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First track from Robert Beatty's debut album on Glistening Examples, available on CD, LP, and digital download.

Artist: Robert Beatty
Title: Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata
Label: Glistening Examples
Catalog Number: GLEX-1302
Format: LP/CD/Digital
Release Date: November 11, 2013

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Tracklisting:
1. Cone Eater
2. Untitled (Silver)
3. Escape Spirit Videoslime
4. Untitled (Pink Dot)

CD and Digital Only
5. Untitled

GLISTENING EXAMPLES is proud to announce “Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata” (GLEX-1302), the debut LP/CD of Kentucky-based electronic musician Robert Beatty under his given name. Beatty has long been a presence in the experimental underground as a member of Hair Police and more recently performing and recording solo under his Three Legged Race moniker. He is also well known for his visual art, which encompasses installation, drawing, video, and album artwork design for countless artists including Oneohtrix Point Never, Real Estate, Vybz Kartel, and Peaking Lights.

“Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata” collects Beatty's compositions for digital video glitch pioneer Takeshi Murata, produced between 2004-2007. Beatty's collaborative relationship with Murata has spawned some of his strongest work to date, and Glistening Examples is honored to present this music to the public for the the first time outside of screenings, museums, and galleries. Beatty has performed alongside Murata's work in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Beijing, where he performed several shows, including at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art during the 2008 exhibition, "Stray Alchemists."

The formative elements of the recent Three Legged Race full length "Persuasive Barrier" (Spectrum Spools, 2013) are apparent in the rubbery pulsations of "Escape Spirit Videoslime" and the ghostly buzzing harmonics of "Untitled (Silver)". Moving between hypnotic minimalism, dense processed atmospheres, and spacious drones, often in the same track, these pieces are the perfect corollary to Murata's fractured and viscous visuals. While the video and audio are linked in the same fluid time space, the soundtracks are presented now as stand-alone works, powerful compositions drawn from the same underlying chaos apparent in Murata's ever-shifting psychedelic environments.  This is exciting electronic music that invites the listener to imagine their own videoscapes with or without having viewed Murata's work.

“Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata” is published in an LP edition as well as CD format, with new artwork from Murata, design by Beatty, and digital mastering by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs USA.  The LP includes a download code and an 11"x17" poster.  The CD includes a bonus track not found on the LP.

This record is released with support from Institute 193, Lexington, KY.   www.institute193.org

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Robert Beatty - Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata "Cone Eater"

This is a stereo mix down of a 'sonic postcard' of the Airport in Rennes, France, created for an eight channel multichannel diffusion at that airport on October 8 2012 as a commissioned work for  Electroni(k) Festival.
All sounds captured at that (quite small) airport, with some layering and processing applied and real time mixing and filtering during the concert.

RennesAirportEdit

Technology Nature

Downton Abbey (DJ George Costanza Remix)

A collage of scores written by Tremblexy.

Experimental Scores Collage

This short clip is 1 of 2 done for the As Real As It Gets exhibition at Apex Art in New York, which runs from November 15 through December 22. The sound design for the exhibit is being organized by Marc Weidenbaum of Disquiet.com, whom I spoke with about contributing this track. 

The short clip is supposed to be a fictional advertisement for a fictional department store. The clip will be played within a larger selection of tracks created by members of the Disquiet Junto, which explore the "nature of sonic activity in large-scale retail spaces" (link to the article where this quote came from is below).

I ran a recording of my partner saying „The ladies’s Paradise“ and ran it through a sampler module called the Tyme Safari, and chopped the vocal sample with it. I then added strings from a Bach sample used in an old Junto (http://soundcloud.com/justin-buckley/formlessness-as-form). Includes a sample of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, II. Andante, culled from this recording: http://archive.org/details/J.S.BachBrandenburgConcertoNo2

Vocal credit: Astrid Seidel.
Image credit: The image is from a poster done for the exhibition by Oliver Munday. More on Munday at olivermunday.com. 

More on the exhibit here: http://apexart.org/exhibitions/walker.php, and more about sound design at Disquiet.com here: http://disquiet.com/2012/11/13/as-real-as-it-gets-apexart-robwalker/


Ladies' paradise 2

While attending a rave in Houston, Texas, artist Devin Kenny gave a sample of his DNA to a startup company that aimed to offer a DNA-based dating app. The company later folded; in this research-based audio lecture, Kenny sets out to find out what happened to it. In the process, he explores the implications of the DNA aftermarket, considering its crossovers with Black heritage and genealogy repressive policing, and asking whether it's possible to create bootlegs of his own DNA sequence.

DNA: TTTT /  RNA: AAAA

First performance of Speculative: Futures, Origins, and Everyday Staples: Origins recorded live from E-12 Olvera Street in Los Angeles. Performed by Emery C. Martin, Robert Dansby, MinerOne, Tec9, and featuring Samuel Bruce's, The Walls Are Full Of Money.

Created with Processing, Ableton Live, and various web scraped data sources for Bitcoin, copper, and other commodity prices and exchange rates.

Speculative: Futures, Origins, and Everyday Staples: Origins - Live 6/13/13

Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, digital preservation, and software development. Founded by artist Mark Tribe as a listserve including some of the first artists to work online, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history of contemporary art engaged with digital technologies and the internet.

Since 2003, Rhizome has been an affiliate in residence at the New Museum in New York City.

DNA: TTTT / RNA: AAAA

Rhizome

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