Shuyuan Men / Shuyuan Men on the east side of the South Gate, directly facing the west side of Xiangzi Men / On both sides of the road you can buy writing brush and ink, paper, and ink stones- the 'Four Treasures' needed for writing Chinese calligraphy / There are many traditional arts and crafts stores here. Another kind of scenic flavor //

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书院门

hidden paradise #3

Static spokenwords by Lesley Wood

'"TV Static Noise" c/o youtube user Sleep White Noise 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0I4mTEdAf8

"Ode to Joy" by Beethoven

Static
Listen.
Everything else is secondary
Everything else is static
Pay no attention to the rules and labels.
Reach for the core, pull out the heart 
There is green in the wasteland. 
Blue beyond gray. 
Slough off the mud covered. 
There are jewels in the mire. 
Ignore the distractions fantasies illusion.
Feel your way thru the fog. 
Hear the deep beat. Its in everything.
Listen!
Everything else is secondary. 
Everything else is static. 
Yes! 
White noise brings no joy.
Lost in the dark
All memories erased. 
Feel your way thru the fog. 
Hear the deep beat 
Your heart. 
Its in everything. 
Resonating. 
Listen! 
Everything else is secondary. 
Everything else is static.

©℗2015 by Lesley Wood
img src- 'Blinx7' by Rosa Menkman for creativeapplications.net

Static

done using a Jupiter 8 and Boss effects unit.
Roland Is Boss

Thank You Mr. Kakehashi (Roland is Boss) Absolutely

ilia belorukov - alto saxophone
konstantin samolovov - selected drums, objects, radio

Ilia Belorukov & Konstantin Samolovov – live at Kuryokhin Center 2018-03-15

Gravure : Frans Masereel, série "25 images de la Passion d’un homme" (1918).

Août 2019.

Ne rédigez plus de chèques en bois, mangez du polystyrène !

White Knight

Gamma Velorum

Pre-order now available via Imprec.com 

No Date Tapes is the first official cassette release from Harry Bertoia's tape archive and it contains two of the longest recordings yet discovered, each over 30 minutes. This cassette is packaged in a gold shell and produced on super-ferro tape for incredible analog sound. First printing of 100 copies.

Both sessions on this cassette are sourced from a collection of Bertoia tapes that were found without dates. While it's unknown when these pieces were recorded, the artist's notes are included on the packaging so it's clear how he felt about these recordings. These pieces were selected, in part, because of the contrasting opinions Bertoia had for each session.

Side A was considered by the artist to be a "good performance" which was "rich in variety" and had "good structure and fine tonality." This particular tape has aged quite well and provides clear audio insights into the sonic territory that Bertoia pioneered. 

Side B provides a fascinating sonic contrast to side A. The artist's notes suggest that he was pleased with some tonalities but the composition was "not properly developed" and contained, in Bertoia's words, "too much music." 

It's our hope that by releasing pieces like this, paired with the artist's own notes, an attentive listener can gain insight into the processes that determined the outcome of the artist's work. What does Bertoia mean by "too much music?" What is the tonality being pursued? What type of compositional structure did he find to be appealing? 

These are some of the questions we're attempting to answer as we digitize and release the pioneering sonic sculpture of Harry Bertoia.

Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

No Date Tapes

Harry Bertoia - No Date Tapes - Cassette C60 - Pre-Order

Bivouac Recording is a sound label based in Hong Kong.
Bivouac Recording是一个录音品牌且提供录音服务的公司，致力于推进独立现场录音项目。

For a richer experience of the field recordings and audio please read the descriptions for each track. 

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