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

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)

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

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