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Electric Boat is being awarded a $208,651,154 undefinitized modification to contract (N00024-12-C-2115) for the long lead time material associated with the second fiscal 2014 Virginia-class submarine (SSN 793) and fiscal 2015 Virginia-class submarines (SSN 794 and SSN 795).
Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, Calif. (54 percent), Florence, N.J. (8 percent), Groton, Conn./Quonset Point, R.I. (6 percent), Newport News, Va. (6 percent), Coatesville, Pa. (5 percent), Windsor Locks, Conn. (4 percent), Montville, N.J. (3 percent), Tampa, Fla. (2 percent), York, Pa. (2 percent), and other locations below 1 percent (10 percent). Work is expected to be complete by December 2013.
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For several years Janet Porter insisted that recently passed laws protecting LGBT Americans, such as the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Law, would throw anti-gay activists like herself in jail. Of course that never happened, but then again, Porter also predicted that President Obama would personally meet and negotiate with Osama bin Laden and look how that turned out.
The Faith2Action leader is now using a similar line of attack against Obamacare, which she believes will literally kill conservatives.
While speaking at a Tea Party rally she organized outside the offices of House Speaker John Boehner, Porter forecasted that conservatives are "all dead" if Obamacare is fully implemented.
Porter linked Obamacare to the debunked conspiracy theory about IRS targeting of conservative groups, warning that imaginary death panels will punish Tea Party members.
Our very lives are at stake. Not only are we paying for the abortion mandates, we've got IRS sitting on the death panels. Sarah Palin was right, they are going to decide who lives or dies. If they use the same tactics, we are all dead. If the IRS treats health care like they treat the Tea Party, we are all dead.
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The Pentagon has announced new regulations pertaining to detainees held at Guantanamo Bay in an attempt to keep the detainees out of U.S. courts. This comes a week after the Supreme Court ruled the detainees have a right to challenge their detention. The Pentagon announced yesterday it will soon hold hearings for each of the nearly 600 detainees at Guantanamo Bay and give detainees a chance to challenge their detention before a newly formed military tribunal called the Combative Status Review Tribunal. The detainees would not be allowed access to lawyers at the proceedings. The Center For Constitutional Rights, which brought the Guantanamo case to the Supreme Court, criticized the Pentagon's announcement. Attorney Jeffrey Fogel said "Without access to a lawyer the Supreme Court's decision in Rasul would be meaningless." Human Rights Watch also criticized the move. A representative said "While the Geneva Conventions start with the presumption of greatest protection for the combatant . . . here it is the reverse — they presume a detainee is an enemy combatant and expect him to disprove it."
Enron's Kenneth Lay Indicted on Criminal Charges
The former head of Enron Kenneth Lay was indicted yesterday on criminal charges in connection to the collapse of Enron in 2001. The charges will be made be public today. Lay is a close friend of President Bush and was a leading fundraiser for him. At one point he was considered for the Energy Secretary post. We'll have more on this in a few minutes.
Senate Delays Issuing Iraq Report on White House Role
The New York Times is reporting a new Senate report on Iraq will be highly critical of the CIA's prewar intelligence but will sidestep the question of how the Bush administration used the information to make the case for war. Democrats and Republicans reached a deal that it would likely wait until after the November elections to address the Bush's administrations role. The Times reports this may help President Bush and his allies to blame the CIA for mistakes made. The Senate report will be released Friday morning, less than 24 hours after CIA holds a farewell tribute to George Tenet who is resigning. Tenet's top deputy John McLaughlin will officially take over the agency on an interim basis beginning Sunday.
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Special issue devoted to contributions presented at the E-MRS Symposium C "Peptide-based materials: from nanostructures to applications", 7-11 June 2010, Strasbourg, France.
Research Article
Phages recognizing the Indium Nitride semiconductor surface via their peptides†
Article first published online: 30 NOV 2010
DOI: 10.1002/psc.1315
Copyright © 2010 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Journal of Peptide Science
Special Issue: Peptide-based materials: from nanostructures to applications
Volume 17, Issue 2, pages 143–147, February 2011
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How to Cite
Estephan, E., Saab, M.-B., Martin, M., Larroque, C., Cuisinier, Frédéric. J. G., Briot, O., Ruffenach, S., Moret, M. and Gergely, C. (2011), Phages recognizing the Indium Nitride semiconductor surface via their peptides. J. Peptide Sci., 17: 143–147. doi: 10.1002/psc.1315
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 13 JAN 2011
- Article first published online: 30 NOV 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 18 SEP 2010
- Manuscript Revised: 12 SEP 2010
- Manuscript Received: 15 JUL 2010
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- InN semiconductor;
- phage display;
- peptides;
- biomolecules;
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- atomic force microscopy
Considerable advances in materials science are expected via the use of selected or designed peptides to recognize material, control their growth, or to assemble them into elaborate novel devices. Identifying specific peptides for a number of technologically useful materials has been the challenge of many research groups in recent years. This can be accomplished by using affinity-based bio-panning methods such as phage display technologies. In this work, a combinatorial library including billions of clones of genetically engineered M13 bacteriophage was used to select peptides that could recognize improved indium nitride (InN) semiconductor (SC) material. Several rounds of biopanning were necessary to select the phage with the higher affinity from the low variant library. The DNA of this specific phage was extracted and sequenced to set up the related specific adherent peptide. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used to demonstrate the real affinity of a selected phage for the InN surface. Due to the possibility of its functionalization with biomolecules and its important physical properties, InN is a promising candidate for developing affinity-based optical and electrical biosensors and/or for biomimetic applications. Copyright © 2010 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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In 2011, a time when the term "summer festival" had already come to connote the massive, multi-stage, corporate-sponsored events which have since become the norm, Rafael Anton Irisarri envisioned Substrata – a different kind of model for showcasing live music. The first edition of Substrata that year felt more like a retreat than a festival: artists from around the world performing ambient and modern-classical music for a small, attentive audience in an intimate setting. Irisarri, a touring producer and composer himself, sought above all to provide an immersive and introspective experience for the listener.
He acknowledges the idea was a "huge gamble:" the focus is niche, there are no "headliners" (each artist is given equal consideration), and the venue is located in a semi-residential Seattle neighborhood. Despite these risks, Substrata found a loyal audience and has thrived, shifting to a crowdfunded financial plan and expanding from two to three days. Each year's edition garnered increasing praise and public support via word-of-mouth and alt-weekly write-ups, but Irisarri, having relocated from Seattle to New York last summer, declared this year's Substrata 1.5 the last. It was simply too difficult, he explained, to coordinate such an event from across the country.
Thus this final iteration was, of course, bittersweet, but everyone seemed to skip the pomp and sentimentality — fitting with Substrata tradition, the weekend was first and foremost about the music.
