============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 371 ------------ week 20 ------------ ANGUS MACLISE - THE CLOUD DOCTRINE (CD by Sub Rosa) JAMEZ - DREAMCHASING (CD by Mute) THE MOGLASS - TELEGRAPHY POLES ARE GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER AS THE DISTANCE GROWS (CD by Nexsound) ALEJANDRA & AERON - SCOTCH MONSTERS (CD by Softl Music) KENNETH KIRSCHNER - SEPTEMBER 19, 1998 ET AL (CD by 12K) CHRISTIAN RENOU - FRAGMENTS AND ARTICULATIONS (CD by Ground Fault) PITA - EARLY WORKS (3\\\"CDR by Alku) CITIES IN DESOLATION - LIVE ACTS 2003 (3\\\"CDR by Ruins) V.V. - 8L (CDR by Naninani Recordings) IAN EPPS - FINDS THE4YEAROLDCHILD COURTSIDE (CD by Softl Music) MICROCASSETTOR VOLUME TWO (CDR compilation by Pocketsound) VERTONEN - THE OCEAN IS GONE, THE SHIP IS NEXT (CD by Ground Fault) ORIGAMI SUBTROPIKA - ULTIMATUM (3\\\" CDR by The Locus Of The Assemblage) BRIAN NORING - COLDEST OF SNOWS (CDR by F.D.R. Recordings) MAR.TIN\\\'S TROMBONE ON THE MOON - DESERTS WILL BLOOM THROUGH ATOMIC POWER (CDR by Burning Emptiness) CAL CRAWFORD - SITTING ON THEORIES ON THE FRONTIER OF EXTENSION (CD by Squint Fucker Press) JONATHAN PARANT - LITTERATURE (CD by Squint Fucker Press) VALERIO CAMPORINI FAGGIONI - MULTITEMPORAL SONGBOOK VOLUME 1 (7\\\" by Unbearable Recordings) THE MARCIA BLAINE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS - PINK STICKS/WE (7\\\" by Static Caravan) TROIMOUCHA CROUPISULDOS - ROADIES (7\\\" by Dhyana Records) FUNKTURM - STRATA (CD by D.O.R.) ANGUS MACLISE - THE CLOUD DOCTRINE (CD by Sub Rosa) As one of the founding members of The Velvet Underground, Maclise was a true artist who may have been an erasure in art space without great efforts to define a history and catalogue works that were alas, way before their time. The pieces on this two disc set date back to the early 60s and the tray card offers a frank forward by co-producer Gerard Malanga. Maclise who died in 1979 at the age of the young age of 41 embodied the lifestyle of a free thinker/artist. His music studies dated back to the mid 40s and he was an active poet and magazine editor. \\\'The Cloud Doctrine\\\' includes many quiet pieces that just merely hint of minimalist soundscapes, so ambient and fresh. The recording includes collaborations with John Cale, Tony Conrad and others. \\\'The First Subtle Cabinet\\\' was recorded in 1963 at Tony Conrad\\\'s New York studio. Its beautiful eastern-influenced combination of diffused cimbalum, drums and slide are captured in this old tape. The 26 minute piece is a truly improvised infusion of paced meditation. The recording is spotted with Maclise\\\'s spoken word presentations as in \\\'Description of a Mandala\\\' discusses the elements so poetically. In this 1976 presentation at the Millennium Film Workshop his words enchant, speaking of post-self and pure nakedness. The passion in his voice embellishes the here and now of his words. \\\'Thunder Cut\\\' is a half-hour plus wheezy blend of drones, loops, organ and drum that repeats like tribal ecstasy. This is where I would have been in 1968 if I weren\\\'t but only three years old and unaware. The process of bringing the spirit of outside elements into a contained studio environment bares witness to human nature\\\'s forever craving to be wild, predatory, animal. On disc two \\\'Trance #1\\\' is a faded cacophony of strings and drumming and things sound just plain wild. This reminds me of the wild films of Russ Meyer, Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith. The pace changes from frenzy to formidable mid way through and blends right into \\\'Trance #2\\\'. On 1965\\\'s \\\'Four Speed Trance\\\' it is remarkable, along with John Cale\\\'s strings, how much we are still induced by the frequency of noise, here like a woodpecker out of control with a whirling dervish of a guitar. 