Ogrob : mini electric motors - circuit bending - electronics

Instant composition recorded at home July 9, 2022. No mastering.

Photography : Old creak - Ogrob 2019

Ogrob - Pour en finir avec la vielle à roue

Ogrob - Le bruit sera libre quand le cadavre du dernier carriériste baignera dans le sang de la dernière opportuniste 

Recording at 2:00 a.m. of railway workers and a factory train at the Mulhouse marshalling yard

Edit brut, No mastering, June 2023

Photography by Ogrob

Ogrob - L.B.S.L.Q.L.C.D.D.C.B.D.L.S.D.L.D.O.

Track taken from the 'les lambrissures crevees' LP (spasm56)
March 2015

Foreign Intervention

1 home made roto-microphone + recorder, 8 guitars, 8 guitar amps, 8 larsen/feedbacks. Recorded in december 2012, analogic treatment in october 2017 at N.E.M. Studio, La Mer Rouge, Mulhouse, France. Thanks to Rayot brothers.

Ogrob - Roto-feedback 2033 (demo, work in progress)

STYLUS + ASTATINE
AT TO ER // APT TO ERR // WHO AM THE ONLY ONE
Live @ 2017 Sonic Circuits Festival
Rhizome DC . Washington DC USA . Sunday 17 September 2017

periodontic tablatures + pratfalls for multiple turntables, vinyl recordings, guitars + digital malfeasance

001 TWIN FORKS
002 UNFINISHED PLOT
003 REQUIREMENT FOR LOCAL CONTENT
004 SOUNDS FROM THE ATTIC

STYLUS turntable ensemble
JS Adams, artistic director + score . Califone . processing . visuals
Jeff Bagato, Califone
Chester Hawkins, Califone
Janel Leppin, Califone
RA Martini, Califone
Gary Rouzer, Califone
Keith Sinzinger, Califone
Chris Videll, Califone
Bianca Williford, Califone

Stéphane Récrosio / Astatine, vinyl + original source recordings

Jeff Barsky, guitar
Josh McDonald, guitar
Guillermo Pizarro, digital contributor

Mei Mei Chang, live infrared visuals

Steve Sanders, recording
Joseph Dress, video

http://www.astatine.fr
http://www.stylus.adams-dress.com/
http://dc-soniccircuits.org
http://www.rhizomedc.org

(c) 2017 Trace Music + Creative Commons

STYLUS + ASTATINE : AT TO ER : APT TO ERR : WHO AM THE ONLY ONE : LIVE 2017

LCR Records start 2018 by announcing their next release: Washington DC’s abstract electronics outfit BLK w/BEAR with their new (textually challenging) album ‘MO RE B ROKEN TH AN Y OU’.

Heavily involved in DC’s new electronics scene (including the Sonic Circuits series that “exposes audiences to cutting edge contemporary music that defies genres”), BLK w/BEAR operate more as a collective group of individuals intrigued by the possibilities of sound than as a traditional band. Not for nothing is one member credited as playing “Califone turntables” and “Morse code”. ‘MO RE B ROKEN TH AN Y OU’ is their most fully-realised recording to date.The album consumes multiple influences from the worlds of contemporary music and art, processing them into sounds that are both familiar and strangely disorienting. In their own words, BLK w/BEAR “wanted to create something familiar yet wholly different”. 
 
For reference points, the combination of dissonance, melody and depth in opening track ‘How To Stage Yr Own Death’ follows on from Ben Frost’s exploration of clashing overtones and there’s certainly an echo of Kosmische Muzik in the gently pulsing ‘Weggewaschen’.The sparse piano lines of ‘Sloth Extraction 11’ threaten to quote from a modern classical composer before the underlying electronics rise up and push it off course, an event that occurs across several tracks. Later on is a piece entitled ‘Allan Kaprow’ in tribute to a pioneer of performance art, another clue as to the collective’s leanings. Finally, the album resolves with the lengthy ‘Honour Code’, sounding almost like a liturgical song heard from afar, a neat summary of BLK w/BEAR’s overall approach.   
 
PREVIOUS PRESS
THE WIRE (UK):“BLK w/BEAR are like Basic Channel at their most abstract, and after a serious nervous breakdown."
ECHOES & DUST (UK):“A sonic holy place.” 
DECODER (US): “A space-bound entity, evoking the vast harmonious shifting of the cosmos through the use of glitchy tape cuts, hovering strings and echoing drones." 
SUBJECTIVISTEN (NL):“A peerless and most compelling album.”
TERRASCOPE (UK): “Teutonic, Eno-esque and psychedelic."   
   
PERSONNEL 
JS Adams : loops . prepared vinyl . Califone turntables . Morse code . electronics . prepared guitar . processing
Doug Poplin : cello + effects . lap steel . Korg LittleBits . trumpet . voice
PD Sexton : bass + effects . guitar + effects . Korg Minilogue .
Renée Shaw : live video mix

BLK w/BEAR - We Fled Into The Darkness Because That Is All There Ever Was

Music ans words by Monovalley
Bass guitar by Ohjim
Sharp guitar at the end by Stphn Récrosio

MASTERS

Inferno

First Recordings : 1986 ARS Sessions
JS Adams . John Timmons . Robert Campbell Hunter . Ellen Weis . Christoper White . EE Harlow

Foreign Intervention

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