[microsound] murmer news: new release on ground fault recordings

[". m u r m e r ." <murmer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hello all,

a note to announce a new murmer release, in the latest batch of discs from the great ground fault recordings.  from their latest update (http://www.groundfault.net):


------------ NEW RELEASES -----------

I'm very proud to announce the upcoming release of FOUR new titles from
Ground Fault Recordings!  All are scheduled to be available on January 6,
2004.

GF027 Joel Stern & Michael Northam "Wormwood" series I
            - first 50 copies (direct retail sales only - no wholesale or
trades) receive a 3" bonus CDr from MNortham entitled "Gebel (Excerpt)".
GF028 Nels Cline & Devin Sarno "Buried on Bunker Hill" series I
GF029 Prurient "Shipwrecker's Diary" series III
GF030 Murmer "They Were Dreaming They Were Stones" series I
            - first 50 copies (direct retail sales only - no wholesale or
trades) receive a 3" bonus CDr from Murmer entitled "Elements".

Pre-orders for these titles are now being taken.  Place your orders on-line
or reserve copies via e-mail if you are sending a check, money order or
cash.

Order all 4 titles for $25.

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i will have copies as well (of the murmer release only), and can accept uk pounds, euros or us dollars via paypal.  i include below a few words on the peice, and on the 3" bonus cdr as well.  thanks, and best wishes for the new year!

patrick



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they were dreaming they were stones (ground fault 30):  this piece was composed very slowly over the course of the last two years; part one came first - inspired by the hypnotic rhythm of the ancient gas meter in my basement - and was then left alone for about a year.  finally,  with a desire to reuse some old telephone feedback recordings that had been made for a composition that I hadn't been happy with, the prologue came into existence, and then, much later, the longer conglomeration of parts two, three and four.  i mastered these as a single track as, while they are three distinct parts, they do not have distinct transitions, blending slowly from one into the next.  the piece shares many of its elements with the live soundtrack to the show k.a., which i have been performing over the past year with the french performance company urba.  the earlier parts were completed when rehearsals began, and were integrated into the show, and much of the latter work came directly from the rehearsal process.

 track info:

      prologue  (06:42):
     car seat massager, telephones, the brooklyn bridge
     
      part one  (11:39):
     gas meter, feedback, car seat massager
     
      parts two:
     hewitt's cove marina, elevator shaft
     
               three:
     ringtone
     
               and four  (43:03):
     airplane cabin, turkish football victory celebrations, 600 gallon galvanized steel water tank
     


 

all source recordings made between 1999 and 2003

composed 2002/2003 using minidisc, 8-track and effects

 

 

 



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elements (ground fault):  elements has been released by ground fault as a limited edition 3" cdr included with the first fifty copies of they were dreaming they were stones, making use of all the sound elements from k.a. that were not represented on the full length cd it accompanies. this is not a performance document; the sounds are completely restructured, as the ties to the visual elements within the performance are obviously not present.  the development, culminating with the grating of a coiled metal wire, follows the slow advance of a storm, finally exploding and abating in the final moments.

 track info:

      elements  (20:36):
     crickets, rocks, turkish football victory celebrations, road noise and bicycle vibrations from inside a bicycle bell, a coiled metal wire
     


 

all source recordings made between 1999 and 2003

composed 2003 using minidisc, 8-track and effects





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