Brand new on Fluttery Records / Bandcamp, The Exploding In The Sky'ish:
- "Summer Effect is a post-rock band from Indonesia which was formed in early 2012. Ibo (drums, keys) is the founder. At the end of 2011, he met Aroel (guitar, keys), and since then they have been playing as an instrumental band which blends shoegaze, ambient and post-rock.
The band started as a wish to create new atmosphere; reflecting their tastes in music and other forms of art. They create their compositions with simple chord progression bars, wrapped with a pounding drum beats, harmonized guitar tones, a bit of distortion. Then the songs get slowly begin to evolve to shoegaze, ambient and post-rock to produce certain vibrations of atmosphere."
Incredibly detailed, processed field recordings making inaudible, ultrasonic sound perceptible to human ears..."Out of Range" is an audio work based on ultrasound and echolocation used by bats, dolphins and other creatures who operate beyond the range of human hearing - 'seeing' with sound, or perhaps 'hearing' objects. All sound is invisible; ultrasound is inaudible The mix for the piece is based on ultrasound, hydrophone recordings below the water and also of echolocation sound within audible range. The recordings were made in various locations in Central Park and East River in New York, USA, a forest outside Kaliningrad in Russia, Regents Park in London, UK, and various locations in Madeira, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. The ultrasound is time-stretched to bring it into a frequency range audible for human beings.
She's really wonderful - a very nice person.
We were staying in the same hotel in Austria
and every morning for about 5 days we'd have
breakfast downstairs. You may be interested in
seeing this video of her that I posted to my website.
I have another video there that features Philip Jeck -
with a short Q&A afterwards - with Jana Winderen
(My wife and I were the only persons to ask questions!?),
but I'm in the process of changing my videos from
"uploaded" to "embedded" so they can load quicker.
The Winderen video is my first video ever uploaded to
YouTube (about an hour ago) - the Jeck will be my 2nd.
@rostasi, thanks for that video, watching now. I enjoyed energy field and the new one sounds interesting too.
It stuck me the other day how ironic it is that the folk I know who would be way more comfortable with naturalistic, representational visual art than with abstraction would have the opposite perceptions with music, probably not thinking of arranged field recordings as music. Funny how representation is coded so differently in the different artistic media.
I know what you mean. Maybe they feel that field recordings are abstractions without
the A-B-A form (plus lyrics) that they're so used to hearing or have been taught to like.
Constructed music somehow being more "natural" than phonography-based recordings?
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Now playing: Lotte Anker, Rodrigo Pinheiro & Hern
@rostasi, That sounds right. I wonder if the modern preference for sight as a mode of mastering/objectifying the world plays a role in there somewhere too. Listening to things takes so much more patience than looking at them.
Having made it as far as your bio on your site and then your discogs page I now feel a need to disavow knowing what I am talking about at all with regard to field recordings :-).
Came up blank searching for most of your titles on discogs in digital form (I'll check out the Koji Tano tribute when I am next on a device that I download music on). Is any of your composition accessible anywhere?
Cloitre is a recording of an immersive live performance by Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen and German multimedia artist Thomas Köner in the cloisters at Evreux Cathedral in the French Normandy. Mixing field recordings and electronics, the piece is composed of ambient insect and bird sounds blending into hulking organ drones. With frequencies existing at the outer limits of the humanly perceptible range, it lives from its oscillating harmonies, emerging textures and ever-changing pitch.
While searching for this I discovered a music store I had not found before: Digital Tunes in Finland. Specializes in electronic music. Tracks are $1.53, but like junodownload it has albums with long tracks on a per-track basis rather than album priced, so savings are to be had on a few things.
That sounds right. I wonder if the modern preference for sight as a mode of mastering/objectifying the world plays a role in there somewhere too. Listening to things takes so much more patience than looking at them.
I think maybe sight is preferable to most people, but I'm an ear man myself. ;-)
For me, it's an accomplishment if someone convinces me to go to a fictional film
because I have no patience with that sort of thing, but sitting through Satie's Vexations (as I did in the early '80s) is just fine.
As for my own work, I'm bad at looking back and archiving this sort of thing -
a bit better now at it by collecting much of it in one place in a personal iTunes collection.
I started placing a few recent things (audio & video) on my website under the category "aurure,"
but some of the audio is purposely separated from the video...as well as other anomalies.
I work on projects and easily send examples by email after requests, but I really need to
make a section on my website for audio only I suppose. This'll be after I finish making the
videos embedded for easier access; which I'm guessing will be done by the end of October.
