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TO (Will JACKSON & Stefan “Z’EV” WEISSER)
“Manifestations Of Spirit From Within Electronic Electro-Acoustic & Acoustic Space”
Erratum Musical, Studio Forum and C.A.R.E. are very pleased to announce the release of this groundbreaking historical LP from 1976 recorded in Los Angeles. First ever recordings of sounds by Serge Modular System + Z’EV + Will Jackson!
TO was founded in 1976 in San Francisco by Will E. Jackson (1945-2019) & Stefan “Z’EV” Weisser (1951-2017), occasionally performing under the code name “Center for Inter-Species communication”.
The real missing link between works by California’s modular synthesizers pioneers, the industrial music explosion of the mid 70s and the early new age interspecies communication protocols.
This is a mesmerizing trip record at its finest, which original masters on magnetic tapes have just been rediscovered.
A collaborative effort, the heart of the TO project was heavily influenced by Will Jackson’s participation in the inaugural 1975 Greenpeace V campaign to save the whales. One of the objectives of the Greenpeace V expedition was to demonstrate the ability of cetaceans and humans to communicate through sound – an idea developed by Paul Spong and later perfected by Will’s friend, John C. Lilly with his “Project Janus”.
During the Greenpeace expedition against the barbarity of whaling off the coasts of Alaska, Will Jackson used his Serge#1 modular synthesizer (built under the supervision of Serge Tcherepnin at CalArts in 1973, and now in France at C.A.R.E. since 2023) and broadcast the electronic sounds on underwater speakers, recording these broadcasts as well as the reciprocating songs of the whales that came to investigate.
A symbolic melding of music and mission, TO has only ever released one vinyl during its existence, of which there are only a few dozen copies in the wild. That record has been restored with the original masters, whose magnetic tapes have just been rediscovered.
These miraculous encounters constitute the basic sound material of TO: communication by invocation.
TO ceased its activities during the summer of 1977.
Will Jackson joined Ether Ship, a pioneering group of “sonic xenolinguistics”, created in 1972 by Willard van de Bogart and Lemon DeGeorge. During this time, Will Jackson participated in several strange sound experiments including the legendary “Extraterrestrial Intelligence Ether Ship Transmission for Star Net Pilot Program”, which was recorded in the presence of Jacques Vallée in 1978.
Stefan Weisser then began his solitary adventure and soon after gave his first solo performance, “Sound of Wind and Limb”, with his “Analog Acoustic Assemblege” he devised for TO.
He created the pseudonym Z’EV and was instrumental in the conception of “industrial music” in the underground scene.
Will Jackson and Stefan Weisser would reunite later that same year, one last time, for Ether Ship’s performance of “A Cosmic Journey”, filmed with Gary Schroeder’s cutting-edge video synthesizer.
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DEEAT PALACE
“Pièces pour Serge”
In 2021, Wilfried Wendling offered a 3-day residency to Marion Camy-Palou at the Muse en Circuit (Alfortville / Paris), a working time which then has evolved into a 2-year cruise dedicated to the Serge Modular System (offered by Jean Claude Eloy at the Muse). This search finally resulted in a concert in April 2023, and this record - Deeat Palace's debut album.
'Pièces pour Serge' offers two intense pieces, cut in 45 rpm for vinyl to allow a deeper sonic dive into the heart of the bowels of a synthesizer that has become legendary and which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023.
note : a series of albums produced with the 'Serge Modular Music System#1' (first Serge synth modules built at Cal Arts in 1973 by Will Jackson under the direction of Serge Tcherepnin and now restored and in use in Annecy/Fr at C.A.R.E.) will be published later.
Pièces pour Serge | composed by Marion Camy-Palou, 2022-2023 | mixed by Camille Jamain | mastered and cut by Frederic Alstadt at Mont Analogue | recorded at la Muse En Circuit, Alfortville | engineered by Camille Lezer | photography by Vincent Ducard | released by Erratum Musical - EM035, Paris 2024 | 300 copies.
