[Microsound-announce] [LINE] new release CHESSMACHINE 'LIVE IN LOS ANGELES' LINE023

[richard chartier / LINE]

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NEW RELEASE:
artist: CHESS MACHINE (richard chartier + ivan pavlov (coh))
title: LIVE IN LOS ANGELES
cat.no: LINE023
edition: 600
packaging: new LINE packaging, 5" 4 color process printed sleeves w/ 
shrinkwrap

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LINE is proud to present Live in Los Angeles by the collaborative 
performance project CHESSMACHINE by Richard Chartier (US) and Ivan 
Pavlov (aka COH) (RUS). An unusual release for LINE, CHESSMACHINE's 
live sound is alternately loud and quiet, mysterious and genuinely 
unsettling.

http://www.3particles.com/chessmachine



A certain humor shapes the conceptual dialectics of the CHESSMACHINE 
live experience. Their interplay suggests the historical confrontation 
of East and West; an austere and chilling tete-a-tete over the 
chessboard that reconstructs the somber milieu of a bygone Europe, even 
as it conveys a kind of absurdist levity through the rehearsed 
performance of these roles. The use of MAC and PC computer operating 
systems by Chartier and Pavlov, respectively, becomes the late-20th 
century manifestation of classic Cold War combatants. Through their 
engagement, a process of sonic and aesthetic displacement unfolds, such 
that one player’s strategic manipulation of sound begins slowly to 
affect and then determinatively shape the compositional technique of 
the other. CHESSMACHINE’s live performances take place in real time 
with color coded staging, uniforms, lighting, and video projections 
designed by Russian-American installation/video artists Evelyn Domnitch 
and Dmitry Gelfand.

This live recording of Chessmachine took place on February 25, 2005 at 
REDCAT in Los Angeles. The performance was presented by the Los Angeles 
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) as part of Visual Music: SEE HEAR 
NOW!, an experimental music series investigating the synaesthetic 
resonance between contemporary music and visual art, in conjunction 
with their exhibit Visual Music. Upcoming performances in 2005 include: 
Belgrade, Valencia, Brussels, and Dresden.

IVAN PAVLOV is a former acoustic engineer from Russia, currently 
resident in Sweden who has been releasing his work under the name COH 
(Russian for “sleep” and “dream”) through various record labels 
including Raster-Noton (DE), Mego (A), Eskaton (UK), souRce-reSearch 
(UK), IDEA (USA), Wavetrap (UK/SE), Staalplaat (NL) and Error (RU). His 
work is distinguished by the somewhat emphasized emotional content of 
the sound forms as well as a certain level of humor in both concepts 
and execution. He has collaborated with artists Coil, Cylobe, Annie 
Anxiety, and Richard Chartier. COH has performed at numerous 
festivals/events across Europe and North America including 20 to 2000 
(Volksbeuhne, Berlin), ARS Festival (Linz, Austria), Rotterdam 
International Film Festival, MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), Frequenzen/Shirn 
Kunshalle (Frankfurt, Germany), Wien Modern Festival (Vienna, Austria), 
and Acces(s) (Pau, France).

RICHARD CHARTIER, sound/installation artist and graphic designer, has 
created critically acclaimed recordings for labels such as 12k/LINE 
(USA), Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Spekk (Japan), and Fallt (Ireland), 
including collaborations with artists Taylor Deupree, William Basinski, 
COH, and *0 and has appeared on numerous international compilations. 
His digital minimalist work explores the inter-relationships between 
the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.

Chartier’s sound works and sound installations have been presented 
internationally including at the exhibits Sounding Spaces at ICC 
(Tokyo, Japan), I Moderni / The Moderns at Castello di Rivoli (Torino, 
Italy), 2002 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), 
Resynthesis at The Art Institute of Chicago, as well as solo and 
collaborative installations for Fusebox (DC) and Diapason (NY). He has 
performed his work live across Europe, Japan, and North America at 
MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), DEAF (Dublin, Ireland), Observatori 
(Valencia, Spain), Transmediale (Berlin, Germany), Lovebytes 
(Sheffield, UK), The Rotterdam International Film Festival (NE), and 
other noted digital art/music festivals and at exhibits such as 
Frequenzen [Hz] at the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) and A Minimal 
Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los 
Angeles). His work Series (LINE_001) was awarded Honorable Mention in 
the category of Digital Music by the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, 
2001 (Austria).