1969\\\'s \\\'Shortwave Radio\\\' is perhaps the most interesting piece here with its frequency play and distorted samples from international radio broadcasts. This has more in common with the work of Scanner than anything I have heard to date. Maclise treats the radio like a tur musical instrument and mixes its fundamental basics for a fun and engaging three minutes. The grand \\\'Electronic Mix for Expanded Cinema\\\' definitely walks the blurred lines of the era\\\'s psycho-chemical revolution and comes out richly candy colored and perturbingly cinematic. This is a no holes barred aural trip. The overall work has shades of shamanistic beauty and seems to be relegated in a class by itself, with no clear formula, just his own recipe. (TJN) Address: http://www.subrosa.net/ JAMEZ - DREAMCHASING (CD by Mute) Placing this disc in your cd drive leads to an informative biography and other background information about this producer cum mixer/dj. The sound is in full flight, freely flaunting its aural space with references to Future Sound of London on the opening track, \\\'People Will Believe\\\'. As the billowing beats drift and fade up right into the more pulsating techno-funk of \\\'Thanx\\\' the listener heads for the dancefloor, or living room, kitchen, wherever, to get their freek on. At times the beats subside to make way for more orchestral electronics. \\\'Feeling Good\\\' jump cuts its way into the mix with a flavored scat from an anonymous dive and then on to more Thrill Kill Kult type beats circa mid 90s. These two entities collage until the whole place has built up to a real chili-heat. Jamez uses some hints liberally taken from likely denizens, the Pet Shop Boys and even Felix da Housecat, but retains his own identity for shoulder revolving dreamaticism. The track concludes in a mix of unlikely samples and quirky organ grinding. The joint now attempts to \\\'Levitate\\\' and shape shifts left of center. It\\\'s as if he took Seefeel and jazzed up the percussion for a more strident club trip. And this is rave music, no doubt. Sir Jon\\\'s Dave Gahan-like moaning soaks into the threads of the \\\'Energy of Life\\\'. Studded with bass continuum and scattered colors, this is the perfect foil for the bloated \\\'Falling In Love\\\' which follows. This is a continuous mix that flows repetitively. \\\'Dreamchasing\\\' is shiny happy music for happy go luckies and those who had a long week at the office. Punch the clock, throw on something sweatproof and catch this dream.(TJN) Address: http://www.mute.com/ THE MOGLASS - TELEGRAPHY POLES ARE GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER AS THE DISTANCE GROWS (CD by Nexsound) There is something in common with the gaps of time Dr. Who once experienced that cavorts with this new recording from this Ukranian trio. A heightened sense of proper weight carries each measure and stuns the ear with its sweet bass drones. A surrealistic blend of untailored improv, with a film noir edge. \\\'Telegraph\\\' is The Moglass\\\' post-rock take on modern sound by these guys who have been around for a handful of years reconstructing guitars into atonal minimalism. I like this record because it utilizes guitar in a way that the beefy instrument doesn\\\'t have to take center stage. The darker lines of observation grow and grow on track four where the haunted chamber of braided electronics surrounds and envelops you. The mix is an analytical search and destroy approach to its own past. These gents have taken fair risks in implementing something this freely informed, but there are moments where the repetition just goes on a bit too long as on track five where the patters avenge my nerves. The damage, if it were, is made up as the thirteen minute closing track is just an investigative sonic pleasure. The strings bow with taut curiousity and tenuous mediation. Playing with fire could get you burned, or might make way for a greater elemental magic. This sizzles slowly. (TJN) Address: http://www.nexsound.org ALEJANDRA & AERON - SCOTCH MONSTERS (CD by Softl Music) This is the third and final reworking on an audio installation held by Alejandra & Aeron in Scotland, presented by Diskono. The installation consisted of buried mushroom shaped speakers that played music that is now on this CD. The second rework of