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In January 2015, Brooklyn experimental arts presenter ISSUE Project Room launches Distributed Objects, a new publishing imprint featuring recorded and written documents focused on emerging artistic practices. 

Double LPs by former Artists-in-Residence Sabisha Friedberg and Sergei Tcherepnin inaugurate the imprint. 

More information at http://issueprojectroom.org/distributed-objects

Distributed Objects Album Previews // Sergei Tcherepnin, Sabisha Friedberg

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The music, sounds, and vibrations encapsulated in this 160 minute DJ mix performed by .THE JASS. at ENTER. on July 4th 2013 in Space Club are not usually heard on the summer island paradise of Ibiza.  .THE JASS. played a total of 5 hours in the cave-like MIND room:  thick smoke, throbbing strobe lights, and metallic mesh stalactites created the dark dwelling for deep musical experiments in lower BPM ranges, heavy atmospheres, and hypnotic grooves - those who ventured within the MIND room were pulled into a black hole in the middle of ENTER.Experience.

Special thanks to Richie Hawtin for the opportunity to DJ at ENTER. It was an honor to be cloaked in the ENTER.MIND room. Additionally, many thanks to Anduin, Lesley Flanigan, and Tristan Perich for providing me exclusive unreleased songs to DJ for this event - their sounds along with 89 other tracks are captured throughout this two hour and forty minute set.

For more info about ENTER.
http://enterexperience.com

For more info about Anduin, Lesley Flanigan, and Tristan Perich:
https://soundcloud.com/anduin
https://soundcloud.com/lesleyflanigan
https://soundcloud.com/user887472760

For more info about .THE JASS.
https://www.facebook.com/dotTHEJASSdot
https://twitter.com/thejass

.THE JASS. DJ Set at ENTER. July 4th 2013 in Space Club Ibiza

Baobab, an orchestra piece by Phill Niblock played at Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic, 2011

Baobab Ostrava 110mus

Erik Satie And Paris Thru The Keyhole

ISSUE Project Room Distributed Objects:
Sabisha Friedberg with Peter Edwards, "The Hant Variance" (2xLP)

Coming January 2015 - http://issueprojectroom.org/distributed-objects

Sabisha Friedberg’s double LP The Hant Variance was recorded at EMPAC with Peter Edwards in a custom-tuned environment using advanced multi-channel recording techniques to capture a configuration of spatialized sound sources. Combining granular synthesis, analogue synthesizers, tone oscillators and field recordings, the composition is comprised of three movements. The low-end bass, which was recorded live with a subwoofer configuration that allowed for rapid directional shifts, serves as a sonic armature for the piece. Sustained pure tones shift minimally and the allocation of sound engenders a sense of aural disorientation. This landscape, with the premise of summoning a new phantom or haunted sonic space, exists in an interstitial, albeit present zone.

Born in Johannesburg South Africa, Sabisha Friedberg’s composition, performance and installation work draws on the phenomenological and phantasmagorical, exploring perceptual delineation of space through sound, and low-end experiential thresholds. She has performed and presented installations widely in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, Japan, and the US, and recently received commissions through residencies at ISSUE Project Room, EMPAC, and The Clocktower Gallery. In 2013 she presented the solo exhibition “Levitation” at Audio Visual Arts. Friedberg received her MFA from Bard College following undergraduate studies at San Francisco Art Institute. Peter Edwards is an American artist and musician living in Holland, best known for his DIY experimental electronics website casperelectronics. His work has been presented internationally at venues including The MIT Media Lab, Transmediale, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, New York Electronic Arts Festival, and Performa, among others.

Preview // Sabisha Friedberg with Peter Edwards: The Hant Variance (2xLP Distributed Objects)

ISSUE Project Room Distributed Objects:
Sergei Tcherepnin, "Quasar ⇔ Lanterns" (2xLP)

Coming January 2015 - http://issueprojectroom.org/distributed-objects

Sergei Tcherepnin’s "Quasar ⇔ Lanterns" was originally produced in 2009 as an 8-channel installation with Ei Arakawa at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Remixed to stereo for this release, Tcherepnin’s trio of works combine analog synthesizer recordings and other instrumental sources with field recordings captured during the artists’ travels to Turkey and Georgia. Each piece introduces a separate facet of Tcherepnin’s compositional practice, respectively probing the boundaries between perception/hallucination, active/passive listening, and form/fiction. In the first piece, titled "Death (Quasar)," recordings of an acoustic bass played by Adam Linson function as “sound meteors,” creating fissures and tears as they rip through a stable yet shifting aural field. "Sky" follows with a series of clear and high ear tones, unfolding as a succession of subtle sonic events. The final piece "Horse" explores the rhythmic and textural qualities of recorded horse hooves moving across stone, assembling the sounds into a sonic fiction in which horses and their riders leave the earth via flying carpets (objects referenced in the original installation).

Sergei Tcherepnin is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician. His work constructs temporary architectural interventions that push phenomena of the sonorous towards the haptic through performance, composition, and installation, exploring the materiality of sound and its physical and psychological effects on the listener. Recent performances and installations have been held at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, the 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, Audio Visual Arts, Murray Guy, and ISSUE Project Room.



Preview // Sergei Tcherepnin: Quasar ⇔ Lanterns (2xLP Distributed Objects)

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXIII. Con/Sub/Un by .thejass.

