mimaroglu music sales ☞ labels ☞ rossbin

.home.

.artists.

.labels.

.new.

.restocks.

.best.

.faq.

.blog.

previous record label: root strata		there are 23 titles on rossbin in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: rrrecords

$11.41

new to stock as of
march 29th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
experimental-instruments
sound-poetry
minimalism-drones
free-improvisation
digital-musics

rossbin (italy) #rs 026 cd

machine for making sense “the act of observation becomes the object itself.” compact disc

observance 1 (5:54)
observance 2 (4:47)
observance 3 (4:34)
observance 4 (4:32)
observance 5 (7:47)
observance 6 (11:58)
observance 7 (5:08)
observance 8 (3:22)
observance 9 (5:17)
observance 10 (11:38)
observance 11 (4:46)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "observance 6"

rossbin press release...

author: machine for making sense
title: "the act of observation becomes the object itself.”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs026
time: 59'71"

stevie wishart - hurdy gurdy, vocals + electronics
amanda stewart - voice + text
rik rue - analog and digital manipulations
jim denley - wind instruments + electronics

recorded july 2001 at uws studio in sydney by emma stacker. edited, mixed and mastered by jim denley. thanks the university of western sydney, the nsw ministry of the arts, joan grounds, michael atherton and julian knowles.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
december 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
site-specific
digital-musics
musique-concrète

rossbin (italy) #rs 025 cd

alessandro bosetti “il fiore della bocca” compact disc

musik 3’41”
komiker 2’14”
buchstaben 3’32”
eins zwei drei 1’34”
ja nein 2’21”
mund 3’11”
stimme 2’47”
komiker 2’15”
frank sinatra 3’42”
rosen 1’57”
musik 2’14”
mann frau 2’05”
wonderful world 5’40”
leute 5’55”
ich 5’38”

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

intruiging set of electro-acoustic etudes by composer alessandro bosetti; constructed using only the voices and actions of the handicapped living in milan and berlin. once again; basil kirchin’s epic “worlds within worlds” series comes into view as a possible precedent... but whereas kirchin produced 4 side-long slabs of multi-layered drone-sound by slowing down the voices of handicapped children to a terrifying roar, bosetti’s pieces are light and concise; usually focusing on a single word or sound, mixing several different utterances into short, “song-length” pieces.

rossbin press release...

author: alessandro bosetti
title: "il fiore della bocca”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs025
time: 48'47"

produced in 2003 for the sound art department of a german radio station, "il fiore della bocca" is one of the most controversial text sound compositions by alessandro bosetti. composed exclusively with the voices of physically and mentally handicapped people, the piece displays an impressive richness, depth and variety of sound, covering the full range of musical possibilities of the spoken voice; from heavily processed to completely unprocessed, naked and direct. the piece has an ambiguous nature that lies somewhere between an experimental radio play and an extended, powerfully voice driven, noise composition. bosetti has taken an impressive journey into what is commonly perceived as "disturbing". he has thus engaged in a process of transformation and metamorphosis with both the sound materials and their perceptions in order to develop musical beauty out of these "abnormal" voices.

a long series of conversations, where spastic, aphasic and larynx-less persons are confronted with examples of "deconstructed voice" (in the tradition of experimental music and sound poetry), has been the core of a two year long intimate relationship with those speakers and the starting point of the compositional process. all commentaries, reflections and reactions had been recorded in order to create a new composition with those collected materials. similar to his other text sound pieces like "african feedback", "everyday objects", "the listeners", "the mouth" or "zwölfzungen", conversations, human interaction, comprehension and misunderstanding are essential to this piece. since it's premiere on deutschland radio kultur in 2004, it has been performed many times; in presence of the original speakers and in several live multichannel performances which provocated a wide and passionate range of reactions and discussions. "il fiore della bocca", is intended as a piece in the form of a flower, either one of the red roses claudia is singing about in the middle section of the composition, or a mouth-flower, as the title suggests. also, a flower close in inspiration to the weathered, ephemeral and dying flowers that zeami used to describe the quality of nô theater actors. it's a piece based on love, human interaction and the contemplation of differences which reaches the point where the extremely different becomes the same.

recorded and composed between september 2002 and august 2003 in milan and berlin.first broadcasted by deutschland radio kultur, october 24th, 2003.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
december 5th, 2006

threads:
film-video
sound-art
fluxus

rossbin (italy) #rs 024 cd

alison knowles / taketo shimada “fluxsweet” compact disc and digital versatile disc set

insanely affordable cd/dvd set !!!

play paper by alison knowles (2003) [3:00]
music box (homage to flux music box by joe jones) by taketo shimada (2004) [4:47]
finger exercise by larry miller (1982) [3:35]
danger music #2 by dick higgins (1961) [8:18]
nivea cream by alison knowles (1962) [5:16]
onion skin song by alison knowles (1973) [24:09]

dvd

play paper by alison knowles (2003)
music box (homage to flux music box by joe jones) by taketo shimada (2004)
finger exercise by larry miller (1982)
danger music #2 by dick higgins (1961)
nivea cream by alison knowles (1962)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "music box (2004) / danger music #2 (1961)"

insanely cheap cd/dvd set (packaged in the same cardstock dvd-foldout as the last few releases) with each disc containing 5 fluxus sound-pieces recorded/filmed in performance by alison knowles & taketo shimada at new york’s harvestworks space,... plus (cd only) a realization of knowles’ “onion skin song” by percussion maverick tim barnes. christmas has indeed come early for the fluxus/sound-art nut in every domicile...

