int004 Kapotte Muziek “The Use of Recycling” CD

Originally published in 1998, this album contains some of Frans de Waard’s harshest music. A titan in the world of cassette culture and mail-art, de Waard assembled this album by revisiting work he published on cassette albums and compilations, with one track based on reel-to-reel loops in collaboration with the legendary Yeast Culture. The new edition features brand new xerox art by de Waard in a lovely, pro-printed six-panel folder sleeve.Visit the album’s catalog page here for more info.

CD $12.99 Buy it now!

>p> Kapotte Muziek “The Use of Recycling” by Intransitive Recordings

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int007 Roel Meelkop “6 (Mailcop Rules)” CD

I’ve been a fan of Roel Meelkop, the man and his music, for ages. The best thing about it is how damn hard it is to describe. Roel isn’t part of any scene, philosophy, or style… he just makes his music and lets other people sort out what to do with it. It’s rare that he includes any images or text (though I talked him into providing both for his “5 (Ambiences)” CD in 2005), since he’d rather listeners approach it without preconceptions. That got him labelled as a “minimalist”, but… ah, don’t be fooled. This CD, his first published in the US, collects tracks from his earliest cassette releases, and it’s anything but minimal. You get excoriating blasts of white-noise fury, almost-narrative musique concrete, and patient percussive meditations. It’s all brilliant and warm and human and, heck, I sure love it. Now it’s available again in a brand new six-panel sleeve in an edition of 125 copies. Read more at the catalog page here.

CD $12.99 Buy it now!

Roel Meelkop “6 (Mailcop Rules)” by Intransitive Recordings

Bullock/Gauguet/Guhl 

Mike Bullock (audio/video modular synthesizer) http://finenoiseandlight.net/
Bertrand Gauguet (saxophone, objects) http://www.bertrandgauguet.com/
Andy Guhl (cracked everyday electronics and video) http://andy.guhl.net/

10 April: Bullock/Gauguet/Guhl trio. WIM, Zurich

11 April: Bullock & Guhl duo. Atelier concert, St. Gallen

14 April: Bullock/Gauguet/Guhl trio. Plattfon, Basel 

21 April: Bullock & Gauguet duo. Atelier concert, Basel 

22 April: Bullock/Gauguet/Guhl trio. Cave 12, Geneva

Have a gander at these lists here, which we’ve helpfully sorted into “noise” and “punk/wave”… if you see something you like, send me an email with your list: hello@intransitiverecordings.com. I’ll respond with a postage amount, then you may use PayPal to make these items your own. Remember, this sale is first come/first served. I’ll periodically add items, probably.

Questions? No? Good. Have fun, crate-diggers!

Maile Colbert

http://www.23five.org/atm2012.html

23five Incorporated presents the fifteenth annual Activating The Medium festival
in collaboration with Art Practical, The Lab, and the San Francisco Art Institute

Since 1998, 23five Incorporated has produced the annual Activating The Medium festival — an internationally recognized showcase for the most innovative and visionary practitioners of sound art. Now entering its fifteenth season, Activating The Medium addresses the theme of a ‘dark ecology’ — a term which comes from the philosopher Timothy Morton, who argues that the idea of nature and the attitudes surrounding those ideas are the stumbling blocks to environmental thinking. A glance through the lens of dark ecology refuses to idealize nature as a Romanticized other; furthermore, it eschews the notion that mankind has disturbed and transgressed nature through our engineering and manipulation. A dark ecology frames reality that anything has the potential to disrupt everything, with global catastrophes inevitably occurring through such relationships. As such, Morton beseeches an aesthetic that does not forget the murk, the grime, and the filth that are the symptoms, causes, and glue of what might have once been described as ‘nature.’ It is from this vantage point that 23five is curating the 2012 Activating The Medium festival, seeking works that engage the specter of noise pollution, the melancholy of eco-acoustic blight, the horror of technological chimeras, and / or the altered states that may emerge from such meditations through sound-based composition and performance.

23five will be presenting sound works in San Francisco over several weekends in April of 2012 at The Lab and The San Francisco Art Institute, with ancillary lectures and psycho-geographic soundwalks.

