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artista : Simon Keep | |
| titolo : Interview With The Eggs | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. sr234 | ||
 | 2005 | |
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In confine of silence "The original sound installation consisted of three headphones playing back three different sounds. Though the first set of headphones the sound of snow was heard, close up and sounding like dust or sugar. The second was the sound of a Buddhist monk meditating in an empty room. The last was the sound of volcanic steam seeping out of the sides of a mountain. Alongside the headphones were one thousand origami cranes. The paper was made from photo snapshots of Japan and when made the cranes were hung in ten rows of one hundred. To make one thousand origami cranes is a Japanese symbol of health and longevity. Sound pieces produced from Mini Disc recordings I made in Japan 2002. The audio has been extracted from Hokkaido's volcanic snow-covered landscape. The composition and patterns of the sound are based on the way I heard these sounds; they are inspired by my xperience of listening. One of the recordings was made inside a temple. During "Zazen" meditation the sound of an empty room was opening out to me and I was hearing sounds deep into the room. One evening I recorded the sound of an empty midnight landscape, again I was listening into the silence and into the distance. Sounds would ring out from the distance, then a split second later I would hear silent space again." - Simon Keep Simon Keep aka Holkham Simon keep is a young londoner, composer, involved in a series of sound installations. More recently, out of a desire for people to hear/think about sound in a more conscious way, he has been working on a public arts project with Vital Arts at the Royal London Hospital. He has also been working with sound outside of the human audibility, mainly radio waves. Over the summer of 2002 he created a sound triptych for an exhibition in Memphis called "life/afterlife", (based on this inaudible sound.) His up-coming project is working again with Why Not Associates on a sixteen-channel sound installation at the "Cultural Institute of Macau" in China, a video piece filming the sound of moths and a recording project collecting sound samples from England's least noise polluted spaces. Silence as poetic system Walking through snow, my feet crunching on the snow and ice, kicking the snow, sounding like sugar, snow dust. Night-time recording, the silence outside the cabin, red, green and yellow stars, the flashing lights of city. Hearing emptiness, no sound then sound, the imprint of sound in my mind, reverberations of sound in my head and the contemplation of sound. Zazen, the sound of an empty room, listening deep into a room for inherit sound Volcanic eggs, the sound of steam seeping out of a mountainside and poaching eggs. |
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artista : Tod Dockstader | |
| titolo : Aerial #3 | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. sr233 | ||
| 2006 | |
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This release is the third and last in a 3 part series. Vol.1 has been released in March 2005 inside a slipcase's limited edition. Vol 2 and 3 are released separately and packaged in individual standard jewel cases that will conveniently fit into the slipcase provided with Vol.1. |
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artista : Zbigniew Karkowsky | |
| titolo : One And Many | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : digipak | ||
| cod. nr. sr214 | ||
| 2005 | |
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"These life conditions lead to a radical conclusion: the traditional definitions of music are irrelevant and music theories and music as a cultural concept must be destroyed. That is what we find in his latest works, in which his main concern is to produce pieces out of electronic sounds and acoustic walls on scores developed from the architecture of ruins. His last opus called One and many is the exact development of years of theories and practices. As many of Karkowski's pieces, this is a highly delicate yet physical work, which can be seen as an ode to loudspeakers." Zbigniew Karkowski works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music. He has written pieces for large orchestra (commissioned and performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra), plus an opera and several chamber music pieces that were performed by professional ensembles in Sweden, Poland and Germany. He is a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio Sensorband. Karkowski has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for the past eight years, and is active in the underground noise scene there. Professionally active in contemporary, industrial, rock and experimental music for the last 15 years, Karkowski has presented works in over 30 countries in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. For him, nowadays, it is the artist's responsibility to travel, to work and to settle down all around the world, in order to learn and understand cultures and traditions, and to find the truth about ourselves and our planet. This geographical, political and social exile is necessary to achieve true creation. |
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Artist: Merzbow & Kim Cascone |
| Title: Rondo - 7phases - Blowback | |
| Label: Sub Rosa | |
| Format: CD | |
| Cod. nr. sr213 |