rossbin press release...

author: alison knowles & taketo shimada
title: "fluxsweet”
label: rossbin
format: cd+dvd
catalog #: rs024
time: 49'05"

cd content:

1. play paper by alison knowles (2003)
"consider fragments of onion skins as musical notations. perform with handmade musical instruments and toys." performed by alison knowles, larry miller and taketo shimada
2. music box (homage to flux music box by joe jones) by taketo shimada (2004)
"modify two or more music boxes and play them simultaneously with the recording of joe jones flux music box, if possible use children to play the music box." performed by zora gookin and robin kahn + clara higgins selman and jessica higgins on toy music box: + taketo shimada on turntables

3. finger exercise by larry miller (1982)
"make sounds with fingers." performed by alison knowles, taketo shimada, kirby gookin and larry miller

4. danger music #2 by dick higgins (1961)
"hat. rags. paper. heave. shave" performed by alison knowles and nelson/electric chaircut

5. nivea cream by alison knowles (1962)
"first performer comes on stage with a jar of nivea cream. the performer massages hands in front of the microphone. other performers enter one at the time. they make a mass of massaging hands and leave one at a time following the first performer." performed by alison knowles, kirby gookin, beckett gookin, jessica higgins, nancy hwang, noura al-salem on nivea cream: + taketo shimada on turntables

6. onion skin song by alison knowles (1973)
performed by tim barnes playing paper instruments made by alison knowles (bean turner, wrist rubbers and flax paper shards) on top of bass drums.

track 1 through 5 recorded live from a event score concert fluxsweet organized by taketo shimada, 02.14.2005 at harvestworks, nyc.

dvd content: track 1 to 5 of the cd

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
1970s-electronic
1980s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
analogue-synth
sound-poetry

rossbin (italy) #rs 023 cd

enore zaffiri “la voce ed il sintetizzatore” compact disc

usk > dai passaggi de eliot (1973) 2:58
rannoch by glencoe > dai passaggi de eliot (1973) 4:16
the dark lady > dai sonetti di sheakspeare (1973) 10:01
i clearly saw > da kerouak (1976) 2:37
199º chorus > da lamantia (1976) 4:10
put down > da kerouak (1976) 6:12
omaggio a webern > da poesie di george (1976) 5:27
pentaconta > capriccio per i 50 anni di vittorio (1976) 6:08
cantico del cantici > da il cantico dei cantici (1981) 14:40

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

collection of 70s text-sound works from italian composer enore zaffiri (see the “musica reticolare” lp on die schachtel for further evidence...) featuring enore himself on synthi a and arp 2600, ellen kappel on voice.

this (as well as the prior two rossbins) comes as a rather deluxe edition: a card-stock dvd-size case, flattened with the cd tucked inside, held inside a resealable retail-hook baggie. a nice edition, and a key document of the early italian electronic music scene...

rossbin press release...

author: enore zaffiri
title: "la voce ed il sintetizzatore”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs023
time: 56'45"

voce > ellen kappel
sintetizzatori synthi a e arp2600 > enore zaffiri
thanks to: associazione pietro grossi

after almost forty years of creative activity, the name enore zaffiri still sounds "new", as his extraordinary artistic output has remained to a great extent unreleased. pioneer of multimedia, electronic and ambient music (he founded the turin studio of electronic music in 1964) zaffiri used the electronic instrument to find a new musical perspective based on a structuralist principle derived from euclidean geometrics. in this works, dated between 1973 and 1988 he approche the combination of the electronic music with the voice… the meeting of the newest instrument, at that time the arp synth, and the oldest one, the human voice.

enore zaffiri was born in turin on march 29, 1928. he studied in turin at the "conservatorio g. verdi", taking a diploma in composition, choral music and pianoforte, and subsequently in paris at the "conservatoire national" with tony aubin. from 1954 to 1982 he held the chair of general music culture at the "conservatorio g. verdi" in turin.

in 1964, he turned his interest to electronic music and founded smet (studio di musica elettronica di torino) which made its headquarters in turin at the conservatorio.zaffiri’s first objective was to overcome the historical elementary principles which coordinated the relationships between the sounds of traditional musical language for acoustic instruments and then concentrate his efforts on electronic means, searching for new sound perspectives originating from a structural principle based on the euclidian plane geometrical figure by which means the various sound parameters can be coordinated and the formal and spatial dimension extracted.

in 1965, together with other operators in the visual field, he set up the studio di informazione estetica and started an interdisciplinary research into sound and visual phenomena.

the main objective of the research was to generate the elements relevant to the sound and visual fields from a single basic structure. the extreme limit of the formal rigorism was achieved in 1968 with the project musica per un anno, the purpose of which was the sonorization of environments.

from 1970, zaffiri turned his attention towards the live performance of electronic music. he combined electronic sound with the human voice - sometimes crossing the border into total theatre (il giuoco dell’oca from the novel by e. sanguineti and raptus based on a text by m. châtel). in the period, the first scores for synthesizers appeared, permitting the live performance of pieces specifically written for this instrument.