Activating The Medium XV : Chapter One 
Friday, April 20, 2012 : San Francisco Art Institute
Bevin Kelley / Blevin Blectum (Providence)
8pm : free lecture

Activating The Medium XV : Chapter Two
Saturday, April 21, 2012 : San Francisco Art Institute
Bevin Kelley / Blevin Blectum (Providence)
Pod Blotz (Oakland)
Andrea Williams (Oakland)
8pm : performances : $10 – $15 sliding scale : free to current SFAI students and staff

Activating The Medium XV : Chapter Three
Friday, April 27, 2012 : The Lab
Relay for Death (North Carolina)
Danishta Rivero (San Francisco)
Jen Boyd (Vallejo, California)
8pm : performances : $10 – $15 sliding scale

Activating The Medium XV : Chapter Four
Saturday, April 28, 2012 : The Lab
Maile Colbert (Portugal)
Marielle V. Jakobsons (Oakland)
Holly Herndon (San Francisco)
Andrea Polli (Albuquerque) : lecture
7:30 : lecture : 8pm : performances : $10 – $15 sliding scale

Activating The Medium XV : Chapter Five
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Andrea Polli (Albuquerque)
Andrea Williams (Oakland)
3pm : soundwalks : San Francisco : $10 : location will be emailed to attendees who purchase tickets in advance

The Lab
2948 16th Street : San Francisco
http://www.thelab.org 

San Francisco Art Institute : Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street : San Francisco
http://http://www.sfai.edu

Activating The Medium XV was curated by Andrea Williams and Jim Haynes.

C. Spencer Yeh

Fri Mar 30
The Stone, NYC
curated by Stewart Mostofsky/Ehse Records
Lasse Marhaug + C. Spencer Yeh duo 10 PM set
(come early for Secret Secrets: Shana Palmer + Melissa Moore at 8 PM – admission is for both sets)

http://www.thestonenyc.com

Sat Mar 31
Studio Soto, Boston MA
Non-Event and Studio Soto presents
Lasse Marhaug
C. Spencer Yeh
Gert-Jan Prins
Wed Apr 4
Maas Building, Philadelphia PA
Ars Nova Workshop presents
Ballister (Dave Rempis + Fred Lonberg-Holm + Paal Nilssen-Love)
Lasse Marhaug
C. Spencer Yeh

Thur Apr 5
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
Lasse Marhaug
Marcia Bassett + Samara Lubelski
New Monuments (Don Dietrich + Ben Hall + CSY)
Fri Apr 6
Red Room, Baltimore MD
Lasse Marhaug
C. Spencer Yeh
Sat Apr 7
Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring MD
Sonic Circuits presents
Lasse Marhaug
C. Spencer Yeh
The Plums
Christopher S. Feltner
International Electromatics
Widows Bath

Sun Apr 8
East Village Radio, NYC
“Just Music” Program 10 PM
Lasse Marhaug on air

tune in at: http://www.eastvillageradio.com/

The first party is this: on March 15 – today! – from now until midnight, we offer to you this Anniversary Sale:

Choose any 2 Songs From Under the Floorboards CDRs for just US$15.00!

These include: floor1 Kyle Bobby Dunn Intimate Rituals, floor2 Brume Draft of Confusion, floor3 Vic Rawlings & Howard Stelzer By My Side; I Am Your’s, floor4 Kuwayama Kiyoharu By The Abolition Port, floor5 Ophibre Phase Plane Cake Decorator, floor6 Stelzer & Talbot Recent Work, floor7 Mike Bullock Mild Disappearances, floor8 The Tobacconists Ocean Drama, floor9 RLW eaRLy W 5: Grauzeit, floor10 Kuwayama Kiyoharu & Masayoshi Urabe Heteroptics, floor11 Maile Colbert For, floor12 Textile Trio AAA, Invisible Sports Ow Pow Hero Hour.

and/or:

Choose any 3 currently-available Intransitive Recordings CDs for just US$15.00!

These include: int013 Variious, int014 Lionel Marchetti Knud un Nom du Serpent, int026 nmperign/Lescalleet Love Me Two Times, int027 Brendan Murray Wonders Never Cease, int028 Seht & Stelzer Exactly What You Lost, int029 Nerve Net Noise Dark Garden, int030 Howard Stelzer Bond Inlets, int031 Lionel Marchetti & Seijiro Murayama Hatali Atseli, int032 Jim Haynes Sever, int033 Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bar Asylum Lunaticum, int034 Lethe Catastrophe Point #5, int035 nmperign Ommatidia, int036 Failing Lights, int037 C. Spencer Yeh 1975.

