As the ninth episode of the, 'Lateral Listening' series, the NFSA presents an exclusive mix from Robert Curgenven.

For maximum listening quality (subwoofer highly recommended) Curgenven has gifted this work - via FREE DOWNLOAD as an uncompressed WAV.

Track Listing:
1. Only the dogs and the fires on the horizon (original unreleased mix from Recorded Fields Editions. Cat# RFE_02, 2008)
2. Go outside (extract from release on the Kaon label. Cat# Ju12, 2012)
3. Against the Barren Vanity of Their Paradise Undone, Past Countenance and Ignorance Brokered No Shelter (extract from M|I 5.11. Available with music magazine only, 2010)
4. Silent Landscape No.1 (extract from the Recorded Fields label. Cat# RF001, 2007)
5. Asthmatic Dog in Carpark of Coober Pedy Serbian Orthodox Church (unreleased)
6. Allegro in Seguito Oltre (unreleased, 2011)
7. Looking for Narratives on Small Islands (from release on the Winds Measure Recordings. Cat# WM25, 2012)
8. Imperial Horizon - for Caliban (from Recorded Fields Editions. Cat# RFE_01, 2014)
9. Turner's Tempest (from Recorded Fields Editions. Cat# RFE_01, 2014)

NFSA Title No: 1316292
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"Robert Curgenven (1974) is a composer/sound artist drawing on the physicality of sound - not just the physical impact on the body but the way in which the auditory can shape our perception of space and the flow of time, from architectural to open space. His works span pipe organ through to feedback, immersive resonances via turntables and custom-made vinyl, as well as carefully detailed field recordings from remote areas in Australia where he lived for many years. The Wire surmises that 'behind the music—to these ears at any rate—lurk such [disparate] presences as Alvin Lucier, King Tubby, Murray Schafer and Eliane Radigue.'

From beginnings over 30years ago as a classically trained organist, the past ten years have seen him release work on labels such as LINE, The Tapeworm, Winds Measure and his own Recorded Fields Editions. Curgenven has performed extensively across Australia and Europe, including TodaysArt festival (Den Haag/NL), Ultrahang Festival (Budapest), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Cork Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival,  Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk), Leipzig Gallery for Contemprary Art Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art (Darwin) as well as residencies in Milan (O’), Venice (C32/Forte Marghera), Rotterdam (Worm), Berlin (Transit Lounge) and Alice Springs (Art/Land/Culture). He has presented sound, audiovisual and sculptural work in group exhibitions for Transmediale (Berlin), National Film & Sound Archive (Australia), 10 Years of Microsound (Diapason Gallery, New York) as well as galleries throughout Australia, Italy, France, UK, Germany and a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Torun (Poland). He has presented sound, audiovisual and sculptural work in group exhibitions for Transmediale (Berlin), three of the four Art of Sound exhibitions for National Film & Sound Archive (Australia), 10 Years of Microsound (Diapason Gallery, New York)"

http://www.recordedfields.net/
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About Lateral Listening: Curated by Tessa Elieff for the NFSA, each episode presents an Australian artist for your auditory delight. Primary focus for this series is genres associated with/including sound art and experimental musics, with the intent to bring to light the extraordinary caliber of Australian artists who work within these realms.

Enjoy,

Lateral Listening ep.9: Robert Curgenven

New CD out on semperflorens 2015/09.

Recorded 1994~2013 @ various locations ; sequences built for various projects.

Some parts appeared first in the kdi dct 216 "garden / square meter" series (Melbourne), thanks to Jude Anderson, Jacques Soddell.

Tested live (parts) @ Instants Chavirés, L'Audible Festival, Paris, 2012/09, thanks to Jérôme Noetinger 
Tested live (fully) @ Sonikas, Madrid, 2013/12 - thanks to Juan Carlos Blancas, Alfonso Pomeda & the man-who-saw-codex-but-lost-the-way 

This version, mixed 2015/06

toy.bizarre - kdi dctb 278 [Extract]

  "A short set of six pieces on this 3" disc, constructed via software, microphones and other effects.The music is quite subdued,ranging from soft crackling to sustained, quasi-ambient, near-tonal hums, to ringing metal tones embedded in liquid splatter. Each brief track is discrete and self-contained and each is a very enjoyable nugget, often bearing a beguiling percussion/electronics feel. On the one hand, there are sounds and ideas here that I'd love to heard explored at greater length but on the other, there's something very satisfying about the notion of a delicious morsel. A small gem well worth hearing."

Brian Olewnick, Just outside, 13 October  2014   

http://sqrt-label.bandcamp.com/album/glyphe




Omaggio A Yves Klein #2(GLYPHE album - sqrt_2014)

5 Borehole

9/9/2016 6:30pm. Recorded in mixed dipterocarp forest, Matang range, Borneo.

