03 Bach - O Mensch Bewein Dein Sunde Gross BWV 622

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (SLT-008)

Saltern presents a thrilling new live recording of Naldjorlak for solo cello, composer Éliane Radigue’s first piece for an acoustic instrument, paired with a remastered version of the long out-of-print, original 2006 recording. Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, Naldjorlak marked a striking shift in the music of Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated Occam series. This double-CD album brings together two complete performances by Curtis, recorded nearly 15 years apart (Paris in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2020), drawing attention to the evolution of the piece and to its inherent mutability. The sound and spirit of Naldjorlak are centered around the re-tuning of the entire cello to the wolf tone, a uniquely unstable frequency, creating a haunting, almost feedback-like resonance within the instrument itself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry. Includes extensive liner notes by Gascia Ouzounian, Radigue, and Curtis, and a reproduction of Radigue's never-before-published original drawing of Naldjorlak.

From Gascia Ouzounian’s liner notes: “Even as it expands conceptions of what sound is, and thus what music can be, to understand Naldjorlak only as music would be to limit its scope. It is music, but it is also physics and philosophy. Naldjorlak is a detailed investigation of the physical properties of resonating bodies and dynamic systems; it is a meditation on the condition of instability; it is a metaphysics of chaos and uncertainty.”

Éliane Radigue – Naldjorlak (Los Angeles, 2020) (excerpt)

Singularity 08: Tell Me Not Here

Spectral Evolution tracklist (one continuous track):

00:00  Intro				       
01:30  Changes			        
09:48  Descending		                
12:35  First Short Space	        
14:38  Take the Train  		        
19:02  First Long Space 		
25:36  Fifths Twice			        
30:59  Second Long Space	        
36:19  Your Goodbye 		       
39:49  Second Short Space	        
42:20  Ascending			         
43:15  Changes Reprise

Spectral Evolution

Recorded in the church of Saint Anne in the muslim quarter, the old city of Jerusalem.
Based on an song by unknown composer, the 12th century

Recording Technician: Dan Lavee

Saint Anne de Jérusalem

something's lost, but something's gained

Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall LP (SLT-003)

First vinyl reissue of composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada's second album, Off The Wall, originally released in 1985 by famed free jazz label FMP. Recorded in Berlin on May 11 and 12, 1984, by a quartet featuring Yoshi Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ (hand-built by Wada), and Andreas Schmidt Neri on percussion. Edition of 750. Mastered by Rashad Becker and housed in old-style gatefold jackets printed by Stoughton.

"Off The Wall belongs somewhere between the exuberant harmolodic ritual of Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head, a damp, medieval dirge and the inner ear soundings of composer Maryanne Amacher." – David Keenan, The Wire

"It may be more accurate to think of Wada as a sculptor than as a composer, because his music seems to be a physical reality, like wood or stone, and also because of the way he treats this material. Most composers work with ideas. Their basic interest is in melodies, harmonies, thematic relationships, tone rows, tonal centers, emotional qualities, and other rather abstract things, all of which can then be conveyed in sound, but none of which really are sound. Wada, on the other hand, works directly with the sound itself. His music would sound silly arranged for church organ for example. And if he prefers to preserve some improvisatory freedom rather than to notate specific musical ideas, this is at least partly because he is not so interested in the kinds of musical ideas that can be written down on paper. He wants to maintain direct contact with the physical reality of the sound." – Tom Johnson

Yoshi Wada – Off The Wall I (excerpt)

The Conservation Of Energy is taken from the forthcoming Vanishing Twin album on Soundway Records. 

Vanishing Twin - The Conservation Of Energy

Caterina Barbieri & Kali Malone - Glory (Final Movement)

The final movement of Glory is a slowly evolving canon for two electric guitars pouring landscapes of bliss from the pythagorean region of the harmonic spectrum.

Composed at EMS in Stockholm SE 2015.
Recorded at Villa Strozzi in Florence IT 2016.

Side A from XKatedral Volume III
Edition of 100
Released on October 6th 2016

Caterina Barbieri & Kali Malone - Glory (Final Movement)

Order OHER PEPLE'S CRIMES: www.anaott.bandcamp.com/album/other-peoples-crimes

After ‘Cobraxine’, ‘Boogie Throb’, and the Ana Ott – released ‘Molochville’, Brecht Ameel (Razen/Ameel Brecht) gives us his new album under the Br’lâaB moniker ‘Other People’s Crimes’; a high-on-paranoia, pre-crime-surveillance narrative, constructed after hours in the studio from a combination of Ameel’s own recordings on a widely varied set of instruments, library music, flea-market broken vinyls and old cassettes. Part blind-overdub palimpsest-collage, part straightforward composition, the 10” contains both Br’lâaB’s loop constructions and tracks performed by the found audio phantom band called the Acid Boogie Quartet. Bearing more gritty layers of both sound and subtext than ever, the “Other People’s Crimes” EP stands as an artefact of wild paranoia and spy-thriller sonics, weaving vignettes of surveillance gone wrong, doublethink and confessional echolalia.

Police and thieves are in the streets, running wild with nosebleeds and ill will ids. Dial v for victim as the night horizon broods a neon luminol glow. Howling at the vortex, buried under blindfolds, vigilantes take to crime with fear and ketamines.

Other People's Crimes

Br'lâaB - Dial V for Victim

What is the sound of a piano replicating the energy, mannerisms, and intent of a pianist? What is the difference between a sensitive pianist balancing the interwoven melodies of a fugue, or channeling the melancholia of a concerto, and a computerized piano outputting the same techniques and emotions? The Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada takes up these questions in Table of Visions, a composition for the Steinway Spirio, a “high-resolution player piano” designed to record and replay live performances. Table of Visions is a series of studies of the relationship between musical style and technique, playing and programming. Equally elegant and surreal, the work moves between recordings of Wada’s performances on the Spirio, sequences that could not be physically played, and disorienting combinations of the two. 

Table of Visions was commissioned by Triple Canopy as the culmination of Omniaudience, the magazine’s yearlong Public Engagement residency at the Hammer Museum, organized with the artist Nikita Gale. The work was planned as an installation at the Hammer Museum in April 2020, with Wada’s composition to be played continuously on the Spirio—as a sonic environment to be experienced at will, rather than a program to be heard from start to finish—and punctuated by live performances with Charles Curtis and Julia Holter. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the presentation of Table of Visions at the Hammer was postponed. As the installation and performances are rescheduled, and the work is adapted for presentation in other venues, we’re publishing a sketch for “Automatic World,” one of the studies in Table of Visions.

To read an essay about Table of Visions by Alexander Provan, Triple Canopy’s editor, navigate to: https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/table-of-visions

Tashi Wada is a Los Angeles-based composer and performer whose works explore harmonic overtones, resonance, and dissonance through precise tuning and gradual changes in pitch. Learn more at: https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contributors/w#tashi-wada

“Table of Visions” was published as part of Two Ears and One Mouth, Triple Canopy’s twenty-sixth issue, which is made possible through the generous support of the Stolbun Collection, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Saint Anne de Jérusalem

Dan.Weinstein

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