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artista : eRikm | |
| titolo : Stème | ||
| etichetta : Room40 | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custom cardboard package | ||
| cod. nr. rm426 | ||
 | 2008 | |
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Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concréte composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a CD which was deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k-pad system & MD or CD-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are truly distinctive – filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent. |
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artista : Sébastien Roux | |
| titolo : Reverse Ouest* | ||
| etichetta : Room40 | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custom cardboard package | ||
| cod. nr. rm431 | ||
| 2007 | |
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"This is the story of a man marked by an image of his childhood …" Or perhaps is it the story of this woman coming here to meet a beloved stranger, at the Grange-Auloup street? or maybe their story?" - Sébastien Roux Revers Ouest* is a radiophonic work based on text fragments drawing a futuristic and mental description of the Nantes city. It's an isolated utopist vision of architecture, buildings made like concrete waves. The texts are read by two actors, whose voices are used as a musical material and digitally processed, becoming a ghostly trail of the characters they represent. The piece, by mixing a fragmented story with heavily processed acoustic sources, aims to intricate radio art genres like documentary and hörspiel with more 'musical' forms such as electroacoustic and contemporary classical music. The first version of the piece was commissioned by Sonor festival and co-produced by La Muse en Circuit. It was premiered on the 31/03/2007 in Lieu Unique (Nantes). |
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artista : Chris Abrahams | |
| titolo : Thrown | ||
| etichetta : Room40 | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custom cardboard package | ||
| cod. nr. rm409 | ||
| 2005 | |
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Remembrancer |
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"Abrahams relentless and steady patterning started to metamorphose the nature of the piano, the upper chords sounding like a distant locomotive hoot, and then an accordion weaving in and out of a shimmering bank of flutes." THE WIRE, UK |
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artista : Philip Samartzis & Lawrence English | |
| titolo : One Plus One | ||
| etichetta : Room40 | ||
| formato : miniCD | ||
| packaging : clam-shell | ||
| cod. nr. edrm407 | ||
| 2006 | |
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The turntable has enjoyed a varied history in the realm of performance and experimental music. From the early phonographic works of John Cage to the spliced cut-ups of Christian Marclay in the 1980s, the device has proven to be a versatile tool for the creation and transformation of sound. Following a joint billing at Brisbane's Metro Arts Space in 2002, Melbourne based composer Philip Samartzis and sound artist Lawrence English shared a 30-minute performance that was to become the beginning of their on-going turntable duo. Both Samartzis (a member of the legendary Australian turntable group Gum) and English (a regular player with DJ Olive, Janek Schaefer and others) have long histories of live actions utilising turntables and together each of them brings a wealth of gestures and unique sonic qualities to the instrument. Recorded in early 2006, this edition captures the initial studio works from these two artists and seeks to reflect on the potential of the cyclical nature of vinyl and the surface noise that envelopes the very medium itself. |
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artista : Philip Samartzis & Kozo Inada | |
| titolo : h [ ] | ||
| etichetta : Room40 | ||
| formato : miniCD | ||
| packaging : clam-shell | ||
| cod. nr. edrm406 | ||
| 2006 | |
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Australian electro-acoustic composer Philip Samartzis is an increasingly vital presence in the Australian sound community. His work over the past decade and a half has offered a prophetic vision for each of his chosen formats and aesthetic approaches. On h [ ] Samartzis is joined by minimal Japanese composer Kozo Inada, who brings with him an equally refined and austere sound sensibility. Between them, these two composers collaborate to produce a highly detailed work that juxtaposes, obscures and ultimately unites pure electronics with environmental recordings. These elements are set to work against and within one another, the results causing the listener to reconsider which sounds are emanating from the interwoven tapestry of source materials. Celebrating the rich tradition of acousmatic sound and musique concréte, this composition provides a potent reminder of the potentials of sound as a transformative and (imagined) narrative medium. |
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artista : VVAA | |
| titolo : Incidental Amplifications | ||
| etichetta : Room40 | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : clam-shell | ||
| cod. nr. edrm405 | ||
| 2006 | |
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This CD Edition documents Incidental Amplifications, a spatial sound installation installed in a variety of urban shopping areas and malls across Brisbane in july and august 2005. Curated by Lawrence English + Lloyd Barrett. Tracks 1 Chris WATSON - Runway O2E 2 Domenico SCIAJNO - TWC 3 LE GRAND JEU - Middle Class Guilt 4 Camilla HANNAN - Part 3 (EDIT) from More Songs About Factories 5 Terre THAEMLITZ - Millennial Muzak 6 Joe MUSGROVE – Broken in Search 7 Brandon LABELLE - Off Site 8 Aaron XIMM - Sales_Pitch_Phase 9 DZO - Untitled 10 M. RÖSNER - MAY0105 11 Daniel BLINKHORN - Resource14 12 Mathieu RUHLMANN - Rest 13 Blake STICKLAND - BreckeR (For Curd Duca) 14 Thembi SODDELL – Watching For most of us, our every waking moment (and even those where we are unconscious) is surrounded by sound. From the obnoxiously pitched alarm tone that raises us from slumber to the muted sounds of night-time traffic that merge with natural nocturnal transmissions; there is always sound. As a society we have increasingly sought to augment and indeed control the environments around us. All manner of tools have been utilised in this ongoing war against the unfamiliar, the unexpected and the 'undesirable'. As well as a variety of visuals cues, sound is progressively used to colour our surroundings with a variety of aural hues. The twentieth century brought with it an unparalleled use of artificial sound in the form of George Squier's Muzak - a creation designed to enhance (and perhaps determine) amongst other things our 'urban/social/shopping' experience. For decades, no mall or place of substantial commerce was complete without the dulcet tones of Muzak. To many it would seem that there is a world of difference between the bleating high frequency sounds of an Indian marketplace and multiple channels of mid-tempo instrumental music filling our shopping malls; however the ability for sound to draw and focus our attention is universal and well documented. But what of the remaining sounds? The incidental sounds that Muzak tries (and often fails) to mask. It's within these sound fields that curators Lawrence English + Lloyd Barrett sought to collect artists who were working with and celebrating these incidental aspects of our sound world. |
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artista : Steinbrüchel | |
| titolo : Opaque (+re) | ||
| etichetta : Room40 | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custom cardboard package | ||
| cod. nr. rm411 | ||
| 2005 | |
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In spring 2003 steinbrüchel received an invitation from the Swiss music festival "Taktlos" in Bern to contribute a track for their listening room equipped with a surround 5.1 sound system. During the two-day festival in November 2003 steinbrüchel's track entitled "Opaque" was played back in cycle mode (among tracks from various other artists). The listening room focused on the experience of being able to listen to music in a very quiet and large environment - unlikely to most home listening situations. Additionally the possibility of working in surround gave the musicians a chance to create very special audio sculptures in the space. The track "Opaque" by Steinbrüchel and five remixes is being released by the Australian label room40. The remixes were created by the internationally well known artists Oren Ambarchi (AUS), Taylor Deupree (US), Frost (AUS), Toshiya Tsunoda (JP) and Chris Abrahams (NZ). Each of the contributing artists was chosen for his unique working method (Oren for his work with guitar, Taylor for processed sounds, Frost guitar feedback, Toshiya for field recordings and Chris for piano). To make the remixes more varied and special, each artist received only three samples/soundfiles from the original track, but none of the artists have received the same samples or even have heard the original "Opaque" track by Steinbrüchel before the release of the CD. |
| Prezzo: € 12,00 !! offerta |
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