| In the 80's, Masami Akita, Asmus Tietchens and Kim Cascone collaborated on a CD called 'Grav' which was eventually released on Silent Records in the early 90's. Having gone their separate ways, Masami and Kim reestablished contact in the late 90's. After email address were exchanged, Kim received a copy of the 'Amlux' CD from Masami, and later heard about a remix project on Important Records paying tribute to the Japanese industrial/ noise-maker. Cascone started his own remix based on extracts from from 'Amlux' CD. The new track was based on new editing techniques Cascone developed which were experiments in time compression by combining tape editing techniques commonly used in Musique Concrete with simple algorithms developed in Max/MSP. The track 'Blowback' - the prototype track using this editing style - was completely constructed by hand using a software sound editor. '7Phase' puts these editing techniques under algorithmic control in Max/MSP. By using each others published work as raw material for their collaboration, they then sent each other tracks via CDR to be used as either new source material or finished work. After choosing the best of the collection of tracks they had developed, Kim and Masami titled the pieces, sequenced the tracks and then designed a cover graphic for it using Jitter (graphic library for Max/MSP). |
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artista : Christophe Charles | |
| titolo : Undirected 1992-2002 | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. sr206 | ||
| 2003 | |
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1: 'Next Point - Tribute to Henning Christiansen', is a performance given at the MANCA festival in 1992, it is an extension of 'Media Opera' organized by Yamaguchi Katsuhiro in October 1992 on Awaji Island to celebrate the foundation of his 'Village of the Arts'. One can hear the rain falling in the south from Majorca, the voices of salesmen of coffee and boiled eggs of the station of Howrah, beside Calcutta, the chants of the monks of Todaiji in Nara, and the calls of the merchants of ice cream of Hangzhou (recorded by Martina Diestel). Other sounds were sampled among the works of Henning Christiansen: sporadic chords of the piano of the cave of Penthesilea, the very particular sound of the long pipe which Christiansen hits more or less regularly on one end, 'in order to give a certain feeling of time', or the bells and the tuba of the 'garden of the yellow mountain' where low frequencies make almost inevitably vibrate the ceilings of the rooms where it is played. 2: 'Deposition' contains ten episodes of various lengths which are connected according to a dynamics of tension and relaxation. There is no particular narrative dimension, but 'scenes', featuring soundscapes from various cities and countrysides, as well as musical (instruments) sounds: voice, flutes, or percussions, which reflect an interest for the fundamental actions of breathing, or hitting objects with the body -- rather than praising the mastery of a particular technique. The sounds generally come from an action which does not have any musical claim, for example, the Senegalese women who crush the millet. The voices are those of the salesmen from the Fischmarkt of Hamburg, the children of Calcutta, Italian dogs howling in the night, or insects of Japanese mountains. Other sounds come from a collaboration with Ryoji Ikeda, from 'In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze' and from the music of the two permanent sound installations of Osaka and Tokyo-Narita international Airport. |
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artista : Yoshihiro Hanno | |
| titolo : <es:> | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. sr212 | ||
| 2002 | |
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Yoshihiro Hanno explores for years now a wide range of musics: soundtracks, contemporary music, free jazz, drum 'n' bass, fragmented electronica, hip hop... with a definite taste for fusion and destructuration in order to create a new form of avant-garde. Tracklisting: 01/Platform Variation II 14:45 : for small strings ensemble and electronics 02/Meno 10:01 : the perfect continution of April Remix 03/Cis 11:02 : a minimal electronic composition 04/Eshoal 7:26 : a moving composition for piano including electronics 05/Trash 8:56 : a radical electronic piece with skips. |
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artista : Henri Pousseur - Main - Philip Jeck - Oval | |
| titolo : 4 Parabolic Mixes | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : 2xCD | ||
| packaging : jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. sr199 | ||
| 2001 | |
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In November 2001, Sub Rosa published Henri Pousseur's 8 Parabolic Studies in a box of 4 CDs -- these electronic pieces have been created in 1972 at the WDR studios in Cologne. The idea was to ask other musicians, of different generations, to attempt a new mix on the basis of these eight studies. The first mix (and not re-mix) was a re-interpretation by Henri Pousseur himself -- this laid the foundation stone of the edifice. Contrary to the mixes carried out thirty years ago, these were made digitally. The second mix was Robert Hampson's (aka Main) -- quite nervous of the master's reaction, who was present during the set. Robert, who holds an exhaustive knowledge of electronic music from its origins and of all its aspects -- even of the more obscure ones -- gave a personal but faithful interpretation of Pousseur's studies. Another degree of alteration was highlighted by Philip Jeck, who created a massive and powerful set, adding sounds from other sources (which is totally allowed according to Pousseur's original concept). And finally, Oval -- according to the process that is quintessential to his work, Markus Popp could only produce a piece far removed from its sources; since it is within sound itself that all sonorous source passes through the Oval-process, thus becoming Oval-music -- that is, music having its very own properties. |
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artista : Morton Feldman | |
| titolo : Last Pieces performed by Stephane Ginsburgh | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. sr189 | ||
| 2001 | |
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"My past experience was not to 'meddle' with the material, but use my concentration as a guide to what might transpire. I mentioned this to Stockhausen once when he had asked me what my secret was. 'I don't push the sounds around.' Stockhausen
