Square Waves 2.3: ...to Stay Awake to...
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Year 2 Show 3: tracklist and info
Artist: Xela
From: England
Track: Linseed
Album: The Dead Sea
Label: Type
From:
Year: 2006
Notes: aka John Twells, the co-founder of Type records, which I think is based in Manchester. Xela has since released a few limited cassettes, cdrs, lps, and two full length albums, Heors of the Fire, on Rite recordings and In Bocca Al Lupo on Type
Artist: Pierre Bastien
From: Paris France
Track: Eke
Album: Pop
Label: Reflex, the label founded by Richard D James aka Aphex Twin in 1991.
From:
Year: 2005
Notes: Bastien has been making mechanical based music since an early age, forming his own orchestra in 1986, composed of himself and his mecano based instruments driven by turntable motors. Since Pop he has released three full length albums and is currently touring. If you go to his website pierrebastien.com there are a few free downloads of his music along with some great pictures of some of his creations.
Artist: On Fillmore
From: Chicago and St Louis
Track: Showa
Album: Sleeps with fishes
Label: Quakebasket
From: New York label curated by the Drummer Tim Barnes
Year: 2004
Notes: is a project involving Glenn Kotche of Wilco on vibraphone, small instuments and found sound, and Darin Grey on double bass, small instruments and found sound. just released their 4th full-length album, Extended Vacation on Dead Oceans. Kotche also releases work under his own name, the most most recent offering being the amazing Mobile on the Nonesuch label.
Artist: Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins
From: Tokyo and Detroit
Track: Deft
Album: Phantom Orchard
Label: Mego
From: Vienna and Berlin
Year: 2004
Notes: Ikue Mori plays electronics, Zeena Parkins plays electric and acoustic harps, and various synths and pianos. Mori used to be the drummer in the the no-wave band DNA, later she became interested in drum machines and electronics.
Zeena Parkins is a legendary harp player who has performed with the likes of Bjork, john zorn, Elliott sharp in the group Carbon, jim o’rourke, lee ranaldo and others. Her most recent solo album is called Necklace, released on Tzadik.
Artist: Tomoko Sauvage
From: Japan now based in Paris
Track: Raindrop exercise 2
Album: ombrophilia
Label: and/OAR
From: Seattle, they concentrate on environmental recordings and their use in avant garde sound art.
Year: 2009
Notes: Tomoko Sauvage plays what she calls an “electro-aquatic” instrument, "waterbowls", porcelain bowls filled with water, hydrophones and electronics. Some metal wire and wooden spoons.
Artist: Akio Suzuki
From: Tokyo Japan
Track: De Koolmees (G-3) Closing music for Yokosuka Museum of art.
Album: K7 box (cassette box)
Label: Alm Records
From: Tokyo
Year: 2007
Notes: Suzuki began making sound art in 1963 with a performance at Nagoya station, in which he threw a bucket full of junk down a staircase. Since then he has been inventing instruments and performing sound installations all over the world. Recently he has become interested in iwabue – ancient and naturally sculpted stone flutes. Has since released Ki-date in 2009, this track puts me in mind of gamelan so I might do a gamelan show next week…
Artist: Akira Rabelais
From: Los Angeles
Track: 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii.7 and spiride in the face of hym an entre of breth of liff.
Album: spellewauerynsherde
Label: samadhisound set up by Dadid Sylvian and Steve Jansen
From:
Year: 2004
Notes: Akira uses a software filtering application that he wrote, based on recombination and morphologies. He has collaborated with various musicians, including Björk, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Nobukazu Takemura, Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers. [1]
Artist: Rosy Parlane
From: New Zeland
Track: Atlantis
Album: Touch 25
Label: Touch
From: London
Year: 2006
Notes: His soundscapes are comprised of of sample-loops, pianos, guitars, and field recordings manipulated via digital means. Parlane has released two solo albums on Sigma Editions, and a collaboration with Christian Fennesz on the Australian label, Synaesthesia and recently has released three albums, Iris Jessamine, and Willow, all on the Touch label.
Artist: Otomo Yoshihide
From: Yokohama Japan
Track: Modulation 2
Album: Cathode
Label: Tzadik
From: New York
Year: 1999
Notes: this track featured Imahori Tsuneo on acoustic guitar, Ishikawa Ko on shó, Sachiko M on samplers and sine wave generator, and Kawasaki Uta on silent synthesizer. Yoshihide’s most recent album is called Electrik Toboggan.
Artist: Trace
From:
Track: Freeline
Album: Cloud Bait
Label: Self Released in an edition of 70 cds
From: Recorded in the Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland
Year: 2008
Notes: Trace are Paul Hegarty on organ, electronics and vocals. Mick O’Shea on hand made instruments and electronics. O’Shea is director of the Cork Artists Collective, and also plays in the Quiet Club with Danny McCarthy.
for more info check out theguesthouse.ie. Paul Hegarty is a lecturer in French, philosophy, and critical theory at UCC, and calls himself ‘a 'practitioner' of noise music (I wouldn't see myself as a musician, and many would agree…), he also performs in the groups: Safe and Working with Children.
