Jeffrey Perkins and Lawrence Kumpf on Terry Jennings, WNYU, June 22, 2016

Artist and filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins and Blank Forms artistic director Lawrence Kumpf on WNYU's "Termite Terrace" with Tyler Maxin to discuss the life & work of early minimalist composer Terry Jennings. 

Terry Jennings & John Cale - Improvisation 
John Tilbury - For Christine Jennings
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Charlemagne Palestine & Terry Jennings - Short & Sweet 
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Richard Maxfield - Bacchanale 
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Terry Riley performs two piano pieces by Terry Jennings 
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Poetry by Terry Jennings read by Jackson Mac Low, Marian Zazeela, La Monte Young 
La Monte Young & Terry Jennings - Improvisation 
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Tashi Wada - March 2007

Blank Forms #0: Terry Jennings

From the 2016 Kye LP 'Lend an ear, Leave a Word'.
Digital album available here:
https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/lend-an-ear-leave-a-word-audio-archaeology-series-vol-1-lisbon

Mark Vernon – Lend An Ear, Leave A Word
Audio Archaeology series Vol.1: Lisbon
Kye Records / Kye 44 LP

The pieces composed for this album combine field recordings of contemporary Lisbon with found tape recordings from the past; reel-to-reel tapes, micro-cassettes and Dictaphones collected from the Feira de Ladra market, a popular and lively flea market in the Alfama district.

Each tape recording is an audio snapshot of a specific time; a family album in sound, a musical performance, a compilation of treasured music or even just the fun of playing around with a tape recorder captured for posterity. Every thoughtless edit or push of the record button teleports us to a different time and place. The musical material extracted from the tapes is also an evocative signifier that locates it within a specific era. The interesting thing is how the tapes accumulate different strata of time even within a single side. There are consecutive chronological recordings but also sequences with unexpected breakthroughs where the user has carelessly fast forwarded through the tape randomly ‘dropping-in’ new recordings. These accidental edits create instantaneous new collages of sounds and voices. I have endeavoured to retain the essence of these unintentional edits and unexpected outbursts in the pieces I have assembled here. The noisy whir and clicking of the various tape mechanisms is evident on many of the found recordings. As the material is sped up and slowed down it acts as an internal clock, a continuous, steady marker of time, almost like the second hand of a timepiece. 

All of the pieces contained here within explore one particular environment – the city of Lisbon. Field recordings by their very nature are time-based but the introduction of found tapes into the mix expands the timescale of these studies from just the short period spent in the city making recordings, backwards to possibly forty or more years in the past. It is a portrait in time and place, an archaeology of sound. The result of the audio flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shores of low commerce in the flea markets of Lisbon.

Artwork: A Sense of Someplace / www.asenseofsomeplace.org

Cracked Shell (tape transplant) - from the LP 'Lend an Ear, Leave a Word'

'The King' is Chaines' commanding return to Slip: a claustrophobic, dank book of abstracted torch songs, festering in an uneasy grandeur.

The LP collects work diligently amassed in the 3 years since the British composer/producer's Slip debut 'OST', which housed contributions from 'cellist Oliver Coates and artist Mary Stark within melancholic, uncannily tactile productions. The intervening period has seen Chaines collaborate extensively with the London Contemporary Orchestra, with commissions performed at The Roundhouse, Union Chapel, Printworks, and Tate Modern.

'The King' sees Chaines' eccentric, singular language grasp a fresh immediacy and emotive potency. Chaines’ voice is more present than ever - creepy, seductive and pained on the Scott-Walker-does-ASMR of "Eraserhead", and diva-ghost of "Population 5120" - and their arrangements dissolve the symphonic into freakish forms - "Carpathia" and "Knockturning" spike pastoral organs and flutes with industrial menace and convulsing beatwork.

'The King' [SLP037] is available on LP and download from March 2018. Artwork by Chaines. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Distributed by Boomkat.

Chaines (Cee Haines) is a musician based in Manchester, UK, who writes rather peculiar electronica and electro-acoustic music. More recently, they have had their music toured by producer and cellist Oliver Coates (PRAH Recordings) across Europe and America, and large scale electro-acoustic premières given by the London Contemporary Orchestra and organist James McVinnie (Bedroom Community) in venues such as the Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, and Tate Modern. They have been in residency with SAY award winner Anna Meredith and Grammy Award winner Imogen Heap, improvising, performing and producing audio and video.

@chaines

www.fb.com/chainesmusic
www.slipimprint.co.uk

LP/DL

Eraserhead - Chaines

"Jammed by the Soviets," from Marcin Barski's "Wanda's Dream" LP
Released on Reading Group (RG12), December 2018
www.readinggroup.co/rg12.html

Marcin Barski, "Jammed By The Soviets"

New tape release on Italian label, Canti Magnetici now available for pre-order. Limited edition of 100 copies. Order here: https://cantimagnetici.bandcamp.com/album/magneto-mori-kilfinane

‘Magneto Mori: Kilfinane’ is based on an idea first presented as part of the Hearsay festival in Kilfinane in 2017. On this cassette sounds from Kilfinane’s past and present intermingle in a stew of dissected audio tape. Cut into fragments, partially erased by magnets and then buried in a hole in the ground – after several days steeped in the earth of Kilfinane the remaining audio snippets were exhumed, washed and dried, spliced back together and played as part of a special listening event; a ritual of memory and forgetting. Presented here are the sounds that endured.

Magneto Mori: Kilfinane (embellished) - excerpt from Side B

The Funnel is inspired by a visit to the Port Talbot steel works in Wales, various occult writings, the art of alchemy, European medieval and early renaissance music.
Now available to buy on vinyl at:
https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/the-funnel

Wojciech Rusin - The Funnel (excerpt)

Playlist and other information available at: http://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-138-reading-group-feature/

FFFoxy Podcast #138: Reading Group feature

Bidimensional Gangsta

For Text/Voice + keyboard
Appears on Kraak's 10s-20s tape compilation
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/kraaks-10s-20s

The Song Of Hypothesis

playlist:

programme 1

Jose Maceda
"Ugnayan"
from Ugnayan
(Tzadik)

Adam Bohman
"1st August 2009.Adam Talking"
from The Period before the Birthday
(Self released)

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
"Sequences"
from Anthology of Canadian Music
(Radio Canada International)

Group Vranisht
"Fuat Bahani"
from Folk Music of Albania
(Topic Records)

François-Bernard Mâche
"Angelus"
from L'Anonnce faite à Marie
(Jade)

Bernard Fort
The Danube Delta by Night
from Nocturnes du Monde
(Frémeaux & Associés)

Jerry Hunt
Transform (Stream) : Monople
from Ground : Five Mechanic Convention Streams
(O.O.Discs)

The Song Of Hypothesis

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