at the end of the seventies, he extended his research into visuals to the video, maintaining the interdisciplinary process using the instruments that technology offered and which represented, for the author, the means and support for what he intended to express.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 022 cd

laura andel electric percussive orchestra “in::tension:.” compact disc

part i : : noticias : . 6'53"
part ii : : resonancias : . 4'19"
part iii : : descuido : . 9'26"
part iv : : caídas : . 6'55"
part v : : puntos : . 10'19"
part vi : : dos : . 8'51"
part vii : : ecos : . 12'02"

rossbin press release...

author: laura andel electric percussive orchestra
title: “i n : : t e n s i o n : .”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs022
time: 58'50"

about i n : : t e n s i o n : .

since a very young age, i have always been attracted to journeys and traveling to places not known to me. last year, i watched a film from mongolia about a dog. once the dog dies, its soul is free to travel and wonder through landscapes and memories as a disembodied spirit. each part of i n : : t e n s i o n : . is part of a longer journey, where you can hear, sense and discover different memories that a wandering soul revisits. percussive, intimate, visceral, ritualistic and electrically charged, i n : : t e n s i o n : . explores tension points and internal pulses, glimpses and gestures in a non-narrative world.

composer laura andel was born in buenos aires, argentina. after living and working in her native buenos aires and for several years in boston, ms. andel moved to new york city in 2000, where she currently resides. she has conducted her music in new york, boston, berlin, caracas, buenos aires and other cities. one of andel's strengths is her ability to assemble large ensembles to play her compositions. she enjoys exploring diverse combinations of instruments and formats for her orchestras, as well as working with musicians from different musical and cultural backgrounds. currently, she leads the laura andel orchestra in several formations. among the most recent are the 14-piece somnambulist orchestra and the 10-piece electric percussive orchestra. somnambulist, her previous extended work, was released by red toucan records (rt9322) in 2003.

thanks to:
roulette, jerome foundation, sacatar foundation, yaddo artist colony, valparaiso foundation, jim staley, elliott sharp, and all the musicians of the laura andel electric percussive orchestra. additional thanks to sofía, saúl, hernán, and carlos.

i n : : t e n s i o n : . was commissioned in 2004 by roulette with funds from the jerome foundation.

all music composed and conducted by laura andel (bmi ©2004)
recorded live by mario diaz de león at the roulette concert series at location one in new york city on december 4, 2004.
mixed and mastered by elliott sharp at studio zoar in new york city.

performed by the laura andel electric percussive orchestra:

kyoko kitamura voice & electronics
taylor ho bynum cornet
carl maguire prepared fender rhodes & accordion
ursel schlicht piano & prepared piano
kenta nagai electric fretless guitar & electronics
joel harrison electric guitar & electronics
khabu young electric baritone guitar & electronics
david simons theremin & percussion
andrew drury percussion
harvey wirht drums
laura andel composer & conductor

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 021 cd

john tilbury “barcelona piano solo” compact disc

barcelona - a piano solo piece (36:49)

2003 solo piano piece from amm’s john tilbury ...

rossbin press release...

author: john tilbury
title: “barcelona piano solo”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs021
time: 36'49"

recorded during improvisa 2003 festival in barcelona (spain) the 3th of december at l'espai de música i dansa de la generalitat de catalunya.
recorded and mastered by ferran conangla.

thanks to ruth barberán, ferran fages, alfredo costa monteiro and ferran conangla.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
guitar-themed
free-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 020 cd

mike cooper “metal box” compact disc

standard de luxe-git on board (5.00) [with tim catlin - electric prepared guitar.]
the rusty chain tango mambo. (4.10)
a big wave event. (5.56)
a remote forgotten chord. (4.38)
intuitive acoustic archeology. (2.58)
last chants and dance for blind joe death.(7.38)

rossbin press release...

author: mike cooper
title: “metalbox”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs020
time: 30:39

all published by p.r.s.- u.k.

recorded 2004 at the steelworks in rome apart from 'standard de-lux' which was recorded, reconstructed and mixed by robin schmidt in 2003 in melbourne.this record is dedicated to the memory of john fahey.

mike cooper:
for the past 40 has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. he is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker, collector of hawaiian shirts and appears on more than 60 records to date.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 019 cd

punctual trio “grammar” compact disc

subject
predicate
direct object
indirect object
preposition
punctuation

rossbin press release...

author: punctual trio
title: “grammar”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs019
time: 61:45

lou mallozzi: turntables, cds, microphones, oscillator
fred lonberg-holm: cello
carlos zingaro: violin

recorded by pete wenger at experimental sound studio, chicago, 28 may 2003.
mixed and masterd by lou mallozzi and fred lonberg-holm at experimental sound studio, chicago, 23 june 2004.
produced by lonberg-holm, mallozzi and zingaro.
@2003 mallozzi / lonberg-holm / zingaro

lou mallozzi (b. 1957)
lou mallozzi is a chicago audio artist who has been dismembering and reconstituting language, sound, and gesture on stages, sites, cd, and radio since 1986. his background is in performance, intermedia and installation art, and since 1996 an increasing amount of his attention has been focused on improvised music. using microphones, turntables, cds and analog mixing, he collaborates with numerous instrumentalists in improvised frameworks. these collaborators have included carlos zingaro, fred lonberg-holm, michael vorfeld, mats gustafsson, jaap blonk, sebi tramontana, terri kapsalis, michael zerang, guillermo gregorio, birgit ulher, hal rammel, and many others. he has performed in this context at the come sunday festival (munich), the logos foundation (ghent), podewil (berlin), the empty bottle (chicago), candlestick maker (chicago), the renaissance society (chicago), kraakgeluiden (amsterdam), and others. he has also composed several sound poems and structured improvisational works for soloists and ensembles, including jaap blonk, barbara lüneburg, and the ensemble intégrales.

