The four tracks that comprise GIVING WATER TO THE DEAD were composed using sound materials originally recorded for the sound installation Histories of the Present, a public artwork commissioned by the City of Berkeley in 2019. But where the installation was about a melding of practices and sounds into a single gesture, Crouch and Novak wanted to take the opportunity of a split release to exploring divergent paths starting from common ground. For GIVING WATER TO THE DEAD, each artist started with the same source material and plotted their own direction without direct influence from the other.  As artists in a relationship and sharing a studio this was no easy feat. Despite the planned divergence the resulting tracks compliment each other, as the artists do.

Giving Water to the Dead

Our Bodies Stirred These Waters Briefly Pt. 1

from Martina Bertoni's forthcoming album "Hypnagogia", out on 20th january 2023 as LP / tape / DL

Hypnagogia

MARTINA BERTONI - Inversion

GRFTPS019
City of Dawn - Anemoia
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamphttps://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/anemoia

Anemoia

B4. City of Dawn - Anemoia [GRFTPS019]

Little Annie and @night_foundation live improv set for the Inertia record release party at Technique Records; Miami, FL 03.25.23

Little Annie meets Night Foundation LIVE @Technique Records 03.25.23

CD available directly from Imprec.com

Highly recommended to fans of Alessandro Cortini, Caterina
Barbieri, Shasta Cults

"A slow building beauty of electronic soundscapes." The Vinyl District

Alina Kalancea is a sonic alchemist who can warp and weave electronic
signals into complex tapestries of synthesized analog timbre. These
transportive environments were recorded using the artist's personal
collection of historic Buchla electronic music instruments including
Allen Strange's expanded Music Easel.
Letters Never Sent, Alina Kalancea's second full length for Imprec
follows 2021's double LP titled Impedance and is being released at the
same time as a new cassette titled Alchemy.
Kalancea's music has the ability to evoke both emotion and image;
feeling and landscape; passion and place. She described recording
Letters Never Sent as being like collecting images that are born in
your mind. Shades of sound, tone, color and feeling shape the
experience of listening to Kalancea's work.
Kalancea's work is made of malleable sonic material that never looks
or sounds the same way twice. Part of the magic of the music, and her
work is similar to ELEH in this way, is that her work leaves room for
the conscious and unconscious emotions of the listener. How you react
is partially a result of how you feel at the time.
Alchemy, Alina Kalancea's subsequent cassette being released
simultaneously, is a limited edition appendix to the album Letters
Never Sent.

Alina Kalancea - Letters Never Sent - Album Mix - CD June 23, 2023

Format: CASSETTE, Digital
Pre-order date: 14th July 2023
Release date: 21th July 2023

An album recorded at Les Lilas - near Paris - with synths, guitars, tape loops, and some other materials.

A quote heard during the French revolt against pension reform:
"There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence. It legalizes and perpetuates domination, oppression, and exploitation. It crushes and eliminates millions of people in its silent and well-oiled cogs.

The second is revolutionary violence, which is born of the will to abolish the first.

The third is repressive violence, which stifles the second by making itself the helper and accomplice of the first violence - the one that causes all the others.

There is no worse hypocrisy than only calling the second 'violence' while pretending to forget the first one that gives it life and the third that kills it."
(Helder Camara, Spiral of Violence)

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this is a very similar patch as Untitled VI, except that now there are three voices instead of one: SMR, piston honda (which is also in the rosie efx loop from time to time, which is a bad habit/crutch that i lean on way too often) and e350. SMR is droning and fluttering into clouds, while the piston honda and e350 are both hitting an optomix before going into rings for some reverb. there is also a field recording churning in the background inside the disting, which i am randomly and manually controlling the playback speed on. 

i could listen to this for hours (and did)

Untitled VII

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination. 

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms. 

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony. 

Releases March 29, 2019 via Hallow Ground 

Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600 
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden. 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

Coastal Inversion

Christine Ott invitée de "Par les temps qui courent" de Marie Richeux, sur France Culture, le 14/10/19 https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/par-les-temps-qui-courent/christine-ott
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"Pour la sortie de l'album « Nanook of the North » nous recevons la musicienne Christine Ott. Nous discutons avec elle à travers son expérience du ciné-concert, de la quête du son organique, de la frontière entre bruit et bruitage et du hang que joue Torsten Böttcher, avec qui elle compose cet album.

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Christine Ott est compositrice pianiste et spécialiste des ondes Martenot. Habituée du format ciné-concert, elle met en musique avec Torsten Böttcher le premier documentaire sur les inuits, filmé en Arctique "Nanook of the North" et réalisé par Robert Flaherty en 1922. L’album paraîtra le 25 octobre chez Gizeh records.

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CITATIONS
"Nous avons voulu reproduire quelque chose de très organique comme les éléments, le vent, la neige et on a eu envie de retrouver ce côté très minimaliste de cette vie là-bas, difficile et austère et tout à la fois malicieuse et joyeuse."

"Je préfère privilégier le geste musical à la qualité du son."

"Le fait d’être ondiste me fait jouer du piano différemment. Aux ondes, il y a cette touche d’expression incroyable qui permet d’avoir accès au son filé, un silence absolu qui installe le son très progressivement et qui crée un crescendo grâce à la seule maîtrise de la main gauche. Je cherche à reproduire cela au piano et c’est ce qui crée un jeu différent."

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Archives : 
- Robert Flaherty, émission "Plein feu sur les spectacles du monde", RDF/RTF, 1922
- Pierre Boulez, émission "Portraits chinois", France Culture, 2007  
- François Perrier, lecture musicale du conte d'André Popp "Piccolo saxo et compagnie" (1956), non datée
- Steve Shehan, émission "Sur écoute", France Musique, 2014 

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Références musicales :
- Christine Ott et Torsten Böttcher, issu de l'album "Nanook of the North" : Un autre départ, Nanouk, Family 
- Franck Zappa, Nanouk

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Prise de son : 
Valérie Lavallard 

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Quelques dates de ciné-concerts: 
- Salle du Cercle (Bischheim) | Le 08/11/2019 à 20h30
- Espace Grün - Espaces Culturels Thann-Cernay (Cernay) | Le 15/11/2019 à 20h30
- Espace Rhénan (Kembs) | Le 29/11/2019 à 20h30
- Les Tanzmatten (Sélestat) | Le 10/12/2019 à 20h30

Par les temps qui courent

Christine Ott "Les images vous font aller dans les recoins de votre univers sonore"

snf09 : mark templeton "ocean front property" part 1

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

Sylvie Keller, PR for @christine-ott & related projects; @snowdrops_music @theodorewildride, "Only Silence Remains" (@gizeh), "Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)" (@nahalrecordings), Nanook of the north... raintrainpress@gmail.com

Christine Ott "Les images vous font aller dans les recoins de votre univers sonore"

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