Three new releases on Every Contact Leaves a Trace

[Seth]

Three new releases on Every Contact Leaves a Trace



Three new albums have just been released on Every Contact Leaves a Trace. Pictured left to right:

THE PROCESS | Marvin Tate, Joseph Clayton Mills - Dictaphone diaries, tape collage, song fragments, field recording & poetry.

THE MASTERS | Henry Collins - Redactionist edit of the 2014 Masters Tournament, revealing golf course field recording.

SOLAR WIND CHIME | Helen White - Data stream from the Solar Wind Electron, Proton and Alpha Monitor aboard the Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft, electromagnetic resonance.

Full streaming audio of all three releases is available at everycontactleavesatrace.net. Each is a limited edition of one hundred CDrs, packaged with full colour and acetate inserts in recycled card sleeves, binder clipped between handmade greyboard tiles that have been ink embossed with found objects. Digital files also available. American distribution by ErstDist.

There will be two further releases in November - Drowning Electret by Simon Whetham and Twelve Tapes by the Bang the Bore Collective.

everycontactleavesatrace.net

[Seth]

Put together some text and images in a little press pack in the remote chance that people will want to reblog this or link to it in forums. Text is in plain, html and ubb versions: https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/cdnk3s

[Hayao Yamaneko]

Seth dropped my copies of these round the other day. Great sounds & really lovely objects, all three. Looking forward to spending some proper time with them.
Highly recommended in any case.

[Seth]

“Marvin handed me a cheap, hand-held digital recorder, saying “This is my mind; listen to it, see what you think.” He told me that he had carried the recorder with him everywhere for the past several years, always recording and never erasing. When I listened to it, I discovered that it held hours and hours of material: fragmentary ideas for poems and songs, conversations with his wife, arguments between students in his classroom, birthday party sing-a-longs, band rehearsals, memories, and jokes...

"In editing and rearranging Marvin’s words and voice, framing and contrasting his sounds with my own, I worked to give form to what was a largely inchoate body of material. Working with Marvin’s recordings, in turn, raised the possibility of engaging with a broader field of social and historical signification than I’d been able to address before, incorporating issues of race, class, and violence that are rarely explicitly touched on in experimental music, but which are an everyday reality in Chicago.”

From Reductive Journal #2: http://www.cimaural.net/reductivemusic/ ... l_TWO.html

[Seth]

Marvin Tate is a performance poet, lyricist, published author, collected visual artist and educator. His recent collaborations with Sound-Artist Joseph C. Mills and Video/Performance Artist, Jefferson Pinder highlight his ability to combine spoken word and performance with other forms of mediums, producing outstanding works of juxtaposition and improvisation. His collaboration with singer songwriter Tim Kinsella in a project titled Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate with Leroy Bach and Angel Olsen, released on Joyful Noise Records (2013) is a testament to this. Tate was recently awarded a grant from the Poetry Foundation to teach poetry in The Statesville Correctional Center(for men), and was selected by The Propeller Fund to revisit his old neighborhood in North-Lawndale, Chicago to produce a series of performances called Public Singing. Marvin Tate is the founder and ringleader of the legendary funk band D-settlement, a funkadelic-infused band that continues to receive critical acclaim after forming in the late nineties. His work has appeared on Def-Jam Poetry, This American-Life, PBS, and in venues around the world.

http://www.artistmarvintate.com/

[Seth]

Joseph Clayton Mills is a musician, artist, and writer who lives and works in Chicago. His text-based paintings, assemblages, and sound installations have been exhibited in Chicago, New York, and Europe and his work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker. He is the author of the short-story collection Zyxt, and in 2012 published Nabokrossvords, a translation of early Russian crosswords by Vladimir Nabokov. He is an active participant in the improvised and experimental music community in Chicago, where his collaborators have included Adam Sonderberg and Steven Hess (as Haptic), Michael Vallera (as Maar), Noé Cuéllar (as Parital), Sylvain Chaveau, Jason Stein, Michael Pisaro, and Olivia Block, among many others; his recordings have appeared on numerous labels, including Another Timbre, FSS, and Entr’acte. In 2013, in conjunction with Noé Cuéllar, he launched Suppedaneum, a label focused on releasing scores and their realizations.

http://www.josephcmills.com/

[Seth]

The first review of Helen White's 'Solar Wind Chime', courtesy of Nathan Thomas at Fluid Radio:

"Sonification is the art of representing information through sounds. Often, correspondences are established, via the medium of number, between certain properties or qualities of the event or situation being represented and sonic properties such as pitch and volume: the pitch of a sound might increase as temperature increases, for example, or rhythmic density might vary with the frequency of events. But do such representations count as music, or do they fall entirely under some different, separate category of object?"

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2016/11/he ... ind-chime/

[Seth]

Helen White is an interdisciplinary designer with an interest in the ethos of slow design as a methodology, considering ways of enhancing user experience of objects, surfaces, and spaces, to stimulate our senses beyond the visual, as opposed to designing products merely to fuel consumption.

Often architectural in scale, Helen’s current practice harnesses the power and unpredictability of natural phenomena in conjunction with technology, to stimulate contemplative and emotional reconnections between environment and user in a society that is becoming increasingly disconnected. In work such as ‘Blowlight’, 'Parabola' and 'solar-wind chime', nature provides the data which then acts as a trigger for ever-changing patterns of light and sound, bringing a sense of event and performance to the architecture of our cities.

Helen completed a three month 'Communicating Science' residency at Pervasive Media Studios supported by the Institute of Physics Publishing in 2013. And as part of collaborative team BristolStudio BS5, Helen was shortlisted in 2012 for the final stages of an international competition to design a monument to freedom and unity for the City of Leipzig in Germany.

Helen is also a founding member of eFAF, a small but growing network of female designers and artists, set up to enhance knowledge sharing and collaborative learning in the use of technology in the arts.

Concurrent to this, Helen works as a singer/songwriter, formerly with the band Alpha on Virgin Records who toured extensively around Europe with Massive Attack and Goldfrapp, and more recently collaborating with producers and soundtrack composers on a variety of projects.

http://www.helenwhitedesign.com

[Seth]

Excerpt from the Thump interview with Henry Collins that accompanied the release of his book 140 Blindfolded Drawings of Eastenders Characters.

Q: How would you describe your musical career to date? Who'd you want to be filed next to in an easy to parse list of artists? A: I really don't know. All over the fucking place. I envy artists like Rie Nakajima and Max Eastley whose themes and crafts are so disciplined; choose something and explore it to hell. I just can't do that, I'm too fidgety. For me, release wise, At one end of the spectrum you have an album of mine like Music of Sound, which I feel has a real purpose to exist as it's an unearthing of a hidden musical work within a movie and at the other other end you have gabber remixes of Oasis and that kinda stuff which have no real need to exist other than make people smile and dance. The contradictions in what I do, and like, I used to see as an issue but I've learned to accept who I am. So yeah, I like EastEnders and John Cage equally, same goes for Vengaboys and Sun-ra.

https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/bl ... characters

[Seth]

Reviews of all three new releases on Freq: http://freq.org.uk/reviews/every-contac ... revisited/

[Seth]

Paul Margree knocks it out of the park with his review of The Masters by Henry Collins:

https://weneednoswords.wordpress.com/20 ... e-masters/

The most thoughtful and thorough record review I've read in a while.

[Seth]

Another Paul Margree review of The Process by Joseph and Marvin:

https://weneednoswords.wordpress.com/20 ... e-process/

[Seth]

Hat trick - this time it's the turn of Helen White and Solar Wind Chime.

https://weneednoswords.wordpress.com/20 ... ind-chime/