the installation was the 12\\\" released by En/Of last year in a very limited, and now slightly changed, it is more openly available. Each of the sixteen tracks deal with a specific Scottish spirit (not the drink, but monsters). In Scotch myth, people are sometimes warned of the presence of monsters by the particular sounds they make. The first seven tracks are the water spirits and the others are the earth spirits. Naturally all sounds used in this recording were made in Scotland and deal to a great extent with water and earth sounds. It\\\'s a great pleasure to hear music by Alejandra & Aeron: altogether obvious elements of computer technology do not stand the warmth of their music in the way, and that is a most rare feature in computer treated music. Bird sounds, water, people walking: all of these sounds are presented in some treated via laptop wizzardry, but sometimes the natural, unprocessed element drops in and out and this happens almost occassionally, but it makes that this music is still attached to the earth. Once again, they succeeded in a very nice work and lovingely packed, like all Softl Music releases. (FdW) Address: http://www.softlmusic.com KENNETH KIRSCHNER - SEPTEMBER 19, 1998 ET AL (CD by 12K) You may have heard the name Kenneth Kirschner before, because of his CD with Taylor Deupree, \\\'Post_Piano\\\' for Sub Rosa. Otherwise there is just music available from his website. An interesting, yet not new aspect to this music, is that it\\\'s all freely available. There are three pieces of music on this CD, all of which are dated on the day the piece was begun. Each piece chooses a distinct soundsource (resp. piano and found objects, software synthesizers and mp3s), but nevertheless the sound quite coherent. Kirschner\\\'s main influence is the late Morton Feldman. In the opening piece \\\'September 19, 1998\\\' there are piano strums and loose percussive sounds playing on kitcheware, which over the course of the piece are slightly changed. A subtle piece that is much to my surprise quite acoustic. This is contrast to the lenghty next piece, \\\'September 27, 2002\\\', which deals with software synthesizer sounds - unnamed which they are - but are either a washy, ambient affair, or short cut to only form dense and complex clicks and cuts rhythms. The last piece, \\\'February 8, 2003\\\' seems to me a bit of random piece... \\\'transforms tiny, unconsciously selected fragments of the composer\\\'s mp3 collection into a flowing assemblage designed to evoke the late-period orchestral music of Feldman\\\'. But it seems to me it\\\'s just a mix of mp3 files, but the \\\'orchestral\\\' feel seemed a bit of out of place with the other two pieces. This CD, while showing three aspects of Kirschner\\\'s music, is quite coherent and yet quite different at the same time. Nice one. (FdW) Address: http://www.12k.com CHRISTIAN RENOU - FRAGMENTS AND ARTICULATIONS (CD by Ground Fault) Recentely Christian Renou decided to change his long time monikker from Brume to Christian Renou, his own name. Maybe one reason might be that on the old Brume releases it always said: no samplers, no computer and while reading the sparse liner notes to this release, all of these pieces were processed with a computer. In the opening piece (which are all called \\\'Fragments And Articulations\\\') for instance he takes a short drum part, which will be, over the course of twenty five minutes, entirely transformed. Somewhere in the beginning the sounds of drumming are to be recognized, but sometimes there is a thick buzzing sound, forming a clouded drone, which seems to be hard to relate to the original drum pattern. The second piece uses only a field recording, which was \\\'re-injected into an old computer with a damaged Cyrix processor which decomposed the sounds into something much better\\\'. This piece with it\\\'s ongoing sounds and small processings, reminded me of Renou\\\'s other recent work \\\'Flat\\\' (on Bake Records). It\\\'s a kind of ambient music that is much more forcefull then the regular ambient washes. In the final piece