And More Ambient

Richard Chartier

from the free Ambient Blog digital anniversary compilation. http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2015-10-21/anniversary-collection/ 

Reference Point #1 by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

An absolutely beautiful track from the upcoming early December release from Polish composer and violinist, Olga Wojciechowska. From an album of music composed for various theater and film productions.

Olga Wojciechowska,  "Maps And Mazes",   Lazy Indifference

Purchase here: https://heligatorrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finity

The nom de plume Benoît Pioulard should be no stranger to anyone remotely interested in guitar-based experimental music. Pioulard has crafted a career creating softened, aching songs that pulse with given breath and slow decay along songs of fragile guitar melodies and a honeyed, yet supremely confident voice ringing through the reverb and acoustic guitar lines. 

On "Finity" PIoulard spins a deft web of sustained guitar tone that peaks, just above the red, in crucial moments - tethering an otherwise otherworldly composition to the very real, very messy world that we try to transcend through obtaining oneness with. 

A stately, gorgeous track, that for only two dollars, allows you to contribute to the literacy and ongoing learning of refugees at the Malindza Refugee Camp in Swaziland, Africa where every dollar spent at Heligator goes. All proceeds from the purchase of Heligator Records music goes towards maintaining the library through the purchase of supplies, the paying of the electric bill and a small stipend for volunteer refugee librarians.

Benoît Pioulard - Finity

Release date 29.04.16 
www.fac-ture.co.uk

“Work with the intention of slowly fading from sight.”

Returning to the light from the darkness of 2012’s ‘In a Lonely Place’, The Tape Loop Orchestra and Facture present ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’, a landmark intersection of music and visual media. Interrogating the contradictory dualism in the life that inspires art, this unique project displays the panoramic influence of Ozu, Neuer Deutscher Film, Weldon Kees and Yves Klein, as well as forming of a larger arch with TLO’s ongoing body of work.

“Distortions are inherent to representation.”

Examining the multiple philosophical strands found 'In Search Of The Miraculous' - Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s intended trio of art actions, P D Ouspensky's book of the same name, Gurdjieff's early teachings - TLO pay homage to the artist’s continual search, even when the camera isn’t looking; searching for miracles, or simply an answer to the metaphysical why...

If life is art, can the artist decide where art ends and art life begins? Can they co-exist in one form? Do we celebrate the art or the artist?

“Death isn’t about judgement, it collects us all.”

As with all TLO releases, the material was recorded after development in live performance, with the new approach of using multi-track control over trademark tape disintegration for the first time. Edited, sequenced and mastered by James Plotkin for both CD and vinyl, with both formats offering different versions of the same work, ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’ is an ambitious and densely rewarding entry in a sequence that fiercely questions the collective human failure to unravel complexity.

Performed by Tape Loop Orchestra with Beth Roberts, aus and Cuushe... Mastering: James Plotkin
Photography: Azra Haracic
Design: Craig Tattersall
Inspiration: Bas Jan Ader 

With love to:

Craig, Beth, Yasuhiko, Cuushe, Dan & Jess, Alice, Danny, Dean, Miles, Thomas, Michael, Russell, Richard, Joe, Masami and team Bookman

Packaging:

Deluxe 4 panel gatefold covers printed on reverse board Printed inner sleeves
Clear vinyl
Letter-pressed CD cover
Glass mastered (not CD-R) CD
16 page photographic booklet
2 x limited edition prints
CD/Booklet/Prints all rest inside hand stiched/sealed oversized glassine bags Hand Tagged/Typed/Individually numbered
All of the above rests inside sealed oversized black metallic photographic bags Download code
Scent
CD and vinyl hold different recordings of the material

Tape Loop Orchestra - Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love

from 'Talk the Pleasure Out of It"

