[microsound-announce] Furthernoise issue August 2010

[Roger Mills]

Hi all for those interested...

Please find a host of new features and reviews, and a restocked audio  
player for your reading and listening pleasure.

We are also pleased to announce our new net label release, Active  
Crossover II, which is free to download with printed cover from the  
site. See editors review for details on this great collaborative  
performance and installation project.

Furthernoise issue August 2010
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=87

"4 Releases from Mimeomeme" (feature)
The Seattle Phonographers Union comprises five live performances  
recorded in Seattle from 2004-2008. It is interesting to note that  
these are not compiled in chronological order, though listening to the  
album repeatedly, I could not determine if sequencing really made that  
much difference, as each track creates its own unique sonic trajectory  
and flow.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=349
feature by Derek Morton

"Active Crossover II, Various Artists" (review)
Founded by Bristol (UK) based sound artist Simon Whetham, Active  
Crossover started in 2008 from a residency in Tallinn, Estonia, as  
guests of the Non Grata Collective. Presenting workshops in field  
recording and composition, it culminated in Whetham working with John  
Grzinich, providing a live sound track to a performance by renowned  
Estonian artist Peeter Allik.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=350
review by Roger Mills

"Amarok - Francisco López" (review)
On Amarok Francisco López deploys processed field recordings to create  
a windswept soundscape tailored to the Glacial Movements aesthetic.  
This isolationist dreamweaver conducts an arctic expedition with  
trademark atonal drones and snarling blasts evoking the eponymous  
giant wolf of Inuit mythology, representing a shivering parable for  
our times. Perhaps.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=344
review by Alan Lockett

"Collaborative Soundtracking - Erdem Helvacioğlu and Per  
Boysen" (review)
Through a long-distance collaboration, multi-instrumentalists Erdem  
Helvacioğlu and Per Boysen deliver the soundtrack preceding the  
film Sub City 2064 (currently somewhere between ideation and  
synopsis), whose use of recollected vocabularies from different  
avenues of pop music, from stadium rock to simmering ambient pads and  
lounge dub-jazz.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=346
review by Caleb Deupree

"Halation - Capricornus" (review)
Questing Infraction Records bring bright newcomer Capricornus to the  
ambient drone sleepover, hosting in Halation a slow-release narcotic  
of minimal means and maximal Morphean mien. Long languorous swathes of  
guitar outfolding towards the infinite in a successful foray into the  
zone between Deep Listening immersion and harmonised drone.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=345
review by Alan Lockett

"Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble II" (review)
Comprising bass, a vintage analog synth, trombone with effects, and  
drums, the Jack Curtis Dubrowsky Ensemble plays a futuristic lounge  
jazz, replete with nocturnal overtones, swampy, humid and mysterious.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=348
review by Caleb Deupree

"Lava - Markus Mehr" (review)
Released on Perth's Hidden Shoal Recordings Lava is an album, as the  
title suggests, of textural and timbral contrasts with disjunct leaps  
of dynamics and tonality. Written and recorded in his home studio in  
southern Germany, his palette of sounds come from all manner of sound  
emitting objects, electric shavers, ventilators, electric toothbrushes  
and field recordings,
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=353
review by Roger Mills

"Marsen Jules - Yara (Remastered)" (review)
Marsen Jules' classical-ambient-minimalism hybrid releases Yara, a  
release from 2004 on digital netlabel, Autoplate, well meriting  
remastered and beautifully repackaged form courtesy of Oktaf, complete  
with two bonus tracks. Source sounds drawn from classical trio, Yara,  
while flaunting cut'n'paste provenance and DSP mediation, retain  
something of the essence of their grace and delicacy.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=347
review by Alan Lockett

Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise










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