mulled this ove, and asked : 'Not even a little bit ?' " Morton Feldman's own words are simply as valuable for the composer than for the interpreter. As his music slowly draws you towards silence - as some of Beethoven's or Schubert's late pieces do by process of atomization or repetition - you realize how useless it is to try to 'make' anything, to push it against it's own will. Here you will learn something about any interpretation, about any piece: ask the music first and use your concentration. Playing or listening to Morton Feldman bring you back to the very rare moments when you look at a bright starry Summer night, unable to measure its size because it is beyond your sense, a sense of infinity within a finite space. [stephan ginsburgh]
Morton Feldman was born in New York on January 12, 1926. In 1949 the most significant meeting up to that time took place - Feldman met John Cage, commencing an artistic association of crucial importance to music in America in the 1950s. Cage was instrumental in encouraging Feldman to have confidence in his instincts, which resulted in totally intuitive compositions. He never worked with any systems that anyone has been able to identify, working from moment to moment, from one sound to the next. |
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Artist: Kurt Ralske |
| Title: Amor 0+01 | |
| Label: Sub Rosa | |
| Format: CD | |
| Cod. nr. SR175 |
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First solo album of the creator of Ultra Vivid Scene (4AD/pop with irony) and Cathars (meta-electronic), now back with a soulful minimalist electronic music. Audio -- Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based composer, electronic musician, and computer audio-video artist. As a composer, he has scored nine feature films, including Elements Of A Forgotten Merzbau (Kurt Schwitters), the complete original score for Not A Love Song, winner of the Critic's Award Best Feature Film at the Berlin Film Festival 1997. What we propose here is Kurt's current electronic music project, the result of his work in computer programming for digital audio using the language Max/MSP. Experimental ambient textures are liquid and otherworldly, as described by Alternative Press as 'proving than machines do indeed have souls -- it just takes special musicians to reveal them'. Video -- The recent release of the new computer language Nato. 0+55 caused Kurt's computer music work to drift into the realm of computer video. he explains, "Nato.0+55 allows me to take programs I've written that generate audio, and slightly modify them to be able to generate video. Data is just data; audio, video, the media type is secondary to what one does with it. working on scoring films, my role was to create music for visuals; now, I am using Nato to do sort of the reverse -- creating real-time visuals to match the music. plus, now there are new ways for audio and video data to interact and influence one another..." |
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Artist: VVAA |
| Title: Sub Rosa vs. Kompakt | |
| Label: Sub Rosa | |
| Format: CD | |
| Cod. nr. SR157 |
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repressed. our crew AUTECHRE. DJ OLIVE. TO ROCOCO ROT. NEIL HARVEY. FREEFORM. SCANNER. LELONEK attack german technoids THOMAS/MAYER. JURGEN PAAPE. DETTINGER. FREILAND 2. MICHAEL MAYER. MI:5 a new kind of virtual battleground. the versus project proposes some friendly clashes between sub rosa and labels ready to fight ! a virtual journey through a gallery of electronic pieces. side by side original tracks and remixes offer in their combination a new approach to the Köln-based label kompakt. thomas/mayer, jürgen paape, dettinger, freiland, michael mayer have been reshaped by to rococo rot, autechre, dj olive, freeform, lelonek, neil harvey, scanner... a wide range of new approaches to kompakt's electronic hymns, mixing together the pleasure of solid dancefloor-orientated songs to abstract electro, indian vibes, «dub»... KOMPAKT is the new electro scene from germany, the missing link in between the spirit of the early detroit's techno sound and the melodic abstraction from mouse on mars, and so many more. minimal, massive, subtle... if kompakt is now consired as a not-to-missed label, don't ask why, just listen! |
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artista : VVAA | |
| titolo : Floating Foundation Vol.1 | ||
| etichetta : Sub Rosa | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : slim jewel case | ||
| cod. nr. sr146 | ||
| 2001 | |
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Janek Schaefer / Robert Hampson . Main / Stephen Vitiello / Kurt Ralske / Christophe Charles "The idea which preoccupies us in this series, is to create sound objects, abstract in their appearance, with musicians who are, in most cases, plastic artists too. The border between music and plastic arts is thinner than ever before. This is what we will try to explore for the time being. On this first volume you will find tracks from Janek Schaeffer, Main:Robert Hampson, Christophe Charles, Stephen Vitiello and Kurt Ralske. Janek Schaeffer is based in london as architecte and musician. After his Above Buildings, he worked with Robert Hampson on a project called Comae. Completing actually for a complete album for Sub Rosa (early 2002). Moreover he invented the Tri-Phonic Turntable! Robert Hampson is the founder of Loop and Main. He produced about 12 records from early 90 and participated to the 'Gilles Deleuze Unit' with scanner mid-90. Christophe Charles is a french sound plastician and lives in Tokyo. Close in mind with Markus Popp/Oval -- he released Undirected 1986-1996 on Mille Plateaux and Dok -- a soundfile exchange between Oval and him. Stephen Vitiello was born in New York City in 1964, his work has been featured in group exhibitions at Whitney museum and Postmasters gallery, in New York. As a musician and media-artist, he is involved in the New York avant garde, he is too a close collaborator of Nam June Paik and make a record on suphur with Scanner. Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based composer, electronic musician, and computer audio-video artist. Described by Alternative Press as 'proving than machines do indeed have souls'. Furthermore he is the founder of the mythic Ultra Vivid Scene 10 years ago." |
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