============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 317 ------------ week 12 ------------ contents: ALEJANDRA & AERON - TALE OF PIP (CD by Lucky Kitchen) SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU - NOCTURNE IMPALPABLE (Cd by Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier) STIMBOX - LUPUS TUBERCULOSO (3" CDR by Tabula Rasa - Centro De Ruido) ROTTEN PIECE - ESPOROTRICOSIS GOMOSA (3" CDR by Tabula Rasa - Centro De Ruido) ZE'RO-SUM - XANTELASMA TUBEROSO (3" CDR by Tabula Rasa - Centro De Ruido) SAMPLE MINDS (2CD by Medienkunst Tirol) V. - AWRKID (CDR by Zero Moon) V./ULTRA MILKMAIDS - DRONE & UNEASE (CD by Zero Moon) AGENCEMENT - BOXE CONSONANTIQUE (CD by Pico) ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE/BOB MARSH - RAGS AND STONES (CDR by Public Eyeshore) ULTRA FUCKERS - BEYOND THE FUCKLESS (CDR by Public Eyeshore) THOMAS KONER - UNERFROSCHTES GEBIET (LP by Die Stadt) DANIEL ROZENHALL - MIASMASUN (LP by Firework Edition) TOSHIYA TSUNODA - PIECES OF AIR (CD by Lucky Kitchen) IO CASINO - MUNDO DAS FERRAMENTAS (CD by Gracia Territori Sonor) WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF WEST (LP & CDR by Narrominded) R.R. HABARC - TUKORORSZAG (CDR by Avult) 1=0 - 1=0 (CD by Gracia Territori Sonor) MY EDUCATION - 5 POPES (self released CD) (K-RAA-K)3 FESTIVAL SAMPLER 2002 (CD by Kraak) ALEJANDRA & AERON - TALE OF PIP (CD by Lucky Kitchen) Alejandra And Aeron have landed in Spain, moving from the Big Apple. But they made a stop at Extrapool's Knust printing place last year to print the booklet for the "Tale Of Pip' CD. A small handcrafted booklet, small but artisan. But it's probably not just the booklet that deserves our attention, the music also does. "The Tale Of Pip" is a fairy tale. Not that I am any sort of expert on fairy tales, but I do believe that in the real old fairy tales a certain cruelty was present, which is flattened out by Walt Disney cs. Maybe "the Tale Of Pip" brings it back...? I couldn't say really. English is of course not my native tongue, but the sweet voice that occassionally tells a few lines of the tale is maybe too short to get in the story. I don't think that is a problem. The few lines which seem to start each track is a lead in to beautiful electronic music. Processed children's instruments, guitars or just electronica, each of the piece moves beautifully around. "Tale Of Pip" is a folk story and it's hard to feel different about the music. In a certain sense this is cottage folk music. I imagine a wooden shed where a laptop is set to pick up these lovely small sounds, which are then gently processed. Maybe Alejandra & Aeron are part of the micro/glitch scene. But for sure they are one of the few who know how to create something truely original. (FdW) Address: www.luckykitchen.com SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU - NOCTURNE IMPALPABLE (Cd by Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier) Second solo album by Sylvain Chauveau, also known as a member of the Ambient-based rock duo Micro:Mega, finds the French composer further oriented towards Classical Music. Nocturne Impalpable is a unique piece of work that beautifully blends elements of Glitch and Ambient into a melancholic acoustic sound-sphere. An impressive number of acoustic instruments and practising musicians have been used to create the overall classical music approach, that apparently has been influenced by composers such as Erik Satie and Claude Debussy in the piano-based pieces while the more cello-based reminds me of earlier works of Michael Nyman. Behind the, sometimes orchestral, sometimes solo-based instrument passages, Sylvain Chauveau has cleverly integrated elements of crackling clicks'n'cuts and grandiose Ambient-scapes in a way that makes the electronic and the acoustic parts rise into a beautiful form of musical synthesis. In between the pieces of 'electronic meets acoustic sounds', come four tracks that is exclusively based on crackling electronic sounds... Four minimal, almost inaudible tracks that could have been released on labels like Ash International (R.I.P) or Touch. Nocturne Impalpable is a great work that, in its gentle and cinematographic approach, could be enjoyed by any adventurous listener, who will be prepared for the ultimate nocturnal sound experience. (NMP) Address: www.dsa-wave.com STIMBOX - LUPUS TUBERCULOSO (3" CDR by Tabula Rasa - Centro De Ruido) ROTTEN PIECE - ESPOROTRICOSIS GOMOSA (3" CDR by Tabula