in addition to his improvised music projects, mallozzi also produces intermedia and sound performances, radio art works, and sound installations. these have been presented at numerous venues since 1986, including the pac/edge performance festival (chicago), the chicago cultural center, experimental intermedia (new york), the tube audio art series at the einstein kulturzentrum (munich), spritzenhaus (hamburg), suoni/sound 2000 (isola d'elba, italy), the subtropics experimental music festival (miami), the fort wayne museum of art (indiana), percorsi 98 festival (montegrosso d'asti, itlay), the sound canopy public art project (chicago), donald young gallery (chicago), gallery 400 (chicago), the bechtler gallery (charlotte), randolph street gallery (chicago), aether fest (albuquerque), new american radio, bayerischer rundfunk (munich), kunstradio/radiokunst on orf vienna, sender freies berlin, abc radio (sydney), the resonance fm festival (london), and others. among his collaborators in these realms are sandra binion, mark booth, heinz weber, antonia contro, and maurizio pellegrin.

mallozzi has two cds on the penumbra music label: radiophagy (three radio works from 1990 - 1996) and whole or by the slice (electroacoustic collaborations with hal rammel). a cd of improvised music with fred lonberg-holm and carlos zingaro is forthcoming on rossbin records (italy). he also appears on guillermo gregorio's faktura and cornelius cardew's material (both on hatart, switzerland).

mallozzi has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a residency at the rockefeller foundation's bellagio study center (italy), four artist fellowships from the illinois arts council, and grants from the richard h. driehaus foundation and the governor's international arts exchange program.

in addition to his artistic career, mallozzi is co-founder and executive director of experimental sound studio in chicago, and he is on the faculty of the school of the art institute of chicago.

fred lonberg-holm
composer, improvisor and anti-cellist fredrick lonberg-holm currently resides in chicago. defying categorization, his work deals only with the context of the specific musical situation in which he finds/places/builds for himself. a former composition student of morton feldman and anthony braxton, and cello student of ardyth alton and orlando cole, his ongoing projects include the groups terminal 4, the boxhead ensemble, pillow, and the lonberg-holm/kessler/zerang trio. he is also currently a member of the guillermo gregorio trio, the peter brotzmann chicago tentet, xmarsx, and witches and devils (music of a. ayler). he also has been coordinating and directing performances of his light box orchestra, a non fixed structured improvising ensemble utilizing a light based cuing system . in addition he has also performed in ensembles led by anthony braxton, ken vandermark, anthony coleman, georg graewe, wolfgang fuchs, and john zorn. as an improvisor he has recorded and or performed with numerous musicians including jaap blonk, john butcher, gunter christmann, axel dorner, hamid drake, barry guy, joelle leandre, paul lytton, jeff parker, william parker, mischa mengelberg, ikue mori, mats gustafsson, paul lovens, paul rutherford, sten sandell, hamid drake, jim o'rourke, david stackenaas, willie winant, carlos zingaro, and many others. he has also performed/recorded with the rock groups god-is-my-co-pilot, wilco, the flying luttenbachers, chris mills, janet bean, super chunk, bobbie conn, ahmed elmotassem's legal fiction, l'altra, us maple, freakwater, lake of dracula, plastic scorpions, zeek sheck, smog and others. concert works have been premiered by william winant, carrie biolo, joe fonda and bottoms out, duo atypica, the schanzer/speach duo, new winds, paul hoskin, kevin norton, the e.s.p. ensemble and others. he has performed throughout the us and europe as both a soloist and ensemble member. his scores for dance have been performed at the brooklyn academy of music and dance theater workshop as well as many other venues. film credits include music for a playboy channel short and the independant feature animals, by michael digiacomo. he has recorded for the avant, pogus, occa, miguel, explain:, locust, meniscus, nuscope, curious, random acoustics, skin graft, hat art, buzz, knitting factory works, drag city, ecstatic/yod, nine winds, atavistic, rastascan, box media, 8th day, tzadik, truckstop and what next? labels as well as many others.

carlos “zingaro”
born 1948 in lisbon, portugal; violin, electronics. carlos zingaro undertook classical music studies at the lisbon music conservatory from 1953 to 1965, and during the two years 1967/68 he studied church organ at the high school of sacred music. also, during the 1960s, zingaro was a member of the lisbon university chamber orchestra. in 1967 he formed plexus, the only portuguese group at the time to have developed a new musical approach based on contemporary music, improvisation and rock; the group recorded a 45rpm single for rca-victor in 1968.

