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LP
ISSS / Venzha CHRIST
ISSS (Indonesia Space Science Society).
Ltd. Ed. 300 ex. w/ poster and inlet. Working with artists, scientists, astronomers and engineers in Indonesia, Venzha Christ has established Indonesia Space Science Society as a framework for the exploration of space from a different perspective. Whilst lacking the means that large space agencies such as NASA have, the Indonesia Space Science Society provides us with a compelling encounter with space nonetheless.
The record presents radio waves from space, sent and collected through self-made radio antennas gathering precise data from astronomical objects in space. The transmitted signals received from the planets and stars are then decoded into audible sounds.
Includes a text from Ewen Chardronnet (Association of Autonomous Astronauts / Aliens in Green / Laboratory Planet). Graphic design by Jean-Baptiste Parré.
Original price was: 23,00€.12,00€Current price is: 12,00€.
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12"
Valentina VUKSIC
“Harddisko”
“About the record : Live-recordings of Harddisko: 16 computer harddrives on power. Superreal computer music. Upon powering, each harddrive moves with its own speed and pattern, as directed by the firmware and mechanical constitution. Electromagnetic emissions picked up as acoustic signal reveal the specific tone of a drive. In various formations, the harddrives perform according to their past usage and current state.
About the artist : Valentina Vuksic (CH - 1974) is a computer artist and programmer living and working in Zürich. She explores an individual articulation of hard- and software mediation. The processes in such intermediate space imply actors rendered audible.
Vynil 12” - Maxi 45rpm - Limited Edition 512 copies. Each record is hand packed with an antistatic bag, sealed by a sticker and numbered.” label info
21,00€
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10"
Yann LEGUAY
“Drift-02”
Drift is a record series that uses non conventional technics of vinyl cutting. For its second issue, Drift-02, a strict protocol was set, cutting 12 grooves of silence on each side, superimposed on top of each other and progressively cut on the surface of the record.
Playing the record produces a randomized path into the different silent grooves. The listener concretely enters the vinyl materiality, experiences the shapes of the empty grooves, the disturbances and the crossings.
Hearing a sound from passing through the stereo panning indicates the pickup is physically drifting on the surface. The same applies to the cracks and drifts, that manifest that the needle has leaped, as the pickup continually drifts grooves throughout its progression. And even if there is no sound cut on the record, singular sounds arise, producing a complex soundscape.
The settings of the turntable, the quality and wear of its needle, its different parameters (consweight, anti-skating…) affect the reading path, unveil the non deterministic nature of the record : the duration is not stable, the reading becomes chaotic, punctuated with accidents, looping or backward phenomena may occur.
DRIFT-02 is the second opus released on the collection DRIFT, after the famous DRIFT-01, released in 2012, with 4 grooves per side, reuniting Martin Tétreault, eRikm, DJ Sniff and Arnaud Rivière.
Cut by Yann Leguay at DK Mastering
Texts by Samon Takahashi « Drift-02 introduction » & « Grooving in Silence ».
Brussels based sound artist Yann Leguay, defined as a media saboteur by the Consumer Waste label, he seeks to fold materiality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects and videos or during installations and performances.
His flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behaviour appropriates unusual machinery for the playback of audio media: using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or using opened hard-drives as turntables. His release activity is equally deviant, releasing silkscreen records or a 7” single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings of vinyl being scratched by scalpel.
His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he also curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback.
Comes with an English text from Samon Takahashi. Limited to 222 copies.
Playing the record produces a randomized path into the different silent grooves. The listener concretely enters the vinyl materiality, experiences the shapes of the empty grooves, the disturbances and the crossings.
Hearing a sound from passing through the stereo panning indicates the pickup is physically drifting on the surface. The same applies to the cracks and drifts, that manifest that the needle has leaped, as the pickup continually drifts grooves throughout its progression. And even if there is no sound cut on the record, singular sounds arise, producing a complex soundscape.
The settings of the turntable, the quality and wear of its needle, its different parameters (consweight, anti-skating…) affect the reading path, unveil the non deterministic nature of the record : the duration is not stable, the reading becomes chaotic, punctuated with accidents, looping or backward phenomena may occur.
DRIFT-02 is the second opus released on the collection DRIFT, after the famous DRIFT-01, released in 2012, with 4 grooves per side, reuniting Martin Tétreault, eRikm, DJ Sniff and Arnaud Rivière.
Cut by Yann Leguay at DK Mastering
Texts by Samon Takahashi « Drift-02 introduction » & « Grooving in Silence ».
Brussels based sound artist Yann Leguay, defined as a media saboteur by the Consumer Waste label, he seeks to fold materiality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects and videos or during installations and performances.
His flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behaviour appropriates unusual machinery for the playback of audio media: using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or using opened hard-drives as turntables. His release activity is equally deviant, releasing silkscreen records or a 7” single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings of vinyl being scratched by scalpel.
His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he also curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback.
Comes with an English text from Samon Takahashi. Limited to 222 copies.
