[microsound-announce] New Dragon's Eye Recordings Releases

[Yann Novak]

Pierre Gerard / Shinkei | Static Forms
de5028 | 33:30 | CD-R | 250

1. Pierre Gerard - Wooden Mouldings For The Assembly (to Constantin  
Brancusi)
2. Shinkei - Untitled


Dragon's Eye Recordings is pleased to present Static Forms by Pierre  
Gerard and Shinkei. In lieu of a traditional album description, the  
artists and Dragon’s Eye Recordings offer the following quotations.

"The silence that I manufacture, hears only my ears. like these  
lengthened forms, often."
– Pierre Gerard

"Le silence, c'est la meilleure production qu'on puisse faire, parce  
qu'il se propage : on ne le signe pas et tout le monde en profite."
– Marcel Duchamp

"On peut voir celui qui regarde, mais on ne peut pas entendre celui  
qui écoute."
- Marcel Duchamp

“...But now there are silences and the words make help make the  
silences. I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry,  
as i need it. We need not fear the silences, we may love them.”
– John Cage (from Lecture On Nothing)

“Music already enjoys inaudibility.”
– John Cage (from Satie Lecture)

“…For it is the space and emptiness that is finally urgently necessary  
at this point in history (not the sounds that happen in it - or their  
relationships) (not the stones - thinking of a Japanese stone garden -  
or their relationships but the emptiness of the sand which needs the  
stones anywhere in the space in order to be empty). When I said  
recently in Darmstadt that one could write music by observing the  
imperfections in the paper upon which one was writing, a student who  
did not understand because he was full of musical ideas asked, 'Would  
one piece of paper be better than another: one for instance that had  
more imperfections?'

He was attached to sounds and because of his attachment could not let  
sounds be just sounds. He needed to attach himself to the emptiness,  
to the silence. Then things - sounds, that is - would come into being  
of themselves. Why is this so necessary that sounds should be just  
sounds? There are many ways of saying why.  One is this: In order that  
each sound may become the Buddha.”
– John Cage (from Silence)

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Shinkei / Mise_en_Scene | Leftover_1
de2712 | 21:00 | 3" CD-R | 150

1. Leftover_1


Leftover_1 is the first in what promises to become a beautiful series  
of generative works by artists Shinkei and mise_en_scene. Leftover_1  
is born out of the residue unused parts of their Scytale collaboration  
released on mAtter (JP). As part of the process during the  
composition, small parts of the work were not included in the CD and  
were "cut out," the artists decided to expand these "leftovers" into a  
single new work. Curiously, the artist also edited out ofLeftover_1 as  
well, so the process will continue on with a further reworking.

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Yann Novak | Nightfall
SR_002 | 19:20 | 3" CD-R + unique watercolor | 40

1. Nightfall


Nightfall was created at the Jentel Artist Residency outside Banner,  
WY in February 2010. Based upon a simple field recording of the start  
of a snowfall at dusk, the composition explores the shifting point  
between day and night in the dry and overcast winter month. The  
original recording begins with the dry, empty silence of the  
landscape, slowly enveloped by the piling of snow upon the  
microphone’s windscreen.

Each copy of Nightfall is accompanied by a unique watercolor based on  
the cover photograph of the landscape taken at dusk through the studio  
window.

Thanks: Robert Crouch, The Jentel Artis Residency & all my fellow  
Residents.

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Yann Novak
info at dragonseyerecordings.com

www.dragonseyerecordings.com