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 Dreams, Fiends, and Serene: Recent Hypnos Activity
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The Hypnos label is well known among ambient music fans for a long string of high quality releases stretching back over the last ten years. Three new releases show the diversity range of Hypnos' ambient shades: dark and light, location and studio, serene and infernal.
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Gears of Sand profiled
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Gears of Sand was founded in 2001 by Delaware-dweller Ben Fleury-Steiner, flavours of Cage, Young, Inoue, et al. enriching his musical inquiry. By 2004, GoS had become the hub of a net-mediated community of artists of the Ambient Drone-zone and Space-ways. A look at the '08 state of the GOS art follows.
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Nebula Temperament – on the tuning of Just 3 Organs (2008)
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Equal temperament, the status quo of tuning systems in the world, divides the octave into 12 equal steps of 100 cents. Alternate tuning systems, such as Just Intonation, criticize or correct this because intervals are compromised – they fall short of a mathematical or perceptual ideal. Compromises are blamed to cause a lot of things including “action and violence” in our culture
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The LandOf - Label Feature
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Based in Brooklyn, New York, The LandOf seeks to find artists who explore the beauty in everyday sounds. The label started off as an outlet for My Fun, a project by Justin Hardison. It’s now started to grow, featuring artists from across the US and beyond. The LandOf’s releases are published as both handmade and digital editions, with cover design and illustrations created by Kimberly Hall.
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Drifting through the Gulf Stream - Mathieu Ruhlmann and Celer
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Sound artists Mathieu Ruhlmann and Celer have created Mesoscaphe, a sound work dedicated to the voyage of the research submarine Ben Franklin, who slipped beneath the surface of the Atlantic in July, 1969, and drifted northward at a depth of 600-2,000 feet for the next month. They capture the submarine's slow motion drift, immersed in the swaying and sleeplessness of the journey.
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Just 3 Organs - Rothkamm
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Frank Rothkamm is an artist that traverses the boundaries of all the media he works with. Composer, conceptual artist, and number cruncher, he manages to infuse everything he does with a seeming unlimited experimental verve and humour. His recent release Just 3 organs is no exception to this, and one could be forgiven for thinking that while his tongue might be planted firmly in cheek...
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Resonant Embers - Various
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A retinue of respected sound artists sit in a seditious huddle on Resonant Embers. The symbols of alterity they throw up ensure a continuous movement, but it's one that will annoy if your searching for grand gestures and conciliatory attitudes. This disc is more a matter of plentiful rustling, a series of discontinuous clunks, warbles, and gurgling irreducible to an identity,
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Split LP#3 fearturing Mats Gustafsson and Cor Fuhler
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Narrominded's reputation for eclectic releases is well known, and I must admit to wondering a little bit about their trajectory on occasions. However, with the guitars safely locked away, they have handed this new Split LP release over to the safe hands of Mats Gustafsson and Cor Fuhler.
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The Hypnotist
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Joe Frawley’s latest release, The Hypnotist, melds melodic musical fragments and found sounds into a discomforting, meandering narrative through the subconscious. This short collection of six tracks (plus a bonus remix of Frawley’s earlier work ‘Wilhelmina’s Dream’) takes the listener on a slightly disturbing journey.
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FURTHERNOISE.ORG SEPTEMBER 2008
Welcome to the September 08 issue of Furthernoise.org
FEATURES
Dreams, Friends and Serene: Recent Hypnos Activity. - The Hypnos label are well known amongst fans of ambient music for their quality and prolific output. Caleb Deupree digs deep into the Hypnos garden, examining their release schedule and activities over the past decade.
Gears of Sand profiled - Alan Lockett rifles through their extensive back catalogue along with present and future releases, investigating the nature behind their sound and what makes them tick.
The third in the trilogy of label features is on The LandOf - Alex Young looks at the last 4 releases, what makes them different and what ties them together into a homogenous label sound. Alex also interviews the labels curator Justin Hardison for a down home version of where they are going and what they are all about.
We also have a feature article by Frank Rothkamm on the topic Nebula Temperament – on the tuning of Just 3 Organs, which accompanies his release Just 3 Organs reviewed in this issue.
REVIEWS
Drifting through the Gulf Stream Mathieu Ruhlmann and Celer
Review by Caleb Deupree
Just 3 Organs - Rothkamm
Review by Roger Mills
Resonant Embers - Edition Sonoro Compilation by various artists
Review by Max Schaefer
Narrominded's Split LP #3 featuring Mats Gustafsson and Cor Fuhler
Review by Roger Mills
The Hypnotist - Joe Fawley
Review by Stacey Sewell
NEWS
Notice to contributors. Furthernoise has changed our submission policy. Please refer to new submissions guidelines on the top bar for more details.
Explorations in Sound, Vol 3 continues to receive lots of attention and is still available to download. Read full release details and artists
statements.
Furthernoise Net Radio - Call for Submissions
Do you have an idea for a radio programme or feature that explores the boundaries of sound in internet broadcasting ?
Between September and November 08 Furthernoise will be hosting a series of internet broadcasts exploring the DIY ethic of Pirate Radio. We are interested in contributions of tracks, segments, features or radiophonic collages from 60 seconds to 60 minutes in duration. Please contact roger[at] furthernoise DOT org with proposals or examples.
EVENTS
COLLISION
11-13 September, Area 10 Project Space, Peckham, London, SE15 5JT.
Third annual programme of experimental music, film, sound and light installations, performance art and free public seminars housed in a 100 year old timber yard. With Charles Hayward, Exploding Cinema, Trans Siberian Marching Band, Goldsmiths College Electronic Music Studios, Psychological Art Circus and more. Website
NEW YORK SOUNDSCAPE
A first look at Ear to the Earth 2008.
October 10 - 23, 2008
EMF's annual festival of environmental sound. Judson CHurch, Chelsea Art Museum, and other venues in New York City. Among many events, the festival will launch New York Soundscape, a panoramic portrayal of New York City's personality and urban ecology in sound, including documentary field recordings, sound art compositions, and multimedia created by artists, students, and New Yorkers from all walks of life. Website
ELECTROFRINGE
2nd - 6th of October, Newcastle, Australia.
Annual festival and year round programme of experimental electronic arts and culture dedicated to skills development and artistic exchange. The programme focuses on uncovering emergent forms and has an emphasis on encouraging exchange between emerging and established artists.
This is presented in workshops, panel discussions, master classes, presentations, exhibitions, screenings and interventions. Website
I hope you enjoy this new issue and as always we welcome all comments and proposals.
Roger Mills
Editor
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