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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) -->-Lance--- lance@inaudible.com p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Lance @ Inaudible wrote:

quoted 3 lines Kim [cascone]'s recent Falsch mp3 release

> Kim [cascone]'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.

???? i did not see this on the falsch site... am i missing something? the stuff @ http://fals.ch/ is amazing! thanks.. chris. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

At 08:16 PM 11/19/1999 -0800, you wrote:

quoted 9 lines On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Lance @ Inaudible wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Lance @ Inaudible wrote: > > > Kim [cascone]'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. > >???? i did not see this on the falsch site... am i missing something? > >the stuff @ http://fals.ch/ is amazing!

oops. i guess it hasnt been officially released yet. then expect a 20-track kim cascone mp3 album called pulsar studies to be on the falsch site soon! kim gave a sneak preview a few weeks ago. -->-Lance--- lance@inaudible.com p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

At 08:16 PM 11/19/99 -0800, you wrote:

quoted 12 lines On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Lance @ Inaudible wrote:

> >On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Lance @ Inaudible wrote: > >> Kim [cascone]'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. > > > >???? i did not see this on the falsch site... am i missing something? > >the stuff @ http://fals.ch/ is amazing!

actually, i found the mp3s poking around at Kim's website: http://www.anechoicmedia.com/pulsar/ they're quite good, too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

In a message dated 11/19/99 7:36:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, lance@inaudible.com writes: << Kim Cascone's BlueCube cd on Rastermusic was a >> what's this one like? saw a promo sitting in ameoba the other day but opted for the brinkmann 20' to 2000 release instead (which has failed to grab me after multiple listenings). haven't kept up with kim's work since his 'heavenly music corp.' days; how's this compare? joel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

At 11:44 PM 11/19/1999 -0500, you wrote:

quoted 9 lines In a message dated 11/19/99 7:36:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,

>In a message dated 11/19/99 7:36:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, >lance@inaudible.com writes: > ><< Kim Cascone's BlueCube cd on Rastermusic was a >> > > what's this one like? saw a promo sitting in ameoba the other day but opted >for the brinkmann 20' to 2000 release instead (which has failed to grab me >after multiple listenings). haven't kept up with kim's work since his >'heavenly music corp.' days; how's this compare?

BlueCube is a progression from kim's earlier releases but still has a lot of similarities. Kim compares it to his PGR material and i would say if you mixed some Hecker tracks in with his PGR stuff then he's quite right! Deep ambient textures mixed with 100% digital pulses, drones, spacey noises, chirps, etc in unpredictable yet captivating arrangements. Great stuff... Kim describes BlueCube as: "this project started as the result of an article/music I wrote for a book coming out on MIT Press about Csound (a Music N sound synthesis language)... the CD could be best described as atmospheric computer music and happens to be more in the style of my work with PGR..." You can hear an RA sample from BlueCube at: http://www.mdos.at/detail-byartist.php3?pid=1035 -->-Lance--- lance@inaudible.com p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 3 lines Autopoieses use their sound sources and

>Autopoieses use their sound sources and >production to produce discursive substrata with the ultimate hope of >putting politics back into digital music.

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