Year 2 Show 3: tracklist and info
Artist: Xela
From: England
Track: Linseed
Album: The Dead Sea
Label: Type
From:
Year: 2006
Notes: aka John Twells, the co-founder of Type records, which I think is based in Manchester. Xela has since released a few limited cassettes, cdrs, lps, and two full length albums, Heors of the Fire, on Rite recordings and In Bocca Al Lupo on Type
Artist: Pierre Bastien
From: Paris France
Track: Eke
Album: Pop
Label: Reflex, the label founded by Richard D James aka Aphex Twin in 1991.
From:
Year: 2005
Notes: Bastien has been making mechanical based music since an early age, forming his own orchestra in 1986, composed of himself and his mecano based instruments driven by turntable motors. Since Pop he has released three full length albums and is currently touring. If you go to his website pierrebastien.com there are a few free downloads of his music along with some great pictures of some of his creations.
Artist: On Fillmore
From: Chicago and St Louis
Track: Showa
Album: Sleeps with fishes
Label: Quakebasket
From: New York label curated by the Drummer Tim Barnes
Year: 2004
Notes: is a project involving Glenn Kotche of Wilco on vibraphone, small instuments and found sound, and Darin Grey on double bass, small instruments and found sound. just released their 4th full-length album, Extended Vacation on Dead Oceans. Kotche also releases work under his own name, the most most recent offering being the amazing Mobile on the Nonesuch label.
Artist: Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins
From: Tokyo and Detroit
Track: Deft
Album: Phantom Orchard
Label: Mego
From: Vienna and Berlin
Year: 2004
Notes: Ikue Mori plays electronics, Zeena Parkins plays electric and acoustic harps, and various synths and pianos. Mori used to be the drummer in the the no-wave band DNA, later she became interested in drum machines and electronics.
Zeena Parkins is a legendary harp player who has performed with the likes of Bjork, john zorn, Elliott sharp in the group Carbon, jim o’rourke, lee ranaldo and others. Her most recent solo album is called Necklace, released on Tzadik.
Artist: Tomoko Sauvage
From: Japan now based in Paris
Track: Raindrop exercise 2
Album: ombrophilia
Label: and/OAR
From: Seattle, they concentrate on environmental recordings and their use in avant garde sound art.
Year: 2009
Notes: Tomoko Sauvage plays what she calls an “electro-aquatic” instrument, "waterbowls", porcelain bowls filled with water, hydrophones and electronics. Some metal wire and wooden spoons.
Artist: Akio Suzuki
From: Tokyo Japan
Track: De Koolmees (G-3) Closing music for Yokosuka Museum of art.
Album: K7 box (cassette box)
Label: Alm Records
From: Tokyo
Year: 2007
Notes: Suzuki began making sound art in 1963 with a performance at Nagoya station, in which he threw a bucket full of junk down a staircase. Since then he has been inventing instruments and performing sound installations all over the world. Recently he has become interested in iwabue – ancient and naturally sculpted stone flutes. Has since released Ki-date in 2009, this track puts me in mind of gamelan so I might do a gamelan show next week…
Artist: Akira Rabelais
From: Los Angeles
Track: 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii.7 and spiride in the face of hym an entre of breth of liff.
Album: spellewauerynsherde
Label: samadhisound set up by Dadid Sylvian and Steve Jansen
From:
Year: 2004
Notes: Akira uses a software filtering application that he wrote, based on recombination and morphologies. He has collaborated with various musicians, including Björk, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Nobukazu Takemura, Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers. [1]
Artist: Rosy Parlane
From: New Zeland
Track: Atlantis
Album: Touch 25
Label: Touch
From: London
Year: 2006
Notes: His soundscapes are comprised of of sample-loops, pianos, guitars, and field recordings manipulated via digital means. Parlane has released two solo albums on Sigma Editions, and a collaboration with Christian Fennesz on the Australian label, Synaesthesia and recently has released three albums, Iris Jessamine, and Willow, all on the Touch label.
Artist: Otomo Yoshihide
From: Yokohama Japan
Track: Modulation 2
Album: Cathode
Label: Tzadik
From: New York
Year: 1999
Notes: this track featured Imahori Tsuneo on acoustic guitar, Ishikawa Ko on shó, Sachiko M on samplers and sine wave generator, and Kawasaki Uta on silent synthesizer. Yoshihide’s most recent album is called Electrik Toboggan.
Artist: Trace
From:
Track: Freeline
Album: Cloud Bait
Label: Self Released in an edition of 70 cds
From: Recorded in the Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland
Year: 2008
Notes: Trace are Paul Hegarty on organ, electronics and vocals. Mick O’Shea on hand made instruments and electronics. O’Shea is director of the Cork Artists Collective, and also plays in the Quiet Club with Danny McCarthy.
for more info check out theguesthouse.ie. Paul Hegarty is a lecturer in French, philosophy, and critical theory at UCC, and calls himself ‘a 'practitioner' of noise music (I wouldn't see myself as a musician, and many would agree…), he also performs in the groups: Safe and Working with Children.
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