Text Realizations of Photographic Score by Angharad Davies in Newest Publication from Compost and Height

The newest Compost and Height publication is out now and is entitled Rydal Mount. The publication features text realizations of a photographic score by violinist Angharad Davies. The realizations come from artists and writers Neil Chapman, Holly Pester, and David Stent. An excerpt from the publication is below:

A workspace is demarcated as a white field bounded on four sides with a line of the finest width. Use the mouse to bring the cursor over that square. Right-click to mark a point then repeat the operation. Now there are two points. A vector appears between. Right-click again and another point connects to the last. In this way a simple wire-frame object is made. You will have noticed already that it is not stable in its position. The points drift and the vectors stretch and contract accordingly. These are slight movements with a random quality, movements like those of a body making itself comfortable, or the expressive movements accompanying speech.

-Neil Chapman

You can purchase Rydal Mount here for £5 + shipping.

Michael Pisaro's A mist is a collection of points is Out Now

New World Records have just released A mist is a collection of points, the new record from composer Michael Pisaro. The album features Phillip Bush and Greg Stuart on piano and percussion, respectively, while Pisaro contributes sine tones. The physical CD can be purchased directly from the site here. On that page, you can listen to excerpts from the album and download the full liner notes written by Jennie Gottschalk. As of now, the album isn't available digitally but will be on iTunes in about three months.

Earlier this year, Michael Pisaro collaborated with Graham Lambkin on Schwarze Riesenfalter. He also contributed a score to Joseph Clayton Mills' Sifr project on Suppedaneum. There are also a slew of releases that Pisaro has lined up for 2016. These include two new albums on Gravity Wave, a collaboration with Christian Wolff for Erstwhile, and a 3-disc retrospective of piano works performed by Reinier van Houdt. More information on those releases can be found here.

Hear Field Recordings of Finland in Jason Lescalleet's New This Is What I Do Release

Jason Lescalleet embarked on a short tour to Finland a couple weeks ago. And while there, he took field recordings in Helsinki, Turku, and Pori. These have been assembled into the newest volume of his This Is What I Do series and can be streamed above or on the Glistening Examples bandcamp page. There, you can purchase a digital copy of the album or snag the limited edition CD. Since his previous releases had covers that referenced other works (DJ Screw, Jon Hassell, John Martyn), I did a quick google reverse image search and it turns out the same silhouettes appear on the cover of this Finnish rock compilation.

In related news, Jason Lescalleet and Kevin Drumm will release their new collaborative work in late October through Erstwhile. It's entitled Busman's Holiday and you can see the cover for that below. Lescalleet will also be performing with Graham Lambkin on October 10th at the 3S Artspace. More information about the show can be found here.

Alessandro Bosetti's New DVD Autumnal Sisters Out Now on Manual

Italian musician Alessandro Bosetti has been experimenting with voices for several years now. And his newest release Autumnal Sisters finds him continuing down this path whilst adding a visual component. This DVD, which features seven improvisations and lasts 66 minutes long, comes courtesy of Manual records in Korea. The press release for Autumnal Sisters is as follows:

Autumnal Sisters recollects seven performances by Alessandro Bosetti, in solo and teaming up with writer Kim Taeyong and video maker Orolo.

In the seven short films of this collection – filmed in Seoul in 2013 – you experience the unedited original performances which have been reframed and juxtaposed with a series of visual cues and interventions. The seven episodes of Autumnal Sisters are part experimental videos, part performative documents, and part visual poems with a strong sonorous aspect.

They alternate English, Italian and Korean languages and are accompanied by bilingual subtitles. They are so far the most comprehensive documents of Alessandro Bosetti’s recent work as a performer and improviser which in the past decade has progressively mutated from music to language. All performances kick off from improvisations made using MaskMirror, a musical instrument which takes language rather than sound as it’s main material. The player / instrument relation is ambiguous whereas the performer or a combination of two or three performers appears to be played by the instrument itself or at least to be entangled in a performative and conversational dispositive.

 When language is freed from the constraints of generally accepted discourse, it necessarily falls into ridicule or provocation as most of word combinations appear to be forbidden. So forbidden that we never think about them. The others look at us with surprise “Is that really possible to say what has just been said ?” while we have indeed no idea of what – in our discourseincomprehensible to ourselves – could have provoked such a scandal.

Autumnal Sisters marks the first release from Ryu Hankil's Manual label since 2013. Kim Taeyong has appeared on the label before as part of the group A. Typist and with Lee Youngji and Ryu Hankil on Profile. You can order the DVD directly from the Manual site here. For those in Europe, Autumnal Sisters will also be available via Metamkine and SoundOhm shortly. Watch a clip from the DVD below.

Speculations Editions Release Firm Moonlight, the New Album from Elynor Freyss

The young Speculations Editions label had their inaugural release back in February. We're closing in on September and they're already at their tenth release. A handful of albums have involved founders Matt Earnshaw and Josh Adam Acosta but there have been a few one-off releases from relatively unknown musicians. Their tenth release is as such, and features newcomer Elynor Freyss. It's entitled Firm Moonlight and is considerably different from A History of Powersilence, a conceptual album which "profile[d] the quiet content of seminal Powerviolence discographies" released back in April. While primarily a guitarist, Firm Moonlight  finds Freyss branching out in sound once again as field recordings, musique concrète, and ambient drones make up the bulk of these six tracks. Firm Moonlight  was mastered by Taku Unami and can be downloaded in FLAC here. The tracklist is below.

