“Canzoni” getting featured in some serious company on Casper C’s “BleeD Mixtape 1”. Sick style.
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Forthcoming:
May 28: Misery Beat at Whelans, Dublin, Ireland. With Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney.
May 29: Triskal Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland.
May 31: Arnolfini, Bristol, UK. With Mika Vainio, Sensate Focus.
June 1: BleeD at Cafe Oto, London, UK.
June 3: Dæpth at O, Milan, Italy.
June 5: Cave12, Geneva, Switzerland.
June 7: Optimo at Sub Club, Glasgow, UK.
June 19: Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC. With Mist.
“Elegy for Beach Friday”: coming VERY soon! (Photo by Peter Rehberg.)
“International House Philadelphia will present a series of concerts featuring the creative work of the Sonic Arts Union, a collective founded in 1966 by composer-performers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. The Sonic Arts Union pioneered many practices in the U.S. that have since become commonplace, including the use of live electronics, homemade instruments, and multimedia presentations. International House’s program will feature both new and historic music by each of the four artists, and additional concerts with local composer-performers Dave Smolen, Davey Harms, and Chris Madak, all active in experimental electronic music. Ancillary programs include screenings of Robert Ashley’s Music with Roots in the Aether, a series of video “composer portraits,” and his innovative “opera for television,” Perfect Lives.”
— International House Philadelphia : The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
ASR050, headed to distros this week! Per ASR:
ASR050 Bee Mask v. Envenomist split | 12” edition of 400, 2011
The final installment in the ASR “Versus” split series brings together two of my personal favorite artists for the first 12” vinyl release from A Soundesign. Side A finds Philadelphia sound artist (and Cleveland export) Chris Madak crafting a rich and versatile interlacing culled from seven years worth of electro-acoustic recordings. “In the Mise en Abîme” is a Bee Mask masterwork composed from the same sessions that produced the “Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico” LP released on Spectrum Spools earlier this year. Side B bestows you with three deeply pensive pieces by Columbus synth auteur David Reed (Luasa Raelon / Brittle Foundries). Envenomist consistently produces a lush mixture of contemplation and distress evoking Abstract Expressionism and industrial decay in my mind. The artwork, is a simplistic and ethereal delight designed by Chicago artist Daniel G. Baird. Included within the package is a fragment of metallized polyethylene terephthalate formed into a topographical land map. The listener is encouraged to manipulate the form as a tactile exercise adding to the synesthetic experience of the record. Screen-printed at Superelectric by Benjamin Haehn and David Russell.
2x quick/welcome nods:
1. Canzo in Alex Smoke’s Music of the Month, right next to ANV, fam-style.
2. Simon Reynolds is feeling.
As ever, thanks! And in case you’re wondering, Elegy went to press yesterday, it’s getting absurdly hot in Philly, and I’m knee deep in tracking new jams and feeling out some tentative fall tour plans.
More soon!
…with Oneohtrix Point Never, International House, Philadelphia. 4/22/2011. I need a haircut.
“No less intriguing is Bee Mask’s elaborately titled Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico I, a baffling and deeply addictive slab of synth machinations which, having originally been released in a limited cassette run last year, has now been pressed onto wax by the new Editions Mego offshoot, Spectrum Spools (curated by John Elliott of Emeralds). Admittedly, it can be a little hard to move for all the synth-based LPs currently clogging the ambient/drone scene, but this is one offering that really stands out, eschewing any semblance of new age worship in favour of a schizophrenic and at times incredibly aggressive approach, encompassing huge depth charges of juddering noise, warped drones and skittering shards of melody. More information can be found here”
— Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #8 / In Depth // Drowned In Sound