Good Shepherd Center building and gardens:
Every Substrata has taken place at Good Shepherd Center, a historic multi-use landmark originally built as a Catholic School for wayward girls. The apple orchard and garden remain from the original school, and a mild breeze wafted their fragrance up through open windows into the performance space, a richly renovated chapel.
LA multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Tara Jane O'Neil opened the festival with a sound collage composed of singing bowls, effects processors, and a microphone she used like a painter's brush. Moving onto an experimental folk passage, she rolled a ceramic ball into a bowl and tuned her guitar accordingly: "that's the tuning bell."
Portland-based Raulsson then took the stage with his piano-based neo-classical compositions, while bvdub closed the evening with his highly emotive layers of choral vocal samples and gossamer string pads. Seattle's own Leo Mayberry provided appropriately ethereal visual accompaniment.
Day two began with classically-trained harpist Mary Lattimore, who employed a delay modeler in crafting an intricate and distinctly modern sound with her otherwise orchestral instrument.
Lubomyr Melnyk, Ukranian pioneer of his "continuous music" brand of solo piano, brought perhaps the greatest challenger for the Substrata listener this year: his third piece alone, "Windmills," was nearly an hour long. Afterwards, 12k label boss Taylor Deupree provided welcome contrast with his exquisitely restrained electroacoustic sound-art. 12K multimedia artist Marcus Fischer provided equally lush visuals, the night ending with many in the audience lying shoeless on the floor.
The final day of Substrata began with Seattle's Jesy Fortino performing under her Tiny Vipers moniker. With only an analog synth and a few pedals, her brooding set melded kosmische sensibilities with the atmospherics of John Carpenter and Angelo Badalamenti.
Panabrite, aka Norm Chambers, followed with a rather more elaborate rig. Chambers drew upon field recordings, processed vocal samples, and modular synthesizer to create an eclectic and panoramic tour of early-electronic and new age styles.
The collaboration between Kentucky-based pianist Rachel Grimes and Canadian electronic musician Loscil (Scott Morgan) was a memorable highlight of the weekend. The two artists combined their respective acoustic and electronic elements in such a tasteful, fluid manner, and the result was pure synergy. LA-based sound artist Shuttle358 closed out the festival, along with San-Francisco filmmaker Paul Clipson. 16mm reel-projected film provided an analog complement to Shuttle358′s digital minimalism.
Ultimately, the weekend's Substrata 1.5 marked five years of resounding success for the Substrata experiment. It also marked the end. Irisarri , however, remains positive and forward-looking: "There's still a lot of fertile ground in Seattle," he says, leaving the opening for a possible Substrata 2.0 in the future.
All photos and text by Joe Garvin, Seattle-based freelance writer and photographer.]]>
Copies of Body Diffuser will be available 8/22 (cassette/digital) via Landing's own Vast Arc Hues imprint.]]>
Burning Paisley will be available from Grabbing Clouds Records in late August.
Before retreating into the anonymous depths of its indefinite hiatus, Community Library served as a trusted showcase for bizarre and rhythmic sets of left-field dance music (largely) produced in the Pac-NW region. Label founders Strategy and Solenoid never failed to highlight oddly-angled jams from the likes of Nudge, Strategy, Units, Christmas Decorations, Eats Tapes, and more before quietly pivoting to the collective back-burner somewhere after 2010. Fast-forward to this past June, wherein the label returned with Reanimator's second full-length and reinvested itself as a welcome (and necessary) player in the modern left-field game. On Damaged Bads, the unknown duo unfurls blitz after blitz of backward techno, inverted IDM, and crooked low-ends, all grotesque versions of existing modes that morph into something completely new. From the opening stutters and glitching blips of "hdp" and the clipped pummeling of "toweler" to the anarchic agility of "the president" and the abstracted, Chris-and-Cosey-esque permutations of closer "blue noodles," the duo makes up for lost time, fully exploring each errant idea and stray sonic thread. The title track walks an unassumingly simple trail, deploying complex traps of sound along the way. "Zonneplein" is pure, unadulterated hard techno, slightly abstracted for the modern age.
Pick up a copy of Damaged Bads directly from the label.]]>
It would be too easy to say that Matchess hypnotized me — silenced me — with her latest LP on Trouble In Mind Records. Somnaphoria is ornate and luxurious, filled with textured acoustic-electronic cycles and pathways that are difficult to describe. Matchess disguises her vocals in modulated calls, but an organic, bubbling quality bridges her compositions from her instruments to the listener's spirit. Viola flourishes correspond to muted synthetic tones that keep the listener's focus on the layers, since the intricacies or interaction of those layers almost demand more attention than the melodies. Although the album opens with a freeform, percussive amalgam of elements, Matchess smooths those elements throughout the album, as the tempo slows to syrupy, droning series of rhythm. In this context, "The Law of Pure Will" is one of the deepest cuts on the album, a destination perched toward the end of the set. Its space could be a remote reservoir, or the quiet velvet of a private library. While Somnaphoria stands on its own, it sounds particularly interesting in light of other recent experimental jazz and synthetic releases. For example, Somnaphoria works both as a warm, earthly counterpart for Stacian's Songs for Cadets, and also as an electronic-synthetic companion to the airy jazz on this year's Beasts in the Garden by Spires That In the Sunset Rise: cosmic music that is tuned to our own immediate, progressive perception and sensation.
