Duncan/Kirstein * Kouw/Maguire * Rodolfo Pitti
Drones from different perspectives: based on spoken sentences, structuralist architecture and the Antarctic landscape.
Tag: sound art
RadioMentale * Humans By Billions
French duo known as RadioMentale presents a soundscape ‘at the crossroads of ambient, sound art and radio art’. The album is directly linked to the solo project of Éric Pajot as Humans By Billions
K. Leimer * Marc Barreca * Gregory Taylor
Three releases on the Palace Of Lights label: K. Leimer, Marc Barreca and Gregory Taylor.
Edu Comelles * & Rafa Ramos Sania
Edu Comelles’ solo albums ‘explore the nature of field recording and their power to become instruments by itself’ – and his collaboration with double bassist Rafa Ramos Sania presents ‘the shredded expressiveness of the double bass’.
Andrew Pekler * Joaquín G. Hadid * R.G. Pietrusko
Fourth World music from imaginary islands by Andrew Pekler, J.G. Hadid’s installation works for Casa Victoria Ocampo in Buenos Aires, and ‘site-determined’ work by Robert Gerard Pietrusko for six microphones.
Jana Irmert * Wndfrm * David Fyans
Music conjured from the Absence of Silence:
Experimental meditative sound art from Jana Irmert, wndfrm and David Fyans (Erstlaub)
Thomas Newman & Rick Cox – 35 Whirlpools Below Sound
Thomas Newman is the widely acclaimed composer of more than 50 film and television scores, earned no less than twelve Academy Award nominations and six Grammy Awards for an impressive list of movies that are not exactly of the lesser-known kind.
Just to name a few: American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, The Horse Whisperer, The People vs. Larry Flynt…
Rick Cox is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, explorer of ‘prepared electric guitar’ techniques, who has played with the likes of Ry Cooder, Jon Hassell, and is no stranger to creating film music himself…hence their connection.
Knowing this, I expected to hear some well crafted and slick ‘movie soundtrack music’.
But I was wrong!
Janek Schaefer – Unfolding Luxury / Inner Space Memorial
In two separate vinyl album releases (also available as digital downloads), the Dekorder label presents a beautiful overview of the work of Janek Schaefer, presenting new pieces in some cases created by collating existing material.
“Unfolding Luxury beyond the City of Dreams”, the first album of the pair, contains seven relatively short pieces (ranging from 3 to 8 minutes). Within the calm atmosphere of these pieces, there are many fascinating sounds to discover.
The title of the second album, “Inner Space Memorial in Wonderland”, is a combination of the titles of the two pieces included, each taking up a full side of the album with about 20 minutes.