'Talk The Pleasure Out Of It' is the new release from minimalist composer Richard Chartier’s Pinkcourtesyphone alias. Building on his previous records, the movements cut across this 10" blend live electronic and processed experiments resulting in a darker, more rhythmic voyage of texture and form. Stunning opener 'Stars Fell (Closet Mix)' sets the atmosphere with an enthralling low fidelity loop with emotive string swells and surging crackle. 'Every Last Lightbulb' is next up with oscillating loops and spiralling pulses, while 'Seemingly Endless Credits For Stars Fell' introduces driving rhythms around mesmeric synth clusters. 'A Message' brings the journey to an end in an introspective mood with thought provoking dialogue and flickering drone washes. 'Talk The Pleasure Out Of It' is a classic progression of ambient minimalism. Turn the lights out, lie down and immerse yourself. Stunning atmospherics.

available as a very limited edition lathe cut 10" vinyl record on CHAMPION VERSION, UK

Talk The Pleasure Out Of It

Stars Fell (Closet Mix) by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

from the upcoming album 'Removed' on Ash International, UK on May 19, 2017.


In 2000, The Wire wrote of Chartier’s work: “it’s worth stretching the ears in search of Chartier’s sequences of exquisitely sculpted sonic events, as gorgeous detail bodies forth out of the shadows”… the same holds true today.

Formed over the course of 5 years, Removed was a process of removal/erasure.
Only trace elements appear from what was. Their interactions merely a ghost of a composition — subtle echoes across the sound spectrum. A glacially paced progression of discreet relational sonic events and flows.

Inspired in part by the rigorous line drawings of American visual artist Linn Meyers, whose 2011 untitled drawing graces the cover, Removed draws the listener in to follow patterns. Meyers often creates large scale on-site works that transform a space into durational installations of seemingly endless lines. Seen from a distance these lines appear as almost natural ripples in a wall surface, but deeper, upon closer inspection, the delicate echoes and fluctuations of the artist’s hand arise from the density of details.

Chartier’s precise sound compositions work in a similar manner. Austere and shimmering, the two compositions of Removed beg for careful listening on headphones. Or let these 2 compositions play quietly amplified across your space. Either way, a physically captivating dimensional experience.

Removed is a continuing reflection on major aesthetic elements of Chartier’s artistic language as it has evolved through the years. This is Chartier’s first new solo studio album since 2013’s field recording exploration Interior Field  and 2012’s purely digital Recurrence, both released on LINE, US.

Removed 1 (excerpt)

from: Indelicate Slices
Room40, Australia / CD + digital / November 2017
http://www.pinkcourtesyphone.com/indelicate-slices/

All is lost, all is lost. Or is it?

A poignant question from Pinkcourtesyphone. A haunting strain. A coat of gloss smeared.

A scene recalled, a fond memory, a terrible lie in this new dark age of love.

Suspended in that lush, lonely feeling, Pinkcourtesyphone implores you to hang breathless on the line, above the chandeliers in shimmering stasis that belie those desperate, shadowy passions underneath.

A creak, a glance. nothing is for certain anymore. that sentimental something echoed across corridors, valleys, crevices, and it was never true. that redundant physicality kept it suspended in the lens-trapped hearts of countless thousands.

A limited edition. seven excellent examples of negative mood music. Pinkcourtesyphone’s artistry is all lustrous sounds. new meaning and beauty for…oh, you don’t even want to know. The answer is buried under centuries of suffocatingly sweet tonalities we created. Just like romance, the mighty do fall with indelicate slices.

Is it dark outside already…?

Indelicate Slices

Date of Loss by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

Arctica - Machines EP is OUT NOW! Please visit http://bit.ly/buymachines to purchase the 5 track EP for £2.49

Arctica - Machines

The original version of 'Romantic Threat' from the album 2017 Pinkcourtesyphone album 'Indelicate Slices' (room40, Australia), plus two unreleased "B-sides" for your hazy listening. a surprise BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE! 

This original version was deemed 'too romantic and positive' for full inclusion on the album so it was reworked and edited down to 2:57 of Negative Mood Music from Los Angeles. Now with over 10 extra minutes of romance.

released June 18, 2018 

formed and recorded by Pinkcourtesyphone / Richard Chartier, mid 2017-2018. 

Richard Chartier is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music Ltd

Romantic Threat EP

Romantic Threat (original & overextended)by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

Richard Chartier (b.1971) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’'s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.

He is also Pinkcourtesyphone.