from 1975 onwards carlos zingaro has performed with a wide variety of improvising musicians, including: barre phillips, daunik lazro, derek bailey, joëlle léandre, jon rose, kent carter, ned rothenberg, peter kowald, roger turner, rüdiger carl, dominique regef, evan parker, günter müller, andres bosshard, jean-marc montera, and paul lovens. in 1978 he was invited by wroclaw technical university in poland to participate in the 1st instrumental theatre meeting, and in 1979 he won a fulbright grant and was invited by the creative music foundation in woodstock, new york to participate in meetings, classes and performances with such composers as anthony braxton, roscoe mitchell, george lewis, leo smith, tom cora and richard teitelbaum (a regular collaborator). he also gave lectures on new notation concepts, movement and sound, and the inter-relationship of improvisation and body attitude. as a soloist, or with other musicians and composers, carlos zingaro has performed at many of the most important new music and improvising festivals in europe, asia and america.

a substantial level of carlos zingaro's musical activities are associated with theatre, film and dance. in 1975 he completed stage design studies at the lisbon theatre high school and later served on the board of directors of the school. from 1974 to 1980 he was musical director for the lisbon-based theatre group comicos, being responsible for most of the original music scores performed during the period. in 1981 carlos zingaro received the portuguese critics award for best theatre music and in 1988 he worked with the italian theatre director giorgio barberio corsetti on his kafka trilogy. he has also been stage and costume designer for several other theatre productions. he has produced several film scores and worked extensively with dancers and dance companies such as the gulbenkian dance company, the opéra de genève dance company, michala marcus, aparte, and olga roriz.

carlos zingaro was a founding member of the lisbon-based art gallery comicos, his work has been exhibited, and he has received several prizes for his cartoons, comics and illustrations, samples of which can be seen on a number of cd sleeves, for example, musiques de scène.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
experimental-instruments

rossbin (italy) #rs 018 cd

tania chen / steve beresford “ointment” compact disc

gel (5' 20'')
lotion (19' 19'')
serum (5' 48'')
ointment (6' 47'')
balm (0' 51'')
liniment (9' 05'')
embrocation (1' 26'')
demulcent (2' 57'')
cerate (5' 26'')
chrism (4' 03'')

rossbin press release...

author: tania chen / steve beresford
title: “ointment”
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs018
time: 61:23

tania chen: objects, toys, violin, piano
steve beresford: objects, electronics, toys, trumpet, water

pieces beginning with 'c' recorded by tim fletcher at the bonnington, vauxhall, london on december 18 2002. event organised by adam and jonathan bohman.all other pieces recorded by steve beresford in west london - pieces beginning with 'l' on august 7 2003 and the rest on june 12 2003. all pieces composed by tania chen and steve beresford. edited by steve beresford in march 2004.

not to rub it in, but this is a very effective fast-acting selection from two of england's finest sonic alchemists. applied liberally to the ears, 'ointment' will both soothe and alarm you. tania chen and steve beresford coax a galaxy of timbres from toys and unidentified objects to produce a series of astonishing tableaux.

the album commences with the monastic 'gel', a stinging vesper for rasp and strigil. we are wheeled into the phosphene diorama of 'lotion', awash with images of giant ants, ducks and a campfire idyll. 'serum' is administered, seemingly innocuous, but then run through with a desert laser like blue cheese, it scrubs up a storm. the title track is shaken and stirred. dextrose organs sugar the espionage.

in the aftermath there is 'balm', an aquatic fanfare with lemon notes and a hint of playdough. 'liniment' evokes traffic-smeared london. it is essentially a road work. a suburban ballad for mandrill, cricket and toffee guitar. 'embrocation' steams forth, ideal for the brushing (and flossing) of teeth, it is hygienic and brief. the seasonal downstroke of 'demulcent' counts the rings around it's carbonated core. regular music with a soft touch.

the last two squirts of 'ointment' are live recordings. 'cerate' begins as a gentle seduction, waxing rustic before stiffening at the conclusion. 'chrism' puts the funk into unction, it marks time and pierces austerity, the rhythms played out on a leash.

chen and beresford are quick-change artists on the fly. 'ointment' captures them. side effects for the listener? a sharpening of the senses which may persist for some time after the album has finished. (jonathan bohman)

tania chen: pianist of the younger generation, tania chen, is fast becoming a leading exponent of contemporary piano music. she studied at the royal college of music and pursued advanced studies with stephen coombs and artur pizarro in london. she continued her postgraduate studies, specialising in contemporary music with acclaimed contemporary pianist, john tilbury, and was awarded an mmus with distinction from goldsmiths college, university of london.

tania is a recent recipient of the shelley scholarship in performing arts, enabling her to undertake performance projects in rome and venice. she has recently performed in masterclasses with mtslav rostropovich and has recorded pieces by cornelius cardew with apartment house for the matchless label. she has worked closely with earle brown, yuji takahashi, terry riley, michael parsons, andrew poppy, laurence crane, and james saunders amongst others, and has given many performances in london, japan and europe. tania has recently played music by chris newman for piano and voice and she has also written her own music which is composed as well as improvised for piano, electronic sounds and voice.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation
experimental-instruments

rossbin (italy) #rs 017 cd

ferran fages / ruth barberán / alfredo costa monteiro “atolon” compact disc

weiur
uyoti
98y2r
weidfug

rossbin press release...

author: fages / barberán / monteiro
title: "atolon"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs017
time: 41:37

