LINE: new release ROEL MEELKOP: "(TO BE ANNOUNCED)"/ Richard Chartier "3_components" limited edition

[richard chartier <chartier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LINE | JULY 12 2002


out now. ROEL MEELKOP: "(TO BE ANNOUNCED)" LINE_010 CD

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The first full length release for Roel Meelkop on LINE, (To Be 
Announced) showcases his amazing use of the sound field shuttling 
across low elements, high frequencies, quiet movements, and jarring 
unexpected loud events. (To Be Announced)'s unique "acoustic" sounds 
and synthetic sounds makes repeated listening reveal a myriad layers 
and juxtaposition.

Roel Meelkop (1963) studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem 
de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. During a 
post-graduate course at the same academy he decided to dedicate his 
work to sound and music. His musical activities date back to the 
early 1980s when he started influential group THU20, with Jac van 
Bussel, Peter Duimelinks, Jos Smolders and Guido Doesborg. The 
working method of THU20 included many discussions about how to 
compose and why. This period was crucial in forming his ideas and 
concepts about sound and how to organize it, but it was not until the 
mid nineties that he was able to fully realize these ideas. The 
purchase of a sampler and later a computer radically changed his 
possibilities of working with sound, offering infinitely more control 
and freedom. Since then he has worked steadily on a body of work with 
releases on such labels as Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Staalplaat 
(Netherlands) and Intransitive (US). His other activities include 
working as a member of both Kapotte Muziek and GOEM with Peter 
Duimelinks and Frans De Waard and organizing sound events in 
Rotterdam. Aside from releases, Meelkop also creates site-specific 
sound installations, often in collaboration with other artists and 
has performed live around the world.

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ALSO AVAILABLE

artist: richard chartier
title: 3_components
label: 3particles
format: CD-R
limited: 60 copies / signed & numbered

price: $35

http://www.12k.com/paypalshop/#other

Chartier's minimalist approach and his exploration of "the 
relationship between sound, silence, and the act of listening" has an 
ever increasing relevance, as the aural detritus of technology 
becomes a global soundtrack to our everyday life. In Chartier's work, 
the relationship between sounds and the spaces between them subtly 
demands the listener's full attention, engaging him completely in the 
act of perception. Almost inaudible blips and clicks, subterranean 
bass hums, distant interior high-pitched pulses, and seemingly random 
static are manufactured yet familiar, reminders of the sonic 
by-products that usually pass through our perceptual filters 
unnoticed. 

This particular work "3_components" is constructed in 3 time 
durations, and as such, over the course of the piece, the loops 
unwind upon each other creating new patterns and interactions within 
the space and thus in relation to the listener's location. 
"3_components" like much of Chartier's work, bears witness to the 
interdependence and focus required of sound, silence and the act of 
listening.

Released by FUSEBOX gallery in Washington DC in conjunction with the 
sound installation of the same name which was exhibited March 9- 
April 14, 2002.



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OUT NOW 12k/LINE RELEASES:
12k1019 MOTION | DUST | CD
LINE_010 ROEL MEELKOP | (TO BE ANNOUNCED) | CD

OUT SOON 12K/LINE:
12k1020 TAYLOR DEUPREE | STIL. | CD
12k1021 CHRISTOPHER WILLITS | (TBA) | CD
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