The Koji Tano tribute is just 90 seconds. I was in Köln when I heard about his death
and the tribute that was being planned. I figured that others would just do massive
noise tracks in honor of him, but I ended up kinda representing something like his soul leaving
his body, in sound, as if it were something he could've heard at the time of his death.
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Now playing: Arecibo - NGC 5426 Unified Field Modulation
Gp/rostasi: I don't mean to comment on the specifics of your discussion, but I immediately think that wondering about how people treat visual and aural arts differently must start by recognizing that different parts of the brain are associated with processing those stimuli. Immediately much of the seeming mystery of differing treatments of two evaporates, imo. There is not much "thinking" involved in distinguishing the two stimuli at a basic level.
Oh yeah, but the processing comes from that interesting admixture of elements -
the training of the different areas to focus more on one than the other that we
develop in our earliest (simpler) and, even now, our current (rather difficult)
life stages. It's not a criticism, but more a fascination with the rare idea of
treating the senses on an even plane of recognition.
Coming up:
Relatively new album of Mauritanian Blues from Noura Mint Seymali.
Comments
Jana Winderen - Out of Range
Great price on this ($1.89) at junodownload.
- Charles hayward and members of This Heat from 1986 - A must for This Heat fans . . .
She's really wonderful - a very nice person.
We were staying in the same hotel in Austria
and every morning for about 5 days we'd have
breakfast downstairs. You may be interested in
seeing this video of her that I posted to my website.
I have another video there that features Philip Jeck -
with a short Q&A afterwards - with Jana Winderen
(My wife and I were the only persons to ask questions!?),
but I'm in the process of changing my videos from
"uploaded" to "embedded" so they can load quicker.
The Winderen video is my first video ever uploaded to
YouTube (about an hour ago) - the Jeck will be my 2nd.
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Now playing: Sun Ra - Dawn Over Israel
Bob Dylan this morning
Rodrigo Pinhero: piano; Hern
It stuck me the other day how ironic it is that the folk I know who would be way more comfortable with naturalistic, representational visual art than with abstraction would have the opposite perceptions with music, probably not thinking of arranged field recordings as music. Funny how representation is coded so differently in the different artistic media.
I know what you mean. Maybe they feel that field recordings are abstractions without
the A-B-A form (plus lyrics) that they're so used to hearing or have been taught to like.
Constructed music somehow being more "natural" than phonography-based recordings?
---
Now playing: Lotte Anker, Rodrigo Pinheiro & Hern
Having made it as far as your bio on your site and then your discogs page I now feel a need to disavow knowing what I am talking about at all with regard to field recordings :-).
Came up blank searching for most of your titles on discogs in digital form (I'll check out the Koji Tano tribute when I am next on a device that I download music on). Is any of your composition accessible anywhere?
Thomas Köner & Jana Winderen - Cloître
While searching for this I discovered a music store I had not found before: Digital Tunes in Finland. Specializes in electronic music. Tracks are $1.53, but like junodownload it has albums with long tracks on a per-track basis rather than album priced, so savings are to be had on a few things.
Kate Carr - Songs from a Cold Place
For me, it's an accomplishment if someone convinces me to go to a fictional film
because I have no patience with that sort of thing, but sitting through
Satie's Vexations (as I did in the early '80s) is just fine.
As for my own work, I'm bad at looking back and archiving this sort of thing -
a bit better now at it by collecting much of it in one place in a personal iTunes collection.
I started placing a few recent things (audio & video) on my website under the category "aurure,"
but some of the audio is purposely separated from the video...as well as other anomalies.
I work on projects and easily send examples by email after requests, but I really need to
make a section on my website for audio only I suppose. This'll be after I finish making the
videos embedded for easier access; which I'm guessing will be done by the end of October.
The Koji Tano tribute is just 90 seconds. I was in Köln when I heard about his death
and the tribute that was being planned. I figured that others would just do massive
noise tracks in honor of him, but I ended up kinda representing something like his soul leaving
his body, in sound, as if it were something he could've heard at the time of his death.
---
Now playing: Arecibo - NGC 5426 Unified Field Modulation
Not the disagreeably amphipneustic pagan abominations you thought they might be:
the training of the different areas to focus more on one than the other that we
develop in our earliest (simpler) and, even now, our current (rather difficult)
life stages. It's not a criticism, but more a fascination with the rare idea of
treating the senses on an even plane of recognition.
Coming up:
Relatively new album of Mauritanian Blues from Noura Mint Seymali.
- Yeah !