At 09:50 PM 11/19/1999 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 6 lines autopoieses - la vie noir (MP)>autopoieses - la vie noir (MP)
>kim cascone - cathodeflower (ritornell)
>anyone got any thoughts/reviews of these?
>
>also, any info on ritornell in general. i wasn't aware they were a mille
>plateaux sublabel until i noticed it on mdos today.
I dont have either of the above MP/Ritornell releases but I am eager
to get them both. Kim Cascone's BlueCube cd on Rastermusic was a
favorite of mine from last year. And Kim's recent Falsch mp3 release
called "Pulsar Studies 1-20" is also a thing of beauty if you're into
"microscopic" or minimal experimental electronica. But here are
some infos that may be helpful...
The press release for cathodeflower:
Kim Cascone received his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee
College of Music in the early 70s and 1976 he continued his studies
at the New School in NYC. In the late 80s Cascone worked in the film
industry, including working with David Lynch as Assistant Music
Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart. Cascone left the film
industry in 1989 to concentrate on Silent Records, transforming it
into US's premier ambient music label. Also he worked for Thomas
Dolby's company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. Cascone
was involved in Staccato Systems. In 1998 he released Blue Cube on
Raster Music. His new album is the 2nd installment of the Blue Cube
triptych. Cathodeflower is 100% computer generated music. Cascone is
working to restore electricity (sequencers, synthesizers, etc.) and
instead of them he uses the pure tone. These tones drift between the
speakers and make sound travel. It is very pure sound, an emission
and highly transparent. A new step in computer generated music.
The press release for autopoieses:
Autopoieses is a concept from cognitive biology, roughly meaning a
self-referential system. Autopoieses use their sound sources and
production to produce discursive substrata with the ultimate hope of
putting politics back into digital music. The theme of this CD is
Noir: a concept which has been influential a wide range of arts, at
least since Derek Raymond said: 'The main function of noir is to
describe and understand society'. Little of this way of seeing
remains today; it's just entertainment. This was the challenge for
Autopoieses to redefine Noir in terms of digital music. The CD
features 44 tracks, each one minute long. They are broken into four
thematic groups of ten, plus an intermezzo. Within each group,
music-historical places and spaces are mapped and digitally
reinvented, including African-American funeral marches, the work of
Albert Ayler and stochastic music. These new cartographies were
modulated and transformed using modified bastardized software. The
result is an intensely structured work which is possessed by both the
power of noise and a dark beauty. The music seems disturbing at
first, but as one listens it develops a wonderful and many-facetted
moodscape.
Finally, here is some info on Ritornell...
Ritornell is a division of Mille Plateaux inspired by French philosopher
Gilles Deleuze. Ritornell means a type of refrain, the cosmic refrain of a
sound machine, which is a bursting structure, torpedoing the point
system and releasing the musical lines from their subordination to the
points and notes of music. The main idea of Ritornell is to have a
richness of composition, sound and production that goes beyond what is
usally called `ambient`
Ritornell discog so far...
. Marvin Ayres: Cellosphere cd (Ritornell 01)
. Dr. Atmo: Man Made Motion cd/2lp (Ritonell 02)
. The Lights: Money Media 12" (Ritornell 03)
. Akira Rabelais: Eloganted Pentagonal Pyramid cd (Ritornell 05)
. Achim Wollscheid: Airs cd (Ritornell 04)
. Kim Cascone: Cathodeflower cd (Ritornell 06)
. Stillupsteypa: Interferences Are Often Requested... cd (Ritornell 07)
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