hello everyone.
many news and happenings that we'd like to bring you up to date with. we have moved the news stream to a blog that will include images, sound and news from the makers we work with. two new releases are out (wm08 and wm15) as well as abbreviated versions of our first two releases. the 2009 release schedule is confirmed and moving towards production for late summer through autumn. we have also launched a very limited duration sale on all available items in the catalog and the slowly growing shop2.
last - it goes without saying that we here were quite floored by the news of dani baquet-long's passing a week ago today. i found her sound and the music of celer quite a compelling experience and my best wishes go to her family and friends.
thanks for taking the time to read through all the topics and events we're finally bringing to light. your feedback is always welcome. wmr
winds measure blog:: winds measure on tumblr
you'll notice a few important posts from 2009 are archived on this blog. the news page within the site will be updated with release information and special events only. view the blog for ongoing label updates, collaborators information, images, sound and relative information.
http://windsmeasure.tumblr.com/
new releases :: press release::
wm08
ben owen and scott allison
untitled (for agnes martin)
8" clear lathe record, 3 color letterpress sleeve
lathe cut by peter king, new zealand.
edition 50
http://windsmeasurerecordings.net/catalog/wm08/
wm15
ben owen and scott allison
untitled (for agnes martin)
3 color letterpress poster
edition 40
http://windsmeasurerecordings.net/catalog/wm15/
owen and allison met in brooklyn with the intention to record 5 minute 'songs'. deciding to work within this duration, they made several version's of each improvisation based on a set of changing environments for new piece. allison's instrument's included field recordings (processed and un-processed), ring-modulated sinewaves + contact mic; owen's instruments included a speaker + rose pedals, various oscillators, radio + fm transmitter and contact mic'ed surfaces + objects.
the resonant pedals, feedback and shortened durations shaped the exchange that fluidly continued throughout the day. not only the attention towards time and drawing from memory of years of collaborative improvised performance, this meeting documents decisive marks each person has explored in and out of the studio.
the decision was made to translate the recordings to the medium of acetate record allowing the medium to play it's hand in the compression of frequency as well as the mediums degradation through it's playback. time became an important element in the fate of the work. it was during the period of listening and exploring the collaboration that allison came to agnes' martins painting "garden", and found it harmonious and tied to the subtle tracing of movements and repetitive marks of recording each 'song'; lending meaning in each pass as to the integrity of extended viewing of her work.
allison writes "while at the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden in washington dc, I came across a canvas by agnes martin titled "garden". the work is composed of a grid of horizontal and vertical lines sitting on a square of canvas maybe six by six feet. at first sight the work appeared extremely mechanical and cold. but upon closer inspection, i found the canvas contained wonderful warm non-mechanical details. for example, the lines making up the grid appear to be created with colored pencil's, not what I would consider a hard industrial material. then i noticed the grid is not just a single gird, but precisely drawn lines repeated over top of each other in many colors. the stacked lines seemed to move and shift as one might expect from being drawn onto a canvas by hand. I was awe struck by martin's seemingly simple statement of a cold mechanical grid, that in reality is composed of a long drawn out human process, much like gardening. circling back to the idea of martins canvas as a garden made sense for us in relation to the music we had created. "garden's" openness and non-narrative form lent itself to the openness of our sonic form. using field recording's, radio transmission's and various texture's, we in a way, created gardens from sound, finding ways to bring a human sensitivity to mechanical tools".
ben owen and scott allison have an ongoing collaborating since 1999. while performing as a duo, they have also performed in the ny phonographers meeting's, and with ting ting jahe and gill arno/mpld. owen's collaborator's also include tom mulligan, richard garet, andy graydon and gilles aubry. some of allison's collaborators include: andy hayleck, ilya monosov, layne garret and jesse kudler. he is a core member of kohoutek and all violet (duo w/ jeff surak). allison is now residing in philadelphia, usa.
this is there first duo audio release, as well as print collaboration.
ben owen and scott allison, july 2009
upcoming releases - 2009::
michael t. bullock and andrew lafkas: ceremonies to breath upon - CD
contrabass duo, recorded by bryan eubanks on march 23, 2008 at the gasholder, troy, NY.
gilles aubry: s6t8r - CD
s6t8r (2008-09). the piece is based on recordings made inside several of the rooms of the stralau 68 building, a former venue for experimental music in berlin, now empty.
mpld: lacunae - DVD + print
seemingly diverging from any programmatic observation of transience, one of mpld's amplified slide projections becomes the documented object here. one more layer surfaces - the decreased resolution caused by image compression appears as yet another sign of life.
sawako: brand new fossil - 7" and limited 7" set with handmade & found objects
4 track 7" record. materials recorded in 02 2008 with the handmade crystal radio in brooklyn, and field recordings around the astroland, coney island, NY USA. 01 2009.
new in the shop::
three essential releases from herbal international (2 CD's and a CD x 2, all with color booklets), two releases from monochrome vision (CD's), and four releases from the newly launched unframed recordings (2 CD's and 2 7" 's).
we hope to have releases from non visual objects, encadre, mAtter and koyuki labels available soon; including andy graydon's new CD/DVD release on mAtter. if there is anything you'd like to see in the shop please let us know.
http://windsmeasurerecordings.net/shop2/
sale::
for a limited time, see the site for details. thanks for your ongoing support.
http://windsmeasurerecordings.net/en3er.html
news from the people::
asher: release on sourdine
miniatures. CD x 2
http://www.sourdine.net/news.html
andy graydon: release on mAtter
geomancy. CD + DVD
http://www.matter.jp
gil sansón: release on contour editions
por la adversidad a las estrellas. mp3 download
http://contoureditions.com/pages/online.html
jason kahn: release on 23five
vanishing point. CD
http://www.23five.org/PDF/23five.015.jkahn.PR.pdf
gill arno: residency - roguewaves, portugal, april 2009
residency blog with further notes and images::
http://roguewavesonthefarm.blogspot.com/
takefumi naoshima: release on encadre
three lines. CDR
http://encadrecatalog.blogspot.com/
greg davis: upcoming release on kranky
mutually arising. CD. will be released on july 20th, 2009
http://www.autumnrecords.net/
lawrence english: upcoming japan tour
lawrence will be playing 14 shows from august 5 - 29, 2009 in kansai, kyushu, tokyo, kanazawa, sendai and naha. dates have been confirmed and will be added to his site in the coming days.
http://lawrenceenglish.com
ben owen: upcoming release on gruenrekorder
south facing, three views (tanabe/queens/brooklyn). CD release date tbd, 2009
http://www.gruenrekorder.de/
richard garet: upcoming release on and/OAR
four malleable. CD x 2. release date tbd, 2009
http://www.and-oar.org/pop_and_34.html