Furthernoise issue June 2011 Welcome to June's Furthernoise, which is brimful of new reviews and sounds for your textual and aural pleasure. This issue is edited by Alan Lockett, depping for Roger Mills, who has found the groves of academe temporarily turned to swamps of deadline drudgery. He'll be back.
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=94 "Banish (MS64) : Philip Sulidae" (feature) Among a slew of new smaller labels there are some now august who have continued, holding to original mission. Mystery Sea set out in 2004, somewhat presciently, sounding a keynote of unmoored drift and decay with which late ambient themes have converged. First of four mystery sea-scapes revealed is Philip Sulidae's seductively sullen Banish. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=405 feature by Alan Lockett "A Static Place : Stephan Mathieu" (review) For A Static Place Mathieu sampled selections from his early music 78s with two mechanical gramophones, soundwaves from period instruments being read by a cactus needle and amplified through the diaphragm and on through the horn. The sound picked up by a pair of customized mikes was transformed by spectral analysis and convolution processes. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=408 review by Alan Lockett "Arset (MS66) : Jeremie Mathes" (review) On debut Árset French electro-acoustician Jérémie Mathes adds seashells, reef, shore, sand, and insects to the more conventional cymbals, candle holder, bass, ebow, horn, percussion and electronic devices. Not that you'd know it, so transformative is his agency. Aquatic thematics may be marginal, but Mathes creates fine dronescapes well-turned out in in-house colours. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=406 review by Alan Lockett "Coast/range/arc : Loscil" (review) Canadian Scott Morgan has over a series of refined works situated Loscil as a leading name in ambient electronica. Throughout these, he's found synergies between melody, motion and mood, operating at a dub-inflected remove. One Loscil constant has been environmental, and Coast/range/arc continues this, taking its cue from the coastal mountains of the Pacific Northwest. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=410 review by Alan Lockett "Dialogue One : Enrico Coniglio & Under The Snow" (review) This split release invokes cold and frost, but more Mediterranean than Arctic, where the snow softens the angles of the houses, changes the contour and color of the roads, and blends the forest into a dappled white. Breath and condensation fog the windows, removing another layer of focus. So also the music on Dialogue One. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=411 review by Caleb Deupree "Slowly (MS65) : Colin Andrew Sheffield" (review) Drawn from various commercially available recordings, Slowly has a strong, albeit abstracted, harmonic element. The source material is so transmuted as to obliterate origins; a thick mass of eponymously pulsing sound, natural grain blurred in a billowy drone fog. Sheffield makes free with time-stretched spectral figures and fields swimming in great halls of echo and reverb. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=404 review by Alan Lockett "vowl (MS67) : Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry" (review) Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry have, with a variety of installations, performances, and releases, accrued a substantial back catalogue in a short period. Setting field captures in concrète with acoustic and electronic forms, "vowl" bespeaks the duo's multimodal interests; a strong visual sense and Nature undertones blend in a form of textural synaesthesia. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=407 review by Alan Lockett "Ways of Meaning : Kyle Bobby Dunn" (review) Six glimpses of peaceful summer afternoons of drifting music make up Kyle Bobby Dunn's first vinyl release, Ways of Meaning. Using mostly guitar and organ, he creates instrumentals that hover for a brief tender instant before passing over to the next. Dunn's first vinyl release is full of the warm harmonies that vinyl presents so well. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=409 review by Caleb Deupree _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