Somnaphoria is available from Trouble In Mind Records.]]>
#1 – 7.18.2015 – A slightly out of date item from late last week, neglected because the 18th was my birthday (and the date of a show my wife's band was playing, sans their usual lead singer [in fact, mostly sans vocals], for the first time) — but if you found that tidbit absolutely titillating, you'll love Chicago based ambient composer Kyle Landstra's recent interview with Mostly Midwest, a blog with absolutely no interest in my domestic arrangements. Landstra released a great four-way split via BARO earlier in the year (which is just barely still in print) and was featured on Sacred Phrases' most recent Inscriptions compilation, so follow him on Facebook, solicit more tapes in the comments, and maybe consider showing up for one of his shows. -DP
#2 – 7.20.2015 – Kranky revealed plans to release Where All is Fled, the latest album from ex-Emerald Steve Hauschildt. The label also released the title track and first single from the LP (due out 9.25.2015), which highlights Hauschildt's more lucid and low-key piano modes. Check out "Where All is Fled" below and keep an eye on Kranky's site for ordering details. -BP
#3 – 7.20.2015 – Notice Recordings announced the digitization and addition to Bandcamp of an older, previously tape only release; "…a tape by Yellow Crystal Star, a fairly elusive character of the organic-ambient/textural-psych tape scene (just made all that up…) of the mid-aughts. He submitted this cassette, barely sealed in a small envelope, sent directly from Thailand. It's very minimal, meditative — yet at times abrasive — music. Created using "voice, ocarina, and invisible mantras", and clearly some arid field recordings of gravel . . . The artwork was made using a photograph of crumbling Buddha statues, taken in Thailand. The altered Thai writing border was extracted from the text on the envelope, and altered significantly so it didn't read as Thai anymore, and the elephants were extracted from the rubber stamp used to cancel the postage." Grab a download via Bandcamp. -DP
#4 – 7.20.2015 – Brooklyn based experimental label Imminent Frequencies have an ongoing summer sale, 20% off of all their in-print titles — including tapes from German saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and Montreal experimental recorder Anne-F Jacques — through July 31st. Just head over to their BigCartel page and use the code "ss2015″ at checkout. -DP
#5 – 7.21.2015 – A single off of Ascetic House's June debut from Oliver Vereker's dark, "lo-fi" industrial project Grace project surfaces on my SoundCloud feed, a reminder that Ascetic House has a mammoth tape batch out this month, including a pair of new tapes from J.S. Aurelius (of Destruction Unit) among many many others. Peruse those at the Ascetic House website and listen to an equally mammoth mix that covers the entire batch below. -DP
#6 – 7.21.2015 – Rennes-based psych-janglers The Madcaps gave us a peek at the beautiful cassette version of their self-titled album, out sometime soon on Super Fan 99 Records. Gander the sparkly shell below, and head over to the Howlin' Banana Records bandcamp to listen to the album (out earlier this year) or pick it up on vinyl if you like. -LP
#7 – 7.21.2015 – Ryan Hall and Heligator Records returned with the latest release in its ongoing charity singles campaign for Malindza Camp Library. This time around, donate and downloadKiev, Ukraine-based Creation VI unfurls a slow and meandering swell of vaporous rusticisms and vague naturalism. Sample the track's lazy river-like drift below and head over to Heligator's Bandcamp to donate and download. -BP
#8 – 7.22.2015 – A Giant Fern shared an excerpt of a track from Mental Thaw, their upcoming cassette with Mike Nigro. Stream "Reverse Telecine" below and let your mind unreel while you take in the tape's beautiful packaging by Yves Malone (who also has a tape coming out on AGF; both are due July 30th). -LP
#9 – 7.23.2015 – Preorders went up for the latest tape by Peter Kris, founding member of German Army, over at Spring Break Tapes. As the label explains, "Rim Of the World is a sonic and visual documentation of this decline and disintegration. The release includes an 8 song cassette and a zine that documents modern ruins as photographed by Peter Kris." Sweet. I can't wait. How about you? -BP]]>
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo is an Italian experimental composer with a long track record of collaborations on international and more local imprints, including the Almagest and Blind Cave Salamander projects (both with fellow Italian and recorder Paul Beauchamp), though his latest solo undertaking is focused firmly on home: Turin. Palumbo's description for the two part Doropea cassette, on Swiss imprint Old Bicycle Records, is memorable and evocative of the city…
"I and my partner live just around the corner from Piazza CLN in Torino, the city in which I was born and (partially) grew up. The piazza is dominated by two fountains, which represent the two rivers that cross Torino, the Po and the Dora. It is also famous for being the location of several crucial moments of Dario Argento's film Profondo Rosso ('Deep Red') as well as being the Gestapo headquarters during the German occupation in the Second World War. Doropea is an homage to 'my' city, from its atmosphere . . . to having kept me surrounded and protected by the Alps and the hills and those two rivers whose current underlie the sound of Doropea."
Though the tape is filled with faceless drones and noise that shimmers in the manner of Turin's rivers, as they might in Palumbo's imagination, his unique presence is easily perceptible across the menagerie of delicately coaxed instruments that gird it: "electric viola, electric organ, diddley bow, synth, processed guitar, upright piano, vocals, noises & treatments." The first suite is full of gentle movement, slowly building to keys and processed strings, periodically tensing and releasing before coming to ground in the whir of organs and feedback. The second is a more visible arc with a few fun vocal conceits, beginning with a vibrant, surprisingly transportative snore. The organ picks up again afterward and the trance stays until it can build to truly dizzying proportions, while the closing minutes of the second suite offer a bright but final aural cleanse.
Grab a copy on tape via the Old Bicycle Bandcamp.]]>
The millionth release from San Francisco noise hero Greg Gorlen is a companion piece to his recent album Gray (covered by Decoder earlier this year), but it stands on its own as a heart-rending statement about decay. Where samples of modern classical music formed the basis for Gray, Gorlen (aka Greg Garbage/Black Thread/Vibrating Garbage/Unless/Balloon Journey/Dark Spring/many others) sourced nearly all the sounds on Moldflowers from decaying new age and relaxation tapes. The result is deeply death-haunted. When I listen to some of these pieces, I hear resonances with The Caretaker's exploration of Alzheimer's, or with Stars of the Lid's "Requiem for Dying Mothers." Gorlen writes that he wanted to repurpose his sound sources in a way that would be "superficially contrary to that of new age music's own message of reassurance against pain and conflict." For Gorlen, both new age music and his own tape experiments point to "acceptance of the inevitability of death and acknowledgement of the universality of this natural condition." Moldflowers is serene, but that doesn't make it anodyne. Still, this also isn't a morose album. Gorlen is simply distilling the mindfulness of life and death that a lot of new age music hopes to evoke. Oh, and it's immensely beautiful all the way through.
Moldflowers is available as a cassette on Soun Records' Bandcamp, so you can pick up a copy and try your own meta-experiment with tape decomposition.]]>
You may remember Brendan Landis as the "handsome" blonde half of Esther Chlorine from last year's interview with the burlier, bearded other half, Greg Garbage. To his credit, Brendan's self-released output as Hey Exit displays a startling diversity of stringed sounds, all somehow maintaining his role as a standard-bearer of minimalism. In his sparse, electronic approach to the Japanese koto (which you can also hear on the recent Andrew Weathers Ensemble album), one hears echoes of midcentury Miles Davis experiments in space and resonance as ripe with expressive potential. The new 7" single "Yes They Said So" pairs gently layered, soothing baritone guitar phrases with screeching contact-mic sirensong and distorted new-new-age chants. Two brief, blissful songs come printed on a gorgeous clear lathe-cut, making it a treasure for any serious vinyl collector. With the simultaneous release of a new tape Else, we seem to be hearing a new, softer side to Brendan's work. Gone are the harsh noise-walls and atonal paeans of his earlier Slow Names series; in their place, we are treated to glacial, meticulous ballads curdling in the acidic interference of the outside world. Few releases this year have crafted such perfect sonic symbolism for the constantly embattled balancing act every individual performs between a calm, stable interior and the chaotic influx of external phenomena.
There are still copies left of these very limited releases, so sit back, breathe, and for once, let someone else do the work for you.
Gordian Twine is available from New Atlantis Records.
