[microsound] SIRR - NEW CD RELEASES 04/04

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Hello,
After the long winter intermission, we are proud to announce
Sirr new CD releases are finally available:

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BRANDON LABELLE - CONCERT [SIRR017]
JASON KAHN - MIRAMAR [SIRR016]
PAULO RAPOSO/CARLOS SANTOS - INSULA DULCAMARA [SIRR013]
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More info at:
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sirr017. BRANDON LABELLE - CONCERT

This CD "documents" some of Brandon Labelle recent installations.
Brandon Labelle understands art installation as a meeting point of various
forces?sound and building, musicality and conversation, bodies and context ?
as a way to create unexpected relation: to bring together you and I into a
process of meeting, a concert where difference finds its place within the
crowd. For the concert pulls into its rhythm the given environment,
articulating space through movement, amplifying the presence of others
through noise and stillness, unfolding as a play of interaction, of voices
and their excitement.
Bringing together these installations, as documents of audio and processes
of realizing space, has built into it a desire to expand the scene, heighten
the dance, to concert further, and reiterate, with a different tongue, the
presence of the work: to modulate the volume so as to recognize that which
surrounds the object of attention.



sirr016. JASON KAHN - MIRAMAR

'miramar' features new pieces recorded live in studio using analogue
synthesizer, floor tom and small cymbals. Recorded with eight different room
microhpones, the room being extremely large, with 20-meter high ceilings.
Each room microphone picked up a different frequency range, depending on its
placement and how the room's resonant frequency mixed with what I was
playing. In addition to analogue synthesizer and percussion, the room itself
was thus the third «instrument» Jason kahn used on this recording.



sirr013. PAULO RAPOSO/CARLOS SANTOS - INSULA DULCAMARA

Insula Dulcamara" departs from a series of field-recordings that were
progressively transformed and shifted over the period of two years. Small
snapshots captured during vacations in the north of Portugal, travelling
notes, reverberating spaces, particular gestures embroided in and against
very different materials. Sources were manipulated using max/msp software
and co-habiting with high-pitch sounds taken from a "no-input amplifier".
The sounds move quietly through the fragmented. multiplied and juxtaposed
landscapes of field recordings to create a highly intricate evershifting but
detailed sonic flow.



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Brandon Labelle

Brandon LaBelle is a sound artist and writer from Los Angeles. Working in
the field of sound- performance- and installation-art, LaBelle's work aims
to draw attention to the dynamics of sound as it is found within spaces and
objects, public events and interactions, language and the body. Through a
performative interaction with objects, found-sound, electronics and space,
the work draws attention to the quality and nature of what is already there
experientially through an emphasis on and displacement of listening and
interaction.

His work has been featured in "Bitstreams" at the Whitney Museum, in
"Amplitude of Chance" at Kawasaki City Museum Japan, at the 9th
International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Liverpool and Manchester,
Sampling Rage Festival in Berlin, the ICA London, Experimental Intermedia in
New York, the Arizona State University Museum, and as part of "Sound as
Media" at ICC in Tokyo. He has released two CDs with SELEKTION, a label in
Frankfurt Germany, related to site-specific sound, a CD ("Automatic Radio")
documenting radio-projects and live performances on the Fringes label in
Milan, and "Techné", a CD on architecture and noise, on the La Bruit Secret
label France. He is also the co-editor of "Site of Sound: of Architecture
and The Ear" and "Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language", both published by
Errant Bodies, and curator of the Beyond Music Series at Beyond Baroque
Center, Los Angeles CA.


Jason kahn

Born in 1960 in New York and growing up in Los Angeles, Jason Kahn has been
active in the European music scene since moving to Berlin in 1990. He has
given concerts or recorded with Günter Müller, Dieb13, Erik M, Voice Crack,
Sainkho Namtchylak, David Moss, Evan Parker, Christian Marclay, Kevin Drumm,
Steve Roden, John Hudak, Kim Cascone, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rhainey, Klaus
Filip, Mattin and Steinbrüchel.
Originally a percussionist, Kahn later began integrating live electronics
into his playing. Kahn¹s solo performances involve laptop, analogue
synthesizer or minimal percussion­either singularly or in combination.
 Over several trips to Japan Kahn has performed or recorded with Toshimaru
Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Utah
Kawasaki, Uchihashi Kazuhisa and Koji Asano.
While living in Berlin, Kahn was from 1994-99 a member of American composer
Arnold Dreyblatt¹s group «The Orchestra of Excited Strings,» performing in
installations, multi-media pieces and concerts.
Kahn started the CD label cut in 1996, counting to date ten releases. He has
composed music for theater and dance and given concerts throughout Europe,
North America, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Russia and Australia.
In the past several years Kahn has exhibited several sound installations.
He currently lives in Zürich, Switzerland.


Paulo Raposo

Paulo Raposo is a sound + media artist based in lisbon, Portugal. Despite
having studied cinema and philosophy, he has been working in the medium of
live electronic and computer sound since the early nineties, performing,
exhibiting  and recording in France, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands,
Portugal and United States.

His work has largely been concerned with the displacement of various sound
sources as objects, acoustic instruments or architectural spaces, using
computer and custom-built software, written in max/msp, to create abstract
and organic landscapes. Since the late nineties, he started exploring
intersections between sound and image taking advantage of the digital medium
real-time possibilities, both in solo performances and collaborative work,
specially along with Jeremy Bernstein.

His work "Rizomas" was presented at Phil Niblock's Experimental Intermedia
Foundation, New York and received the BES prize in 1996. His work was also
featured at places like Synthése - Festival Bourges and ICMC2000 -
International Computer Music Conferences.

In addition, he has always been interested in improvised music, having
performed with several artists and groups, including Jason Kahn, Kaffe
Mathews, Marc Behrens, Zbigniew Karkowski, Matt Rogalski, Carlos Zíngaro,
Christopher Murphy, Manuel Mota, Harold Baush, Matt Rogalski, Ben Manley,
Koji Asano, among others.

He founded the label 'Sirr' in 2001.



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