Firm Moonlight:

1. Lazare
2. To Hold Firm
3. Evergreen Plots
4. Kilgore on the Nightstand
5. Quilts and Diesel
6. Crabtree Falls

[Disclaimer: Artists who have released albums on Speculations Editions are close friends with Tone Glow]

Lengua de Lava Announce Two New Albums

Mexico-based record label Lengua de Lava had already announced a plethora of releases for the next few months but they've just announced two more. One of these is a realization of Michael Pisaro's Anabasis (3)  by Mike Majkowski (of Konzert Minimal) and Cristián Alvear. Earlier this year, Alvear realized Pisaro's works in Melody, Silence. Also coming out is a mini album from Seth Cooke (pictured above) entitled An Agoraphobe . It will be released on 3" mini-CDr. Expect to hear the former this Spring and the latter before the year ends.

For those in need of more, Lengua de Lava still have 6 projects coming out within the next three months. Coming soon is a cassette box set entitled Wall of Skulls  which will focus on Mexican harsh noise. The artists included in the release are Vulgar Disease, Wehrmacht Lombardo, Xtul, and Los Heraldos Negros. Initial copies of the box set will come with an extra cassette featuring unreleased material.

And after Wall of Skulls is released, Lengua de Lava will have a final batch of albums at the end of the year. This batch will include a CD entitled Nearfield Edges, a posthumous release from the late Mark Trayle. There's also a collaboration between Seth Cooke and Bruno Duplant entitled Cloudbuster  and a realization of Stefan Thut's "abc 1-6" from Cristián Alvear, Cyril Bondi, and D'incise. Both will be released on CDr. And on cassette, look out for a release from Richard Kamerman called Symptom Simulacrum: Hypertextual Erosion as Transcortical Atrophy and one from Vulgar Disease entitled Más contagioso que el pecado.

When they become available, you can purchase all the releases on the Lengua de Lava site here.

Superior Viaduct Reissue Ellen Fullman's The Long String Instrument

At the Kansas City Art Institute, Ellen Fullman studied sculpture and started to become interested in the sonic qualities of metal, electronically manipulating acoustic sounds, and defining the reality of space via art. Along with this, she was particularly influenced by the Judson Dance Theater and the way they took banal, everyday actions and made it the foundation for their performances. Both of these eventually led to the The Long String Instrument, a large scale musical sculpture which consisted of long metallic wires anchored by a wooden resonator. You can check out the technical information of the sculpture here.

A performance of The Long String Instrument was recorded in 1985 during her residency at Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It was then released via their Apollo Records but hasn't been reissued since. Super Viaduct is changing that on October 23rd, and pre-orders for the LP are available now. The tracklist and an excerpt from the record can be heard below.

There are also a slew of other great releases that Superior Viaduct are releasing soon and I'd personally recommend snagging the Harry Pussy debut, Ilitch's 10 Suicides, and L. Voag's The Way Out. If you live near Oakland, I'd also suggest you check out their brick-and-mortar store. When I visited a couple months ago, they had some rare LPs like Friction's debut and Wolfgang Dauner's Output.

In other sound sculpture-related news, Important Records is releasing an 11 CD boxset containing the entirety of Harry Bertoia's Sonambient LPs. You can pre-order that here. If you're in Chicago, make sure to check out Olivia Block's Somnambient Pavilion sound installation in Millennium Park throughout the month of November.

The Long String Instrument:

1. Woven Processional
2. Langzaam
3. Swingen
4. Memory Of A Big Room (For Matthew)
5. Dripping Music

Coppice Release New Album Matches

The ever-prolific duo Coppice have just released a new album called Matches. It's out on their own label 'Category of manifestation:' and described as a "story with many holes". This marks the fourth album they've released this year, the others being Cores/Eruct, Spans: Three Perspectival Accounts, and Bypass Ideal. Matches was composed between 2009-2015 and was recorded primarily in Chicago and Reykjavík. The Saga Edition of the CD is limited to 100 copies and comes in a jewel case with metal mesh, colored thread, and transparencies. You can listen to a teaser of the album which has excerpts from all seven tracks here. The tracklist and a video for album closer "Caper" are below. You can purchase Matches here.

Matches:

1. Held Cascade (1:24)
2. Bromine (6:14)
3. Labile Form (3:41)
4. Discharge Form (4:48)
5. Subparallel Episode (0:31)
6. Bramble (10:04)
7. Caper (7:15)

Stream Samples from Two New Albums Released on caduc.

The consistent Vancouver-based record label caduc. have just released two new albums. The first is Hermit, a composition from Ryoko Akama that's performed by Cristián Alvear. Earlier this year, Alvear's disc on Rhizome.s featured an Akama composition entitled "line.ar.me". You can hear a snippet of the album above. The second new caduc. release comes from Steerage, a collaboration between A.F. Jones and Barry Chabala. The debut album from this duo is entitled entropy is what the state makes of it and you can stream one of its tracks above. A video for the same track can be viewed here as well. A.F. Jones released Repetend, Parallax with Derek Rogers back in March via Glistening Examples.

As with all caduc. releases, both Hermit and entropy come with their own specific bookmark. You can purchase both CDs here.

New Albums from Frans de Waard and Michael Trommer Available Now

Two records from Daniel Crokaert's Mystery Sea and Unfathomless labels have recently been released. From the former comes Courrière, a new album from Frans de Waard. That's the album cover above. Frans de Waard, who runs Vital Weekly, explains that the record features recordings from a canoe trip that his friends went on—he himself was too afraid to accompany them. Consequently, the record is described as a "soundtrack of a transcended phobia". You can read more information, listen to samples, and purchase Courrière here.

Similarly aquatic is Night Swimmer, the new album from Michael Trommer. This marks Trommer's debut on the Unfathomless label and it features three tracks created from "field-recordings of nocturnal swims and paddles made during the summer of 2013 in Ontario's Georgian Bay." You can read more information about the album here. You can also hear samples and purchase the record on the same page. Both of these releases are limited to 200 CDs and come with an additional art card on 300 gr satin paper.