Hailstorm & Maelstrom is the latest from North Carolina-based experimental "rapper" Coin Locker Kid, showcasing a characteristically raw and engrossing sense of atmosphere in even more propulsive form than usual, despite the retreat implied by the accompanying tagline: "The story of a boy who disappears into a beautiful woman." That irony is almost pervasive, particularly with this following an album called Traumnovelle – Hailstorm & Maelstrom occupies itself more with tension than reverie. "The Absence of Soil, Air, and Law" is a transfixing collage of distorted domestic trauma, a dread whirring while two halting robotic voices read from an oblique set of overlapping scripts, dipping between "fragments and abstractions," trading barbs and stilted new age affirmations. Likewise "(screamer)" slowly subsumes a recorded domestic quarrel in gentle humming, revealing a solo from contributing vocalist Kathryn Buckner. Each juxtaposition is loaded and emblematic of the thick layers and constant movement that define his music, though I might point to the seven-minute closer "Memory of a boy (who doesn't exist)." as the most broadly representative hook into what Coin Locker Kid has done and what he's doing.
Download the new album for free via Bandcamp.]]>
There's a violence to no wave music that I've never found accessible. Perhaps it's the clanging confidence portrayed in blissfully maladroit playing, the demolition of punk to elements below its very foundation. Real sediment. Bedrock. On their forthcoming Wharf Cat Records effort, Psychosymplastic, The Sediment Club expand on that bedrock with nasty steely guitar textures and frantic screaming. However, there is a sense of musicianship which is most concerning, rendering the unlistenable clang an aesthetic decision instead of one borne from necessity. The pummeling, shifting rhythms of "Apprehension Complex" bear this aesthetic, as a breathless, throaty voice implores the listener to share that anxiety, dread. Feedback-echoed guitars are the inescapable sonic spectacle, producing a metallic timbre that accentuates the trebly register of that instrument. Rapid bass and drums snake along.
Punk is hardly short of acts pushing the lowest boundaries of the form in 2015, and in this regard The Sediment Club will leap past your End Result or Hi Sheriffs of Blue records and challenge, develop, or round out the work of Tropical Trash, and Drunken Sufis (among others). Don't believe me? You can share in The Sediment Club's primal vision from Wharf Cat Records on July 24.]]>
"Had to sweat it out a bit in the sauna-like studio to bring you this episode of the podcast. It felt sort of cleansing though to work through these conditions in order to share a large batch of amazing music that has been occupying every spare minute and every playback device I've had access to over the past three weeks. Of the new music in the bunch, I can't say enough good things about the jangly guitar pop of Human Music, the micro-textural sound environments of crys cole, the zoned-out loner moves of Syko Friend, the otherworldly instrumentals of The Garment District, and the multi-genre behemoth of a compilation from Metaphysical Circuits. There are also a few reissue/archival releases scattered throughout that I'd encourage you to set aside your coffee/beer/drug money for a change and purchase these right away. I'm talking about the bizarro antics of the It's War Boys-affiliated Amos & Crew, the all-over-the-map DIY brilliance of Pig Rider, and the not-so-loner folk sounds of Joshua Burkett. Trust me, you'll be much better off having these albums in your life. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or comments. Hope you enjoy this episode." -David Perron, FFFoxy Podcast
1. Human Music "Mtn Climb" Sup CD (Sundowning)
2. The Fingers "Labour" Pass Me the Salt, Will You? CS (Kitchen Leg)
3. Growth Program "Paycheck to Paycheck" Renzo Musik CS (All Gone)
4. Amos & Crew "Urban Masterpieces" True Tears LP (War Extension)
5. BBJr. "Either Way It's Cherry Bomb" The History of Western Music CD (Nova Labs)
6. The Nihilist Spasm Band "Dog Face Man" No Record CD (Lion Productions)
7. crys cole "Layna" Sand/Layna LP (Black Truffle)
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9. Sam Gas Can "I Don't Want To Die On King St." 400/100 3CS (Metaphysical Circuits)
10. Michael Henning & Philip Ringler "Eleuthro" Supplemental Dimensions CS (Golden Cloud)
11. Dragontime "Matty Groves Part 2" S/T CS (Inner Islands)
12. Syko Friend "Big Talk" Problem Child LP (Mind Rider)
13. Uranium Orchard "Gethsemane" Lithophane Geisha LP (Caesar Cuts)
14. Pig Rider "Ralph the Poisoned Ferret" The Robinson Scratch Theory 2LP (Guerssen)
15. Pelktopia "Murmuration of Light" Noosphertilizer III (w/ STRNGLV) CS (Aubjects)
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17. Anla Courtis "Teryrupnuu" B-Rain Folklore CD* (Yogoh)
18. Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band "Soon After The Beginning" One CD (Paradigm Discs)
19. Joshua Burkett "Look Floating" Gold Cosmos LP (Feeding Tube)
20. The Lentils "The Wrong Song" My Pillow Lava Part One: My Deaf Son 12" (Feeding Tube)
21. The Garment District "Meeting of the Dark Sky Association" Luminous Toxin CD-R (Kendra Steiner Editions)
22. Philippe Petit "Yourselfosophy" Multicoloured Shadows CD (Aagoo)
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24. Holly Waxwing "Vibe" Peach Wink CS (Noumenal Loom)
25. Sloom "Night Drive" Sloom's Mix Tape #1 CS (Power Moves Label)
26. Sunny Dunes "Brunssummerheide" (excerpt) Emmastaete CS (Cave Recordings)
Find out more about the FFFoxy Podcast and submitting material at David's website, Free Form Freakout.