he uses a \\\'home-made Galene receiver\\\', producing some very dirty frequencies (his own words), but in the presented collage form it works fine. The main question is of course, is there a difference between the old Brume sound and the recent Renou work? I think there is. The old Brume sound was always \\\'loaded\\\' with sound, silence was never a matter; in his recent work, dynamics seem to be playing a bigger role for him. Things move from loud to quiet and there is an overall sense of depth in this music, more so, then in the old Brume work. A good move. (FdW) Address: http://www.groundfault.net PITA - EARLY WORKS (3\\\"CDR by Alku) The long awaited 3\\\" CDR on Alku by Pita finally arrived. Announced as \\\'Early Works\\\', I couldn\\\'t have anticipated that it would have been this early. I expected some work just before his current laptop period, but these works are from 1982-1984, so by my estimation, Pita was around sixteen or seventeen when he made this. The cover lists tape, radio and synth and the work was edited in 2000 (so you never know what was done afterwards). The music consists of crude tape-loops, radio frequencies and synth doodlings - being of almost similar age as Pita, I can fairly easily say that this kind of music was a typical sort of thing for that day. Inspired by the likes of Throbbing Gristle, MB, Nurse With Wound and harsher blokes as Ramleh or Whitehouse, Pita did his own thing, which is nothing outstandingely new or innovative for the time, but which still sounds, after all these years just as an archetype of experimental music from those days. That it comes to us on a CDR, rather then a CD or vinyl, is, me thinks, linked to the fact that it would have been a home made cassette twenty-years ago - it continues the home-taper feel. And for an old man like me, it\\\'s great to see that his history is like that of some many of our age. That makes this into a nice artefact of the past. (FdW) Address: http://www.personal.ilimit.es/principio CITIES IN DESOLATION - LIVE ACTS 2003 (3\\\"CDR by Ruins) Cities In Desolation are a two piece group, I believe from Greece (or maybe from former Yugoslavia, as this release contains live recordings from Mostar and Ljubliana and the release is from Greece), who play laptop, bass, electronics and synth. As said, the three pieces on this release were all captured live and combine an interest in lo-fi electronic and less subtle ambient music - maybe this has to do with the fact that it\\\'s live. Small and microscopic are the sounds captured here, with a love for loops and repeating sounds. The best piece is the opening piece, aptly called \\\'Intro\\\', with it\\\'s ongoing small keyboard melody and sounds coming and going like snowflakes. Overall it\\\'s too short to leave a good or bad impression, but I\\\'d say: so far so good. (FdW) Address: V.V. - 8L (CDR by Naninani Recordings) V.V. aka Ven Voisey might not be a household name yet, but that will come, believe me. He has various releases on such labels as C.I.P., Throat and Aesova - mainly CDRs and CDs. Essentially V.V. is a laptop artist, let there be no mistake about it. He is out there with a microphone and some recording device taping whatever sound he finds around, but when moving back to his computer he alters the sound on his computer and offers a strong sound collage. On this new release, the field recordings were all made at the \\\'100 font blvd apartment 8L\\\' - an address which doesn\\\'t mean much, nor the state it was in. New? Old? Demolished? Empty? We don\\\'t know, nor can we tell by just listening to the music captured on this release. V.V.