pablo dali has released the single california grey on meupe, and appeared on numerous compilations most notably ai records 2004 station release. in 2004 he supported us artist greg davis at perth's artrage festival.

$10.01

back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 8th, 2006

threads:
sound-art
site-specific
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics

room40 (australia) #rm cmr ep
cmr (new zealand) #cmr rm ep

lawrence english / richard francis “lerfausnznwsd12006 b/w lerfausnznwsd22006” seven inch single record

lerfausnznwsd12006
lerfausnznwsd22006

collaborative, lim-ed (100 copies!), art-gallery fuh from “terminal collaborator” / room40 honch lawrence english and auckland all-about / cmr-boss richard francis (aka eso steel).

room40 press release...

lawrence english has three new installation works showing currently. isentropic process 1-100hz shows at queensland performing arts complex's the window space until mid-march and then in brisbane's queen st mall silence listening (supported by the brisbane city council) is showing for those who have a hearing impairment or access to hearing aids. it's on an induction loop amplifier so is only audible via electro-magnetic pick-ups.

for those in melbourne, richard francis and lawrence english are jointly presenting an installation exploring decaying media formats titled lerfausnznwsd12006/lerfausnznwsd22006 at shed 14, the harbour esplanade docklands. a 7" from the sound used in the work will be available via room40 in april - it's strictly limited to 100 copies and is hand stamped. please email us to reserve a copy.

$10.01

back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 8th, 2006

threads:
digital-musics
field-recordings
musique-concrète

room40 (australia) #ltdrm400 cd

lawrence english “map51f9” three inch compact disc

map51f9 (17:30)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "map51f9"

late 2002 musique concrete piece from room40 boss lawrence english; the first release in the “limited” series...

room40 press release...

"map51f9 references inala, a small but ethnically diverse suburb in the outer reaches of brisbane. the sound installation (and the 3" cd release that followed) captured inconspicious elements of the area and reworked them into a flowing audio scape that hints at the everday narrative and interactions that make the area so vibrant and unique. sound by lawrence english. dvd jacket design by rinzen."

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 8th, 2006

threads:
digital-musics
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed

room40 (australia) #edrm408 cd

keith fullerton whitman “track4 (twowaysuperimposed)” three inch fan compact disc

track4 (twowaysuperimposed) [21:04]

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "track4 (twowaysuperimposed)"

...stockpiled a few copies of this, the tour-ep from my recent travels down under over in oz & nz so that i could offer it to you guys via the shop upon my return... i’ve got a few left.

room40 press release...

over the past few years, keith fullerton whitman has been responsible for producing some of the most engaging electronic music to emerge from the united states. informed by traditional musique concréte as much as contemporary dsp, his work remains provocative without relying on overt actions or grandiose sonic statements. for his upcoming tour of australia, whitman issues this bass heavy journey through processed guitar and electronics – a refined statement of intent from one of the usa's finest. (lawrence english)

"here’s a 10:32 piece from 2002, re-worked, turned into a 21:04 piece in late 2005, released in spring of 2006 to correspond with my second australian tour. much like "track3a (2waynice)" (the first piece on the "playthroughs" album), this piece is entirely bi-directional, meaning that it plays the same forwards as backwards (just try to get your head around that...) by far the most woofer-rattling piece of music i've ever made..." (kfw)

$12.01

back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
playback-music
plunder-phonic

room40 (australia) #edrm407 cd

philip samartzis / lawrence english “one plus one” three inch fan compact disc

faster than cold (5:37)
gut bucket blues (6:22)
goin’ back home (5:51)
phosphorescent clouds (3:08)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "faster than cold"

room40 press release...

the turntable has enjoyed a varied history in the realm of performance and experimental music. from the early phonographic works of john cage to the spliced cut-ups of christian marclay in the 1980s, the device has proven to be a versatile tool for the creation and transformation of sound.

following a joint billing at brisbane’s metro arts space in 2002, melbourne based composer philip samartzis and sound artist lawrence english shared a 30-minute performance that was to become the beginning of their on-going turntable duo. both samartzis (a member of the legendary australian turntable group gum) and english (a regular player with dj olive, janek schaefer and others) have long histories of live actions utilising turntables and together each of them brings a wealth of gestures and unique sonic qualities to the instrument.

recorded in early 2006, this edition captures the initial studio works from these two artists and seeks to reflect on the potential of the cyclical nature of vinyl and the surface noise that envelopes the very medium itself.

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
august 23rd, 2006

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

room40 (australia) #edrm406 cd

philip samartzis / kozo inada “h [ ]” three inch fan compact disc

h [ ] (20:33)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "h [ ]"

room40 press release...

australian electro-acoustic composer philip samartzis is an increasingly vital presence in the australian sound community. his work over the past decade and a half has offered a prophetic vision for each of his chosen formats and aesthetic approaches.

on h [ ] samartzis is joined by minimal japanese composer kozo inada, who brings with him an equally refined and austere sound sensibility. between them, these two composers collaborate to produce a highly detailed work that juxtaposes, obscures and ultimately unites pure electronics with environmental recordings. these elements are set to work against and within one another, the results causing the listener to reconsider which sounds are emanating from the interwoven tapestry of source materials.

celebrating the rich tradition of acousmatic sound and musique concréte, this composition provides a potent reminder of the potentials of sound as a transformative and (imagined) narrative medium.