#1 – 7.13.2015 – Going on a few months after his epochal Welcome to the Warp Zone mixtape was released on cassette by Plastic Response, Louisville producer NMESH has a hefty mixtape up for FACT Magazine — as transcendent as Warp Zone was, this seems like at least as heady a follow-up. Stream that over at FACT and check out an interview from earlier in the month here. -DP
#2 – 7.13.2015 – Lawrence Chandler, founding member of seminal post-rock/downbeat heroes Bowery Electric, created a Bandcamp account and upped The Tuning of the World, a 24-hour long set of one-hour pieces that was originally self-released in 2012. Sample the whole thing below and head over to Chandler's Bandcamp to download at whatever price you see fit. -BP
#3 – 7.13.2015 – The Brians Gibson and Chippendale, aka Lightning Bolt, did a fun installment of What's In My Bag, and here I am sharing it… -DP
#4 – 7.14.2015 – In other old-but-new-to-Bandcamp news, perennial noise gods Wolf Eyes launched an archival Bandcamp documenting rare, out-of-print, and/or unreleased material recorded by the band since its inception. At the time of writing this, there are a mere six releases available, which is a drop in their bucket but only whets the appetite for a (hopefully) long and prolific series of uploads. Stream the demos from No Answer – Lower Floors below. -BP
#5 – Vancouver based Daniel Rincon, aka NAP — Decoder streamed his Uncharted cassette for 1080p earlier this month — shared a new mixtape via Germany's antistars agency, live-mixed but no location given other than "Paragreen Plastics/Free Association" (which sounds fun, right?). -DP
#6 – 7.14.2015 – Woolen Men unveiled "After the Flood," the first single from their upcoming sophomore LP, due this September via Woodsist. The track's cold edge hints at the somewhat bleak mission statement behind the new album, which is aptly titled Temporary Monument. Stream the single below and check out the album blurb and tracklist over here. -LP
#7 – 7.14.2015 – Our homies over at Tome to the Weather Machine returned with a new podcast featuring chats with Stephen Molyneux (No Kings Record Cadre, Poet Named Revolver) and Frank Baugh (Sparkling Wide Pressure) conducted by Ryan Hall. To say this one's worth listening to would be an understatement, but we're huge fans of all parties involved and are rather biased from the get-go. Stream the episode below and check back on our recent words on Molyneux's and Baugh's recent work. -BP
#8 – 7.14.2015 – Leaving Records shared their magnificent Laraaji reissue triptych, containing three albums of older recordings from 1978 through '83. "Leaving Records is proud to present, with humble gratitude, three re-issues of seminal works by new age musician, composer, and laughter meditation workshop leader Laraaji. Recorded between 1978 and 1983, these works have not been re-issued in full since their original release. Although some excerpts of the material have been featured on various compilations, this is the first time in over 30 years that one can experience the uninterrupted duration of these cosmic etudes in their complete form. The added length creates an immersive environment of fresh, exploratory, experimental and healing sounds in which to dwell– these are the proper, entire experiences as intended by their creator." Stream a preview below and preorder the tapes at Stones Throw. -DP
#9 – 7.15.2015 – Ryan Hemsworth's Secret Songs imprint released a mesmerizing and brilliantly odd new track from Montreal producer Robert Robert. From Hemsworth, "Every song Montreal artist Robert Robert sent me was amazing — it was very difficult to not do the one with the acoustic guitar drop — but this one feels just right. There's so much imagination in these 4 mins, I feel like it was co-produced with a 6-year-old in between rounds of Clayfighter." Hopefully the option b track surfaces at some point either way. Follow Secret Songs and Robert Robert SoundCloud. -DP
#10 – 7.15.2015 – Occasional Decoder contributor Jeanette Wall recently wrote a Labelled featured about her imprint Miscreant Records for Impose Magazine — check that out over here, along with an accompanying playlist of Miscreant artists. -LP]]>
A half-century practice of hallucinatory rock 'n' roll incantation continues with a new dispatch from Bardo Pondland. "Active Principles" opens To The Firmament, the third album Bardo Pond guitarist Michael Gibbons has recorded as 500mg. To borrow a canonical piece of slang from fifty years ago (and to agree with the press sheet from Drawing Room Records), everything about To The Firmament is heavy. Elsewhere on the album, you can hear torrents of feedback and a languorously delivered story about seeing God in a hotel. But Gibbons has an extensive catalogue of techniques for conjuring heaviness. On "Active Principles," "heavy" almost becomes synonymous with "pretty." Gibbons weaves sounds from a variety of classical instruments into this album, and the warped, wispy drone of "Active Principles" betrays at least a slight influence from classical traditions around the world. Gibbons is tapping into several deep currents with To The Firmament, and "Active Principles" gives us a sense for how far down the water goes.
To The Firmament is out 7/31/15 on Drawing Room Records, but you can preorder it now on Drawing Room's Bandcamp.]]>
We all know I could gush about narcotic ambient cassettes until the cows come home, but this split tape from two musical heroes of mine demanded more serious attention. To be blunt, this release is proof enough that international cassette culture remains an incubator of peerless musical creativity across continents. Paul Skomsvold and Mattson Ogg are both veritable ambient superstars by now; they could easily fill stadiums, but their sound is better suited to fill up a small room, maybe a warehouse, or perhaps ideally just the infinite expanse between your basilar membrane and consciousness. It seems inevitable that these two artists, perennial favorites at Galician bliss-music blog Microphones In The Trees, would fulfill their destinies with a split tape on Kevin Greenspon's Bridgetown. When Dura initially emailed me about the tape, I almost ignored him due to overwhelming déjà vu—surely this tape already existed?
Skomsvold, a California resident who broke all our hearts by moving to Spain last year, continues to crank out masterful synth-based dreamscapes as Former Selves, delivering increasingly mature and challenging work on labels such as Wounded Knife and SicSic. On the latter imprint, Skomsvold collaborated with German modular maestro Guenter Schlienz to produce the breathtakingly beautiful Blaue Stunde tape. The structures and moods of Skomsvold's compositions now defy easy categorization, with simple new-age melodies melting into ambiguous, unpredictable drones. A mysterious, nightmarish cavalcade of haunting motifs, the rich harmonic dissonance eschews easy labeling as "new age," while the diversity of textures resists an easy comparison to previous decades. I think it's safe to say we will look back on 2015 as the year Former Selves became timeless.
And what of Dura? Conversely, I wouldn't argue Mattson Ogg exhibits any notable maturation of his sound—but why would he need to? Dura's layered guitar loops are already gentleness and restraint par excellence, each plucked phrase fractalizing into a soft undercurrent of hypnotic drone. Rather than seeing a progression towards more expressive and ambitious music, this side explores a dense synthesis between perfection and happy accidents, as microtonal imperfections complement the glacial harmonies hovering across the narrative, and vice versa. By now the cows have long since returned to the barn and dozed off into bovine dreamworlds, and here I am, still gushing over this tape. Need I say more? When this landmark achievement reaches your ears, you'll be hooked.
Copies of the split cassette are available now from Bridgetown's site.]]>
Even being from the state, if all you knew about Voice of the Valley Noise Rally was that it took place in Millstone, WV, you might wonder — how unusual is a gathering of noiseniks in the backwoods? I've been writing about weirdo music for a bit now, but I only came across the event a little after last year's iteration thanks to a barebones Blogspot, which I was surprised to find filled with enough familiar faces to make me seriously regret the near miss: Khaki Blazer, Headboggle, Brett Naucke, Machine Listener, and the list went on. This year's line-up seems even more pointed, with Quicksails, Marc McGuire, Angela Sawyer, Long Distance Poison, and Fletcher Pratt joining a slew of returning acts.
The festival owes itself in large part to Ben and Elizabeth Osborne, of Cleveland, OH art and noise outpost Tusco/Embassy Press. According to Ben, VoV is partially intended to give an accessible option for touring artists in between other urban complexes, with parts of West Virginia being a relatively short drive from a lot of major eastern, southern, and mid-western cities. Though it's shifted locations (slightly) and is only slowly developing the infrastructure necessary to sustain itself, the commitment of the people involved have made it a reliable fixture — this year's event was also supported by partnerships with Experimedia, 905 Tapes, and Rubber City Noise. Lightly coordinated with some volunteers and pre-sales, pictures and previews from bands have flooded a packed Facebook event this year, instead of the old Blogspot. Before we head down to check out the event — which takes place from July 23rd to 26th — Ben Osborne was nice enough to talk a little about the fest's history, logistics, and the universe of people that make it possible. Get tickets for the fest here.
