New releaes: Nick Storring and Chris Strickland

[Notice Recordings]

Summer releases now available !
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/

NTR041
Chris Strickland —
“Excruciating Circumstances in the Kingdom of Ends"

Montréal-based composer Chris Strickland searches not for minimalism, but to minimize: technique, narrative, emotion. All recorded live either at CKUT or Espace Project, both located in Montréal, the compositions on Excruciating Circumstances in the Kingdom of Ends reside on a different expressive axis, fingering the raw edges of his sonic ingredients. Field recordings with the flat haze of surveillance footage or the feeling of gazing from afar are interwoven with wobbly but painstaking drone notes, rarely with more than a handful in a single sequence. Unsentimental and even obstinate, there are hard cuts between sections, and—most intriguingly—a playing technique free of both emotional vibrato and focused flatness. Played notes are shaky but not hesitant. Governed pace-wise by strategies of “deliberate uncertainty,” Strickland’s compositions proceed at a walking pace, moved through like green spaces of remote urbanity.

- Professionally duplicated edition of 100 on Chrome tape stock
- Letterpress printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans, LA
- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery
- Edition of 100

Purchase this release and stream its audio via Bandcamp, here:
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/a ... om-of-ends

Also, back in January, we released a short download-only piece by Chris, "In the Neck of Time", which was originally part of The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music's "Below The Radar" compilation #21. This is a free/pay-what-you-like release. It can be acquired here:
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/a ... ck-of-time

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NTR042
Nick Storring —
“Exaptations”

On the long-awaited "Exaptations", Toronto-based composer Nick Storring presents two highly textural, side-long pieces. On "Field Lines", originally composed for Yvonne NG Peck Wan's dance piece, "Magnetic Fields", a certain fragmented, uncertain openness is conveyed: a series of brief, dreamlike clearings are vignetted by pregnant silences or various levels of waking or sleeping states. Storring plays with a variety of tonal instruments that swell and tumble along while being nipped at by expressive percussion. Organic clusters develop within event-based sequences, stretching attention across multiple timbres and rhythms. On "Yield Criteria", shifting drones move about like independent layers of ice on a lake in the dead of winter, slowing crumbling, sliding, and cracking in perfect harmony. Storring has written for dance and other interdisciplinary settings, and here he brings the delicate resourcefulness of a skilled accompanist, as well as a narrative sense that belatedly, profoundly blossoms.

- Professionally duplicated edition of 100 on Cobalt tape stock
- Letterpress printed by John Fitzgerald at Fitzgerald Letterpress, New Orleans
- Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery
- Mastered by Branic Howard at Cloud City, Portland
- Edition of 100

Purchase this release and stream its audio via Bandcamp, here:
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/exaptations

Forthcoming releases include Seth Cooke's instantiation of Stefan Thut's "Aussen Raum" and Portland percussionist Matt Hannafin performing works of John Cage, including One4, Variations III, and 0'00".