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Charmaine LEE
“KNVF”
Following the release of her 2018 solo tape, Ggggg (Anticausal Systems), vocalist Charmaine Lee returns with her debut LP, KNVF, for Erratum Musical (Paris, France). In just two years, the album marks a considerable evolution from the austere concentration of Ggggg towards expansive sonic worlds. Inspired by the arcs of popular music, Charmaine freely and fearlessly navigates a wide range of aesthetics, digging beneath each surface to disclose a highly personal sense of musicality. Microphones of varying fidelities, contact mics placed on the throat, and amplified hair combs are used to simulate polyphony and a dialogue between the inner and outer body. With Charmaine’s unique vocal articulations atop a bed of feedback and extreme frequencies, form follows expression in an ever-evolving context built on the traditions of noise, vocal, and improvised music. KNVF is a powerful statement in modern vocal music and a thrilling new development in Charmaine‘s artistry that will reward those who listen for the journey.
Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is a New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ikue Mori, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, Zach Rowden, and Eric Wubbels. Charmaine has performed at ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, Roulette, The Poetry Project, and MoMA PS1, and participated in festivals including Resonant Bodies, Huddersfield Contemporary, and Ende Tymes. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging at the Museum of Chinese in America (2019). As a composer, Charmaine has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and Spektral Quartet (2018). In 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and is currently a 2021 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette. Charmaine is a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American.
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Maja JANTAR
“In / Canti”
New meta-poem from multilingual and polysonic voice artist Maja Jantar, this LP delivers two magnificent subtle and sensorial haunting pieces of free tonal modulations, exploring the voice as a tool to create musical textures shifting from free layered tones and vivid harmonics to free sound poetry channeling inner and outer streams of imaginary landscapes - where poetry walks into the field of contemporary music.
Maja Jantar is a multilingual and polysonic voice artist living in Finland after long period in Belgium, whose work spans the fields of performance, music theatre and opera, poetry and visual arts. A co-founder of the group Krikri, she has been giving individual and collaborative performances throughout Europe and experimenting with poetic sound works since 1995. Born as daughter of opera singers, she spends her childhood travelling through Europe with her mother, enters and exits various languages, cultures; nomadic migrant, balances between the opera world and playing in her grandma’s garden, between ducks, sheep and sunset. Distant Tartar decendance echo’s in her soundings – weaving the operatic, poetic, abstract influences together to vocal sound works that landscape into performance.
From 2001 to present, Jantar has directed ten operas, i ncluding Monteverdi’s classic Incoronatione di Poppea and Sciarrino’s contemporary Infinito Nero. Her work invites to enter the field of the imaginary, the inner world, the inner
stream, the shamanistic, enchanting, prophetic. Circumventing the stage of the rational, in an attempt to enter through the back door of the intuitive.
A manifestation of poetry and voice, sound poetry or vocal art, VOXXX is a new sound poetry magazine. a joined adventure by sonhoras (barcelona) and erratum musical (paris). Behind the project we are Gerard Altaió, Martin Bakero, Eduard Escoffet and Joachim Montessuis. VOXXX will publish 4 LP by year, with care and dedication to bring the newest voices and sounds to your ears. we will take care of doing a precious cut and sound edition, along with a beautiful artisan work by printing all covers by hand with letterpress at L’Automàtica (barcelona).
mastered by Frederic Alstadt at Mont Analogue
track A mixed by Joachim Montessuis
recorded by Martin Bakero
design and letterpress print by Gerard Altaió
printed at l’Automàtica, Barcelona
pressed by Optimal, Germany
published by Erratum Musical and Sonhoras
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Henri CHOPIN
“Les gouffres des bronches sont des cavernes infinies”
Henri Chopin came to perform in Besançon in 1995 at Garage Caméléon the birthplace of Erratum Musical activities and the label. People involved were Michel Giroud (who introduced Henri Chopin to us and helped to publish “Poésie Sonore Internationale”), Joachim Montessuis, Yvan Etienne and Masahiro Handa. This place used to be a 300m2 garage where we lived, worked and organised noise performances and poetry actions from 1993 to 1998. When Henri Chopin arrived, he was 72 years old, calm and slow, and was delighted to meet a younger generation interested in sound art and electronic sound poetry experiments. He brought his tapes and we rented a powerful sound system that would be perfect to fill all of the space with his mouth noises. He then asked us to project the sound and follow his gestures concerning volumes and dynamic panning, and the resulting high pitch echos and feedback intensity along with the slowly melting speakers (audible here) gave him an incredible excitation and joy that we all could witness - and it was a contagious enthousiasm. Direct energy ! Later in 2004 Henri Chopin gave us two tapes to release, the first one was for the CD “La danse des tonneaux roulants et brisés” and the second one was “Les gouffres des bronches sont des cavernes infinies”, which was aired for the first time on France Culture radio in 2013 thanks to Thomas Baumgartner. Henri Chopin was born in 1922, this LP is echoing his 100th anniversary and celebrates the passion he channeled and transmitted to many artists along his life and beyond.