Dwight: Can you talk about the first Voice of the Valley and the original location?
Ben: 2008 was the first Voice of the Valley. We had it on Aaron Hibbs' (of Sword Heaven) father's family property called Hibbs Hollar, on 3/4 acre next to a creek in Pentress, WV. Just the acts were invited. Aaron's cousin, Dan Snider, came that year and offered to put us up at his campground down the road. VoV took up residence at the campground, Indian Meadows, for the next few years. In 2010 VoV didn't happen because Dan died in a small plane crash 7 weeks before our set date, but t year after Dan's wife Liz offered to have us back. She said Dan had really enjoyed what we were doing and Liz wanted to try to carry on running Indian Meadows and some of his other projects. After the 2012 event she decided not to keep negotiating for ownership of the property and moved to NC with their son Lee.
Were you based in Ohio at that point? Why start a noise festival in West Virginia?
We were based out of Cleveland, OH, yea (East 72nd and St. Claire, Embassy space), and we just wanted to throw a party in the woods with friends. We felt WV was sorta a meeting place in between states since artists come from all over US, and we knew there were already plenty of noise fests in major metropolitan areas. The International Noise Conference in Miami, No Fun in NYC, other various two day noise fests in well populated scenes across US was the norm. We were driving back from INC when I got the idea. No Fun and INC were definitely a huge inspiration in the way that we imagined VoV.
How did you end up in Millstone?
So after leaving Indian Meadows, it was time to find a new venue… I started to type in a web search and before I hit enter the engine pulled up Alderwood event campground, like it thought that was what I was about to type. Looking into Alderwood I realized it was only a couple hours down the road from Indian Meadows. This to me seemed like a sign, so we went and checked it out, talked to owner Mark Edwards for an hour and a half on the phone and made plans to go down. When we went to visit the place, seemed perfect, except Mark seemed to be trying to talk us out of it, saying " why don't you just find a campground in Ohio?" We said we're committed to throwing VoV in the foothills of WV. He said okay but said he would need money for various things to have the event at his place. Adding everything up, it was more expensive than the first 3 years combined, but figuring it was worth it for the extra stuff he claimed he would take care of — event insurance, porta johns, run the gate, etc. When the time came he didn't do anything except open the doors for us.
We showed up a couple days before to find none of the moving/weed eating had been, or even cleaning up from the last big event (a couple years before), so I worked as hard as I could to get the grounds prepped. The first day of 2013 I was so tired I missed a third of the acts. 90% of our volunteers had cancelled day before. My wife was 5 months pregnant with our second child, so there was only so much she was able to help with. It was a tough year,but we met Joshua Stough, and he was into the music and gang so much he offered to let us use his farm. He said even though there is no infrastructure for it, you are welcome to give it a shot. So last year we had it on the farm, the same location it is this year.
What are some of your favorite things about the current site?
I really like how far off the beaten path the farm is compared to the where we have had it in the past. The farm is on a ridge and really improves the view of the sky. There's very little light pollution, so the area is great star gazing. There's also a pond to take a cool dip in and an old barn we can do some day-time acoustic stuff in. The owner Josh Stough is a great guy and has been a big help building up the farm to accommodate everyone. It really feels like the perfect location found us.
How did you assemble line-ups for the early iterations of the festival? Acquaintances from Tusco/Embassy?
VoV is really just a big reunion of artists/friends in different underground music scenes. the lineup has always been made up of mostly friends. Acts that have played that I didn't know personally were always friends of friends. An alum would be like "so and so should play," "they would really be into this," or "they wood sound amazing in the woods." Mostly these days alum crew will hit me up or I ask if they are coming, then I fill in the blanks with a handful of acts I meet and take a liking to on the road or friends of friends that I hear about from online stuff. I try to keep a full dynamic of sounds and a strong reunion vibe.
What are some of the biggest changes you guys have had to cope with, as far as execution, infrastructure, etc?
The production and infrastructure have come a long way. The first year we rented a small generator and I built a 10 x 10 ft the stage from rough cut lumber. There was one outhouse an Hibbs Hollar… Indian Meadows had a stage and electric running to it, along with a showerhouse and a couple portajohns with their own pumper. Alderwood had a stage and electric to it, and porta johns on the property so there again there was not that much infrastructure to build. Now that we are on the farm however, there is and was a lot to overcome. We have to rent a 20Kw generator, we have to get our own portajohns, we had to build a stage last year and improve the canopy this year. We have to clear out woods for camping sites, and landscape around the pond… there's fresh water access to address. Still working out little details about how this year will go down. Lots of work and brainstorming, nothings been super easy, but I am really optimistic that it will be just as good as previous years if not better. We're still building from scratch in our second year but this location is a truly magical farm.
Can you speak a little to this year's lineup?
This year is exciting, there are more than a few acts that I have been trying to get to the fest for a couple years. I feel like the dynamic is greater this year than ever before… ranging from harsh electronics to post techno EDM to acoustic folk/jazz to the down rite weird.
[Check out Voice of the Valley's well-trafficked (and updated) Facebook event for pictures of the fest's preparations and other information, or hop over here for gobs more fest video.]]]>
If you needed a soundtrack for diving through the fog into the ocean, look no further. Denver-based Nathan Amundson (aka Rivulets) has taken in 2015 a few detours from the hushed, haunting songs of Rivulets to pursue longer experimental forms. Western Songs brushed two sides of ultra-minimal, charred Cormac McCarthy guitar landscapes. And this spring brought the release of the rolling, doomy atmospherics of the 43-minute, Upsetter. The chilly, droney waves proceed at a monkish pace, paired with reverberating cymbal washes and way-gone, distant vocals. The composition densely piles on the heavy layers of metallic motifs and looping ambient effects. There are moments when a searing guitar strikes through the thunderous storm, and the whole murk sounds like Godspeed You! Black Emperor on a double dose of tranquilizers. This is for fans of epic dirges, Mount Eerie, Daniel Menche, and later Xela. Amundson corralled an all-star band of Midwestern indie rock royalty, including Jessica Bailiff, Chris Brokaw (Codeine, The New Year), as well as Bob Weston (Shellac) to execute the ritualistic pagan soundscape.
The 50-copy cassette run on the Bluesanct imprint, Orphanology, is long sold-out, but Amundson fans can look forward to potential tour dates in Europe in November.