\\\'s sound is one of continous sound, its always there. It\\\'s not so much about dynamics, as it\\\'s more an environment by itself. Six strong pieces of heavily processed sound, which seemingely drone away nicely, in a highly digital form. Slowly building crescendo\\\'s, slowly adding more sound processing to the already existing layers. Simple, but highly effective. Watch this name. (FdW) Address: IAN EPPS - FINDS THE4YEAROLDCHILD COURTSIDE (CD by Softl Music) This is the first time I hear of Ian Epps, who is a sonic/visual artist \\\'customizing his life and belongings in Brooklyn, NY\\\'. The concept is quite intruiging: \\\'The 4yearoldchild is a continuing series of audio portraits, documenting a world through child\\\'s eyes\\\'. Being vaguely familiar with four year old children (or better: one of them), it\\\'s nice to hear some of the results of such audio portraits. For the four year old the world is getting bigger and more complex then for children which are younger then four. Slowly they start to understand the bigger concept of time and space, which is something that is both fascinating and frighting to them. But the four old start to understand and communicate. I am not sure what Ian Epps uses sound wise for this CD and so it\\\'s hard to relate to his concept. It\\\'s a highly digital scenery he is painting here for the listener. Heavily influenced by the likes of Oval, Tone Language or Fennesz, his compositions are short and filled with warm sounds - warm but digital. Glitch one could call it and Epps remains in that tradition, but finds his own way. Maybe the concept here is harked together with the music - who am I to agree or disagree - but the result is what counts. But maybe Ian Epps will make school... under \\\'kids and cuts\\\'. (FdW) Address: http://www.softlmusic.com MICROCASSETTOR VOLUME TWO (CDR compilation by Pocketsound) Second Volume in a collection of sounds captured on microcasettes, which are usually found in answering machines or small recorders used to record interviews. Volume one was reviewed in Vital weekly 343. Spoken word, punk bands, weirdness while ordering food and home recorded oddities is what one gets here. Highlights are for me the more weird tracks, such as by My Brother The Cyclops, Newton, Minga, New Dawn Rising, Teen Wolf, Supression and The Un-Ones, sho all sound like captured inside an asylum, on the phone, spitting out their weirdness. The overall quality of the music is of course not great, but what else can one expect from the recording quality that is not ment to record high quality music. The CDR comes packed in a quarter-sized, hand-etched vinyl - so I guess all the formats are enclosed here (vinyl, CDR and tape). (FdW) Address: http://home.earthlink.net/~microcassettor VERTONEN - THE OCEAN IS GONE, THE SHIP IS NEXT (CD by Ground Fault) It\\\'s not that Vertonen is going to be the next Merzbow in an attempt to release more CDs, but with the review of \\\'Stendac\\\' (Vital Weekly 369) we were just catching up with some older release. I believe this is more new. Vertonen, aka Blake Edwards, is back with five lengthy pieces of his usual drone like style, which is most certainly apparent in the opening piece \\\'Untitled For Air Organ And Turntable Motor\\\', which clocks in at some fourteen minutes, with subtle shifting frequencies of the two primary sound elements. In the other four tracks, Vertonen goes back to using the turntable as his musical instrument, but he manages to do it in such a way that it\\\'s not always that obvious. Vertonen uses metal sheets and objects attached to the turntable\\\'s arm and that creates an ever evolving drive to the music. Occassionally crackles from vinyl pop up, which hints at the more common use of turntablism. In all, it\\\'s very nice work and maybe more diverse then \\\'Stendac\\\'. (FdW) Address: http://www.groundfault.net ORIGAMI SUBTROPIKA - ULTIMATUM (3\\\" CDR by The Locus Of The Assemblage) The slick textured blue cover with a palm tree conjures up music for having fun in the sun. Especially if you find high pitched sine waves and white noise the ideal soundtrack to prancing in the ocean on the shore of some tropical island. This ep is the debut release from the Puerto Rican branch of The Origami Republika, headed by Jorge Castro. The music uses the very basic sound elements mentioned above-a high pitched sine starts off the disk and later is joined by some white noise. A very simple construction, nothing unique but it acts as an aural palate cleanser