CHOIR:Stile Antico

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Atsuko Hatano is a contemporay classical Viola player who works with electronics to add textures and layers to her sound. Located in Tokyo, Japan, she is a commanding instrumentalist and composer who constructs innovative compositions with strings and layered electronics.

Cells #5 is an orchestral collection and sequel to her previous album Cells #2 which will also be released on cassette via Imprec’s Cassauna label. Cells #5 required three years to complete and the work features the artist’s signature methodology where the instrumental performances are gradually enveloped by multiple layers of a string orchestration. 

When not playing solo Atsuko is extremely active recording, collaborating and playing live with Jim O’ Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, Mocky and many more acts.  


Atsuko Hatano: Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, Piano (track 1), Xylophone, Oscillator and Chorus
Guest Musicians: 
Eiko Ishibashi: Piano, Marimba, Vibraphone
Yuko Ikoma: Accordion 
Natsumi Kudo: Horn and flugelhorn
Icchie: Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: Snare Drum
Composed and Mixed by Atsuko Hatano
Mastered by Jim O’Rourke 
Cover by Saskia Griepink

Atsuko Hatano  - Tidal Currents - from Cells #5 cassette

Excerpt from Track 19 of Stile Antico's album 'Song of Songs'

Tomás Luis de Victoria: Vidi speciosam

Excerpt from Track 16 of Stile Antico's album 'Song of Songs'

Sebastián de Vivanco: Veni dilecte mi

Excerpt from Track 1 of Stile Antico's album 'Song of Songs'

Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Ego flos campi

For our wedding ceremony, my wife requested that I set this beautiful poem by W.B. Yeats. It was first performed as Helen entered the music room of Egerton House, on 27th September, 2013.

He wishes for the cloths of heaven - The Egerton Consort

And low in the woods
did that dark walk 
a stranger to its trees
but brother to its heart.

-C. Owens

Cover Art: Xi Ding

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Cutups are a series of works by Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro) created by processing audio recordings of orphaned sounds found on his hard drive.

"There's an idea of sound composting that happens on my hard drives, i have so many recordings of improvisations, performances and general noodling that it all come's together over time becoming some sort of nutrient for other work. All these pieces are from 2010-2016, they have a similarity in aesthetic and process."

Roberto Carlos Lange was the recipient of the the Joyce Award in 2015 and performs music under the name Helado Negro as well."

Roberto Carlos Lange - Crushed Hands on Leaves (excerpt) - From 'Cutups' cassette -

Drift is a free fall album consisting of three compositions invoking a sense of hovering expansion. Deeply spacious yet tightly compacted sound movements create holding patterns that slowly shift and evolve.

Cycles fall in and out of sync while atmospheres envelope time, appearing on the periphery before being subsumed back into space. The compositions utilize modified alto saxophone with spring reverb attachment, synthesizers, percussion, field recordings and electronic processing.

The saxophone is played with an acoustic spring reverberation preparation to produce multiple feedback tones, pitch beating and metallic distortion. Using sampling and pitch shifting techniques, the instrument and its presence of breath act as the glue that binds the pieces.

Rosalind Hall - Drift - Cassette - PRE-ORDER NOW AVAILABLE

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Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

“Her new work FLOOD has extraordinary depth and dimension.” (Kevin Press, Badd Press)

“Her music is all-immersive, it is all around you and especially when played a bit louder offers a whole sonic depth that you wouldn’t notice otherwise. This is the field where field recordings, drone and musique concrete meet up. This is a very fine follow-up to her debut.” (Vital Weekly)

“An innovative sound that oscillates like the bridge between robots and future tech. And just as the cover depicts, this is a look to the skies, beyond the distant clouds, to other galactic bodies. Yes, this is space age music for a new generation. Breathtaking.” (TJ Norris, Toneshift)