British production duo Maribou State released a new track from their Portraits LP, demonstrating the lush arrangements that outline and define their style. While other songs on the album feature lead vocals, the voice is subdued on "Wallflower," allowing the peaks and valleys of the beats to softly find their space. Chris Davids and Liam Ivory exact a careful hand as they place synthetic strings, keys, and light pulses in perfect order. Although the track sounds upbeat, the duo produce a sensory haze over the proceedings, which gives the track an introspective mood that contrasts its bright potential. The most tension appears during the first break, where everything drops out in a momentary abruptness. Yet, that energy uncoils at length as the song unfolds, allowing the drama to dissipate in any necessary direction. This churning haze of energy systematically propelled and released in intervals foreshadows the feeling of Portraits, which is every bit as careful and danceable as this latest single.
Portraits is out now on Counter Records.]]>
This is a mix of my favorite music composed for and/or played (or improvised) on a synthesizer, any synthesizer. It is not meant to be a comprehensive list in any way, it is certainly not a complete history of synthesizer recordings and it is not meant as a best-of list in any sense. What it is is a list of synthesizer music that has affected me, moved me, made me reflect on my own practice as a musician, and to which I still return often after many listens. "Synth record" is, I admit, an arbitrary category. Synthetic electronic sounds are present (and often dominate) almost all forms of contemporary music, but this mix contains no techno, EDM, hip-hop, or even synth-pop. I chose instead records that were made almost entirely with a focus on specific machines or techniques and which to me highlight the unique musical and timbral possibilities of the synthesizer as an instrument.
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0:00:00 Wendy Carlos – "Two-Part Invention in F Major" [Johann Sebastian Bach] – from Switched-On Bach (Columbia Masterworks, 1968)
My dad owned this record. While it probably wasn't the first time I heard the sound of a synthesizer, it was definitely the first time that I can remember consciously listening to an LP made entirely on a synth. I remember specifically picking it out because the machine on the cover seemed so much more bizarre and alien than anything else in my dad's mostly jazz and rock collection. Later I would eschew this record in favor of weirder synth sounds and philosophies that didn't rely on the black and white keys, but lately I've been returning to it, especially after the recent reissue of David Borden's incredible Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments on Spectrum Spools. Counterpoint and monophonic synths just make so much sense together.
0:00:35 Charles Cohen – "Club Revival Performance" – from A Retrospective (Morphine, 2014)
Like a lot of people I only discover Charles Cohen when Morphine records started to compile and reissue his work in 2013. For years he has been quietly playing the Buchla Music Easel in a variety of improvisatory contexts. In a world where an already overwhelming amount of options for making electronic music come preloaded on your laptop, I really appreciate someone who has dedicated most of their life to playing single electronic instrument. I'm also obsessed the playing of synthesizers (it's something that I think about a lot in terms of my own practice) and there are perhaps few better or more seasoned players right now than Cohen. I consider myself lucky to have been able to see him perform last year in Montreal.
0:07:29 Morton Subotnik – "Until Spring [Side Two – Conclusion]" – from Until Spring (Odyssey, 1976)
If I comprehensive historical synth mix (which I'm not), I would have to include Subotnik's earliest synth recordings, often credited as some of the first synthesizer compositions, but I much prefer Subotnick in the 70s. Part of this comes down to the special sound and design of the Buchla 200 series synth being used here, which has an uncanny near-acoustic quality in tone, but I'm also fascinated by Subotnicks proto-MIDI practice of recording control voltage data to tape allowing more time to "sculpt" the sound. Technical aspects aside, Until Spring is also possible the most intense piece of music about flowers that I can think of.
0:12:24 Benge – "1986 NED Synclavier" – from Twenty Systems (Expanding, 2007)
Benge's Twenty Systems is a crash course in synth history. Each track is made with a unique machine arranged chronologically from 1968 to 1987. Supposedly Benge acquired his collection of vintage synthesizers during the 1990s when people were either throwing them away or selling them at incredibly low prices – I wonder how many of those same studios now have large eurorack collections? For the mix I've chosen Benge's piece for the Synclavier, an early digital do-all synthesis workstation. The sounds of the Synclavier are fast becoming my newest synth obsession (fuelled in part by the reissue this year of Michel Redolfi's Pacific Tubular Waves – another Synclavier workout.) Here Benge showcases two sides to the synth, playing a gorgeous harp-like lullaby followed by long, metallic FM tones.
0:17:34 Yoshio Machida – "SYNTHI n°29″ – from Music for the SYNTHI (Baskaru, 2014)
Machida's Music for the SYNTHI is what I imagine a study in extended technique for the synthesizer would sound like. Composed entirely for the EMS Synthi A, the record often consists less of "synthesis" and more of the barest analog sounds components – circuitry hiss, simple waveforms, spring tank thwacks – while remaining consistently captivating and rhythmically inviting.
0:21:26 Thomas Lehn + Marcus Schmickler – "Gelb" – from BART (Erstwhile, 2000)
Thomas Lehn is for me, along with Charles Cohen, one of the world's premier synth players. Like Cohen he has spent his career play a single synth, the Synthi A, in free improvisation and EAI circles, often alongside acoustic instruments. His first album of material with laptop musician Marcus Schmickler (credited a playing "synthesizer [Digital]"), BART, is one of my favorite albums of any genre. This is serious music with a capital S, but most of the record goes harder than your average underground harsh noise tape. Between the freak-outs are evocative moments of synthetic stillness and minimalism.
0:26:18 Éliane Radigue – "Adnos III" – from Adnos I–III (Important, 2013)
Radigue, like many others on this list, spent the majority of her career working with one machine: the ARP 2500 modular system. All of her music is painstakingly composed and edited into meditative drone compositions where most of the movement is found in timbral shifts. Adnos, composed between 1973 and 1980, contains my favorite Radigue moment in its third section when a pulsing, ringing bell-like sound emerges from amongst the sustained tones.
0:35:48 Jim O'Rourke – "Stalling" – from Steamroom 12 (Steamroom, 2014)
I didn't realize that Jim O'Rourke was an accomplished synthesist until his self-released "Steamroom" releases stared to appear online in 2013 reflecting decades of work experimental instrumental work with a veriaty of instruments including Serge and EMS synthesizers. The middle section of Steamroom 12 contains the O'Rourke synth work that I return to the most. See also: Steamroom 4.
0:43:08 Keith Fullerton Whitman – "Occlusion (Wetersingschan)" – from Occlusions; Real Time Music For Hybrid Digital-Analogue Modular Synthesizer (Editions Mego, 2012)
Maybe not the most crowd pleasing of Whitman's eurorack records, Occlusions the one I've spent the most time listening to over the past few years. A live room recording, it takes a few listens to adjust to the sound quality of this record and to Whitman's harsh and rhythmically complex sound palette here, but now that I'm attuned I always find new details to revel in. Another in a long list of live, real-time performance based synth records to obsess over.
0:45:06 Laurie Spiegel – "Drums" – from The Expanding Universe (Expanded Edition) (Unseen Worlds, 2012)
Created by sending a series of digital clicks through resonant filters tuned to different frequencies, "Drums" is a precursor to what we now call "physical modeling" synthesis. For reasons I don't entirely understand, tuned percussion sounds are some of my favorite sounds. Synthesizers, as showcased here, especial excel at producing single sounds that somehow slide between being melody and percussion. Spiegel is also an incredibly important figure for me because of her insistence that electronic music is a contemporary form of folk art.
