Trumpet, Trombone, Horn in F

Duration: 12 minuter

Composed in 2006

Cut up 1 - Brass Trio (30 seconds extract)

Produced and mixed by John Parish. Engineered by Oliver Baldwin. Recorded at J&J Studio Bristol. Mastered by Jason Mitchell at LOUD Mastering. 

Photography by Tasha Barker.

Clown

'Happiness' - the second track from a suite of 5 released as a tour-only disc via Manchester's Ono imprint. The record, called Fleck EP, features work by Michael Cutting and Vitalija Glovackyte alongside mine; all of which are fixed-media reimaginings of a live show we've been touring since May 2015. It involves birds, fish, old ladies and live text projections. For more info, head here:

http://www.acm-ensemble.co.uk/fleck.html

UK DATES:
130515 - Apiary Studios, London
140515 - Vivid Projects, Birmingham
150515 - S1 Artspace, Sheffield
160515 - Metal, Liverpool
170515 - IABF, Manchester

EU DATES:
170615  - Del Rex, Berlin
190615  - Spanien 19, Aarhus
200615 - Mayhem, Copenhagen
220615 - Splendour, Amsterdam

US DATES:
040317 - National Sawdust, New York City

Happiness

Thursday is a response to FLECK, FLOB, FLOP, a new large-scale work by Joe Snape for chamber ensemble, electronics and live-typed text projection, to be taken on a UK and EU tour in May-June 2015 by ACM.

This release is part of a very limited, hand crafted edition, which also features works by Michael Cutting and Joe Snape and will be released on Manchester's very own ONO, an experimental label nurtured by the ever so devoted Michael Holland.



Thursday [FLECK EP]

Deniel Perer - Organ.
Tempio della Rotonda, Rovigo.
Recording: Matteo Costa
Callido Project

Klangsauger (2015, first version)

'SOG' is the magisterial Slip debut of Klaas Hübner, the Berlin-based sound sculptor, improviser, and instrument-builder whose installations coax out uncanny chants from whirly tubes, ceiling fans, styrofoam, and cassette tapes. 

Recorded live in Germany and New Orleans from 2013 to 2016, 'SOG'’s six works mold elemental acoustic forces through elegant constructions ranging from the domestic to the gargantuan. On ‘single tube’, a lone Hübner swings a whirly tube above his head; on ‘château poulet’ - a collaborative work with Andrew Schrock - the artist’s body becomes a 10 metre tower, whose belt and clutch system whirls jumbo tubes attached to the blades of multiple ceiling fans. 

'SOG'’s works play out time and time again in the interstitial zone between automation and spontaneity, machine and body. ‘schwarzwald’ submits ten tape loops of the artist’s voice to a mechanised dance which visually and sonically echoes an eerie forest; in ‘music for ceiling fan and tubes’, Hübner and regular collaborator Lysandre Coutu­-Sauvé sing seductively through whirlies as a ceiling fan chops above their heads. 

Perhaps most astonishing is the psychedelic, otherworldly pleasures 'SOG'’s cyclic architectures illicit. An instinct for hypnotic, primal rhythm powers Hübner’s work as much as lyricism. ‘sswsw’ and ‘extended pickup #1’ - a pair of poignant motorised elegies for metronomes and a funnelled airstream - recall melancholic cuts from Actress or De Leon as much as canonic works from Ligeti, Cage, or Chris Watson.

'SOG' [SLP025] is available on C50 tape or CD, with download. It comes packaged with a fold-out A3 poster containing artwork, documentation, and accompanying notes by Klaas Hübner. Mastered by Owen Roberts.

@klaas-h-bner
www.matchees.blogspot.co.uk

SOG [SLP025] - Klaas Hübner
Released: May 2016

music for ceiling fan and tubes - Klaas Hübner (ft. Lysandre Coutu-Sauvé)

'Vyamanikal' is the Slip debut of Kit Downes and Tom Challenger: a collection of transcendent improvisations where the primordial moans and whistles of remote organs meld with gossamer saxophone. 

Recorded at 5 Suffolk churches during a 2015 Aldeburgh Music residency, 'Vyamanikal' deftly explores the native nuances and acoustics of 6 organs and their surrounding environment. Downes’ organ playing is alternately delicate and thunderous, teasing out unearthly vibrations from converted harmoniums and mighty, century-old 3 manual organs like Framlingham’s ‘Thamar Organ’. Challenger’s sax lines act as a conduit between the instrument and their locale, probing errant pipe tones for interferences, and embellishing distant birdsong.

Named after the ancient Sanskrit term for flying machines - ‘Vaimānika Shāstra’ - the pair’s second release since 2012’s Wedding Music celebrates music-making at its most meditative and transient. 

