Hi There
Hope this mail finds you well.
First off a quick note to say this email is simply a little overview of
what's happening with room40 related projects. There'll only be a few every
year, but if you do find this email to be unwanted then please do just fire
me back a mail and I'll take you off the list.
Ok down to business...there's been plenty of action around the place -
Singapore, Tokyo, Wagga Wagga, Brisbane etc...
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Our much talked of limited edition box set is nearing completion with the
addition of 3"s from Brisbane Songwriter Benjamin Thompson and recent Kranky
signing Greg Davis who visited for a Fabrique only a few weeks back. Both
these 3"s will be available in the coming months, hand stamped and housed in
the lovely Japanese paper sleeves from Matsuyama. Once they're released, the
Box Set (6 x 3" cdrs) housed in a lovely hand made wooden box will be
available in a limited edition of 10. We're actually got some of these
pre-ordered so there's only about half left now. Price is $160AUD, drop us a
line if you'd like one popped on hold. It'll be available in Feb 2005.
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Our other recent limited edition is the lovely series of 40 hand stitched
photographic covers housing a lathe cut 10" (from King Records in NZ)
featuring performances from Erik Griswold (prepared piano) and Anthony
Pateras (live at What Is Music?, Melbourne 2004). They sell for a very neat
$40AUD plus postage...
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DJ Olive's Buoy is out. The record is a reply of sorts to his amazing and
still unreleased Sleep record of 2001. The album explores deep cavernous sub
harmonic tones, shimmer turntable static and gently flowing melodies. Out
now.
From DJ Olive on Buoy:
his is a sleeping pill. Listen to it as quietly as you possible can. Mainly
two things are going on at once. One is a metaphor. Buoy - an anchored
marker that maps the passing waves. Boringly singular, but never the same
twice. There for you in a storm. The other is an environment. A sleep over,
early morning light across the room a screen door occasionally whispers as
someone moves about. light fingers touch something. Curled in a cosy corner
friends near by at the edge of sleep.
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For Those Who Hear Actual Voices is the ROOM40 debut from Zane Trow, long
serving sound practitioner, performance artist and curator. The record
explores a singular line of sounds which are dipped into echoing delay
systems. The results are pulsing washes of sound, that intersect one another
with freeform grace. Out now.
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Melbourne based experimental instrument designer Rod Cooper has completed
his debut album, Friction, which features four works created using his
amazing self designed instruments. The pieces moves from harrowed reverb
ridden textures to clunking percussive rhythms. The album is out late
December.
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Brisbane based pianist and composer Erik Griswold has been prolific in
recent times and offers up a collection of prepared piano pieces recorded in
Melbourne. Titled Altona Sketches, the record documents his recent
explorations into microtonal harmonic structures. The album is out late
December.
From Erik on Altona Sketches:
Bolts, screws, paper, rubber strips, and bits of cardboard are wedged,
laced, and screwed between the piano strings to create layers of
interlocking microtonal scales. These form a matrix of possibilities that
are explored, sounded and discovered in a series of improvised musical
moments. Cross rhythms. Imperfect memories.
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New releases in 2005 include
Steinbruchel Opaque - featuring a variety of reinterpretations of his
surround sound installation piece. Available late 2005.
Philip Samartzis + Kozo Inada H [] - a wonderful work exploring field
recordings and electronic texture. Available early 2005.
Other News...
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If you happen to be in Singapore, make your way to the MRT Tunnel at the
Esplanade to hear Melatonin and other curated audio works including pieces
from Toshiya Tsunoda and others as part of MAAP 2004. It shows until late
December 2004. Speaking of Melatonin we have limited copies left in stock,
so please get in touch if you're after one.
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For those in Tokyo, Ghost Towns is showing at the SITEsight festival in
Shibuya's Sony Tower 7F this November. It was also presented at Unsound 04
and at the Kiss My After Effects festival in Melbourne.
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On a personal note, I have a few releases coming out on other labels in the
coming months.
First off is my record Transit, which documents my movements in Australia,
Japan and the UK last year. The record is a densely textured affair,
littered with fragmented field recordings and impressionist sound portraits.
It's released by the fine folks at Cajid Media, who issued the excellent
discs from Thembi Soddell and Bruce Mowson. Check out
http://cajid.com
My record of treated guitar works, Happiness Will Befall, is to be issued by
Portuguese label Cronica in the third quarter of next year, more on that
later. Have a look at
http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/
I also have a small contribution on DJ/rupture's latest issue Special
Gunpowder out on Tigerbeat - some field recordings on the last track of the
record - a mighty fine release building on his aesthetics of the last few
years - we recommended it!!
My last installation for the year, Isentropic Process, shows from December
10-12 at the TC Bierne Centre in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley area. Here's
some text on the work.
Isentropic Process, a phrase referring to the movement of sound through an
atmosphere, explores the physical implications and applications of sound.
Utilising a range of low frequency sound emitters at high volume, objects
placed on and above the speakers are shifted, altered and shaped to present
a physical representation of the soundwaves moving through space.
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To come in late 2004 and 2005 in OZ...Room40 presents...
Tour/Lectures/Events from David Toop, Tujiko Noriko, DJ Olive, Burnt
Friedman + Hayden Chisholm, Rosy Parlane, Trevor Watts, Mike Cooper, Chris
Abrahams and others.
All the best for now
Lawrence English//ROOM40
WWW.ROOM40.ORG
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