#1
(CMR) Magazine $4.00 (Out-of-stock)
“The Cenotaph Mines,” a series of short fiction chapters by Sean O’Reilly; “Listening To Records: Reverse-Engineering A Cultural Phenomenon” by Bruce Russell; and “An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Hong Kong (After Perec),” a collection of descriptions of sounds while sitting in a space for 12 hours by Jason Kahn.
#4
(CMR) Magazine $4.00
“Four Scores To Practice A Political Rhythm (For One Performer)” and “Three Scores To Approach The Invisible Together (For A Group)” by Salomé Voegelin; “Proxy Eye” by Andrew Scott; and Lawrence English & James Parker in conversation.
#2
(CMR) Magazine $4.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Wine And Dust: Purposeless Memory Scraps [And Some Of Their Consequences] Of A Passionate Drifter” by Francisco López; “Traces of Water” by Simon Whetham; and “When Dogs Bark in the World…” by Samuel Longmore.
Waste Away / Nun’s Murmur
(CMR - 29) 7-inch (lathe cut) $12.00
"Using field recordings, modular synth, computer, looper and edirol recorder," explains our friend at Volcanic Tongue, the man they used to call Eso Steel "conjures huge, phantom, barely populated soundworlds that are compulsive in the kind of entropic gravity that they generate, situating low drones and what sounds like distant airplane noise in fields of static, shortwave tone and that classic dying amplifier / overheating electricity appeal of the best of the post Xpressway/Corpus Hermeticum drone artists."
RICHARD FRANCIS / JASON KAHN / BRUCE RUSSELL
Dunedin
(CMR - CMR27) CD $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
Thirty-eight minutes of immersive sound and fractured electronics by Richard Francis (modular synthesizer, computer), Jason Kahn (analog synthesizer, radio, mixing board) and Bruce Russell (analog electronics), recorded live at Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand. Russell’s analog system cleaves a path through Francis’s thick cloud of dusty field recordings and swirling standing waves; Kahn’s chaotic feedback system of synthesizer and radio spikes and sputters, like a dying bird in the midst of some caustic low pressure front moving slowly across the horizon.
Warmth
(CMR - CMR26) CD $14.25
Vignettes composed using modular synth, computer, field recordings, looper, and Edirol recorder, riffing on memories and impressions of brief sound moments, melting into a fine, delicate mass of sound. In Francis’s minimal and tense music, ticks and crackles, maybe one or two drones, meander about, falling somewhere between the cracks of improvisation and composition.
RICHARD FRANCIS / ANTHONY GUERRA / MATTIN / JOEL STERN
Richard Francis / Anthony Guerra / Mattin / Joel Stern
(CMR - CMR13) 7-inch $10.00
Two five-minute cuts excerpted from about three hours of material recorded in 2004. Computer, electronics, field recordings, electric guitar, computer feedback. Edition of 250
Clouds Across The Bay
(CMR) 7-inch (lathe cut) $10.00
Rough, textural, electronic sound by Mark Sadgrove of MHFS. Edition of 60
Erewhon Calling: Experimental Sound in New Zealand
(CMR) paperback book $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
Bruce Russell-edited survey of how a bunch of antipodean misfits and malcontents have forged new ways and new reasons to make noise -- the full range of “non-standard” audio practices in contemporary NZ culture, from the borders of composed art music, through improvised noise, to deconstructed “rock’n pop filth,” and everything in-between. While not comprehensive (nor aiming to be), Erewhon Calling surpasses what anyone else has even attempted before. Artists and informed commentators mainly tell their own stories, describe their own work, and outline their own goals in working on the fringes of audio culture. Text / page works by Branden W. Joseph, Phil Dadson, Bruce Russell, Michael Morley, Byron Coley, Alastair Galbraith, Empirical, White Saucer, Clayton Noone, Andrew Clifford, Jeff Henderson, Daniel Beban and Nell Thomas, Su Ballard, Jon Bywater, Dan Vallor, Clinton Watkins, Witcyst, Andrew Scott, Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton, Vitamin S, Jon Dale, Mark Williams, Lee Noyes, Nathan Thompson, Beth Dawson, Sean O’Reilly, Kraus, Sean Kerr, Peter Stapleton, Stephen Clover, Dugal McKinnon, Omit, Peter Wright, Jo Burzynska, Ian-John Hutchinson, Kim Pieters, Paul Winstanley, Gentle Persuasion, Zoe Drayton, Simon Cuming, Stevie Kaye, Rachel Shearer, Richard Francis, Rosy Parlane, Kiran Dass, None Gallery, Zita Joyce, Mr. Sterile Assembly, Ben Spiers. 192 pages. Edition of 900.