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Pour Rappel, Avatar invite en 1994 des artistes à détourner le téléphone, objet quotidien par excellence, et à l’utiliser comme diffuseur, comme enregistreur ou encore comme lieu d’échange. À titre de balises, Avatar leur pose les questions suivantes : comment transmuter la banalité des échanges sonores qui caractérisent le téléphone? Comment peut-on intervenir sur les sons qui le déterminent et sur les codes d’échange qu’il impose? Cette publication est une appropriation de l’outil téléphonique et une réflexion sur ses caractéristiques propres.

Rappel est un projet qui s’étend sur une période de deux ans au cours de laquelle les artistes occupent une ligne téléphonique réservée au projet, entre le 15 septembre 1994 et le 26 mai 1995. Le 7 janvier 1995, les artistes de Rappel investissent l’émission Les chants magnétiques de Mario Gauthier à la Chaîne culturelle de la Société Radio-Canada. Toutes les expérimentations sont enregistrées et compilées par Christof Migone d’Avatar. Rappel paraît finalement en 1996.

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For Rappel, Avatar invited artists to orchestrate a détournement of the telephone—that epitome of ordinariness—using it to broadcast, record, or host exchanges. To guide the artists, Avatar asked the following questions: How might the telephone’s characteristically banal sound exchanges be transformed? What could be done to its identifying sounds and the codes of communication they impose? Rappel subverts the telephonic instrument and reflects on its fundamental nature.

Rappel was a two-year project. Artists worked with a dedicated phone line between September 15, 1994, and May 26, 1995. On January 7, 1995, they took over Mario Gauthier’s Les chants magnétiques on Radio-Canada’s Chaîne culturelle. Their experiments were recorded and compiled by Avatar’s Christof Migone. Rappel was at last released in 1996.

N'oubliez Pas De Débrancher

Track recorded live februari 3rd 2014 at ll150.
from the album 'SPOEL' released on Sicsic Tapes!

Gamut

Where sky meets forest ain't so easy to tell. Sunlight jumps from wave to wave. The beat, a lazy pulse. Content to watch a while, take it all in. Clouds would catch the colours. A Mediterranean panorama. 

* we come in naked, and we go naked.


1. Catherine Ribeiro - Paix
2. Barnt - 0221 51025Xx
3. Gregory Whitehead - The Pleasure Of Ruins
4. Ssaliva - Trimensional
5. The Durian Brothers - Die Eisheiligen
6. Larry Heard - Faint Object Detection
7. Glitterburg - Apparition
8. Ariel Kalma - Les Mots de Tous Les Jours (Rêves Etranges)
9. Jaures - Reprise
10. Boris Blank - Oranges
11. Ariel Kalma - Barimpa 
12. Timoka - Pentekost
13. Acid Arab - Zhar
14. L/F/D/M/ - Book Of Five
15. Baby Ford - Poem For Wigan


STR (clicklounge)

MAD PROFESSOR --SET--

from the album Charles Cohen - "Brother I Prove You Wrong" out on Morphine Records 2015 - doser026LP

Composer, improviser, and Buchla Music Easel master Charles Cohen returns to Morphine with a suite of new material. In keeping with the timbre spectrum of his semi-modular system, Brother I Prove You Wrong is built around pointillist analog tones—Cohen's cosmic "beeps and boops"—that swarm and scatter in mesmeric patterns across four sides. Moving through surrealistic textural overlays and industrial miasma, the album's nine tracks reveal a more introspective and personal side of the artist, following from a retrospective LP trilogy released via Morphine in 2013. Those assembled works, dating back to the late '70s, quickly became essential listening and brought Cohen—at the time largely unknown outside Philadelphia's experimental circuit—to critical renown. 

Brother I Prove You Wrong was recorded in Berlin in September 2014 using the Buchla Music Easel, with production help and support from Rabih Beaini. Mastered by Neel and curated and designed by TankBoys; cover art by Nathalie du Pasquier.

Charles Cohen - The Boy and the Snake Dance

GRDN. -  particles, coarse - Hiesfeld

i exist for as long as you think about me

Elements Chord Mode

SILENCE RADIO is back on SoundCloud FM.

With a very special guest this time.

Give an attentive listen and a warm welcome to up and coming Lithuanian selector Clicklounge. 

Disenos Conbusier - Le Chat [Dark Entries]
Inga Mauer - Cologne - Clone [HVNX]
Baaz - Kraut House [Office Recordings]
Pierre LX - Index 1 [Initial Cuts]
Oliver Deutschmann - Gasolinum (Oskar Offermann Remix) [Aim]
Henrik Bergqvist - Our City [Trouble In Paradise]
Inga Mauer  - I’ve Nothing To Say [HVNX]
HM - Don’t Go Lose It Baby (Benedikt Frey Reinterpretation)
Beesmunt Soundsystem - Blissed Out [HNYTRX]
Paul Du Lac - Backstreet Boy [Bio Rhythm]
Cute Heels - Lipstick Information [Dark Entries]
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Black Zone Myth Chant - Sleeping With Tv On [Laitdbac]

SILENCERADIO007 - Clicklounge

TOMAGA "Memory In Vivo Exposure" (12"/DL).
HITD 037
Release date: 8th December 2017

All tracks composed, perfomed & recorded by TOMAGA
Mastering by Mike Grinser @ D&M, Berlin
Original cover photograph by David Child

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

TOMAGA - Memory In Vivo Exposure (Parts 1 & 2)

ATN037 - Radiante Pourpre - I

Senoide Oh! Senoide 1

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/coyotes/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/coyotes
Catalog #: GN49
Cassette, limited to 100

Félicia Atkinson is a composer, sculptor, painter, poet, and publisher from Rennes, France. Atkinson has led a fruitfully fantastic run of eerily blissful, serenely euphoric sounds. Whether under her own name or via her defunct recording pseudonym Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier, Atkinson has released work on Umor Rex, Digitalis Limited, Aguirre, and Shelter Press, an imprint co-run with Bartolomé Sanson.

‘Coyotes’ is an EP inspired by Atkinson’s last voyage to New Mexico in February 2017, when she visited and took in the geographic landscapes from Taos to Ghost Ranch. The same vistas also inspired much of Agnes Martin’s and Georgia O’Keefe’s painting, as well as Jerome Rothenberg’s poetry and translation’s works.

Atkinson describes a ‘Coyotes’ as a “Carnet de Voyage,” a tape you could directly play in your car while traveling somewhere, a kind of imaginary map to a sentimental journey. A spontaneous gesture, close to the notion of gift or offering. Or, simply, a postcard to a friend.” But it’s also a praise to the conservation of national and state parks and its human and non-human souls, menaced as we know now by drilling and violent economic speculations.

Here, coyotes act as a kind of metaphor of ambiguity and doubt, a state of mind that Atkinson find interesting to transcribe musically; the ambiguity furthered by Atkinson as a literal “foreigner” in New Mexico. She conveys a sense of visiting these native sacred lands and wondering what you are doing there.

Musically, ‘Coyotes’ is composed of two long tracks, “Abiqiu” and “Lighter Than Aluminium.” Each track features an effervescent froth of piano, midi sounds evokes marimbas, Fender Rhodes, bells, sub-basses, and spoken word poetry written by the musician to display a melancholic landscape made of transparent but deep layers of pale colors and blurry lines.

Gamut

David Edren / DSR Lines

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