Rasa - Centro De Ruido) ZE'RO-SUM - XANTELASMA TUBEROSO (3" CDR by Tabula Rasa - Centro De Ruido) Three 3" releases in what probably will be a whole series of 3"s, each limited to 100 copies and they all seem to be called diseases ]. Tabula Rasa is known to release noise and these are no different. Stimbox and Rotten Piece are slightly more known then Ze'Ro-Sum. Stimbox offer us 21 trcaks in just over 21 minutes, although they very much sound as one thing altogether. Crude noise riding the waves of various guitar effect boxes. It's sort of sounds explored extensively by Merzbow a few years back, even when Stimbox still sounds sort of ok (save the bad ending!). Rotten Piece are less noisy (as in less brutal noise that is of course). They too use distorted sounds, but feed them through less effects (mainly echo) and have probably thought about their pieces (13 in total, again in one flow) better. Distorted guitars is my best guess for the sound input, but it's all less scratchy and feedback like. Descending down in harshness with Ze'Ro-Sum, who work mainly with recognizable synth patterns and can even be described as ambient, albeit of a more darker and experimental nature of course. Recorded with a fresh sense of naivety and in turn the best of the three, I think. (FdW) Address: SAMPLE MINDS (2CD by Medienkunst Tirol) Sample Minds is a huge collection of works that were featured at the Kunstraum in Innsbruck from March 1999 to November 2000. All of the 41 tracks on this compilation use sampling in one way or the other. Just towards the end of CD 2, you'll find recognizable sampled popmusic - all of which the originals eludes me, but they hark back to the days of 70s disco. Before that you'll find all sorts of music that deal with sampled sounds. From glitchy techno to electro acoustic sound to ambient and even poetry. It's the massive amount of people contributing to this CD, which makes it hard to spot the great track. Most of them are best described as nice, with the occassional leap into boredom. included are: Fon, Vicky Bennet, H. Platzgummer, Randomiz/Werner, Voice Crack, Baumeiser H., Hoec, M. Hentz, Moritz, L. Elggren and many more. The range goes from total unknown to known ones, which makes this probably into something that is worth checking out anyway. (FdW) Address: www.myzel.net/sample-minds V. - AWRKID (CDR by Zero Moon) V./ULTRA MILKMAIDS - DRONE & UNEASE (CD by Zero Moon) Two related project by V. This was a US improv group, but recentely shifted towards the more electronic realm. I believe (without being certain) that it's now an one person project, re-investing the remains of the recordings made earlier by V. Their latest offering is a CDR on their own Zero Moon label, with six tracks. V. offer a pretty varied palette of sounds. It goes easily from softer drone textures to looped acoustic sounds, all presented in a collage form. The former instruments used by V. (drums, guitars, violins to mention some) are at times recognizable present, but at others pretty much transformed on the computer. The prize winning piece is the second track which ends in a nice laptop hum piece that easily meets Stephan Mathieu's recent work. The more noisy bits came off less convincely. V. is currentely on tour (or maybe it's just over when you read this) this with the French duo Ultra Milkmaids and for this occassion they released a joint CD (which seems a funny world upside down to me, as one would have expected a tour CDR). The three have recorded the CD as a collaborative effort through the use of the postal system. Overall the sound here is a little bit more gloomy, with at times dreamy (or dreary?) vocals mumbling their time over darker ambient textures. Occassionally drums pop in, probably sampled from the good old V. archives. Much of the sounds are treated by time strecthing, thus giving that modern ambient laptopfeel to it. Besides the fact that some tracks are a tad bit too long, me thinks, the overall quality of this CD is very nice. (FdW) Address: www.zeromoon.com AGENCEMENT - BOXE CONSONANTIQUE (CD by Pico) In the late eighties, early nineties Agencement was The coming man on the Japanese new music/noise scene. Having released two LP's and one CD back then, which have vanished in obscurity, the name was forgotten. Curious to see how sudden activity gets as suddenly into disapperance. But very much to my surprise, Agencement is back, like nothing has changed (well, maybe nothing changed!). Agencement's