.ferran fages: acoustic turntable
.ruth barberán: trumpet
.alfredo costa monteiro: accordion

recorded and mastered by ferran conangla
mixed by ferran conangla and ferran fages
october, 2003. laboratori de so, metrònom. barcelona

alfredo costa monteiro
porto (portugal), 1964. he lives and works in barcelona since 1992. he plays accordion and electric guitar. in 1992, he finishes his studies at the fine art school of paris, where he gets his degree in sculpture/multimedia. apart of his work as a visual artist, he starts to become involved in improvised music from 1995. since then, his work stands somewhere between visual arts, visual poetry and sound. since 1998, he is member of 22a, an independent collective for contemporary art.
ruth barberán
barcelona, 1966. since her integration in iba, col.lectiu de música i dansa improvisades, in1999, she starts to focus her work in free improvisation.currently, she has two stable formations : error focus, with ferran fages and i treni inerti, with alfredo costa monteiro.

ferran fages
barcelona, 1974 he plays the guitar, turntables and electronics. he's member of the collective iba since 1999. he plays regulary in different improvisation projects like:rror focus ( with ruth barberán) since 1998, cremaster ( with alfredo costa monteiro) since 2000. ambilis (with dorothee schmitz) since 2001. he plays with the coreographers and dancers: olga mesa, carme torrent and constanza brncic. he's played with joan saura, agustí fernández, jakob draminsky, franck stofer, antón ignorant, stefan prins,derek bailey, margarida garcía, francisco lópez, andrea neumann,peter kowald, taku unami, masahiko okura, masafumi ezaki, bukhard beins, guiseppe ielasi, mark wastell.... among others.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 016 cd

blue collar “_________ is an apparition.” compact disc

[92] 12:39:33
[19] 2:41:03
[40] 6:51:03
[22] 5:13:25
[31] 3:56:00
[63] 8:58:02
[49] 6:03:48
[48] 6:28:65

rossbin press release...

author: blue collar
title: "____is an apparition"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs016
time: 53:14

blue collar:

nate wooley: trumpet, voice
steve swell: trombone, percussion, voice
tatsuya nakatani: percussion

recorded and mixed by: zeke zima and blue collar, brooklyn, ny on september 12 and 13, 2003

mastered by: tatsuya nakatani, h & h productions bronx, ny

"_________ is an apparition." marks the first release for the new york based blue collar featuring nate wooley on trumpet, steve swell on trombone, and tatsuya nakatani on percussion. the group, informed equally by the free jazz tradition of the 60s in america and europe and the lowercase/reductionist innovations now revolutionizing improvised music, has found a way to deal with silence, sound, tension, and release in a natural and personal way. the three players are known for their undefinable voices in the american improvised scene, having worked with such disparate figures as tim berne, anthony braxton, cecil taylor, bhob rainey, jack wright, william parker, chris speed, and alessandro bosetti. however, they work in a cohesive unit, creating improvisations that simultaneously create and destroy spatial and temporal considerations for the listener.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition

rossbin (italy) #rs 014 cd

jason kahn “songs for nicolas ross” compact disc

(no tracklisting)

rossbin press release...

author: jason kahn
title: "songs for nicolas ross"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs014
time: 37:49

recorded 2000-2003 in amsterdam, baltimore, berlin, caudeval, lausanne, los angeles, new york, paris, st. pölten and zürich.

cover design by luca roux

the audio material of «songs for nicolas ross» is taken from my travels 2000-2003 in the cities amsterdam, baltimore, berlin, caudeval, lausanne, los angeles, new york, paris, st. pölten and zürich. as the cd was for the birthday of alessandro bianco's son nicolas ross, i thought of the pieces as short songs, either as lullabyes or just brief sonic enivornments for him to enter into. i tried to imagine young nicolas' perception of the sound around himself and his relation to this. this was the starting point in my selecting the sound for these songs. i hope nicolas likes them!

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 013 cd

burkhard beins / dirk marwedel / michael vorfeld “misiiki” compact disc

moja (14:01)
oou (7:57)
tune (2:09)
chaar (4:29)
pump (7:26)
schist (5:39)
nana (2:09)
nyolc (6:03)

rossbin press release...

author: b.beins / d.marwedel / m.vorfeld
title: "misiiki"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs013
time: 49:48

burkhard beins: percussion & string instruments
dirk marwedel: extendend saxophone
michael vorfield: percussion

rec. 6th & 7th of november 2001
by rainer robben, audio cue tonlabor, berlin
all music by beins, marwedel, vorfeld.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
digital-musics
sound-installation
electro-acoustic-composition

rossbin (italy) #rs 012 cd

steve roden / tu m’ “broken. distant. fragrant.” compact disc

details and ornaments (6:22)
flowers drawn (8:16)
fountain (8:36)
geographies (8:24)
paper bridges and small soft buildings (6:29)

rossbin press release...

author: steve roden / tu m'
title: "broken. distant. fragrant."
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs012
time: 38:07

created in 2001 - 2002 by

steve roden
rossano polidoro
emiliano romanelli

a few years ago, tu m' and steve roden began a correspondence. this led to the idea of a collaborative project. this led to bedroom audio experiments in american and italy. this led to cdrs being sent through the mail to cross over the ocean. tu m' used steve roden's audio as the working material for several works. steve roden used tu m's audio as the working material for several works. this project contains a bit of both...