Empress dusk

OUT NOW New online release as part of Cronica's Corollaries series. GLEANERS rummages through the Active crossover: Mooste archive, gathering together the vestiges of our collective and disparate scurryings around the landscape. By allowing the background to almost free itself from the foreground and refusing to differentiate between incident, accident and intent, the various fragments have coalesced (with furtive guidance)into a form (in)determined by which of the residual pieces settled, and where they landed; and which pieces simply disappeared. All sounds have been extracted from recordings by or featuring: :: Tuulikki Bartosik : Fernando Godoy : Evelyn Grzinich : John Grzinich : Jim Haynes : Park Jin-Young : Rostislav Rekuta : Yiorgis Sakellariou : Dawn Scarfe : Maksims Shentelevs : Eamon Sprod : Taavi Suisalu : Arlene Tucker : Simon Whetham : James Wyness ::

To download visit Cronica's Corollaries Series website or Bandcamp page

https://cronica.bandcamp.com/album/gleaners
http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/?p=corollaries

Gleaners_Excerpt

Un étang de pêche en plein hiver. 

Un peu de vent, les broussailles prises dans la glace remuent.
Il y a un supermarché à deux pas, ses machines de ventilation résonnent dans le sol.

Je pose mes micros de contact sur la surface de l'étang, un ragondin albinos passe.

Strasbourg, hiver 2006

Montagne Verte - Etang de pêche

Excerpts from Yannick Dauby & Hitoshi Kojo's forthcoming 10" record

Title: La Vie dans les Airs & dans les Eaux
Artist: Yannick Dauby & Hitoshi Kojo

Format: 10" record (33⅓ RPM)
Cover: Offset
Original Artwork: Andrew Chalk
Number: Limited 300
Issue: February 2017)
Label: Substantia Innominata (Drone Records)

"We were touching metal with our skin, with wood and with stones. We were navigating in the obscurity, under the earth. We were probing the water with our instruments. Almost like if we were trying to let some lifeforms emerging from the land." [Yannick Dauby]

two pieces based on environmental, concrete & instrumental sources recorded in various parts of the world between 2006-2013, we present the first ever collaboration release of these two cosmopolitan sound artists from France and Japan: mysterious (micro)-sounds that could come from minerals, stones, plants, or daily objects and instruments - opening up two soundscaping tracks full of wondrous elements, combining the 'concrete' with the sublime and the atmospheric.... lim. 300

Drone Records is proud to present the first ever collaboration release of these two cosmopolitan sound artists from France and Japan (residing currently in Taiwan and Belgium), based on a variety of field recordings, 'concrete' material improvisations and personal additions done in different parts of the world. 
We can hear mysterious (micro)-sounds that could come from minerals, stones, plants, or daily objects and instruments - opening up two soundscaping tracks full of wondrous elements, combining the 'concrete' with the sublime and the atmospheric.... 
lost in the huge network of organic entities in the 'More-Than-Human World' around us. 
- from Drone Records website

Yannick Dauby & Hitoshi Kojo - La Vie dans les Airs & dans les Eaux (excerpts)

Composed radio documentary about ecological sound art, broadcast on Resonance FM on 23rd June 2015 as part of Critical Waves Radio.

Critical Waves

'Ecoacoustics' - composed documentary for Critical Waves Radio (2015)

excerpt from Sostrato (20'00")

https://marginalfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/mfcd-a-andrea-borghi-sostrato

'Sostrato' is a mini 3" CD release from Andrea Borghi on Marginal Frequency. Hand made jewel box packaging. 

Discomateria #24, the source work for Sostrato, makes materials audible through electroacoustic transduction, and processes sound produced by the surfaces within the stage setting. The music producing instrument is a prepared pickup and turntable built by the artist. "Discomateria" is additionally a growing corpus of graphic/sculptural works of art.

Recorded by Andrea Borghi (prepared turntable, speaker, objects)
Mastered by A.F. Jones at Laminal Audio
Photography by Silvio Pennesi

edition of 50

http://margfreq.laminalaudio.com/2017/07/18/andrea-borghi-sostrato/

Andrea Borghi - Sostrato (MFCD A) - excerpt

Yarn sewn fabric played on prepared turntable and stylus.

Tistre is the first outcome of an experimentation with textile supports, made by Andrea Borghi in 2018, during a residency at Lottozero textile laboratories in Prato. Fabrics and yarns are the materials with which he creates discs the shape and size of a Lp. He plays them with a prepared turntable, in order to exploit the reliefs of the weft and the warp as a surface from which to produce the sound with the use of special self-built styli and electronic treatments.

Tistre follows the path taken by the artist with Discomateria, focused on experimentation with different materials such as glass, resin, metal or marble, which become the source for the production of sounds.

https://www.dinzuartefacts.com/

https://andreaborghi.com/project/tistre/

Tistre_(Dinzu Artefacts /DNZ43/2019)excerpt

Cédric Peyronnet (aka toy.bizarre / ingeos) is a sound artist working since the ’90 around phonography (Field recordings, “sound hunting”…), soundscapes, using the principles of concrete, acousmatic, electroacoustic music.

toy.bizarre - kdi dctb 278 [Extract]

Ingeos

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