main instrument is the violin, but played in combination with magentic tape, pico strings, electronics (oscillator, ring modulator). The music has been stored on multi-track and was mixed afterwards (I mean so many different violin sounds at the same time... not even Jon Rose can play that). Agencement deals with small sounds, ultra hectic played with small electronic sounds added to the mix. Fascinating stuff. If you like dry improvised music, with electronics just rounding off the textures, in the vein of stuff released on Grob, then this is right up your alley. However, for the trained listener (but then: where are they?), Agencement produces nothing that I haven't heard, even though I have no idea when that was... (FdW) Address: ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE/BOB MARSH - RAGS AND STONES (CDR by Public Eyeshore) A few weeks ago I discussed a CDR release by Ernesto Diaz-Infante, a duet with Anders Ostberg. I was not very positive about it. Here is the revanche of Diaz Infante. Another duet, this time with Bob Marsh, an unknown guy for me who plays violin and cello. Ernesto plays prepared guitar. Together they work they way through nine pieces of improvised music. Plucking their strings on their instruments, this is quite a more traditional disc of improvised music, but an altogether more pleasent work then his other duet. All of the sounds come to us untreated with electronic effects, which adds a more natural feel to it. Sturdy improvised music here. (FdW) Address: www.sinkhole.net/pehome ULTRA FUCKERS - BEYOND THE FUCKLESS (CDR by Public Eyeshore) The Ultra Fuckers are Japanese rock trio (Kawai Kazuki Langley, Izumi Headache, Tom Nagata) who produces thirteen tracks here in just over 26 minutes. Although the name suggests something different, it's not really the sort of extreme Jap noise or noise by rock standards indeed. It sounds to me, but I must admit I am not really the expert of rock music in these pages (but who is), as naively played, and likewise naively recorded in their rehearsal room, mostly slow punk rock or even new wave (the added keyboards help here). At times a sought heavy sound, but again due to the lack of a good recording, it sounds a bit dull. Using a bit more microphones, or multitrack would have helped a lot. A remix by one Droppen Gonzo as a bonus doesn't really help... (FdW) Address: www.sinkhole.net/pehome THOMAS KONER - UNERFROSCHTES GEBIET (LP by Die Stadt) Maybe Thomas Koner's new record, in fact his first vinyl under his own name ever!, is a tribute to Asmus Tietchens? The title can be translated as 'undiscovered areas', and this is exactely to what Tietchens refers to when it comes to making to music: to discover the new areas of sound. Of course these discoveries take shape via two side long pieces, in which luckily enough happens. Unlike Tietchens, Thomas stays in for him common grounds. When working under his own name, his work is best described as darker then dark ambient. Using the smallest particles of sound, he creates a rich tapestry of music. Here I thought it be less flowing and more experimental then we are used of him. The areas he discovers this time are that of an uneven terrain, a bit bumpy when you ride it with a bicycle. Also the vinyl pressing (I am judging from what seems to be not a very good one, which will be redone) may not just be the sort of thing Thomas should do for this kind of music. Even when this picture disc looks great! The digital format serves his music much better. I hope it will come on this format too. (FdW) Address: www.diestadtmusik.de DANIEL ROZENHALL - MIASMASUN (LP by Firework Edition) Daniel Rozenhall is somebody whom I never heard of. The LP cover looks a bit outdated industrial to me, with it's duo tone black and red. But somehow you thinks it's not. It's on Firework Edition and was recorded at EMS. 