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 011 cd

hiss “zahir” compact disc

wazifah (6:34)
qalb (6:02)
batin (6:54)
zahir (12:36)
khayal (14:03)

rossbin press release...

author: hiss
title: "zahir"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs011
time: 46:01

hiss:

.pat thomas: keyboard/electronics
.ivar grydeland: electric guitar
.tonny kluften: double bass
.ingar zach: percussion

recorded and mixed at the moat studio, london,
january 2002 by toby robinson.
mastered by thomas hukkelberg.

all tracks by hiss. all tracks copyright 2003
ivar grydeland, tonny kluften, ingar zach (tono, ncb)
pat thomas (mcps, p.r.s).

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones

rossbin (italy) #rs 010 cd

nmperign / günter müller “more gloom. more light.” compact disc

more light. (15:47)
and the gloom of that light (5:36)
more gloom. (9:48)
and the light of that gloom (7:16)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "more gloom."

trio session featuring the nmperign duo of greg kelley and bhob rainey with günter müller.

rossbin press release...

author: nmperign / günter müller
title: "more gloom, more light"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs010
time: 38:21

greg kelley: trumpet
bhob rainey: sax
günter müller: mds, selected percussion, electronics

.track 1 and 3, recorded january 29, 2002 at massart boston by greg kelley
.track 2, recorded in july 2002 at home
.track 4, recorded in august 2002 in france

track 1 and 3, by nmperign(bmi) and günter müller(suisa)
track 2, by günter müller (suisa)
track 3, by nmperign (bmi)

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation
guitar-themed

rossbin (italy) #rs 009 cd

manuel mota “leopardo” compact disc

1.43
3.26
3.04
5.23
2.35
4.57
4.38
4.16
11.08

rossbin press release...

author: manuel mota
title: "leopardo"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs009
time: 41:40

manuel mota: electric guitar

recorded in lisbon on march 20th and 21st 2002,
except 1 and 4, on april 12th 2002

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation
electro-acoustic-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 008 cd

scott fields “from the diary of dog drexel” compact disc

conflicted... (18.48)
pissed... (08.23)
bummed... (12.55)
agitated... (14.12)
medicated... (11.38)

rossbin press release...

author: scott fields ensemble
title: "from the diary of dog drexel"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs008
time: 66:40

.carrie biolo: vibraphone, marimba, crotales, and unpitched percussion
.kyle bruckmann: oboe and english horn
.guillermo gregorio: alto saxophone and clarinet
.greg kelley: trumpet
.scott fields: electric guitar and nylon-string guitar
.stephen dembski: conductor (tracks one through four)
.gregory taylor: constructor (track five)

movements one through four were composed by scott fields (bmi).
movement five was composed by biolo, bruckmann, gregorio, kelley, fields, and taylor.

it was constructed by gregory taylor using cycling 74 s max/msp software.
his raw materials were solo improvisations by each of the ensemble's members.

the recording and mixing engineer was mark haines.
the mastering engineer was tom blain

recorded 22 april, 2002 at smart studios in madison, wisconsin.
mixed at smart studios 3 may, 2002. mastered at ultimate audio mastering, madison, wisconsin.

there is a formula for making up your porn star name. as your first name use the name of the pet you had when you were a kid. as your last name use the street you grew up on. scott fields pet was a whippet named "dog." fields grew up on 57th and drexel. "dog 57th" is not a good porn name.

"the diary of dog drexel" is a suite of five movements, each of which programmatically portrays an emotional state from the diary. one of the ideas behind "dog" was to thoroughly blend improvised and composed elements.

in the first four movements'conflicted, pissed, bummed, and agitated'there are at almost all times at least one thread of composition and another of improvisation.

the balance between the elements shifts steadily. muddying the waters further is that many of the extended techniques that are called for in the composed elements are drawn from the usual vocabulary of the ensemble s instrumentalists.
the fifth movement'medicated'also blends the two elements, but through a different process.

each of the ensemble s instrumentalists, with the barest of instructions from fields, recorded individual improvisations.
these improvisations were the clay that computer musician gregory taylor shaped into the fifth movement. as a result of the compositional strategy and the extended techniques used, it can be tricky to distinguish preplanned from spontaneous.

the best plan for listening to this music is to treat it as a whole rather than worry about what came from where.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
free-improvisation
minimalism-drones

rossbin (italy) #rs 006 cd

greg kelley “if i never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack” compact disc

if i never meet you in this life let me feel the lack (36:48)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "if i never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack"

2001 solo trumpet assembly by greg kelley... jason lescalleet is herein credited with “mastering”, but i have a feeling his input was just slightly moreso than simply frequency-alteration (if you look at the waveform in an editor you’ll see what i’m talking about.)

of greg’s earlier records, this one is probably my favorite, especially the downright evil outro-drone (listen to the sound-sample... all the way through...)

rossbin press release...

author: greg kelley
title: "if i never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs006
time: 36:48

greg kelley: trumpet

recorded october 2001 by greg kelley at the vile house, somerville ma

mastered december 2001 by jason lescalleet at glistening labs, usa

thanks:

oliver alden, g.l., jason lescalleet, t.m., patrick o'neil

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
minimalism-drones
free-improvisation
modern-composition

rossbin (italy) #rs 004 cd

david maranha “noe’s lullaby” compact disc

noe’s lullaby (52’47”)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "noe’s lullaby"

rossbin press release...