Con/Sub/Un: is meant to achieve an altered state of consciousness in which each listener can find them-self within the mix. Using induction beats as the constant medium, the initial act of hearing will over time differentiate into the act of listening, and in the end - the listener's experience is not hearing 'what' is in this mix, but listening to 'what' is in themselves. 

1. Yucatan Induction Beats
2. Nicholas Szczepanik - Not Knowing
3. Kevin Drumm - Shut In (Part II)
4. André Foisy - Untitled
5. Aeon-Lost - The Rook
6. David Hykes / The Harmonic Choir - Rainbow Voice
7. Terrence Hannum - The Ideal Forms
8. Steve Moore - Endless Mountains
9. Jonas Reinhardt - Airhouse
10. Nina Kraviz - Fire
11. Rene Hall - Bending Voices
12. Eleh - Tone Phase 1 for 2 Guitars & 4 Oscillators
13. Demdike Stare - Matida's Dream
14. Coil - 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate)
15. Pan Sonic & Keijo Haino - In The Hollow Created Between The Eyebrows, What Offering Would Be Most Appropriate
16. Sunn O))) meets Nurse Wound - A Dysnystaxis {... A Chance Meeting With Sommus}
17. Barn Owl - Side B - Procession of Golden Bones/Ancient of Days
18. Svarte Greiner - White Noise
19. Lustmord - Abaddon (feat. Maynard James Keenan)
20. Arne Deforce & Mika Vaino - Cocytus (River Of Lamentation)
21. Moonshine Blues - Spaces
22. Lisa Gerrard - The Veil
23. Heathered Pearls - Beach Shelter (Loscil Drone Mix)
24. Wolves In The Throne Room - Permanent Change In Consciousness

https://soundcloud.com/thejass

Mysteries Of The Deep XXIII - .thejass. | CON/SUB/UN

Live at MaerzMusik, Kraftwerk Berlin, March 28 2015.

Phill Niblock: computer
Thomas Ankersmit: Serge Modular analog synthesizer (live and prerecorded)

Phill Niblock & Thomas Ankersmit - Surge (excerpt, live at MaerzMusik)

denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance are themes of the fourth .thejass. mix: “fear forges feedback”, an 80 minute set of 57 tracks forged to cure the fear of loss with heavy doses of sonic feedback, and prescribed to listeners deprived by death. The diagnosed audio side effects are fragmentary breaths of electric guitars, pupils enlarge from blackened soundscapes, the jaw is opened through distressed vocals, limbs become rigid in uncirculated noise, fingers curl into a doom metal claw, and finally, a static stare towards mysterious cinematic tones conclude the aftermath of loss.


"fear forges feedback"

Mysteries Of The Deep, Chapter VII. Descent To Collapse Depth by .thejass.

“Descent To Collapse Depth” is like sinking to the ocean bottom with no chance of coming back up for air - the set drowns the last rays of sunlight with 38 weighted tracks of dark ambient, experimental, electronic, and drone sounds mixed into 80 plunging minutes. While the falling temperatures of submerged drum beats slowly consume the last pockets of warm oxygen, the crushing depth of pressure will have the skeletal remains of each listener embedded into the seabed where the domain of eternal silence, complete blackness, and tranquility add to the mysteries of the deep.

1. Svarte Greiner - Twin
2. Cleared - When The Ground Is Close
3. Pan Sonic - Haiti
4. Abigail Mead - Attack
5. Stars Of The Lid - Taphead
6. .thejass. - Darknessexists
7. Demdike Stare - Leptonic Stare
8. Hildur Gudnadottir - Leyfou Ljosino
9. Andy Stott - We Stay Together (Part One)
10. Balam Acab - Welcome
11. Xela - Lust & Paradise
12. Alec Empire - Metal Dub
13. Celer - Of My Compliance
14. Plastikman - Ask Yourself (Cliff Martinez Remix)
15. Raime - We Must Hunt Under The Wreckage Of Many Systems
16. Thomas Koner - Nuuk (End)
17. Tommy 4 Seven - Primate
18. First Human Ferro - Rendezvous Forgotten
19. Anduin - The Equal Of God
20. Apparat - Goodbye
21. From The Mouth Of The Sun - Color Loss
22. Lunar Miasma - Second Moon
23. Emptyset - Void
24. Cio D'Or - Magnetfluss (Milton Bradley Remix)
25. Lustmord - Trinity
26. Deathprod - Dead People's Things
27. Black Swan - VIII
28. Vatican Shadow - When They All Shouted With Their Trumpets
29. Lesley Flanigan - Thinking Real Hard
30. Wolfgang Voigt - Ruckverzauberung 3.1
31. Air - Traveling Without Moving
32. Phurpa - Fundemental Mantra Of Bon
33. G.H. - Ground
34. Kreng - L'Autopise Phenomenale De Dieu, Side B
35. Coph Nia - Mirror
36. The Caretaker - Now The Night Is Over
37. Not From Earth - The Origin
38. Deaf Center - New Beginning

http://soundcloud.com/thejass

Mysteries Of The Deep VII - .thejass. | DESCENT TO COLLAPSE DEPTH

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Preview // Sabisha Friedberg with Peter Edwards: The Hant Variance (2xLP Distributed Objects)

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