'Grigailment' is a very unsettling piece of what seems random sounds that go in loopmode every once in a while. Then 'Armistice' which sounds like metal falling on metal. The closing piece on side A is more garbled noise with people screaming towards the end. Nothing here that made me overtly enthusiastic. The one piece that fills up side B moves from swirling electronics to deep ambient and as suddenly is more noise, but it seems to me that this is at least a more coherent thing that the pieces on side A. In all this is not a record that I enjoyed very much, the despite the OK b-side. (FdW) Address: http://www.algonet.se/~tankred/fer.html TOSHIYA TSUNODA - PIECES OF AIR (CD by Lucky Kitchen) Toshiya Tsunoda is, with a bunch of other people, part of the WrK collective, who investigate sound and space. They release CD's but also do installations. I have seen several ones by Tsunoda and they are almost poetic. Nice in design, but overall silent and which one finds himself contemplating. From the various WrK members, Tsunoda is the one that deals with environmental sounds. He's Vertov's 'Man with the microphone'. Going outside armed with nothing more then a microphone and a machine to record the sounds upon. Sometimes he uses pipes of various lengths to record his sounds with, thus transforming the sound. For all of these pieces on this CD, there is no electronic processing going on. Tsunoda cuts these sounds out of the larger recording, and thus his role as a composer is limited to selecting the sounds out of a bigger part. This collection of fifteen tracks collect the outdoor sounds (mainly Japanese, fields, forests and harbors) with a few exceptions. 'Echo Of A Room' for instance is a piece in which he uses a sine wave test signal and switcher which activites the microphone when the signal is off. This is almost a Pan Sonic piece and operates like an odd ball in this collection, but doesn't seem to be out of place. This is a fine example of sound scaping of a more radical nature. Great stuff (and I dare add: as usual). (FdW) Address: www.luckykitchen.com IO CASINO - MUNDO DAS FERRAMENTAS (CD by Gracia Territori Sonor) Behind IO Casino we find an unnamed woman playing the bass. Six out of the seven pieces are her solo tracks. The seventh piece is the longest, but is an improvised piece by IO Casino, Tibetan Red, Francisco Lopez, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Josep Gimenez. Her playing of the bass leads from the obvious bowed playing of the instrument to more radical improvised pieces (such as 'Influenza'). However some of the pieces are drenched a bit of too much reverb and other effects, which give me the feel that the bass is not the real source, but could have been any source. The improvised group piece is the stand out piece here, because it's a more complex sound, using other sources too, like Lopez' field recordings, feedback and bass rumblings. In all not a brilliant CD, but not the worst thing ever. It's sort of mediocre thing that is alright to hear, but where one wonders if one would played it again. (FdW) Address: www.gracia-territori.com WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF WEST (LP & CDR by Narrominded) Narrominded are a new label from The Netherlands, and let's hope they don't live up to their name. Their first release is a LP and CDR in one package. Most of the artists appear on it, save for a few. In their selection, Narrominded have been anything but narrow minded. All of the music can be classified as electronic, and most of them with a rhythm twitch, but the differences are in the details. From technoid rhythms, to the more breatbeak styled ones and various slow rhythm/ambient works (Oprphax for instance operates without rhythms on his piece 'Then'). The artists included here are unknown ones, probably the guys that run the label (or at least share the e-mail address from the label), such as Sencha, Larz, Living Ornaments and Psychon Troopers. The most known names, at least for me, were Bedouin Ascent and Pete Namlook (incidentely also not on the CDR part). It's probably these names that will attract a few buyers to get this, but you'll find also great music by others that are not yet well-known. Great new electronica label from The Netherlands and hopefully bringing more goodies in the future. (FdW) Address: www.narrominded.com R.R. HABARC - TUKORORSZAG (CDR by Avult) Last December I saw a concert by a Hungarian composer called R.R. Habarc. Playing a large metal plate with a bicycle wheel and a drill, one expected some disturbing wall of noise. But it turned out that R.R. Habarc played some nicely woven overtones of resonating metal, which reminded me of the best moments of the old Organum. The same guy also releases CDRs of his own music, using in handwritten covers in small editions. This new one has three pieces, which have nothing to do with noise or metal sheets being rubbed. All of these pieces deal with synthesizer sounds, or maybe just oscillators. Of the tracks, the second (untitled) one is the longest. It's about 34 