for the sounds to follow. The noise is filtered and modulated into a pressurized drone that fades in and out. The second track uses the same basic elements again of sine and noise, but they are softened with the use of filters with some percussive pulses for accent. With many of Castro\\\'s drone compositions there is a feeling of pressure building up, which he releases at just the right moment. The end result is a good sonic arrangement that uses a modicum of materials. (JS) Address: http://www.assemblage.freeuk.com BRIAN NORING - COLDEST OF SNOWS (CDR by F.D.R. Recordings) Brian Noring is part of the old hometaper network from the 1980s. This is his 177th release on his label and was recorded last December 2002. Crappy color print out cover, crooked and unevenly folded with cut and paste artwork well suits the dysfunctional keyboard/synth music that goes around on this album. This is what I consider to be true American folk music-devoid of any current (or past) stylish or genre idioms. Cheezy keyboard sounds, that crappy casio drum machine all done with a total lack of pretense, which I find so appealing. This is music to listen to after a long day, relaxing on the couch. And chances are Brian made this after a long day as a way to unwind. Simple tunes that perhaps you\\\'ll hum during your workday as they are never cloying. Only the last track does Brian leave off the rhythms to end with a dark piece of muffled tones and white noise portamento. The 80s are alive and kicking. (JS) Address: MAR.TIN\\\'S TROMBONE ON THE MOON - DESERTS WILL BLOOM THROUGH ATOMIC POWER (CDR by Burning Emptiness) This is one of the strangest things that has hit my cd player in a while and that\\\'s a good thing. This project is made up of Margrave Ruediger& Trombone, Tin.RP & Moon, and The Guy Who Invented Fire. What this mob of people bring on this 21 minute ep are seven songs of samples and electronics bathed in a small room reverb, which probably accounts for its overall strange sound. The music is a bastard blend of 50s scifi films\\\' bloops and bleeps with laptop precise beats and noises. Some of the tracks contain voice samples, which makes me think that it would be interesting to hear this group with a proper vocalist. This first track hints at such a concept, with its snippets of female dialogue, albeit somewhat mangled. This is fun, freaky, alien music great for your next party. Great full color cover too. (JS) Address: http://www.burningemptiness.fr.st CAL CRAWFORD - SITTING ON THEORIES ON THE FRONTIER OF EXTENSION (CD by Squint Fucker Press) JONATHAN PARANT - LITTERATURE (CD by Squint Fucker Press) Squint Fucker Press is a small label from Canada, run by Christof Migone and Alexandre St-Onge. Their releases are truely a work of art - not greatly designed, if designed at all, but the hardly readable writing on both CDs do not make things easy. I was glad I got some extra information on a piece of paper. Also musicwise, Squint Fucker Press, likes the more extreme and conceptual approach. How about Cal Crawford\\\'s CD, which uses \\\'sounds generated by sitting on top of a bundle of blankets with a microphone rolled up into its center\\\'. That was a starting point: later on he made other recordings of various types of microphones under pressure: in water, clothing, skin and even boiling water. They are all \\\'attempts to create a spatially extended recording from acts that lacked a movement through space and instead focused on increasing the distance of/inside specific points: pressure point\\\'. It all sounds like a mouthful, but the muffled, crackling sounds captured in the various tracks on this CD are quite nice. If you don\\\'t know the story behind it, one may wonder what it is all about as none of the sounds on this CD seem to be related to anything we know - maybe then, in some cases, for static hiss coming from the radio, but as we know it\\\'s not. It\\\'s a strange release, a lot of times it hoovers somewhere down there, in which we don\\\'t hear anything at all, sometimes it\\\'s just soft crackle and