“Jana Irmert has created a metaphoric world of billowing harmonic clouds, gently crackling sounds and abstracted field recordings. All three parts of the album are marked by perpetual subtle shifts, memory turning into an imperfect compass: You can walk through the music in all directions without ever passing the same point twice.
Inside this world of concrete sounds and pure abstractions, of organic timbres and alien noises, all sense of perspective is lost: What is far can seem close, tiny sounds suddenly appear enormous. In a sense, FLOOD is about the desire for change, a sensation that fills us both with anticipation and anxiety. That is why this album is more than just a sonic novel, and why there is more than one story to it – just enter the flood and allow the current to carry you far, far away.“ (by Tobias Fischer)

JANA IRMERT - FLOOD - 02 - FLOOD Pt. 2 (silence On A String)-

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Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

ALEXANDRE BAZIN​ is a member of the ​Groupe de Recherches Musicales​, better known as the GRM, for which he writes documentaries about music for the radio. He is passionate about experimental music and more specifically acousmatic music created by members of the GRM, such as Bernard Parmegiani, Francois Bayle and Guy Reibel. Due to his background as a classical and jazz pianist, Alexandre Bazin is also passionate about instrumental music by the likes of Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Brian Eno ... This album attempts to synthesize these two worlds that are so dear to the composer, either in symbiosis or in opposition to one another with simple and loose melodies as its main theme. The use of analog synthesizers and acoustic sounds are at the heart of the composer's creative process. His music has already been heard thanks to Umor Rex Records in Mexico and the Moogfest festival in the USA.

OCEANS :

"Oceans" ​was written for Marimba, Piano and Buchla Music Easel, in 4 movements around the theme of the Ocean. Simple and loose melodies, played on piano and Buchla. They rotate around the marimba which evokes breathing and the rhythm of the swell. Suspended melodies reminiscent of Generative music although in this case they are an improvisation around a simple motif. Through its title and movements, this work evokes a reflection around climate change and our relationship to Oceans: water, breathing, the repetition of movement, but also its immensity which reminds us of our limits. The piece was performed by Alexandre Bazin on Piano, Buchla Music Easel and Marimba as well as Gabriel Benlolo on Marimba, a member of the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra.

Alexandre Bazin  -  Underwater (Part 4) From Oceans/Dream - Land - Cassette

Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

The Buchla 100 experimental session begins with a documentary recording of the noise generators. Something I find endlessly fascinating is listening to different noise sources, so I always feel compelled to record them. The remaining tracks are sequenced by my MANIAC Cellular Automata sequencer. First up are three little sequenced ditties that also incorporate the ARP 2600 modular interconnected to the Buchla 100. After this is an ultra-minimal setup using MANIAC and the mind-numbingly rare Waveform Synthesizer Model 132 module. As far as I'm aware this is the only one of these modules that Buchla ever built! A truly unique module where you have 32 pots that setup the output waveform, and an FM input as well.. The last two tracks are a Cellular Automata / FM crossmod oscillator stereo setup, lots of crunchy high pitched stuff with some deep bass notes thrown in too :]

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A1 BUCHLA100 HI-NOISE
A2 BUCHLA100 LO-NOISE
A3 BUCHLA100+ARP2600+MANIAC TRK4 cellklunka
A4 BUCHLA100+ARP2600+MANIAC TRK2b simplcellseq
A5 BUCHLA100+ARP2600+MANIAC TRK3 celldrnr
A6 BUCHLA100 WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER MODEL 132 + MANIAC [2CHAN-VERSION]
A7 BUCHLA100 MANIAC_1#9_PREAMBLE
B1 BUCHLA100 MANIAC_1#9

Recorded at Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA on 5th April 2015

Mixed and arranged at Noyzelab, NSW, Australia between July 2015 & February 2016 
www.noyzelab.com


Sound Source: Buchla 100 / ARP 2600 
Sequencer: MANIAC cellular automata sequencer


Thanks:


John Bischoff and Chris Brown at Mills for studio access

Doug Khan and Warren Burt for suggesting I write to John Bischoff

Jesse Austin at Mills for tech support

Robbie & Laurie Martin at Record Label Records in Oakland for lifts, food and putting me up!

Sarah Last at The Wired Lab

Richard D James for Buchla 100 natterings

Atsuko Hatano - Tidal Currents - from Cells #5 cassette

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