[Microsound-announce] NEW 12k/LINE RELEASES: SEBASTIEN ROUX "Songs" + ASMUS TIETCHENS "Z-Menge"

[richard chartier / LINE]

12k/LINE
NEW RELEASES OUT SOON!
available for order now.


artist: SEBASTIEN ROUX
title: SONGS
cat.no: 12k1036
edition: 1000

direct link to release page: www.12k.com/1036.html
direct link to store: www.12k.com/shop

Songs is the much-anticipated follow-up to Parisian sound designer and 
musician Sébastien Roux’s beautiful cd Pillow (Apestaartje, 2004). The 
simple title of Songs hides a deep work that Roux states is based in 
mathematics, symmetry (and assymetry) and organized randomness. Songs 
is a skillfully and beautifully rendered album of gentle and sometimes 
not-so-gentle acoustic instruments and melodic granular clouds. Each 
song is titled simply by the instruments that make it, thus stressing 
the process involved in their production. From the ubiquitous guitars, 
piano, and drums to the more exotic metallophone, harp and contrabass, 
Roux combines these acoustic instruments with digital sounds and makes 
a point to keep the focus on the instruments themselves, allowing for 
their subtleties and idiosyncrasies to come to the forefront.

Roux’s music is personal and multi-faceted; From warm and drowsy 
ambient tones to digital fests of errors and erratic rhythms to a more 
song-structured approach hinting at a distant relative of submereged 
pop music. His influences include musique concrete, folk songs, and 
electronic music and his work at IRCAM in Paris wraps his ecclectic 
tastes into an expertly produced work of digital sound that does not 
rely on one particular sound or motif but rather highlights a breadth 
of processes and unique sonic juxtaposititons.


artist: ASMUS TIETCHENS
title: z-menge
cat.no: LINE_025
edition: 500

link to release: www.12k.com/line/line025.htm
link to online shop: www.12k.com/shop


LINE is proud to present Z-Menge the new installment of the continuing 
Mengen series from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus 
Tietchens. LINE will be releasing the subsequent works in this series. 
Zeta-Menge means Zeta quantity.

"Another approach to ultimate situations, nearly stillness before 
becoming silent as Samuel Beckett taught us. End Game. Microtones and 
structures are only the tools. The Night Of Lead revisited..."

Asmus Tietchens' first released his unique electronic music in 1980, 
but created works since the late 1960s. Since then he has produced over 
37 full length solo works and more cutting edge recordings on numerous 
international labels dealing with electronic sound and conctrete music. 
Some of his over 20 full length collaborationive projects include the 
ongoing Kontakt der Junglinge with Thomas Koner. Tietchens' focus is 
the manipulation of found sound in ways suggested by the material 
itself. German label Die Stadt has begun to reissue his groundbreaking 
early works on cd in limited edition. His latest critically acclaimed 
project, a series based strictly on sine tones and white noise is the 
"Mengen" series released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux (Alpha-, Beta- and 
Gamma-Menge).

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