occassionally, yes, it\\\'s more audible. Captivating release. I read the notes that came with the Jonathan Parant CD, but it didn\\\'t make much sense to me. Jonathan is a member of Fly Pan Am and Les Sirenes De Sorrente. I haven\\\'t heard the latter, but I do know Fly Pan Am and I must say that what Jonathan does in his spare time has nothing to with Fly Pan Am. Here he plays around with sound - small sounds, large amplification. There is a bit of sound processing going on, but it might be just an odd recording process going on. Concpetually maybe less intruiging then Crawford\\\'s disc, but sound wise there is much more diversity going on here. Sometimes it sounds like a bunch of alarmclocks going off or chairs being pushed around a room, or radio disturbances. At times a noisy version of Roel Meelkop or Bernard Gunter. (FdW) Address: http://www.squintfuckerpress.com VALERIO CAMPORINI FAGGIONI - MULTITEMPORAL SONGBOOK VOLUME 1 (7\\\" by Unbearable Recordings) Here is a little something that I fail to understand. It\\\'s a record by Valerio Camporini Faggioni, whohe, and has a computer sung and children\\\'s like synth backing, but never has the wit of Andreas Dorau. Digital baroq music? It sort of eludes me. As a novelty act nice, but that\\\'s it... (FdW) Address: http://www.unbearablerecordings.co.uk/html.gs.html THE MARCIA BLAINE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS - PINK STICKS/WE (7\\\" by Static Caravan) A highly unusual name for a band - or probably an one person unit - who has releases before on Awkard Silence and Dalriada. \\\'Pink Sticks\\\' is a very nice song. Plinkity plonk loops on a piano form the backbone of the piece and the icing is a nice set of \\\'intellegent\\\' dance rhythms in the veins of the Morr Music or City Center Offices. Gentle but pulsating. Nice groove there. A xylophone tune opens \\\'We\\\', and just like the piano loops on \\\'Pink Sticks\\\' inspired by that one true master of minimal music, repeating and phasing. Electronica is added slowly and the song\\\'s melancholical lines slowly evolve from there. The a-side could get a spin at a party but \\\'We\\\' is certainly for home entertainment. Nice record. (FdW) Address: http://www.staticcaravan.com TROIMOUCHA CROUPISULDOS - ROADIES (7\\\" by Dhyana Records) A bit clueless as to whom the Troimoucha Croupisuldos are, but their 7\\\" is all about cars and moving in cars. The a-side is a mournful sung song, a kind of voice I am a bit allergic for. Also a bit clueless again about what the lyrics are about. The instrumental b-side is much nicer. Heavy on guitar sounds with an ongoing psychedelic drumsound and e-bows that sound like carhorns. Both sides have a retro 80s doom sound, but especially the b-side reflects big city life music. (FdW) Address: http://www.dhyanarecords.com FUNKTURM - STRATA (CD by D.O.R.) Improvisational specialist Richard Gallon is now ready with his third release under the name Funkturm (taken from the name of Berlin\\\'s famous radio tower). Funkturm works with collages of sounds and noises first of all taken from everyday sounds being processed, re-arranged, manipulated into free flowing sound structures. The complex multi-layered mix have been added spoken cut-up samples just like most tracks are built on rhythmic textures ranging from slow jazzy beats to cool dub patterns. Quite a few of the fourteen tracks come out as live collaborations with Timothy Evans and have been recorded at various shows. If you appreciate music based on sound collage complexity, Funktum\\\'s \\\"Strata\\\" is definitely worth checking out. (NMP) Address: http://www.dor.co.uk/ correction: Steve Curtain, reviewed in Vital Weekly 370, is actually mis-spelled; it should be Steve Curtin. Sorry 1. From: \\\"TJ Norris\\\" (((soundbytes))) live electronics series BILL HORIST May 17, 8PM (SATURDAY), $5-8 Suggested Donation SOUNDVISION 625 NW Everett St #108, Portland, OR 97209 USA Phone: 503-238-7007 2. From: noizez@tiscali.it LIVE TV VOSTRO NO - BUDGET VARIETY SHOW DEL TUTTO STRANO AL CANTIRE, VIA GUSTAVO MODENA, 92. TRASTEVERE, ROMA