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jkudler wrote:

. . . $500.

is this the first release of contemporary material on AM?

-jesse

I sure hope that isn't the asking price... I'd love to see a 6lp Ambarchi set, but I'd also love to be able to have it.

and no, AM released "Nazca Transmissions" a short while back, a nice slab from John Duncan

i think her best stuff by far is on the "shojo toshi" album - that "white film" track is from this record. harder to find now, but ed. mego put it out

First thanks for your input. This sounds good and pure but I wonder how much of an agenda these folks had. I mean did they really care, challenging the avant garde, free jazz or other musics? Of course, this is an area of music that was really striking and important to me and that I am still workin...

Looking at the initiation of this post from bedouin leaves me wanting to make a couple comments - I find it interesting you would consider Sugimoto's Opposite "guitar music" but include Akiyama's Relator and Pre-Existence in your "onkyo" classification. To me, those records are very indicative of Te...

Toshiya Tsunoda is worth mentioning, obvious would be the record "Vibrational Movements of Metal Plates," but many of his releases feature intimate vibrational recordings of metal fences, anchors, signs and wires. Does this mean what I believe? I recently came up with the thought of having a metal ...

I'm fascinated by the elements of depth and dislocation I hear in this recording, but also by the intriguing collage of references I hear in the sound palette. My overall impression is focused on the plasticity of space created by the piece and how disoriented it gets me in listening. Only a couple ...

Metals definitely encompass a major focus for me in music, great topic to bring up. Kenichi Kanazawa is a sculptor who works with cracked iron plates, mostly very large ones, using mallets to strike and rub them. His releases are priced ridiculously ($40 cd-r, anyone?), but I recommend his work if y...

He also talked extensively about how he classifies the objects he uses to generate sound on the guitar, how they are divided by the traditional use of the hands on the instrument, and how he thinks he uses 230 parameters of information to determine whether a sound is unique and useful. (From Joe Mo...

well richard beat me to it, but i wanted to up the rafn reference to sustentacula also. i would like to throw tomokawa kazuki into the discussion, especially the albums "akai polyan" and "sora no sakana." i can't let the songs:ohia "ghost tropic" album pass mention here. i really dig tujiko noriko's...

My main line of advice to you would be echoing what Nick mentioned - get rid of that mic configuration (especially the sm 57s!) and feel for a mic situation that best works with the drummer in question. This will demand some experimentation, but if you have a range of mics available through school, ...

always sad to be across the country from these events, Jason, looks like a wonderful evening.

frogger, also check the recent disc on Ftarri ( http://www.ftarri.com/ftarrilabel/998/index.html ) of Seijiro Murayama with soundworm, credited with "sound engineering, suggestions." I don't know the complete details, but understand soundworm arranged several different mics for the recording, activa...

There remains much I have yet to hear from 2009 so I did not plan to put together a list of this sort at first, but thinking back and listening again to some of the pieces that initially stood out to me, I realize 2009 saw some very important pieces of music in this area, specifically in terms of st...

We made it to the East Bay for this one, and are glad we did as we hadn't had the chance to see her in a live setting. We listened to her solo piece from the ground, second and third floors - amazing how constantly present the sound remained. But, it was also a little disappointing by the same measu...

Not being someone who was following Kahn's work closely, but hearing him on collaborative discs here and there, I would say it was not until I had the chance to hear his performance in San Francisco last year that I really understood what he is working with, how the sound fills a room and builds upo...

You might be interested in Eco's The Open Work which spans a few disciplines.
Admittedly I've only read an excerpt which was included in Audio Culture, but I remember it being one of my favorite essays there with reference to visual scores and chance operation.

I'll be driving over to Oakland for the set at Soja on Saturday. Had the chance to hear Butcher and Robair in Sacramento at a very intimate show, which must have been a sort of last minute arrangement, as most of us there only learned of it the day before. Butcher was phenomenal in control, and the ...

I like this idea in principal with a few variations: one that Miguel mentioned earlier, that this would be much more interesting if the works were anonymous, and I also agree with Joe, that a radical means of distribution would make this more of a radical idea than just designing an exclusive fetish...

That Temptation from Russian River was among my short list favorites for a while, I should come back to that soon. Lately, we've been keeping a case of Pliny the Elder around the house, also from Russian River, also delicious and rich. Last night I checked out New Belgium Hoptober thanks to a sample...

lukaz, thanks for posting this.
i'm applying to a program ostertag teaches here, but have never really clicked with any of his work i've looked into or heard. this book looks like it may be a good place to dig in for a variety of content.