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forwarded PRESS RELEASE
lowercasesound compilation
RELEASE DATE: 2-29-00
limited edition of 500
2 CD set in fold out package with 30 inserts
bremsstrahlung recordings 2000
www.lowercasesound.com (up 3/20/00)
TO ORDER, EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
INFORMATION:
initially intended to be tiny CD-R release for
exclusive
distribution to
members of the lowercasesound list server
(www.onelist.com/subscribe/lowercase-sound). the
number and
quality of the
submissions soon made it apparent that this
should be released in
a wider
format.
LOWERCASE BACKGROUND:
the lowercasesound list server was created by
james coleman in
early 1999
to create "a unmoderated discussion &
announcement list concerning
a
disparate group of musics, sound art & listening
experiences that
emphasize
or include some or all of the characteristics of
low volume,
silence,
soundscape/environmental/field recordings,
indeterminacy,
psycho/acoustic
treatments of space, environment & context &
possible
relationships of this
work to art in other media ie painting, drawing &
film & poetry. "
this broad heading allowed the compilation to be
quite a diverse
but
unified document with exclusive tracks from all
the artists.
sounds range from practically invisible (bernhard
g|nter, *0) to
intricate
rhythmic modulations (taylor deupree, steve
roden) to crushing
torrents of
noise (oren ambarchi and matthew thomas,
toneshifter)
EXCERPT FROM LINER NOTES:
"'lowercasesound' a term coined by steve rodan in
an interview
last year is
obliquely self-explanatory. this compilation
represents artists
fromacross
the world who place committed listening at the
top of the creative
musical
process. it is in this moment of pure attention
that one's sense
ofself
simultaneously disappears and swells to encompass
the
surroundings. by
composing for this type of listening (good
headphones at high
volume
recommended) these artists force the listener to
pay focused
attention to
sound. after a couple times through this set you
may discover for
yourself
that compositions are all around you at every
moment, the hum of
the
refrigerator, the refuge truck backing up in the
alley, a plastic
bag
trapped in the fence rustling...'the only thing
that is not art is
inattention' said Marcel Duchamp, and now you too
are paying
attention.
enjoy!"
TRACK LISTING:
CD 1
1 roel meelkop "1 (beegee)" 05:06
2 artificial memory trace "infover" 05:59
3 bernhard g|nter "in her dream/mu is
running/autumn moon
(haiku for
mu)" 218.00 dim
4 richard chartier "3particles" 05:02
5 nosei sakata (*0) "cochler" 05:41
6 jason lescalleet "needles" 06:06
7 howard stelzer "bend or fold" 05:46
8 steve roden/ in be tween noise "8 windows
(first version)"
08:37
9 josh russell "1000x" 8:02
10 pimmon "finja falso peixes" 03:33
11 brekekekexkoaxkoax "for gerard klauder" 03:13
12 michael northam "kalpa [an excerpt] " 05:26
CD 2
1 taylor deupree "dopticn" 05:43
2 oren ambarchi + matthew thomas "stratagem
(distortus)" 01:24
3 quockenzocker "wonthaggi" 01:12
4 ios smolders "sequenzen (somehow inspired by
kh stockhausen)"
06:32
5 kid 606 "done/start" 03:28
6 (a)d(r)i(a)n(l)e(e) "(u)n(-)t(i)t(l)e(d)"
06:07
7 warsaw (1921) "sonarchy sounding" 07:17
8 colin jenkinson + kevin schwartz "duoic
ecneirepxe" 05:02
9 lt caramel "music pour parking payant" 06:05
10 joseph zitt "mouth.midnight" 03:52
11 ecclesiastical scaffolding "by winter, it had
to come to and
end" 03:58
12 richard cochrane "las bas (lower depths)"
03:06
13 dale anderson "lost velo" 03:36
14 rod stasick "obeliskrying" 03:47
15 tone speak "tone shifter" 04:50
PACKAGING:
the lowercase compilation comes packaged in a
double gatefolded
box printed
in 3 colors. designed by richard chartier and
features photography
by
carmen resendez capturing the rich, subdued
texture of much of the
music.
the package unfolds to reveal 30 silver printed
inserts with
biographical,
track and contact information on each of the
artists, in addition
to 3
inserts of artwork by richard chartier, steve
roden and josh
russell.
each package also comes with an extra bonus set
of the compilation
in its
own envelope sealed envelope sleeve to be passed
on to another
curious
listener.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
more information relevant to the compilation or
the
lowercase-sound list
server can be found at www.lowercasesound.com.
PRICING:
$15 + shipping
distributors/retailers please contact for
pricing.
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Left to itself, art would have to be something very simple - it would be sufficient
for it to be beautiful. But when it's useful it should spill out of just being
beautiful and move over to other aspects of life so that when we're not with the art
it has nevertheless influenced our actions or our responses. -John Cage
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