[Microsound-announce] New Furthernoise.org Net Label - Explorations in Sound Selection 1.

[Roger Mills]

Hi List I would like to announce our first release of Explorations in 
Sound.
Download & print and I would be interested in any feedback.

Roger Mills
Editor
http://www.furthernoise.org

  'Explorations in Sound' Selection 1 has just been launched releasing 
our first quarterly high quality MP3 compilations of adventurous 
critical music & sounds. Each selection is a limited edition release, 
available free to download (artwork included) for 3 months before being 
replaced by the next editions compilation. We will be featuring a 
diverse array of international artists and groups  who are pushing the 
boundaries of their genre and exploring new terrains that communicate 
via sound.

1. Tongue - Mark Francombe
Mark Francombe is a composer, performer and artist with a well heeled 
reputation for experimental electronic and improvised music. A founding 
member and guitarist of the 1980's UK indie band Cranes he recorded and 
toured extensively throughout Europe before moving to Norway in 1997. 
He composes & performs with modified, heavily treated,  baritone guitar 
and releases his music through small independent CDR labels including 
his own Synch Non Synch label. His recent album Ear, Nose & Throat is 
released through Oslo based Synesthetic Recordings and is featured in 
the current edition of Furthernoise where he also contributes as a 
reviewer.
www.markfrancombe.com

2. Sleep Driver - Martin Stig Anderson
Martin Stig Andersen graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 
Aarhus, Denmark in 2003. He is currently a phd student in 
electroacoustic composition at City University, London, studying with 
Denis Smalley. His track 'Sleepdriver' draws the listener into a deeply 
evocative mood where agitated sub-frequencies and gathering crescendos 
suggest a sinister, cinematic quality deduced from its title,
www.martinstigandersen.dk

3. Subterranea - Alex Young
Alex Young lives in London and works for a small software company near 
Battersea Park. He fostered an interest both computer music and 
computer science from an early age, and endeavors to combine the 
lessons learnt in both fields. After studying classical guitar and 
music technology, Alex went on to study computing at degree level and 
graduated in 2001. When he's not working, Alex diligently reviews 
netlabel releases (inc Furthernoise) and investigates digital art for 
his weblog.
http://www.alexyoung.org

4. The Speaker Hurts - Holzkopf
Holzkopf,  AKA Jake Hardy is an extreme beat/noise experimenter from 
Saskatoon, Canada.
"I want to make music that sounds like it's running as fast as it can 
away from the end of the world. Like it's trying desperately to grab 
onto anything old, tried and true, in order to slow down as much as 
possible before hitting the wall at the end of the road. Savoring every 
last moment. Taking long breaths." Add to that direction segments of 
melodic strings being pushed between walls of mid-range noise and 
clumsy rhythms. Bits of clunky guitar inspired by cold beer and sunny 
days pop up, and then always more noise and more interruptions. 
Sorry...
http://www.daintydeathy.com

5. Guetto Express - Ultra-red
In the world of modern electronic music and sound art, Ultra-red 
distinguish themselves for their intrepid blend of political commitment 
and innovative sound. Rejecting both self-satisfied formalism and 
convenient political posturing, Ultra-red have for over ten years 
pursued a precarious but dynamic exchange between art and political 
organizing. Collectively, the Los Angeles-based group has produced 
radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations and pubic 
space occupations (ps/o).
www.ultrared.org

6. I've got something to tell you - Anomaly
Anomaly AKA David de la Haye left Jersey in 1981 with rucksack and bass 
guitar in hand amidst the August sunbeams of 1999. A few erroneous bus 
journeys later he happened upon Leeds College of Music. Alternative 
modes of composition soon became highlighted accidentally sampling a 
fast-forwarding CD whilst searching for the new ’amen’ loop. He 
currently spreads his time between making glitchy electronica and 
writing reviews for Sonic Art Network 'Diffusion' and Furthernoise.

7. Darcade (edit) - Sawtooth
Sawtooth are an evolving musical entity that collaborates with 
musicians & artists on a project basis.
Darcade edit is a series of instrumental improvisations responding to a 
roving stereo field recording inside a gaming parlour. The field 
recording itself is a dense layer of multitimbral sounds from 
electronic bleeps and soundbytes to the accoustic  sounds of human 
interaction with the machines. Entwined in this collage are 
improvisations from trumpet, flute, tenor sax and double bass 
responding to the changing sounds of the parlours environment.
www.sawtooth.org.uk

8. Edit - Smartest Kid on Earth
Smartest Kid on Earth are 6 blokes from Cardiff UK who have nothing 
better to do on a Sunday afternoon than play improvised electro jazz. 
With an uabashed passion for Prog Rock their music sits somewhere 
between Can, Miles Davis and Kraftwerk.

9. War Called - Mac Dunlop
Mac Dunlop is a Poet (MA in Fine Art, U. of Northumbria, 1992) (CACDP 
Certificate in British Sign Language). He is a founding member of the 
International Artist Collaboration project ...here nor there...(HNT) 
and recently collaborated with HNT collegue, Neil Jenkins on the 
generative poetry engine Orbital which will feature in the academic 
journal of electronic arts: Leonardo, (issue 36:4). Mac's work ranges 
across various disciplines and his on line poetry and video work has 
been exhibited as part of international touring exhibitions.
www.sparror.cubecinema.com/macdunlop

10. Track 3 - Darren Ziesing
Darren Ziesing is based in Canberra, Australia where he writes and 
performs as an experimental electronic musician, escaping to write the 
majority of his work up in the nearby Snowy Mountains. He has worked on 
numerous collaborative albums and now releases under the project names 
Stalker and Liife and runs his own label GEO records.
www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s903465.htm












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