premiered by Quartetto Maurice on October 10, 2021 at the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik

hollower | for string quartet and phone speakers (2021)

This is Nathan McLaughlin’s latest installment of his Echolocation series. Following releases on Digitalis and Gift Tapes, #5 also continues the organic and thoughtful work of his duo Loud & Sad. Focused on tape loops, layers of delay, and some chordal forms, each piece is meticulously and methodically built, with each sonic element given its due. This sense of pacing and care given to every moment is a crucial element of McLaughlin’s work, and it’s deeply attuned here. The pieces reflect the environment in which they were composed, tight-knit and rural; they mass like storm clouds, and then are barely there, leaving just the fluttering of a distant echo. Stretches of silence, and windblown expanses. Rich chords swell into deeply contemplative passages that are gradually stripped away. A gorgeous, hushed set of tape music.

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"Echolocation #5 extends McLaughlin's exploration of the elegiac and the dirge, adding some crunchy, roiling passages as well. Often McLaughlin's loops gather, in small enough increments to avoid overt, ham-fisted drama, a strong sense of the ominous. These tensions, as well as the fine structural drift McLaughlin is patient enough to permit, make the Echolocation series a fluid one, without a start or an end. Echolocation #5 should be heard as an installation in a big-hearted work, issuing from a musician with an immense gift for subtle music. They are sent from a recondite artist who may well disappear before you receive them, so there's no time to waste." - Jesse Goin / Crow With No Mouth

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Mastered by Eric Steiger
Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery and N. McLaughlin

NTR017 - Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation 5 "A1 5.1"

On the long-awaited Exaptations, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring presents two highly textural, side-long pieces. On “Field Lines”, originally composed for Yvonne NG Peck Wan‘s dance piece, Magnetic Fields, a certain fragmented, uncertain openness is conveyed: a series of brief, dreamlike clearings are vignetted by pregnant silences or various levels of waking or sleeping states. Storring plays with a variety of tonal instruments that swell and tumble along while being nipped at by expressive percussion. Organic clusters develop within event-based sequences, stretching attention across multiple timbres and rhythms. On “Yield Criteria”, shifting drones move about like independent layers of ice on a lake in the dead of winter, slowing crumbling, sliding, and cracking in perfect harmony. Storring has written for dance and other interdisciplinary settings, and here he brings the delicate resourcefulness of a skilled accompanist, as well as a narrative sense that belatedly, profoundly blossoms.

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Field Lines:

Composed and recorded October 2013 - May 2014 for Yvonne Ng's dance piece, Magnetic Fields, which premiered in May 2014.

Nick Storring / various percussion and found objects, vibraphone, glockenspiel, balafon, chimes, hand bells, toy pianos, thumb pianos, voice/whistling, electric (NS Designs NXT4) and acoustic cellos, electric bass, electric mandola, violin, hammered dulcimer, Hohner Pianet T, Yamaha CP60M, Hohner Clavinet D6, flutes, harpsicle, strumstick, guitalele, steel pan, harmonica, melodica, pitch pipes, hulosi

Special thanks to Yvonne, Marie-Josée Chartier, Mairead Filgate, Luke Garwood, Christopher Willes. Thank you to Germaine Liu for the use of her vibraphone, and John Farah for the use of his Pianet.

Yield Criteria:

Composed and recorded February - June 2014.

Nick Storring / NS Designs NXT4 electric cello, electric bass, electric mandola, thunder tubes, Yamaha CP60M, toy piano, harmonica, duck call, voice, hand bells, glockenspiel

Elements were used in Eva Kolcze's film, All That Is Solid. Thank you to Eva, Spencer Barclay, Jason Doell, Brandon Valdivia, and Bryan Bray.

Processing and manipulation performed on the above sound sources (and the sound of a blank, chemically-treated 16mm film sound-strip) using combinations of the following: transducer speakers on various resonant chambers, instruments and surfaces; talkbox; spring reverb; recordable cassette walkman; various speakers; (contact) microphones.

Special thanks to Nicole Cultraro for her violin and kalimba, her support and inspiration, and patience with my process. Thanks also to Andrew Zukerman.

Gratitude also to all who listened and offered feedback.

Artwork and layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery
Printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans

NTR042 - Nick Storring - Exaptations "Field Lines"

Highway Twist

s.altro_cute

From the split tape / digital release with Loto Retina on Prix Libre Records :
https://prixlibrerecord.bandcamp.com/album/loto-retina-c-c?fbclid=IwAR042rXU-vpoOvEIRwrms_vsGRyQlaoSElyuPYZ-9RZUH5DGeuiO5gKZhxU

Loto Retina // C_C

(Gd_Bst) II

updated version for sante rekkids

Another acidy multitrack, this time using both 303s to trigger bs2 but also routing them thru a desk send back into bs2 filter env to create even more squelch. minimal mix with springverbs for quite big space. mlog on padd-y bits.

recorded before multiple surgeries on one of my tb's, xor recording smashed the shit outta the cutoff pot, lots of crunchies.

Santé Mentale, Vol.2 [SRC 002]
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Vrrrrmmvrrrmmm ! !

Santé Mentale, Vol. 2

Haz Acid2 [SRC002]

tape loop + casio 

From "Stud Control" https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/stud-control

a collection of tape loop and ambient recordings from summer 2021. Mostly recorded live to computer or tape at Cathedral ii, Cedar Village NC. Mastered by Glyn Maier

Secret Boyfriend - Nightshade

Grey Sky Acid

Rumblo

FROM THE ETHEREAL ON THE WAY UP

c_c is solo, i also play in OD Bongo, A_R_C_C, Orchestral Heat...
edribou@gmail.com
c_c releases list :
2024 : Six Crossings on ZamZamRec, vinyl and digital : https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/six-crossings
2023 : Voltiges on In Paradisum, tape and digital : https://inparadisum.bandcamp.com/album/voltiges
2022 : Gentianes et Myrtilles on Cold Moss, tape and digital : https://coldmoss.bandcamp.com/album/gentianes-et-myrtilles
2022 : split with Loto Retina on Prix Libre Records, tape and digital :
https://prixlibrerecord.bandcamp.com/album/loto-retina-c-c?fbclid=IwAR042rXU-vpoOvEIRwrms_vsGRyQlaoSElyuPYZ-9RZUH5DGeuiO5gKZhxU
2021 : IKEA on Da!HeardIt, tape and digital : https://dahearditrecords.bandcamp.com/album/d-hr-54-ikea
2021 : Bouclé-e-s on Krut, digital : 
https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/boucl-e-s
2018 : Brumas, Nieblas, Neblinas on ZAMZAM, tape and digital : https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/brumas-nieblas-neblinas
2017 : Abymes EP on Dataglitch, 12'' and digital : https://dataglitch.bandcamp.com/album/abymes
2017 : Album Impendulo on Da! Heard It recs, tape, plexidisc and digital :
https://www.daheardit-records.net/en/discography/dhr-34#release
2016 : Split tape with Genghis on Small But Hard : 
http://www.small-but-hard.com/products/572068-genghis-c_c-split-ep-cassette-digital
2012 : Album Retro/Action on Bedroom Research and Third Type Tapes :
http://bedroomresearch.bandcamp.com/album/retro-action
http://www.thirdtypetapes.com/page/ttt01-c-c-retro-action

(Gd_Bst) II

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