Gravity Wave

[jon abbey]

first review of the new Gravity Waves is up, safe to say Brian O is a fan.

http://olewnick.blogspot.com/2011/03/tw ... ul_23.html

[mpisaro]

There's a nice review of "close constellations and a drum on the ground" up today at Killed in Cars.
http://killedincars.com/post/4113998589/pisaro

[mpisaro]

Here is a link to Richard Pinnell's nice review of "asleep, street, pipes, tones" at The Watchful Ear.

http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=4949

[laszlo juhasz]

from GW site:

Forthcoming Releases

Due to be released in September, 2011:

GW 005: Hearing Metal (2)
GW 006: Hearing Metal (3)

(Michael Pisaro/Greg Stuart)

[jon abbey]

I got to listen to hearing metal (3) the other night for the first time, fantastic!

[jon abbey]

cover art is up:

http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/2011/ ... signs.html

[mpisaro]

Posted some sound examples from the next two today:

http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/2011/ ... and-3.html

[presquepartout]

september is shaping up to be a pretty pretty pretty good month

[jon abbey]

september is shaping up to be a pretty pretty pretty good month

http://youtu.be/O_05qJTeNNI

[jon abbey]

Hearing Metal 2 and 3 can be preordered now (either via the site, michaelpisaro.blogspot.com, or just e-mail me at erstrecs@aol.com and get a total) and should be ready to ship on Tuesday the 16th.

the NY Times of all places wrote them up briefly, it'll appear in this Sunday's paper and is online now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/arts/ ... .html?_r=2

[fslmy]

best news all day

[mpisaro]

The new GW releases (005 and 006) are now available at erstdist.

http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/2011/ ... t-now.html

http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/distro.html

[jon abbey]

preorders heading to the post office imminently...

[Adrian]

Brancusi - Yeah!
I remember a holiday in London and visiting Tate Modern where they had two shows on simultaneously, Brancusi and Judd. So beautiful...
Can't wait, but will have to, to hear these. I do have enough other stuff to listen to to tide me over anyway...

[jon abbey]

maybe everyone who can attend and is interested already knows, but just in case, the first ever Gravity Wave festival will be tonight and tomorrow night at the Stone in NYC, details here:

http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/2011/ ... -1415.html
http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/2011/ ... pdate.html

also, Brian O is the first to write about Hearing Metal 2 and 3:

http://olewnick.blogspot.com/2011/09/mi ... metal.html

[jon abbey]

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-revie ... -Metal-2-3

[jon abbey]

bumping this thread to announce an end of the year sale on the six Gravity Wave titles:

GW 001: ricefall (2)
GW 002: July Mountain: three versions
GW 003: close constellations and a drum on the ground
GW 004: asleep, street, pipes, tones
GW 005: Hearing Metal 2
GW 006: Hearing Metal 3

normally they are $14 each plus shipping, but from now through 12/31, they are on sale for only $11 each plus shipping, or $60 plus shipping if you order all six together.

send me a note at erstrecs@aol.com and tell me which you'd like, and I'll get you a total price including shipping. thanks for reading!

[jon abbey]

nice response on this, thanks to anyone who took part!

also, we are extending the sale another week, so through 1/8, midnight EST. these titles have been all over people's year-end lists this year and last, find out what they're so excited about if you haven't already....

[jon abbey]

sale is done, really great response, thanks again to everyone participating!!

Michael will be announcing GW 007 very soon, so stay tuned.

[mpisaro]

The next Gravity Wave release (GW 007) will be fields have ears (6), a 56-minute piece for guitar and electronics. It has had a long composition history, starting from a solo for classical guitar and sine tones (premiered in Munich in July of 2010). It was subsequently performed in Seattle (August, 2010), A Coruña, Galicia (May, 2011) and New York (September, 2011). For each performance a new version was created, incorporating recordings from the previous locations (including parts of previous performances), and other sounds that I began to associate with the history of the piece: turntables, radios, records, field recordings, earlier pieces of mine, etc. The process reached its endpoint in December of 2011 (with me recording all the parts on electric guitar). What started as a fairly simple piece is now a densely layered object, that carries its history on its back like a tortoise shell.

The disc should be available near the end of February.

http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/