minutes long of high pitched sustained tones that move in and out of the mix in a gentle way. This is a highly minimal piece of music along the lines of Alvin Lucier. The two pieces before and after are more based around loose tones, and especially the third piece was too noisy. Both of these pieces kinda destroy the beauty of the second piece and could have been, as far as I'm concerned been ommited. But luckily the main piece is great by itself. (FdW) Address: r.r.habarc@axelero.hu 1=0 - 1=0 (CD by Gracia Territori Sonor) Apperentely this record is the result of a prize winning, the Freestyle Festival 2000. Behind 1=0 there is a musician from Barcelona called Gerard Roma. He offers us seven tracks which last from somewhere 4 minutes to 22 minutes. Clearly inspired by techno and dance music, Roma produces pretty straight forward dance music, with lots of melodies and synths playing ambient doodlings. Pretty relaxing music that goes by easily if you don't pay enough attention. Maybe music while you work. Nothing big or truely innovative around here, but one of those where you think, well yeah alright, not bad. (FdW) Address: www.gracia-territori.com MY EDUCATION - 5 POPES (self released CD) Admist all the click 'n electronica normally reviewed in these pages, it's a delight to hear good ol' distorted guitars and pounding drums in a heavy space rock mode. My Education hail from Texas and has former and current members of Stars Of The Lid, Ultrasound and Cinders. I don't know Cinders, but being very familiar with the other two, I can assure you that My Education has nothing in common with Stars of The Lid and Ultrasound, other then maybe, though not important, trance inducing music. But whereas the other two bands evoke music by layering dense drone textures, My Education have a continous rhythm and a wall of guitars, occassionally coloured by keyboards. My Education have no less then seven members of which three play guitar, two violin, one drummer and one for the keys. At times a pompous sound that is in vein of Godspeed You Black Emperor, sometimes like F/i and sometimes prog rock/symphonic rock (which is ok, I never disliked Electric Light Orchestra). I don't think My Education does anything that I haven't heard before in any of the genres but to slag them down as mere copyists, may not justify the quality and enjoyment I had of playing their CD. (FdW) Address: (K-RAA-K)3 FESTIVAL SAMPLER 2002 (CD by Kraak) Besides running one of the nicest small labels and mailorder, Kraak (or (k-raa-k)3 as the official spelling is) also organises a yearly festival of music, which usually last 10 to 12 hours and which are programmed with the very same eclectic taste as with their releases. Since last year they also have a CD release as a souvenir from this festival. Hosted are the ambient talents of Main and Oren Ambarchi, but also the more poppy outings from Wio or Benjamin Franklin. David Grubbs' piece is an entire mystery to me. It's apperentely a live piece, but he sounds here like Durutti Column, both in his playing and his vocals, could be like Vinni... but then all 15 years ago. Very odd pieces. Also there are little bits of electronic pieces, by Twine, Alog and It & My Computer. Finally lo-fi improvised experimentalism is delivered by the ever getting better Vibracathedral Orchestra and Toss. From a styllistic point of view of course a hotchpotch, but it proofs for me the cross culture trip that (K-raa-K) is... A true independent to be supported. (FdW) Address: www.kraak.net 1. From: Stuart McGregor "You're Not Blank" (a film by Diskono & Rob Kennedy) Screening as part of 'Evil Eye is Source' ; a short film program curated by Shaddaz & The Modern Institute. (other artists include Scott Myles, James Orr Complex, Katy Dove, Devotone, Duncan Campbell, Hasslehound, Sarah Tripp, Life Without Buildings, Torsten Lauschman). @ F A I R 19 - 24 March 2002 Royal College of Art, London 12pm-8pm daily, free admission http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/fair An international art exhibition organised by graduating students on the Curating Contemporary Art MA course at the Royal College of Art, London Exhibiting organisations include: BQ, Cologne China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles consonni, Bilbao Escape, Moscow Espacio Aglutinador, Havana> Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw Galerist, Istanbul Kölnerstrasse, Düsseldorf Kurimanzutto, Mexico City the leisure club