14,50€
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LP
Vincent EPPLAY
“Brève Retraite au Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette”
“This recording documents a sound-performance curated by Franck Ancel in homage to Varese’s “Poème Electronique”. This musical milestone was commissioned for the Philips Pavilion created by Le Corbusier and Xenakis on the occasion of Expo’58, the Brussels World’s Fair that was held from 17 April to 19 October 1958. Le Corbusier envisioned an “art total” utopia involving space, music and images all at once. As soon as he was hired by the dutch company, he announced his intent to create an “electronic poem” in a bottle. That bottle would be the Pavilion. While Xenakis’ piece Concrèt PH could be heard at the entrance and the exit of the Pavilion, Varese’s composition, based on a complex spatialization scheme, was displaid through hundreds of speakers, prefiguring the concept of acousmonium. Xenakis and Le Corbusier collaborated again on Tourette’s Convent, a dominican community located in the suburbs of Lyon. Both Philips’ Pavilion and Tourette’s Convent opened universal and meditative gates, linking musical composition and architecture with a scientific precision. From Varese’s audiovisual journey through space and time to Xenakis architecture of sound builded in wave-like glass, those avant-gardist creations were among the first attempts to interlink artistic disciplines within a building specifically designed by Le Corbusier for this purpose. Sound as architecture, sound as environment, sound as timeless meditation.
At Franck Ancel’s invitation, Vincent Epplay restored the acoustic properties of this one-of-a-kind church. The featured recording is the edit of a 24-hours live session inside the big nave of its chapel. The sound is determined and guided by the whole shape of the building, especially the pieces of undulatory glass that were builded under the directive of Xenakis’ architectural score. Epplay’s musical equipment (mixing desk, EMS synthi AKS suitcase synthetizer, effects and electronic filters) was settled in the center of the nave and “tuned” in order to reveal the specific resonance of this geometrical building made out of glass and concrete.” White vinyl limited to 300 copies.
At Franck Ancel’s invitation, Vincent Epplay restored the acoustic properties of this one-of-a-kind church. The featured recording is the edit of a 24-hours live session inside the big nave of its chapel. The sound is determined and guided by the whole shape of the building, especially the pieces of undulatory glass that were builded under the directive of Xenakis’ architectural score. Epplay’s musical equipment (mixing desk, EMS synthi AKS suitcase synthetizer, effects and electronic filters) was settled in the center of the nave and “tuned” in order to reveal the specific resonance of this geometrical building made out of glass and concrete.” White vinyl limited to 300 copies.
17,00€
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Nicolas MONTGERMONT
“Radioscapes”
Picture disc 12”, booklet, insert.
Radio recordings from 3 GHz to 30 kHz.
Radioscapes is a disc that invites to discover the electromagnetic landscapes that surround us. The two sides of the vinyl propose to listen and to observe two very different radio contexts: the Paris ring road (side A) and a farm isolated in the French countryside (side B). In each location, the whole radio spectrum was methodically recorded during two weeks and then transcribed into a single audio track. On each side, an image representing the levels of the received frequencies is printed under the groove in synchronization with the sound.
Radioscapes is an exploration of existing artificial and natural signals. As the disk rotates, the frequencies follow one another, as on a radio whose button would slowly rotated: one successively travels across Wi-Fi waves, mobile phones, hydrogen lines observed in astronomy, satellites exchanges, military and aeronautical communications, FM and AM radios, thunderstorm residues …
The disc is accompanied by a silk-screened booklet that brings together a text by astrophysicist Eric Chassefière detailing the physical properties of radio waves and their utility in radio astronomy and the protocol used to carry out the recording of waves.
Radio recordings from 3 GHz to 30 kHz.
Radioscapes is a disc that invites to discover the electromagnetic landscapes that surround us. The two sides of the vinyl propose to listen and to observe two very different radio contexts: the Paris ring road (side A) and a farm isolated in the French countryside (side B). In each location, the whole radio spectrum was methodically recorded during two weeks and then transcribed into a single audio track. On each side, an image representing the levels of the received frequencies is printed under the groove in synchronization with the sound.
Radioscapes is an exploration of existing artificial and natural signals. As the disk rotates, the frequencies follow one another, as on a radio whose button would slowly rotated: one successively travels across Wi-Fi waves, mobile phones, hydrogen lines observed in astronomy, satellites exchanges, military and aeronautical communications, FM and AM radios, thunderstorm residues …
The disc is accompanied by a silk-screened booklet that brings together a text by astrophysicist Eric Chassefière detailing the physical properties of radio waves and their utility in radio astronomy and the protocol used to carry out the recording of waves.
21,00€
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2 LP
WUNDERLITZER
“Wolfed up and down”
“Wunderlitzer is a radical sonic super-imposition process, conducted since 2004 by Michael Sellam, Benoît Durandin and Christophe Degoutin, between the fields of music, sound, noise and art. Wolfed up and down”, their debut album, sees them construct a giant jukebox, whose component sound materials are drawn from six decades of recorded amplified music (1950-2010). The Wunderlitzer method consists of superimposing all the tracks from a cd, creating a soundblock as a result, then heading towards pure noise, mixing together different soundblocks obtained from the same process. Within the ensuing maelstrom, strains of the original textures remain discernible without being entirely recognisable. 2x12” white vinyl LPs housed in silkscreened cardboard inner sleeves and fold out art print, housed in silkscreened plastic jacket, strictly limited to 300 hand-numbered copies.
25,00€