An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and various effects.

Daliesque (naviarhaiku568)

Bones

Impatiens -  Scene At The River

TR082 - Michael Speers - 'Voice'

From A Year Closer by Maths Balance Volumes

A Year Closer

Purchase

Maths Balance Volumes - We Had Time

Taken from 'It's Worse', out on Cafe OTO's digital label Takuroku

TR083 - Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - 'Slows O'er'

Track list
1 Galen Tipton & Nmesh / Fossil Blood
2 Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson / Atypi
3 Yann Leguay / IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
4 Hanna Hartman / Nightlock
5 Sam Haar / Gold Coast
6 Carlos Casas / Avesta
7 Shackleton & Wacław Zimpel / Primal Drones
8 Jake Meginsky / Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes
9 Joe Fujinoki / Collapse
10 Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson / Part VIII
11 Valance Drakes / The Hardest Battles Are Fought in the Mind (Interlude) [feat. Richard Devine]
12 Mads Emil Nielsen / 2
13 Kara-Lis Coverdale / X 4Ewi
14 Yellow Swans / Foiled
15 Merzbow / Looping Jane
16 Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson / From Procession to Refraction
17 OL / Cicadaskit
18 Stephan Mathieu / Variation Eins
19 Couture / Paris
20 recfeel / 201115_0787
21 Philip Corner / Ogive III
22 R Beny / Burl

KST w/ Yolabmi - 29th November 2020
https://m.mixcloud.com/internetpublicradio/kst-w-yolabmi-29th-november-2020/

KST's Shows
https://internetpublicradio.live/residents/kst

29th November 2020 - Internet Public Radio - yolabmi mix

Pre-order now available from Imprec.com

Harry Bertoia's Glowing Sounds LP contains three versions of the same composition, each transferred at different tape speeds in accordance with the artist's instructions. This is the third LP to be released from Bertoia's extensive tape archive and it's the first, of many, to be released using instructions left behind by the artist himself.

Bertoia wrote the concept for this Glowing Sounds LP on a note in 1975 and slipped it into the master tape case where it sat unread for 45 years. The idea was simple, transfer the original recording at its original speed and two slower speeds. Bertoia noticed that the results, however, were profound. 

Recorded on January 20, 1975 using two large gongs, Glowing Sounds is one of the most powerfully minimal recordings yet discovered in Bertoia's collection. The artist's note left with the tape indicated that it was recorded at a speed of 15 IPS (inches per second) but slowing it down to speeds of 7.5 IPS and 3.25 IPS were quite effective for enhanced playback. Side A features the original 15 IPS recording and the 50% slower 7.5 IPS recording. Side B features a 20 minute, ultra-slow version at 3.25 IPS. 

Long, deep drones and powerful overtones define the sound of this recording. Comparison of the three speeds provides a revealing magnification of Bertoia's gongs, overtones and the artist's inventive approach to performance, composition and recording. 



Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

Learning by experimentation was common for Bertoia and he mastered the art of tape recording, turning the Sonambient barn into a sound studio with four overhead microphones hanging from the rafters in a square formation. He would experiment with overdubbing by performing along to previous recordings, sometimes backwards, constantly improving his methods while also honing his performance skills. Bertoia was a careful editor of his own work and only chosen recordings remained, each with a date and carefully considered observations written on a note included with each tape. Through these pieces of paper a the artist's logic can be uncovered, a careful approach to composition, ideas, feelings and forms. The story of Sonambient barn collection will slowly be told through the release of recordings from the archive as well as installations and performances built from Bertoia's own recordings, lectures and a book.

Glowing Sounds

Harry Bertoia - Glowing Sounds (slowest) - LP -  Pre-Order

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No Date Tapes is the first official cassette release from Harry Bertoia's tape archive and it contains two of the longest recordings yet discovered, each over 30 minutes. This cassette is packaged in a gold shell and produced on super-ferro tape for incredible analog sound. First printing of 100 copies.

Both sessions on this cassette are sourced from a collection of Bertoia tapes that were found without dates. While it's unknown when these pieces were recorded, the artist's notes are included on the packaging so it's clear how he felt about these recordings. These pieces were selected, in part, because of the contrasting opinions Bertoia had for each session.

Side A was considered by the artist to be a "good performance" which was "rich in variety" and had "good structure and fine tonality." This particular tape has aged quite well and provides clear audio insights into the sonic territory that Bertoia pioneered. 

Side B provides a fascinating sonic contrast to side A. The artist's notes suggest that he was pleased with some tonalities but the composition was "not properly developed" and contained, in Bertoia's words, "too much music." 

It's our hope that by releasing pieces like this, paired with the artist's own notes, an attentive listener can gain insight into the processes that determined the outcome of the artist's work. What does Bertoia mean by "too much music?" What is the tonality being pursued? What type of compositional structure did he find to be appealing? 

These are some of the questions we're attempting to answer as we digitize and release the pioneering sonic sculpture of Harry Bertoia.

Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

No Date Tapes

Harry Bertoia - No Date Tapes - Cassette C60 - Pre-Order

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tracklist

claire rousay - it was always worth it		
HOLY SIMILAUN - Confluxo		
Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus - Bruise Blooms		
Vasco Alves - Gaita Contra Computador 3		
 Koeosaeme - 04		
More Eaze - how do you have a friend when you're transitioning in your thirties		
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - Aegis (For Madison Justine Dinelle)		
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - S.H.A.D.O.W.F.X.U.N.I.T. Preset Police		
claire rousay - im not a bad person but...		
Myriam Bleau - Gestes && Chantiers		
Jabu - water temple		
HOLY SIMILAUN - Negative Space A [vinyl only]		
HOLY SIMILAUN - Reclusium Ex		
more eaze & claire rousay - Drunk		
Serpente - Da Clara		
Calum Gunn - TWELVES		
Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - Heron Dance		
Mark_Leckey - Side_A		
Yves De Mey - SHJP Swing		
Rian Treanor - Obstacle 4		
More Eaze - hanging on a moment performed in the style of lifehouse		
HOLY SIMILAUN - Acsicht		
HOLY SIMILAUN - Fluctus		
WEȽ∝KER - GULP - 04 (selftitled)Chugg		
Luis Pestana - Oneia		
Vasco Alves - Gaita Contra Computador 4 (noise)		
BELLOWS - Untitled (OOH-010)		
Atte Elias Kantonen - Frankille - 05 Marmite Love Pool			
			
More Eaze - guest mix (1:14:45)			
			
contemplation-space afrika			
006-koeosaeme			
cat people of the new ice age-kurt weisman			
eyeliner tutorial-alexandra anele			
asmr snap tutorial-amandla stenberg			
simulacrum III-  aho ssan			
dark web 005-giant claw			
nat’s poems-perila w/ nat marcus			
dj lostboi-fuck me i'm famous			
halfway-beatrice dillon			
breathing food-otto			
thalassocratie-romeo poirier
shades of insecurity-more eaze & claire rousay
field recording of washing machine
185630-glia & matthewdavid
misty roses-colin blunstone
ensemble-loto retina
parfum d’etoiles-ichiko aoba
synpresso mixtape side a-dj nj drone
spiral shape twisted light-form-bug bus piano
the neighborhood-more eaze

OOH-sounds W/ More Eaze - Nood Radio 24-01-21

Taken from the album Synopsis Seriation released as 2CD and Digital

Harry Bertoia - No Date Tapes - Cassette C60 - Pre-Order

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