Kit and Tom have performed together at the Royal Festival Hall, Café OTO, The London Contemporary Music Festival, Cologne Philharmonie, Swaledale Music Festival, and been broadcasted live on the BBC. 'Vyamanikal'’s forthcoming dates include Aldeburgh Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, and Norway’s Stavanger Organ Day.

'Vyamanikal' [SLP024] is available on CD and download. It comes packaged with a fold-out A3 poster with photography by Alex Bonney, who also recorded, mixed and mastered the album.

@tomchallenger
@kitdownesmusic
vimeo.com/148794039

Vyamanikal [SLP024] - Kit Downes & Tom Challenger
Released: May 2016

Sa - Kit Downes & Tom Challenger

'SK√-1' is the debut Slip missive from British composer Matt Rogers: a suite of solo scorchers belched straight out of the jack of a GravesEnd Casio SK1. Veering between fissured arabesques and apocalyptic anthems, SK√-1 is pumped with a singularly psychotic optimism. Keener ears might detect a manic relation of Oneohtrix Point Never or Heatsick; an eccentric prophet à la Nancarrow or Robert Ashley; a Gameshow Outpatient.

Matt has won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers; held residencies at London’s Southbank Centre and at Tokyo’s Wonder Site; and produced large scale works for the Royal Opera House, Aldeburgh Music, and the New York Metropolitan Museum Of Art. 

'SK√-1' [SLP028] is available on Flo-Green C30 tape or CD, with download. It comes packaged with a recycled card artwork insert by Matt Rogers. Tapes dubbed by Callum Higgins. Mastered by Owen Roberts.

@soundmammal
www.gameshowoutpatient.com

SK√-1 [SLP028] - Matt Rogers
Released: May 2016

SK√-1 ■ - Matt Rogers

'Heat, War, Sweat, Law' is British composer Laurie Tompkins’ debut solo recording: a desperate stomp on the bones of Heaven 17’s ‘The Height Of The Fighting’, replete with rabid voices, cracked pots, faltering pipes, spent IKEA bags and egg shakers, and spasmodic ghosts of Martyn Ware synths. 

Part foaming rant, part exercise routine, HWSL’s incessant shaking, hammering and yelling wear down soloist, tools, and the tolerance of an audience put upon by a dispersed mob seeking to recruit them in their inane howling and clapping. 

Laurie has been commissioned by Aldeburgh Music, the LSO Soundhub Scheme, and the ddmmyy series; performed HWSL in London, Aarhus, and Berlin; made radio programs for Resonance and NTS; and collaborated with Oliver Coates, Otto Willberg, Suze Whaites, and Dori Deng. He co-directs Slip with Tom Rose and Suze Whaites. 

'Heat, War, Sweat, Law' [SLP029] is available on metallic gold C25 tape or CD, with download. It comes packaged with a fold-out A3 poster with ‘business wanker’ artwork by Joel Wycherley. Tapes dubbed by Callum Higgins. Mixed and mastered by Owen Roberts.

@ltpieces
www.laurietompkins.co.uk

Heat, War, Sweat, Law [SLP029] - Laurie Tompkins
Released: May 2016

Sweat - Laurie Tompkins

'Dawning On' is Australian, Berlin-based guitarist Julia Reidy’s Slip debut: a razor-sharp précis of pent-up, blazing melancholy on a lone 12-string guitar.

Reidy’s playing is lucid and poised, teasing out elegant inflections from half-melodies, rugged strums, and curious tunings. Her compositions are lingering streams: barely-shackled attacks give way to introspective arpeggiations before resurging again, all spurred on by a yearning, nervous energy. 

With the album’s single-track A-side clocking in at just under half-an-hour, this is by some measure Julia’s most comprehensive solo statement to date, and a luxurious listen which revels in the 12-string’s generous resonance. For our money, it’s up there with the finest work of her fellow Aussies The Necks, Anthony Pateras, and Jon Rose. 

'Dawning On' [SLP033] is available on red C65 tape or CD, with download. It comes packaged with a double-sided fold-out A3 poster with artwork by Suze Whaites. Recorded by Owen Roberts and Giulherme Fill. Mastered by Joe Talia. Tapes dubbed by Klaas Hübner. 

@juliareidy
www.julia-reidy.com

Dawning On [SLP033] - Julia Reidy
Released: February 2017

Upwelling - Julia Reidy

ELECTRONIC FREQUENCIES 17 07 13  / 29 07 13


A FEMALE FOCUS

electronic female artists from around the globe. an elegant dance in between dreamy vocal lines, radical sound poetry, pure field recordings and some catchy laptop -music.


