Judith Egger & Michael Northam - Andapa Garden (Edition Graphon, 2003)

01 Andapa Garden 20:04

Sound substrata of the inner garden. Underground Sound wide open. Trees and bushes as a long sustained, hollow music.
Birds, butterflies and other animals seen only in sounding forms by the internal eye, entering the night in an ecstatic sleep state, dreaming with the sound of a human hidden light. Leaves with tiny little poems of sound written on it, the drone flowers of a secret floral language...
A cd not just to hear but also to plant in the cd-player, to let its roots grow deep in the electronic filaments of the equipment and watch patiently the blossom of digital flowers of sound. A small musical herbal. Organic music in the true sense of the word...
Edition Graphon

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ERG, MSBR & Das Synthetische Mischgewebe - Geosynclines (Flenix, 1998)

1 Stratum: 1 (3:25)
2 Stratum: 2 (9:27)
3 Stratum: 3 (7:38)
4 Stratum: 4 (4:30)
5 Stratum: 5 (7:07)
6 Stratum: 6 (8:15)
7 Stratum: 7 (10:45)

The first release of new label- FLENIX. A collaboration work by MNORTHAMs project ERG, DSM in France, MSBR. DSM mixed collaborative materials by ERG and MSBR using each field recording materials. Atmospheric mixture of noizy and quiet sound. Very good.
Flenix

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Entrelacs - Underleaf (S'Agita Recordings, 2003)

1 Underleaf (48:47)

Entrelacs is the ongoing collaboration between Yannick Dauby and Micheal Northam, which they presented in various live concerts. I am not sure if this is a live or studio recording, but it uses the sounds of 'a walk along a fallen tree, corbet, oregon' and 'a
conversation with found objects, paris, france'. One can see the MNortham influences in this one - spacious processings of the outdoor sounds, but the small tinkling on the found objects work really nice along side this. The crackling seems to be appearing on all possible
levels and makes this is quite a complex work. Complex because of all the sounds happening, but it works out as a nice sort of ambient work. Maybe clocking in at almost 49 minutes is a bit on the long side, but nevertheless it is a nice one.
Vital Weekly

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Kodama - Les Chambres Nuageuses (Octpia, 2005)

1 Les Chambres Nuageuses (48:47)

Mixed from multiple live performances of the installation "Les Chambres Nuageuses" created for Arsenic (Lausanne/Switzerland) - 15 October 2004.

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MNortham - :coyot: (Erewhon, 2001)

1 Observation Of Wind At Molecular States Of Evolution (21:49)
2 Effects Of Atmospheric Pressure On Air-Born Particles Of Solids And Liquids (17:23)
3 The Copulation And Subsequent Conception Of Vacuums Between Wires And Winds (22:05)

En juillet 1998, Michael Mnortham installe sept harpes éoliennes près d'un ancien bunker sur l'île de Suomenlinna, en Finlande, il les enregistre, les amplifie dans le bunker et y mêle des field recordings faits sur place, le tout donne une impression de calme et d'immobilité...

in september 1998, i assembled the sound installation "filtering the current" for the AMORPH98! festival, held on suomenlinna island off the coast of finland. with the help of students from the sibelius academy in helsinki and organizers of the festival, i installed seven aeolian harps on the sod roof of an old and heavily fortified gunpowder bunker named "kaponieeri coyet." each aeolian harp consisted of a wire strung between two planks of wood that focused the wind across the wires, inducing harmonics that were picked up by contact microphones and subsequently mixed and amplified in the interior chamber of the bunker.

over the course of the weekend exhibition, i spent many hours adjusting the sounds and the wires, working late into the night within the massive stonewalls and on the roof. i was listening into the darkness of the sea through the wind that was courting my wires. the bunker was located on a peninsula at the southern extreme of the island, facing the gulf of finland; during the day, i explored the peninsula and made recordings of the rocky coast, the resonant interiors of great cannon barrels, a kite flying in heavy wind, and the grass of quiet little nooks between rolling granite forms that made up the body of the island.

more than a year later, the transmuted sounds and memories of suomenlinna island have evolved into :coyot: -- a sound journey through mnemonic debris blown by winds from a distant place.

mnortham, july 2000

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