author: david maranha
title: "noe’s lullaby"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs004
time: 52:47

music by david maranha

to play loud.

recorded, mixed and mastered in february and march 2002 in lisbon.

players:

andrè maranha
bernardo devlin
david maranha
luis desirat
manuel mota
patricia machàs
rodrigo amado

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
experimental-instruments

rossbin (italy) #rs 003 cd

the bohman brothers “a twist for all pockets” compact disc

bondal dip> 1:40
moray and woodfall (entertaining mr ghosh) > 13:45
nights of pipe & pastry > 6:23
the marigold from probability z > 3:58
8 port harmonies > 12:29
oneiro > 20:27
unconscious sauna > 7:30

rossbin press release...

author: the bohman brothers
title: "a twist for all pockets"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs003
time: 66:33

adam bohman: prepared violin, homa-made strings, balalaika, objects, rubber bands, tape
jonathan bohman: percussion, strings, rods, cones, feedback piano, oscillators, hose pipe, sundries.

the bohman brothers have been playing concerts on a regular basis since 1998.

they explore the world of small sound, magnified by the use of contact microphones. their compositions utilize other elements such as text material and simultaneous recorded layers.

adam bohman is a member of live electroacustic improvisation group morphogenesis and also plays in the london improvisers orchestra.

recently they have formed the bohman brothers extended family with violinist panos ghikas, multi instrumentalist richard thomas and the mysterious single - sided polyhedron.

in the past three years the bohman brothers have organized and hosted over eighty concerts in london.

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 002 cd

utah kawasaki / tetuzi akiyama / jason kahn “luwa” compact disc

luwa fabrik (21:59)
zurich (24:46)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "luwa fabrik"

rossbin press release...

author: kawasaki / akiyama / kahn
title: "luwa"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs002
time: 47:00

utah kawasaki: synthesizer
tetuzi akiyama: electric guitar and electronics
jason kahn: electronics

recorded live october 17, 2000
sonique serie 3, luwa fabrik, zürich
mastered by jason kahn

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
1970s-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition

rossbin (italy) #rs 001 ep

enore zaffiri “riverberazioni sonore” seven inch single record and magazine set

riverberazioni sonore n° 31 (05:26:00) [recorded in torino / year 1998]
sonetto cxliv (02:37:00) [recorded in torino / year 1973]
riverberazioni sonore n° 31 02:59:00 [recorded in torino / year 1998]

i’ve got but a scant-few copies of this covetable title left... act fast

here’s a nice mouth-watering item: a seven inch record by enore zaffiri (whom we all know from his fantastico lp on die schachtel) including two contemporary (1998) pieces and one from 1973 (which wouldn’t be out of place on the “la voce ed il sintetizzatore” disc...)

this comes with a very nice-looking art-magazine named “miele”, which (amongst other things: articles on alan turing, ones titled “music math”, “post-pythagorean ninja”, etc...) includes an interview with zaffiri (in italian: the whole magazine is in italian)

apparently the 7” is limited to 125 copies (the run of the magazine is obviously higher given the look/feel of the thing.) i have some, not many. let’s leave it at that...

rossbin press release...

author: enore zaffiri
title: "riverberazioni sonore"
label: rossbin
format: 7” + magazine
catalog #: rsep001
time: 11:00

enore zaffiri was born in turin on march 29, 1928. he studied in turin at the "conservatorio g. verdi", taking a diploma in composition, choral music and pianoforte, and subsequently in paris at the "conservatoire national" with tony aubin. he perfected his piano studies with guido agosti in siena at the "accademia musicale chigiana". from 1954 to 1982 he held the chair of general music culture at the "conservatorio g. verdi" in turin.

as a composer he won various awards. in 1964, he turned his interest to electronic music and founded smet (studio di musica elettronica di torino) which made its headquarters in turin at the conservatorio, and he also became a lecturer in this subject.

zaffiri’s first objective was to overcome the historical elementary principles which coordinated the relationships between the sounds of traditional musical language for acoustic instruments and then concentrate his efforts on electronic means, searching for new sound perspectives originating from a structural principle based on the euclidian plane geometrical figure by which means the various sound parameters can be coordinated and the formal and spatial dimension extracted.

in 1965, together with other operators in the visual field, he set up the studio di informazione estetica and started an interdisciplinary research into sound and visual phenomena.

the main objective of the research was to generate the elements relevant to the sound and visual fields from a single basic structure. the extreme limit of the formal rigorism was achieved in 1968 with the project musica per un anno, the purpose of which was the sonorization of environments.

from 1970, zaffiri turned his attention towards the live performance of electronic music. he combined electronic sound with the human voice - sometimes crossing the border into total theatre (il giuoco dell’oca from the novel by e. sanguineti and raptus based on a text by m. châtel). in the period, the first scores for synthesizers appeared, permitting the live performance of pieces specifically written for this instrument.

at the end of the seventies, he extended his research into visuals to the video, maintaining the interdisciplinary process using the instruments that technology offered and which represented, for the author, the means and support for what he intended to express.at the end of the eighties, he produced the video l’arte nella storia published by cooperativa books and video in turin.

previous record label:
root strata

...and that's everything on rossbin in stock.
(why not take a look at the previous and next labels?)

next record label:
rrrecords

.home.

.artists.

.labels.

.new.

.restocks.

.best.

.faq.

.blog.