Oy (GH/CH) - Crappy Mini Band (BE) - Lynn Cassiers (BE) - 
Pninax/Maya Felixbrodt (ISR) - Kupfer 29 (CH) - Hanna Hartman (DE) - 
Beatnadel (DE) - Nathani Hell (IT) – Tragic Cabaret (UK) -
Olivia Oyama (USA/DE) – Laura Altman (AU)



PLAYLIST

Title:   Toilet Witch
Composer: Oy
Performers:   Oy
Released: 2010
Title CD:  First Box Then Walk
Label/Nr.:  Creaked Records - CRDS 21

http://www.oy-music.com


Title:   KazoOuverture
Composer: Crappy Mini Band
Performers:   Crappy Mini Band
Released: 2010
Title CD:  Licking Forward
Label/Nr.: La Madame Avec Le Chien - DOG007CD

www.myspace.com/crappyminiband


Title:   night out of a weirdo's mind
Composer: Lynn Cassiers
Performers:   Lynn Cassiers
Released: 2013
Title CD:  The bird the fish and the ball
Label/Nr.: Rat Records/ RAT019

http://lynncassiers.com

Title:   mtv
Composer: Lynn Cassiers
Performers:   Lynn Cassiers
Released: 2013
Title CD:  The bird the fish and the ball
Label/Nr.: Rat Records/ RAT019

http://lynncassiers.com


Title:   positivili
Composer: Oy
Performers:   Oy
Released: 2009
Title CD:  Music Grows On Trees
Label/Nr.:  Creaked Records - CRDS 18

http://oy-music.com

Title:   Yellow stomach music 
Composer: Maya Felixbrodt/Pninax
Performers:   Maya Felixbrodt/ Georgi Stozjanov 
Released: 2010
Label/Nr.:  bandcamp

http://www.pninax.com

Title:   Aquaplaning
Composer: Kupfer 29
Performers:   Kupfer 29
Released: 2005
Title CD:  Kupfer 29


https://myspace.com/kupfer29





Title:   Shanghai fireflies
Composer: Hanna Hartman 
Performers:   Hanna Hartman, Tobias Dutschke, Sabine Ercklentz
Released: 2011
Title CD:  H^2
Label/Nr.:  KOMPLOTT

http://www.hannahartman.de

Title:   No Harm
Composer: Beatnadel
Performers:   AGF aka Antye Greie
Released: 2011
Title CD:   Beatnadel
Label/Nr.:  AGF Producktion 016

http://beatnadel.poemproducer.com

http://antyegreie.com



Title:   Malaria Throughout
Composer: Nathani Hell
Performers:   Nathani Hell
Unreleased

https://myspace.com/fairysmurder/music/songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fjFJxMiLuA




Title:  Yip Yip
Composer: Marie Thompson 
Performers:   Marie Thompson 
Released: 2012
Unreleased

https://soundcloud.com/tragic-cabaret

http://kindredtapes.blogspot.nl



Title:   klapdance
Composer: Lynn Cassiers
Performers:   Lynn Cassiers
Released: 2013
Title CD:  The bird the fish and the ball
Label/Nr.: Rat Records/ RAT019

http://lynncassiers.com


Title:   Camp tiki 
Composer: Oy
Performers:   Oy
Released: 2010
Title CD:  First Box Then Walk
Label/Nr.:  Creaked Records - CRDS 21

http://www.oy-music.com


Title:   Chatuchak Market + National Anthem, 2010
Composer: Olivia Oyama 
Performers:   Olivia Oyama
Released: 2010
Self-published

www.ausland-berlin.de/olivia-oyama




Title:   Telefonie
Composer: Lynn Cassiers
Performers:   Lynn Cassiers
Released: 2013
Title CD:  The bird the fish and the ball
Label/Nr.: Rat Records/ RAT019

http://lynncassiers.com


Title:   Apartment
Composer: Laura Altman
Performers:   Laura Altman
Self-Published, 2013


http://lauraaltman.net



Title:   Positivili Two
Composer: Oy
Performers:   Oy
Released: 2010
Title CD:  First Box Then Walk
Label/Nr.:  Creaked Records - CRDS 21

http://oy-music.com


Electronic Frequencies ft. MuseRuole - A Female Focus  - july 17th & july 29th 2013

Joe Snape (1989) mixes conventional and homemade instruments with light, text and video to make unusual and emotive performances. His work has been presented at places like The Kitchen (New York), Café Oto (London), and Wonder Site (Tokyo), and also at places like the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg) and Aldeburgh Music. The Quietus calls Joe’s music ‘goofy, melancholy, irreverent fun – very, very singularly itself.’ Fluid Radio thinks it’s ‘joyous and beautiful’, and one time in The Guardian Nico Muhly called it ‘organized, disorganized fun’. In front of a small audience, AACM trombonist George Lewis described Joe’s work as ‘some seriously unartful sh*t,’ and everybody agreed. Joe is a former UK Young Artist, has been nominated for the Arts Foundation’s Creative Producer fellowship, and has helped commission new work from over twenty young artists and composers on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a recipient of the 2021-22 Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Award for Artists in Composition and was a 2020-21 composer-in-residence at the beautiful Sage Gateshead.

Happiness

Joe Snape

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