Joe Colley - Project For An LP; Or One Method Of (Nearly) Avoiding The Composer (Edition ..., 2004)

A Source
B Transformation

In this project air movement from small oscillating fans causes the tone arms of three turntables to be dragged back and forth across the surfaces of three test copies of side A of this LP. Due to various factors including fan speed, duration, and tone arm weight, the stylus of each turntable settles in different grooves randomly, creating overlapping layers of sound and occasional simultaneous playback of identical sound material. The signal of each turntable is sent to it's own pair of speakers positioned throughout the space resulting in a hexaphonic array.

The master for side A was generated by two minidsic players set on random mode, with the signal of each sent exclusively to the right or left channel of a DAT machine resulting in different audio in each channel. Identical source minidiscs were used in both players.

The source minidisc consisted of:
5 silences of between 5 and 7 seconds
10 noise fragments of between .5 and 2 seconds
5 constant sound blocks of between 20 seconds and 2 minutes

Side B documents two views of the installation as presented August 1 through 3, 2003 at Beyond Music VI, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA, showing the transformation of the orginal sound material heard on side A.
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Eric La Casa - Les Pierres du Seuil 4-7 (Edition ..., 2000)

1 Les Pierres Du Seuil Part 4 (11:45)
2 Les Pierres Du Seuil Part 5 (20:14)
3 Les Pierres Du Seuil Part 6 (17:47)
4 Les Pierres Du Seuil Part 7 (6:50)

Les quatre morceaux de ce disque d'Eric La Casa sont tout entier centrés sur les bruits d'eau (pluie, ruisseau, etc), réarrangés pour mettre en avant l'aspect émotionnel, sans manipulation électronique, mais parfois mêlés au son de divers objets trouvés ou à des instruments...

The latest release from this French sound artist finds his most magnificent and fully realized work to date. Utilizing his usual bevy of sources from wind to water to minerals and properties of the human body such as breathing and skin surface, La Casa has produced a masterful collage of minuscule and enormous events phenomenally bound in an ether of unaffected ambience. Without the use of any studio effects, the sheer palpability of the various textures and the sounds' simultaneous refusal to generate singular identities propagates in the recordings a marked air of unsettling, organic volatility. Yet far from simply documenting the sonic properties of the spaces and events La Casa has utilized, these painstakingly recorded and mastered sound events give way to a dreamy if not sometimes disturbed immersion in unmitigated aural space.
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Yannick Dauby - Low Valley (Edition ..., 2004)

1 10:19
2 10:49
3 06:45
4 09:49
5 16:04

Yannick Dauby fait partie de cette famille de musiciens travaillant à partir du sonore de l'environnement naturel. Captations de paysages, de vents, de feuillages, de traces plus ou moins civisilées, qui seront ensuite réorganisés et minutieusement remodelés, refiltrés en studio. Au final des paysages imaginaires et poétiques dans des temps ralentis.
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Yet another enigmatic disc on this prodigious sound art label from the USA. I am sure that I've heard Dauby's name before, but it escapes me at the moment where that could have been. Low Valley consists of five tracks, ranging from almost 7 to almost 17minutes in duration. Since there is no accompanying information, all explanations about this work stay in the realm of the fantastic. So let's stick to the audible: small sounds drift in from silence, fading in and out. It must be rain or other water sounds, filtered, manipulated, but recognisable. There are also cicada's and buzzing insects, birds singing, together with a person doing almost nothing, just being there, electrifying things. Furthermore there are electronic devices going haywire and sinewaves weaving themselves through the fabric of sound. Okay, this may sound complicated, but it is actually not so much so. I believe that Dauby is enigmatic with a good reason: ultimately hte sound sources are not overly important, the result is. And it must be said without hesitation that his compositions are strong and compulsive and deserve all the attention the listener can give them. This work is very well crafted and there is no doubt that Dauby has learned the tricks of the trade very well indeed. Recommended!
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