0:45:50 Eugene Carchesio – "Circle Music 2″ – from Circle Music (Room40, 2012)
I don't know much about Carchesio. According to Room40 he's a "fixture" in the Australian experimental scene. Supposedly, this is an archival piece composed mostly using that synthesizer so crucial to dance music history: the Roland TB-303. Here dance music is stripped of all its superfluous elements (drum machines, bass lines and leads) leaving only its core: trance inducing hypnotic repetitiveness.
0:50:11 Hecker – "Modulator (… Meaningless, Affectless, Out Of Nothing …)" – from Articulação (Editions Mego, 2014)
Framed on the album by two pieces of digitally manipulated voices reading an elliptical and poetic "theory-speak" libretto courtesy of Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani, this track is supposedly serves as the modulation source for the others. It's not entirely clear how the process works, nor whether the track's subtitle, "(… Meaningless, Affectless, Out Of Nothing …)," is a sly wink at the clichés we often repeat about digital synthesis or a sincere formalist declaration (it's probably both); nevertheless, "Modulator" remains a vital piece of contemporary music made with little more than a computer and a command line.
0:52:26 Mark Fell – "Manitutshu… First Algorithm Test" – from Manitutshu (Editions Mego, 2011)
Manitutshu was entirely made using Native Instruments' Razor softsynth. The story is that Fell was asked by NI to produce a series of presets for the synthesizer ahead of its going to market, all of which were eventually rejected by the company. One part critique of the prosumer music tech industry and one part extended algorithmic workout, Fell proves here that software synthesizers are as worthy of a detailed full-length treatment as analog machines. More of that please.
0:56:04 Autechre – "known(1)" – from Oversteps (Warp, 2010)
I'm ready to debate anyone at length that Oversteps is the best Autechre LP. It's hard to describe what the synth sounds on this record do to my brain, especially on "known(1)," which sounds like a banjo morphing into an unfathomable 3d digital object. Some days I'm convinced this was made with stock Logic Pro plugins, other days I think it has to be something custom coded. Regardless, I think this is one of the best examples of the effectiveness of physical modeling synthesis and its power to create uncanny yet unheard sounds instead of simply recreating sounds we know we've already heard.
1:00:38 Le Révélateur – "Fiber Miles Away" – from Extreme Events (Root Strata, 2014)
Roger Tellier-Craig has been a stalwart of the Montreal experimental music scene in various guises for years now, but he's doing his best work now working with an array of different synth techniques as Le Révélateur (along with video artist Sabrina Ratté – catch them live for the full effect). "Extreme Events" refers to the stock-market phenomenon of "ultrafast extreme events" which occur when trading algorithms cause prices to fluctuate by trading at speeds faster than human perception. Track titles like "Fiber Miles Away," "Followers," and "Machine Ecology" all suggest way in which our bodies are invested in digital code. In the same way Tellier-Craig's analog synth sounds are absorbed into digital granular blurs.
1:05:16 Pierre Schaeffer – Le Trièdre fertile (Phillips, 1978 / Recollection GRM, 2012)
Schaeffer's final record and his only piece composed from synthetic sound. Recollection GRM calls this record a "repentance," since Schaffer here abandons for electronics his life's work of working with non-musical concrete sounds. Old debates about tape music Vs. electronic music may not mean much now to the post-everything listener, but they always seem to me to inform this record's emotional center.
1:07:56 David Tudor – "Neural Synthesis 8″ – from Neural Synthesis Nos. 6-9 (Lovely Music, 1995)
A totally unique record by one of the spiritual progenitors of "live electronics." The music here is performed on the Neural Network synthesizer (conceived by Tudor, built by Forrest Warthman) designed to emulate the feedback networks found in the human brain. A fascinating attempt to merge aesthetics, engineering and biology.
1:10:56 Sarah Davachi – "Rainbands" – from The Untuning of the Sky (Full Spectrum, 2013)
One of my favorite contemporary drone artists. While her most recent work is starting to seamlessly incorporate acoustic sounds, her first record, and the one I've spent the most time with, The Untuning of the Sky, is nothing but a jealousy-inducing array of synths. Listed in the liner notes are: ARP Odyssey, Buchla 100, Korg PS-3300, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, and Serge modular synthesizers / Mellotron M400 / harmonium. It's nearly impossible to tell which synth is making which sound here, but given the depth of these compositions it hardly matters.
1:16:10 Rashad Becker – "Dances III" – from Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol.1 (PAN, 2013)
It's a cliché to talk about synthesizers creating "alien" and "futuristic" sounds. Becker's imagined folk music for an imagined people avoids this entirely while remaining otherworldly. One of the most important records for me in the last few years, this music is a testament to the narrative and fantastical capacity of synthesis beyond tired retro-futurisms. My favorite moments are when the voices of the notional species themselves seem to emerge from amongst their instruments.
1:20:09 Head Dress – "302″ – from Warren (Phinery, 2014)
Not only is Head Dress aka Ted Butler putting out a lot of great music right now for both synthesizer and guitar, he is also as the host of the Norleco Mori cassette podcast he routinely supports a huge amount of contemporary underground music. Warren is by far my favorite thing Butler has done, especially the track "302." One of the most restrained and hypnotic synthesizer pieces I can think of.
[Opening photo courtesy of Marcus Fischer.]]]>
If you're a fan of the recently silent Maria Minerva, then Climate Change — the debut LP from Beat Detectives, after a long string of tapes — is bound to tickle your fancy. With proper leisure vibes spread out over 14 tracks, the Brooklyn/Minneapolis trio (Oakley Tapola, Chris Hontos, and Aaron Anderson) turns vocals, hazy synths, and heaps of overdriven beats into a beam of true frenzy. Climate Change offers their idiosyncratic take on boogie, house, and disco, all chopped into a mosaic of atmospheres. From sampling Kelis' "Finest Dreams" on clap-heavy "Sands of Slime" to dance floor bullet "Somethin's Rippin,'" the album manifests a vivid imagination and an authentic interest in genre-bending maneuvers. The sound throughout is remarkably raw, perhaps thanks to Collin Gorman Weiland on mixing duty — he's had his own releases on Regis' acclaimed Downwards label, and previously recorded with Hontos as Dreamweapon.
"Something Temporary" — a stand-out cut on Climate Change — combines boogie bass guitar with huge amounts of cow-bell and sub-bass. Distant vocals murmur enigmatic thoughts adding further complexity to the already multi-layered sound. It's a great track for just letting go, though Climate Change certainly feels like one of the most physical releases I've heard recently.
Make sure to check it out in it's entirety via Not Not Fun, and let your mind wander where it may.]]>