Welcome to the June 08 issue Furthernoise.org where we are pleased to announce the launch of our new net release compilation Explorations in Sound, Vol 3. Music of Sound.
Inspired by the ideas of Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Concrète, contributing artists were invited to respond to the natural tones and rhythms in raw acoustic or constructed sound and field recordings. It is available as a high quality mp3 compilation, free to download from the site with folded printed sleeve. More information including artists statements in the Exploration in Sound feature. Our audio player has again been restocked with new tracks from the issues reviews, so turn up the volume and sit back and enjoy ! Furthernoise issue June 2008 http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=68 "Twenty Hertz profiled: Romancing the Drone" (feature) Twenty Hertz is a musical platform for Paul Bradley and other sympathetic artists, including Monos, Keith Berry and Ubeboet. Since eponymous debut in 2003, on sometime collaborator, Colin Potter’s ICR label, Bradley has released a stream of textural works exploring the drone-based landscape. Sounds drawn from natural environments are combined with instruments - chiefly guitar – and shapeshifted through DSP manipulations into rich sonorous driftzones. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=239 feature by Alan Lockett "Explorations in Sound, Vol 3: Music of Sound - Various Artists" (review) Explorations in Sound, Vol 3, The Music Of Sound is a compilation of sound works inspired by the tones, drones and rhythms of everyday life. Drawing on the ideas of Pierre Schaeffers' Musique Concrète movement, contributing artists were invited to respond to the tones, timbre and rhythms present in everyday acoustic sound, and field recordings. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=247 review by Roger Mills "La Reponse est aux pieds - José Luis Redondo" (review) José Luis Redondo's album of solo guitar compositions is a testament to Redondo's dexterity and imagination. Using an unusual collection of stringed instruments, he accentuates the noises that most guitarists try to remove. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=240 review by Caleb Deupree "Musick for Two Machines - Barry Chabala & Phil Hargreaves" (review) Musick for two machines is a double CD release, designed to be played on two CD/ MP3 players simultaneously, with both machines in shuffle mode. It is another collaboration in a line of Phil Hargreaves releases created via long distance file sharing on the net. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=246 review by Roger Mills "Palimpsesto - Thanos Chrysakis, Dario Bernal Villegas and Oli Mayne" (review) Deriving from the Greek words for ‘again’ and ‘to rub smooth’, a palimpsest is, traditionally, a parchment that has been rubbed clean and then reused, each re-writing leaving its own faint traces. The musicians featured on Palimpsesto have set out to achieve this through sound: http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=242 review by Stacey Sewell "Signal - Various Artists" (review) SIGNAL, the first CD release by a UK label called Finetuned, compiles a broad spectrum of sound art, phonography and electro-acoustic composition. If I had to generalize, SIGNAL tends to feature pieces that are composed of abstract hums, meandering noises, or incidental digital artifacts devoid of human composition. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=245 review by Derek Morton "Slope - Steve Jansen" (review) Steve Jansen plays an integral, though easily overlooked, role in the efforts of one David Sylvain in his endeavors as Nine Horses. On Jansen's first solo work, his first opportunity to step to the fore, one can hear tell of what he says only through the voice of another, through an intermediary. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=241 review by Max Schaefer "Substrate, L'Inondation -Yui Onodera & Mathias Delplanque" (review) This tendency to dote on the sea, would it be owing to metaphor or metamorphosis? The latter is infinitely compelling, but then there is that transfixing tale, recounted by Emil Cioran, of the sea as consisting of God's tears. Hence our desire to drown in it, as a short-cut to God through his tears. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=243 review by Max Schaefer "The Subliminal Relation Between Planets, Dark Night - Andrea Marutti & Edward Ruchalski" (review) A black surface from which no light escapes, a white dwarf that, having shed its envelop, burns unremittingly at the core, Andrea Marutti's work pushes dark ambient to its limit. The Subliminal Relation Between Planets, while continuing in this vein, sees his work spill over onto another logic, one that tears it open, lifts it up out of itself, and gives it a luminosity, dim and red. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=244 review by Max Schaefer Roger Mills Editor, Furthernoise http://www.furthernoise.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