ORE 21:20 DOMENICHE MAGGIO 18 Presented by CHRIS BLAZEN Musical guests MEDITERRONES ILARIA, TEKNOCICCIO, STEFANO CANTIANI, TRIO ARCHOBALENO, MARCO EIEI, Representante Oficial de la Monarquia: GENERALISSIMO JUAN PABLO DE MAL MONNEZZA SONORA, CURVA CHIUSA RAN ANCOR + JOE MARCELLO LIBERATO + ospiti speciali extralight technologies live tv sarà registrato dal vivo! an INTRASUONI production Live TV! 3. From: Metamkine Lionel Marchetti / Jerome Noetinger live electronics 19 May : Ausland, Lychener Str. 60, 10437 Berlin www.ausland-berlin.de 20 May : AStA-Wohnzimmer, Universität Lüneburg www.asta-wohnzimmer.de 21 May : MS Stunbitz, lp 82 Stadthafen, 18057 Rostock www.stubnitz.com 22 May : Raumschiff Zitrone, Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin www.echtzeitmusik.de 23 & 24 May : Musica Genera Festival, Szczecin (Poland) http://rwert.art.pl/ 4. From: \\\"m455!m0\\\" 25.05 |Massimo| Killyrego, Oslo (Norway) 27.05 |Massimo| Trollofon, Bergen (Norway) 28.05 |Massimo| Club Pilota, Bergen (Norway) 05.06 |Massimo| Kulturhuset, Stockhom (Sweden) 14.06 |Massimo| Wrong Festival, Barcelona (Spain) 5. From: LAMPO FRIDAY, MARCH 21 LAMPO PRESENTS PITA - \\\"GET OFF\\\" 6ODUM - 2116 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Ill. 9PM - Admission open to all ages. QUESTIONS? http://www.lampo.org --------------------------------------------------- Please note this concert is on FRIDAY, not Saturday. --------------------------------------------------- PITA Fri Mar 21 9pm 6ODUM Lampo is pleased to bring Peter Rehberg (aka Pita) from Vienna to Chicago for the premiere of \\\"Get Off,\\\" the follow-up to his \\\"Get Out\\\" (1999) and \\\"Get Down\\\" (2002) and a work destined to become a landmark of digital music. The Mego label-head has collaborated live and in the studio with Ramon Bauer, General Magic, Jim O\\\'Rourke, Christian Fennesz, Kevin Drumm, Russell aswell, Sonic Youth, Mika Vainio, Zbigniew Karkowski, Marcus Schmickler and AMM, and is a member of MIMEO, the 12-piece electronic orchestra chaired by Keith Rowe. Miss this one and suffer the barbs and gibes of unshaven miscreants everywhere. Presented with support from the Austrian Cultural Forum New York 6. From: extra247@another.com SLOW SOUND SYSTEM a walk on the mild side one: midRange, 16 may, 7pm a friday night soundclash with our friends from coombe records. in the blue corner, Dual and cLOde from coombe, playing minimal tones, clipped beats and washed out beautiful textured noise, put through the Dual machines and re-sampled live. in the red corner, iMax and Crome Yellow from slow sound system playing heavy beats, bass and dsp detritus. images by iMax and GR. let battle commence ... 16 may, 7 - 11 pm, free / donations the foundry, 84-86 great eastern st, london ec2. corner of great eastern st and old st. nearest tube: old st. ----- two: slow sound system, 18 may, 3pm the slow club returns for another sunday afternoon listening session: expect pastoral electronics, soundscaping, deep drones and indietronica from guests . m u r m e r and thorsten sideb0ard, plus slow sound system regulars. sound: .m u r m e r (s\\\'agita, staalplaat, framework) : live thorsten sideb0ard (8bitrecs, highpointlowlife, sonomu, not clickable) : dj iMax (53 degrees, grain of sound) : dj albert (scatsta sound system, 8bitrecs) : dj datamath (ladytron) : dj vision: sumugan sivanesan (sivanesan.com) : digital shorts jay ropinsky (klik klak / hardman, berlin) : latest flash manoeuvres iMax (53 degrees) : slideshow and photography the foundry : live CCTV and spy camera 18 may, 3 - later, free. the foundry, 84-86 great eastern st, london ec2. corner of great eastern st and old st. nearest tube: old st. the show will be simulcast on Resonance 104.4FM from 3-5pm GMT. set your receivers, or go to http://www.resonancefm.com for live streaming audio. contact: the foundry: 0207 739 6900 info@foundry.tv http://www.foundry.tv -- Vital Weekly is published by Frans de Waard and submitted for free to anybody with an e-mail address. 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