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Bob BELLERUE
“Amplified Discovery”
Two intense tracks from New York based noise artist, sonic multitasks master and festival organiser (the famous Ende Tymes every year in NYC, as well as working for years at Issue Project Room). Bob Bellerue creates living visceral sonic organisms with feedback and amplification in specific resonant spaces, using electronics, voices or even Supercollider, resulting in massive wild evolving and mutating drones into outbursts of noise deflagrations - a tension between hellish tellurism and multidimensional discoveries.
Mastered and cut for vinyl and digital by Frédéric Alstadt / Ångström Mastering.
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Raoul HAUSMANN
“Poèmes phonétiques”
Finally available fully on vinyl, here are the famous 'Phonetic poems' from Dadaist Raoul Hausmann - remastered from original tapes and for the first time with the correct track titles along with a 40 pages booklet including typescripts and texts. This LP is published on the occasion of the exhibition Raoul Hausmann and European Experimental Poetry (1945–1971). Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, château de Rochechouart.
The 'Phonetic poems" were conceived in 1918, simultaneously and without much knowing with the russian futurists discoveries of Khlebnikov et Iliazd - with the cosmic sorcerer and trans-rational language 'Zaoum' (1913), Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire (Karawane, 1916), then Kurt Schwitters (Ursonate, 1922).
All these artists-poets were inventors (or re-discoverers) in their own ways of a mediumnic ultralanguage where primordial inter-ethnic and mythological sounds precede meanings, in order to redefine human communication and to connect to the multi-dimensional.
Foreshadows of sound poetry and performative action poetry, these 'Phonetic Poems' are still there, miraculously preserved thanks to some recordings made in 1955 by Philips, then 1959 by Bureau and in 1966 by Henri Chopin, in Limoges where Hausmann had settled in 1944.
All tracks remastered and cut by Frederic Alstadt in 2019 at Ångström Mastering, Bruxelles.
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UNGLEE IZI
“Apprentissage & Remplacement”
This album is a 4 hours free electronic sonic exploration by one of the wildest french electronic freak - a long journey into the wilderness from extreme digital noises to sophisticated landscapes and suspended silences.
The vinyl contains 2 extracts, 20mn for each side, + 1 CD (74mn) + download card of the 4 hours track.
Mastered and cut by Frederic Alstadt for vinyl and digital.
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Gaël SEGALEN
“Sofia says”
"Three years after the danceable field recordings of her "L'Ange Le Sage" debut LP, the Parisian sound artist, activist and musician Gaël Segalen delivers her third album, "Sofia Says", picking up where her "Memoir of My Manor" cassette stopped. Gaël connects here to a complex mythological entity, Sofia, in a spontaneous mediumnic way - and through her own filtered integration she presents a dynamic sample of her compositional psyche, creatinga compelling mixture of abstract noise experimentations, field recordings and ecstatic electronic manipulation."
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Joachim MONTESSUIS
“Le vray remède d’amour”
Seven tracks recorded between 2012 and 2019 with a "Boîte à Bourdons", a mechanical electroacoustic hurdy-gurdy with four strings and sliders to play an adjustable chord in sustained twisted tones, drones and complex over- tones. Ltd ed. 300 copies.
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Julien OTTAVI – Joachim MONTESSUIS
“Snow Crash”
Voodoo noise and poetry : what is sound, what is poetry? What is this reality and how are we perceiving it? This LP brings together two extreme and loud vocal performers digging and channeling invisible realities through electronically expanded proto languages. No occult bullshit, this is an experimental non-dual approach to reality: clashes and crashes into extatic trances.
12,00€