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 27th, 2006

threads:
field-recordings
electro-acoustic-composition
site-specific

room40 (australia) #edrm405 cd

“incidental amplifications” compact disc

chris watson - runway o2e
domenico sciajno - twc
le grand jeu - middle class guilt
camilla hannan - part 3 (edit)
terre thaemlitz - millennial muzak
joe musgrove - broken in search
brandon labelle - off site
aaron ximm - sales_pitch_phase
dzo - untitled
m.rösner - may0105
daniel blinkhorn - resource14
mathieu ruhlmann - rest
blake stickland - brecker (for curd duca)
thembi soddell - watching

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "thembi soddell - watching"

compilation of variations on themes of preserving/capturing/processing “subliminal” environmental sound... we’re not talking about yr average acoustic ecology exercise here but more the hidden nature sounds in city-locations otherwise rife with the sounds of commerce, transportation, etc... the clarion call of watson’s opening piece (a bird squawks away in defiance as a boeing fades from the background to the fore in the right channel, takes off, then disappears in the left, seemingly having no affect on our fine feathered friend whatsoever...)

includes contributions from heavies chris watson and brandon labelle alongside excellent work from m.rösner, domenico sciajno, aaron ximm and others. a veritable phonographer’s delight...

room40 press release...

for most of us, our every waking moment (and even those where we are unconscious) is surrounded by sound. from the obnoxiously pitched alarm tone that raises us from slumber to the muted sounds of night-time traffic that merge with natural nocturnal transmissions; there is always sound.

as a society we have increasingly sought to augment and indeed control the environments around us. all manner of tools have been utilised in this ongoing war against the unfamiliar, the unexpected and the "undesirable". as well as a variety of visuals cues, sound is progressively used to colour our surroundings with a variety of aural hues.

the twentieth century brought with it an unparalleled use of artificial sound in the form of george squier's muzak - a creation designed to enhance (and perhaps determine) amongst other things our "urban/social/shopping" experience. for decades, no mall or place of substantial commerce was complete without the dulcet tones of muzak. to many it would seem that there is a world of difference between the bleating high frequency sounds of an indian marketplace and multiple channels of mid-tempo instrumental music filling our shopping malls; however the ability for sound to draw and focus our attention is universal and well documented.

but what of the remaining sounds? the incidental sounds that muzak tries (and often fails) to mask. it's within these sound fields that curators lawrence english + lloyd barrett sought to collect artists who were working with and celebrating these incidental aspects of our sound world.

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 27th, 2006

threads:
concert-recordings
out-guitar
australia

room40 (australia) #edrm404 cd

oren ambarchi / robbie avenaim “clockwork” three inch fan compact disc

clockwork (18:28)

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

entirely emergizing live duo set (recorded on april 21st, 1999) of contemporary electronic guitar-gamelan and “kontakte”-lineage percussion from oren ambarchi and robbie avenaim; some of you may remember buying this in its original cdr form right around the time that mms was still in its embryonic stage(s); kudos to lawrence for making this recording available once again for the growing public...

room40 press release...

"raised on a diet of several decades' worth of renegade creatives and neglected masterpieces, we're all wise to the disappearing-act that an artist's back catalogue can perform - doubly so if their financial and/or artistic imperatives lead them to micro-release and micro-format their prodigious output. whether this is the ultimate in commodity fetishism or an over-aestheticisation of the potlatch syndrome, this process lends the private press/limited-up-the-wazoo document the kind of once-debased aura or mystique reserved for the gallery edition. uncover the mystery, they say, and you uncover the glory. and then - with the over-prescribed nature of undiscovered- gem glorification rendering the actual music somewhat underwhelming - it disappears into the air, helium balloons dropping back down from the heavens...

this is, however, no great concern vis-à-vis oren ambarchi and robbie avenaim's sucker-punch to the solar plexus, clockwork. its initial release - an edition of 100 3" cd-rs on ambarchi's jerker productions label back in 1999 - let it slide by just enough aesthetic radars to register among cognoscenti. coupled with ambarchi's solo work from the era, the recording marked a shift from the gonzo-rock of the duo's previous band, phlegm. things happen throughout clockwork that had never really happened before. recorded in front of a live audience for that "what we did on our holidays" feel, avenaim and ambarchi unravel their detourned instrumental panoply into a series of parallel universe propositions - (ie. if ambarchi's concurrent vinyl-only stacte series was alvin lucier and cluster collaborating for mego, then clockwork is mickey hart's gamelan orchestra performing ionisation.)

the scarcity of both clockwork and stacte within the sphere of known sound lent a subtle distortion to received wisdom of both ambarchi's and avenaim's development. the jump from their 1999 duo disc on tzadik, the alter rebbe's nigun, to their recent collaborative recordings with keith rowe, sachiko m, and otomo yoshihide, is indeed a wide and almost inexplicable chasm. those in contact with ambarchi's solo recordings for the touch label, or with avenaim's live performances in australia, would be partially clued in to the shifts in approach that occurred in the intervening period. this reissue of clockwork - its reinstatement in the "marketplace" for immediate edification and dissemination - is not just timely; it is also one of 2005's headiest pleasures. and that one of the most important pieces of the ambarchi/avenaim puzzle will finally achieve its deserved position within a trajectory of non-idiomatic improvisation (i'll say transitional, lest lawrence english side-swipe me,) well, one doesn't need to sound that final gong to induce the respectful applause of the concert patron.

this is, you might say, a photograph of the clockwork of time between..." - jon dale

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back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 27th, 2006

threads:
field-recordings
digital-musics
australia

room40 (australia) #edrm403 cd

lawrence english “ghost towns” three inch fan compact disc

ghost towns (18:20)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "ghost towns"

room40 press release...

recorded in the later half of 2003, this composition, falling just shy of 20 minutes is composed largely of field recordings. the only processing is via eq and pitch shifting. the work is an abstracted impressionist sound portrait, sketching out the isolated soundscapes that exist, for the most part unheard, in these forgotten realms.

previous record label:
roir

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