Excerpts of "So Lobes Drape as Such Gills Over a Hanger's Pit" and "Soft Crown" from Coppice's "Vantage/Cordoned" CD, out in February 2014 on caduc. Composed by Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer for prepared pump organs and signal processes. 

Two excerpts from "Vantage/Cordoned" [2014] by Coppice

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"Stamp of Coincidence Element (Reed Box)" from "Vinculum (Coincidence)" [2014] by Coppice

"Stamp of Coincidence Element (Accordion Bellows)" from "Vinculum (Coincidence)" [2014] by Coppice

"Stamp of Coincidence Element (Metal Tube)" from "Vinculum (Coincidence)" [2014] by Coppice

"Stamp of Coincidence Element (Shruti Box)" from "Vinculum (Coincidence)" [2014] by Coppice

VIDEO VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfM44NUHfW8
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Five excerpts from "Cores/Eruct" [2015] by Coppice

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Category of manifestation: is something that means to fill others' empty submission information criteria.

It creates physical KIND_s, the contents of which comply with Schedules for World Formation (to instantiate the Desired World Box).

But Category of manifestation: is not about the future!

Category of manifestation:

VIDEO VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmMHKsvZVc8

"Matches" is «a story with many holes» for lovers of music and sound.

The album formed from various collaborative processes between 2009–2015. It’s made up of various compositional structures (studio, live, and a mixture of both), it was recorded in various locations (in and out of Chicago in both home and studio settings), with many instruments and objects related to bellows and electronics (shruti boxes, prepared pump organ, and tape processes), as well as new technologies and signal processors of custom design.

Seven excerpts from "Matches" [2015] by Coppice

While Induction is presently effective, Bifurcation is currently fenced-off (to be shown in overhanging Preamble to "Newly Cemented Dedication to Freedom"). Fill your screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ltkdu9oZk

Coppice "Induction Without Bifurcation"

"Wet Hologram" live at Transistor Chicago in 2016. Original version found on upcoming "Surreal Air Fortress" LP (Entr'acte 2018).

Coppice Wet Hologram (Live)

Since late 2009 we have developed compositions using a modified boombox – a tape loop machine that records and plays back simultaneously. Sounds that enter it are released within seconds, sounding gentle feedback. Our first compositions using this boombox and a shruti box marked the beginnings of our collaboration as Coppice, and a phase of up-close entwinement of both instruments in decidedly quiet gestures. Since then, we have expanded our dynamic palette and range of instrumentation to include more bellowed instruments, custom instruments and other electronic processes.

Last Fall, we began imagining what has become Pied, a composition for tape, pump organ and the boombox. Its form contrasts the tapes’ fibrous processing with the more tabular appearances of microtonal pump organ transpositions – performed quietly but loudly amplified to bring out interferences and resonances by means of the original microphone techniques.

On one hand, Pied is a stark display of our sounds as solo artists, but in a borderline duet: five pump organ sections (recorded in Summer 2011 at Fljótstunga, Iceland) alternating with their boombox mediation and trails.

On the other hand, developing this piece at High Concept Laboratories has been a careful and entangled collaborative process, working directly with tape, scoring multiple generations of processing, and using a variety of acoustic resonators for coloration.

Although our compositional ideas may be fixed, the boombox’s response to these ideas is inherently oracular. Sections of Pied switch between several takes of the same content on tape, each sounding completely different from the other. We decided to keep many sonic incidentals and utterances across the many coats of the boombox’s reflections, also as a way to reveal the audible transparencies in the tape that didn’t erase. Towards the end of the piece, a snippet of our piece Seam seeps through the layers—which may be a recording from a performance in November of last year.

It is in this dendritic way that our work continues to develop, with fractions of past works refracted, and with certain sonic aspects highlighted at the expense of others.

Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer)
February 2012

Excerpt from "Pied" [2013] by Coppice

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