I like the sound of this - hoping to get similar sounds out of my ER-301 as the OS adds more features

Sipping a milkshake through striped straw (recyclable, of course) whilst adorned in striped tee, is how this felt

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (SLT-007)

Saltern’s latest offering marks the first-ever release of “lost minimalist” Terry Jennings’ visionary 1960 composition, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, as arranged in just intonation by legendary composer La Monte Young for renowned cellist Charles Curtis. Born in Los Angeles in 1940, Jennings was a close associate of Young, Terry Riley, and Dennis Johnson, and an early adopter of minimalist tendencies, creating slow, sustained music, influenced by jazz, modalism, and late romantic classical music. Jennings died tragically in his early forties, most of his work lost to a chaotic life; however, his forward-looking music quietly exerted a lasting influence on composers including Young and Harold Budd. Composed over sixty years ago, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, foreshadows a number of movements in postwar avant-garde music.

Despite the title, there is no saxophone on this album. At over eighty minutes, La Monte Young’s justly tuned realization of Piece for Cello and Saxophone for cello alone unifies and extrapolates Terry Jennings’ dense harmonies, creating an extended field of complex sonorities in motion, all brought to life by the immaculate playing of Charles Curtis. The recording captures Curtis in a performance from 2016 reflecting more than twenty-five years of dedication to the piece. Piece for Cello and Saxophone is released physically on double LP and digitally with kind permission from MELA Foundation. Mixed by Anthony Burr, mastered by Stephan Mathieu, and cut to vinyl via direct metal mastering by Hans Jörg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics. Pressed at RTI and printed at Stoughton. Includes a four-page insert with liner notes by Young, Curtis, Burr, and Tashi Wada, and a download of the full recording.

Piece for Cello and Saxophone

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (excerpt)

From the album "Ama Nesciri", now available on Shimmering Moods Records (CD/digital): https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ama-nesciri

Ama Nesciri

Polar Night, Vigil of the Mind

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music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
album : Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (book: 07 AM)
duration : 35.56 mn
date : January 2023

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Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tereza Kozinc & Klavdij Sluban
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / natural clear LP / hand numbered  / selective varnish / hand numbered
cd: limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) / hand numbered
book: limited to 700 copies hand numbered / embossed / hand stamped / Swiss binding

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pre-order : December 12th, 2022 / official release : January 19th, 2023

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Observatories - Our Recently Acquired Knowledge

Faerie Woods

Félicia Atkinson - Ma Langue La Premiere (Love Means Taking Action Mix)

My first patch with the Make Noise Morphagene.  Clouds in resonator mode being triggered by Varigate 8+ and being fed a sequence by Tides (note CV from Varigate going to Tides and Clouds 1v/o.  Stereo out from clouds to Morphagene.  Morphagene to K-Mix which adds some reverb.

Journey Through Morphagene

The B side of Dissolution. LP/digital release on Glistening Examples, November 11th, 2016.  25 LPs were special edition, with 35 mm slides embedded in the clear vinyl. Copies of the regular LPs are still available on Forced Exposure
https://www.forcedexposure.com/SearchResult.html?SearchType=Basic&Type=artist&Key=olivia%20block

DISSOLUTION B

momang

Jet Jaguar - Storm In Lisbon

Taken from the new album "Recording"

Out now: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/recording

Released January 29, 2020 

Written and recorded by Michael Upton 
Mastered by RedRedPaw 
Photos by Michael Upton

Jet Jaguar - Storm In Lisbon

_ph011 Jordan Christoff - Плаващ

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

Modular synthesizer compositions and sound design.

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Journey Through Morphagene

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