OUT NOW on 12k/LINE steve roden / richard chartier / goem / ghislain poirier CDs

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01.10.02


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new release: steve roden
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ARTIST: STEVE RODEN
TITLE: FORMS OF PAPER
CATALOG: LINE007
EDITION: 500

Forms of Paper was originally created for the "Art in the Libraries
Exhibition" and installed in the Frank Gehry designed Hollywood
branch of the Los Angeles Public Library in August, the work was
created with the quiet space of the library as a major consideration,
amplified at a very low volume level. All of the sounds in the
composition are the sounds of book pages being handled. This cd
version has been expanded and re-worked into a one hour composition.
Roden says of the CD "I imagine the work as something of a folded
piece of white paper sculpture; where shadows, folds, and light
enable one to see not only the white of the paper, but a full
spectrum of grays as well."

Steve Roden is a visual/sound artist from Los Angeles. His work,
including painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, and sound,
combine conceptual strategies and intuitive movementsÐfound
structures and systems lifted from their original intentions and used
as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. In the sound works;
objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted
through electronics to create audio new spaces or "possible
landscapes" concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of
listening. The Wire (UK) recently referred to Roden's cd The Radio as
"a particularly modest form of genius" and listed it in their "best
of 2000" for experimental releases.

Since 1986, Roden has exhibited his visual/sound installations and
performed his works live internationally, including recent exhibits
at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum (LA); the MAK Center for Art and
Architecture (LA); the Drawing Center (NYC); the Jennjoy Gallery
(SF), Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik (Odense, Denmark); Podewil
(Berlin, Germany) to name a few. Roden has released CDs on such
labels as Trente Oiseaux (GERMANY) Sonoris (FRANCE); GMBH (FRANCE);
Digital Narcis (JAPAN) Meme (JAPAN) and on compilations. In 1999 he
co-edited the publication "Site of SoundÐof Architecture and the Ear."

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REISSUE OF LINE001 - RICHARD CHARTIER "SERIES"
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ARTIST: RICHARD CHARTIER
TITLE: SERIES
CATALOG: LINE001
EDITION 2: 500

Series is the 4th solo full length cd by minimal sound
artist/composer Richard Chartier. Created over an 8 month period
Series and employing soft hushed almost imperceptible high
frequencies and bursts and staticy quiet low shifting tones... the
works explore an implied silence that is not silent. a quietness that
belies the activity and energy of the sounds. cyclical, meticulously
subtle structured, vaguely atmospheric digital compositions. meant to
be experienced at low volumes or on headphones.

For Series, Chartier was awarded one of twelve Honorable Mentions in
the category of Digital Music by the prestigious PRIX ARS
ELECTRONICA, 2001 (Linz, Austria).

Richard Chartier, minimal sound artist/composer, painter and graphic
designer, has recorded critically acclaimed solo recordings for
Trente Oiseaux (Germany), LINE (USA), Meme (Japan), Fallt (Ireland),
Microwave (The Netherlands) and Intransitive Recordings (USA) as well
collaborative works with Nosei Sakata (*0) and Taylor Deupree on 12k
(USA).

His work has been featured on a number of international compilations
including this year's Clicks & Cuts 2 (Mille Plateaux, Germany) and
in Computer Music Journal in conjunction with the essay "The
Aesthetics of Failure: Post-Digital Tendencies in Contemporary
Computer Music" by Kim Cascone (MIT Press, USA). His work explores
the relationship between sound, silence and the act of listening.

Both his visual and sound works have been exhibited in many galleries
and artspaces including the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
and Washington Project for the Arts Projectspace. Over the past
several years, he has been invited to perform his sound work at live
events in the United States, Canada, and the UK including such noted
international electronic music festivals as MUTEK (Montreal),
Lovebytes (Sheffield) and Transmissions (Chicago). With Taylor
Deupree, he founded the recording label LINE in 2000, as a
subdivision of 12k focusing new, digital, minimalist sound art.

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ARTIST: GOEM
TITLE: ABRI
CATALOG: 12K1015
EDITION: 1000

Abri is Goem's seventh full length CD and their North American label
debut, following widely acclaimed releases on Raster-Noton,
Staalplaat and Fourth Dimension. Recorded, produced and edited in
Rotterdam, Montreal, Tokyo and Kyoto in 2000 and 2001, Abri was
composed using Goem's mobile studio consisting of a laptop and
multichannel sound card which allows them to compose anywhere around
the world. The music is built around minimal loops and the buzzing of
analogue synthesizers create a rich tapestry of sound which requires
intense listening to reveal the underlying subtleties and depth. Abri
is signature Goem sound and perhaps their most mature and delicate
release to date.

Goem started mid 1996 when Roel Meelkop gave Frans de Waard a small
electronic device, which he found in a thriftshop in Rotterdam. The
device was called the Student Stimulator. Until today it is unknown
what it was used for, but most likely it was part of a research
program exploring the mysteries of human sleep. The machine generates
pulses, of which speed and intensity can be changed. Frans dabbled
around with the machine using Steve Reich's Phase Shifting techniques
and presented a demo back to Roel, who thought it was 'interesting',
but not as an end-result. Upon his suggestion, the two re-worked the
original demo, by adding sound effects, analogue synthesizers and
filtering. Most of those sessions ended up on the first CD 'Stud
Stim', which was released mid 1997 by Raster Music. By this time,
Goem were invited at very short notice to play in Barcelona, during a
side festival of Sonar. Roel and Frans invited Peter Duimelinks to
join forces and since then Goem are a trio.

Goem's music is better described as minimal pulse (techno) than as
'glitch' or 'clicks & cuts'. In best Dutch tradition, Goem shows
techno in its purest form. They have been long-time contributors to
12k, appearing on compilations back to 12k's groundbreaking ".aiff"
CD.

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ARTIST: GHISLAIN POIRIER
TITLE: IL N'Y A PAS DE SUD...
CATALOG: 12K1016
EDITION: 1000


12k is proud to announce the debut release from Montreal native
Ghislain Poirier. Il n'y a pas de Sud...

In an alluring departure from the sound of 12k's recent output, Il
n'y a pas de Sud... blends broken melodies and sonic slips with a
very stripped down version of the berlin techno sound. The result is
a sparse blend of rhythm and space with a slow diffused groove as
beats flux and vibrate beneath lo-fi oscillations of warm chords and
clouds of bass.

Il n'y a pas de Sud... was created using an ageing PC with so little
processing power that Poirier is forced to compose each work in parts
and later piece them together. Using this approach he pushes himself
to make the most of very little, which he does very well, and has
developed a unique and fresh signature sound proving that the latest,
most trendy software isn't necessary to create captivating sound.

Musical accomplishments aside, Ghislain Poirier is also a visual
artist. He has had many solo exhibitions of his paintings and
drawings in the city of Montreal, notably at the Maisons de la
culture Côte-des-neiges, at the Galerie de l?île-des-moulins and at
Atom Heart.

Il n'y a pas de Sud... is a brilliant work from a new face in minimal
electronic sound.




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12k + LINE RELEASES:

12k1013 	taylor deupree | occur | CD
12k1014	sogar | basal | CD
12k1015	goem | abri | CD
12k1016	ghislain poirier | il n'y a pas de sud | CD

LINE_001	richard chartier | series | CD
LINE_006	z.e.l.l.e | nth | CD
LINE_007	steve roden | forms of paper | CD
LINE_008 richard chartier | of surfaces | CD (JAN)