Subject: [lowercase-sound] NEW L.Marchetti, Hudak/Lescalleet CDs on Intransitive.
(please pardon the ad-like nature of this post, but I am sure this will be of interest to many of you)
New from Intransitive Recordings. In new jewel-box design by Richard Chartier, numbered editions of 500. Only $12 each, postpaid in the US.
int014 Lionel Marchetti "Knud Un Nom de Serpent (le cercle des entrailles)" CD
For his first domestic CD, Lionel Marchetti has created an intricate tape-music exploration of Shamanism and ecstatic states of mind. Spoken text, ritual music from Asia and Africa, and "citations" (to use his term) from well-known works of 20th century experimental music are blended together into a fast-paced collage. In the composer?s words, ?For a while, I have been very interested in Shamanism. When I began ?Knud??, I had been reading ?Shamanism and Archaic States of Exctasy?, by Mircea Eliade, in which I found descriptions of rituals, symbolism of objects such as the tambour, wings, animals and strange singing. These were not far from a place of spirit that I have wanted to share. The composition is able to make the listener live with my mythology, more aware of the world?s potential forces?.
While Marchetti is known for his two 3"mini-CDs on the Metamkine label and his excellent split CD with Ralf Wehowsky on Selektion, ?Knud?? is the first full-length work published under his own name. He is also active in improvised electro-acoustic music, performing with Jerome Noetinger (their CD was released by Corpus Hermeticum last year) and Voice Crack (forthcoming on Grob).
int016 John Hudak + Jason Lescalleet "Figure 2" CD
Following last year?s very limited lathe cut 7?, ?Figure 2? is the second collaborative work by New York sound artist John Hudak and New England-based composer Jason Lescalleet. These five pieces are taken from a live duo performance at the historic Lindsay Chapel of the First Church Congregational in Cambridge, MA. While a massive blizzard tore through the city outside, Hudak and Lescalleet created warm, slowly evolving drones in the dark old church. Using recycled room sounds recorded and manipulated in real time, empty tape and sub-bass rumble, the pieces develop patiently with very gradual shifts in texture. The pieces are presented exactly as the audience heard them, with no manipulation at all.
In live performance, Jason Lescalleet uses reel-to-reel tape decks to explore the textures of low fidelity analog sounds and the natural phenomena of old tape and obsolete technology. He blends layers of ambient tapeloops, found sound, shades of silence and white noise, all transformed through cheap microphones and trashed speakers. Lescalleet has performed and recorded with artists such as Donald Miller, nmperign, and Achim Wollscheid. He currently works with Ron Lessard as Due Process.
John Hudak's sound work focuses on the minimalism and repetition of sounds below the usual threshold of hearing, sounds that are filtered out or considered non-musical. These sounds are recorded, deconstructed and processed, their rhythms and textures being the basis for aural manipulations. His sound and installation work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. After releasing an uncountable number of cassettes in the 1980s and 1990s, his CDs have been published by Meme (Japan) and Alluvial (US).
Howard Stelzer. Intransitive Recordings. www.intransitiverecordings.com
OUT SOON: int015 HOWARD STELZER + JASON TALBOT/MICHAEL BULLOCK "The Idea of Northeast" LP
OUT LATER: int017 M.BEHRENS "Elapsed Time" CD int018 HOWARD STELZER + JASON TALBOT "Songs" CD fringes/int019 TOSHIYA TSUNODA "Extracts from Field Recordings Archive #3: Solid Vibration" CD
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