MOGADISHNI, Copenhagen M&M proyectos, Puerto Rico The Modern Institute, Glasgow pas, Prague www.centrodearte.com, Madrid For one week only, FAIR offers London an exciting chance to participate in the activities of some of the world's most dynamic art organisations, who will show the work of more than 70 artists. FAIR Preview event : 18th March 7-10pm. Live performances & VJ'ing organised by Luke Fowler (Modern Institute) FAIR information line: 020 7590 4498 For further information please contact Stuart Comer or Daisy Hutchison, Curating Contemporary Art, on 020 7590 4494, fax 020 7590 4495, email fair@rca.ac.uk. 2. From: knock@steim.nl Steim Workshop Announcement Thursday 21 March - 16 May 2002 Supercollider Workshop / Seminar Guest lecturer: Joel Ryan The SuperCollider workshop is for musicians who have genuine experience in real-time performance, and who do not require an introduction to programming eg. have experience for example in MAX/MSP, Csound, C/C++, Java. The workshop will focus on programming personal interfaces for live electronic music performance. Cost: 112.50 eu Grants to assist with course fees are available. To apply for a grant please contact STEIM at workshops@steim.nl. More information: http://www.steim.nl/workshops/3.html Registration: http://www.steim.nl/workshops/3.registration.html STEIM Studio voor Electro en Instrumentale Muziek Achtergracht 19 1017 WL AMSTERDAM T 020 622 8690 E knock@steim.nl http://www.steim.nl 3. From: gert-jan prins info> gert-jan prins solo: march 23 @ musée d'art moderne et contemporain de strasbourg, france, 2000h pm march 24 @ les dimanche de l'impro, marcq en baroeul, france, 1130h am gert-jan prins news and info on: http://www.gjp.info 4. From: tu m' info@tu-m.com tu M'p3 web-label soundtracks for images releases of march 21, 2002 www.tu-m.com .john butcher .mike cooper .amy denio .electric birds .haco .hauf .illusion of safety .greg kelley .masahiko kono .lazy listening .david maranha .ghislain poirier .akira rabelais .sciajno .sogar :.tu M'p3.. www.tu-m.com 5. From: "gaya donadio" HINOEUMA MALEDICTION MAY 10 2002 UNITED INDUSTRIAL WORLDOM is a Super night with various exponent from the globe ----here in London ------ we are making it happen ! William Bennett Special Guest DJ Founder of Whitehouse one of the most Extreme and sinister Band in the UK Pioneer of Power Electronic music Chthonic Force from USA Wendy Van Dusen (Extreme Music from Women -Susan Lawly) - Zos Kia sound - Neither/Neither World -satanic-apocalyptic -strong obscure - industrial MUSIK -dangerous irrational and chaotic force -underworld as creative -Wolves cry in the night in celebration of magnificence -and boundlessness of nature - http://www.zoskiasounds.com/ Mimetic FROM FRANCE -Positive is a brilliant work of electronic music - very hard and experimental noisy rhythms! -mimetic is the solo project of Von Magnet's drummer, -A complex technoid work merged with ambient and - orchestral elements along strong industrial hooks supported by spoken words http://mimetic.multimania.com Dieter Muh -is a duo hailing from England -been around in the experimental underground since 1979, -Excellent electronics with heavy sound. - death industrial vibration , rhythmic elements , -dense and manipulated impro dreemyscapes sounds -use of voices and field recordings - -emerging in a very powerful live ACTION -the great Cari Saluti cd-r -is re-released at the end of march on Functional Organisation - try it! ONE OR MORE act to be confirmed soon! Hagshadow and Cheeses International stall Red Rose: 129 Seven Sisters Road (Finsbury Park tube) infos:hagshadow@freeuk.com or nahemoth@hotmail.com tel.07940079615 www.geocities.com/hagshadow tickets £5 conc.£6 aT THE DOOR 6. From: francisco lopez francisco lopez - absolute geneve march 23rd 03:00pm: Lecture @ Ecole Superieure D'art Visuel 10:30 pm Concert @ Théâtre Pittoëff -> Archipel - musiques d'aujourd'hui Genève, du 16 au 24 mars 2002 ********************** Festival Archipel 8 rue de la Coulouvreniere CH - 1204 Geneve T 022 329 24 22 F 022 329 68 68 E-mail: festival@archipel.org *********************** 7. From: "Terry Allan Bennett" Greetings, A quick note to let you know that we have added a number of new paintings to the Homeless Gallery on Robin's site (pretentious.net/Rapoon). They are all truly marvellous and deserve to find good homes. Please stop by and take a look or better yet buy some. 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