Just click on the links above to take advantage of the sale price. Specify which titles you want in the comments field of your order, or send an email to hello@intransitiverecordings.com. Offer ends at midnight tonight. Thanks, and happy anniversary to me!

Marc and Grayson make the case that noise artists who were wicked prolific in the early 00′s have become… quieter. Folks’ve dialed back their rate of production, frequency of touring, and also (in many cases) their sonic volume. No Fun Fest isn’t the annual occourence it once was. Wolf Eyes isn’t playing in your town this week. And the artists involved have found other avenues to explore, many of which feature restraint and textures other than all-out bludgeoning attack.

To illustrate what they see as a trend, they highlight several new releases by fantastic folks such as John Wiese, Hive Mind (whose new album is on Editions Mego! So awesome), Carly Ptak (of Nautical Almanac), Nate Young, and the most recent Intransitive thing, 1975 by C. Spencer Yeh, who they describe as “a sonic surgeon, finding a wealth of ideas in the tiniest slices of sound”. Nice!

But the kicker, the real holy-moly, is the final section: “If this is a trend, pinpointing when it began is probably impossible. But for me one record could be a small but vital starting point. In 2010, Wolf Eyes & Hair Police member Mike Connelly put out his first official solo full-length as Failing Lights (also on Intransitive). It’s a masterwork of dark silences and tantalizing restraint. If there’s something calming the noise waters lately, Failing Lights was a first drop in that direction.” Whoa! Read Marc’s full review of that album here.

The complete article is right here. 

Meg Clixby and C. Spencer Yeh will be co-reading a late Saturday night slot at Triple Canopy‘s upcoming event this weekend:

“In celebration of the opening of 155 Freeman, Triple Canopy is pleased to present a marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s enormously long and allegedly unreadable novel The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress. This weekend, starting on Friday at 7 p.m., an invited list of New York–based artists, writers, publishers, scholars, and other collaborators will gather in Greenpoint to perform the entirety of Stein’s text in a continuous read-in, expected to last 48 hours, more or less.”

more info:
http://canopycanopycanopy.com/updates/163

Artist Reception: Friday, January 13, 6-8 PM 

Electric Works is pleased to welcome back visual and sound artist Jim Haynes to the Project Space. Haynes creates almost-abstract images via a unique photographic and rust process. The resulting images feel like half-remembered dreams of the American landscape. Haynes is also branching out in new directions with this show: color photography is making its first appearance in his work at the gallery. This body of work not only contrasts nicely with the almost-black and white nature of his earlier work, but also reveals Haynes as a sensitive and subtle creator of photographic images, no matter the medium.

Jim Haynes lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Exploratorium (San Francisco), Westspace (Melbourne, Australia), Diapason (New York), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Works (San Jose), Eyedrum (Atlanta), The Fugitive Art Center (Nashville), and Varnish (San Francisco). He writes about sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metro Pulse, The Sound Projector, and Chunklet.

For Disaster and its Opposite, Jim Haynes pushes the photographic content toward two opposing extremes, with corroded photographs on one trajectory and richly hued color photography on the other. Haynes has worked with chemically distressed photography for close to twenty years, investigating the boundaries between the man-made and the natural. In this body of work, the content of the corroded photographs is specifically of sites of disaster and destruction, including several arson and demolition sites. It should be noted that the images from aftermath of the Merapi Volcano explosion from 2010 were taken by Matt Shoemaker and used with permission. The color photographs represent an abstracted opposite of the crumbled architecture of the corroded black & white images. The vibrant blues, reds, and greens of these color field images were augmented through optical printing errors and the unpredictability of a plastic lens camera. All of the visual elements are in turn augmented by a subtle sound design from modified shortwave radio reception and crackled noise through aestheticized but decidedly lo-fidelity speaker constructions.

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Buttons are $18 (children under 4 admitted free) and are be available at dozens of locations, including Shaw’s Supermarkets, Star Market, Tedeschi’s, and Au Bon Pain. Buttons are available now at a special web price of $15 only at www.firstnight.org only through Dec. 22. For more information, call 617-542-1399 or visit the web site.

Here’s the line-up:

TIM FEENEY & VIC RAWLINGS
ERNST KAREL
JASON LESCALLEET

… curated by Intransitive figurehead HOWARD STELZER.

See you there!

http://www.facebook.com/events/204763209605701/

http://schedule.firstnight.org/?s=intransitive

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Tim Feeney & Vic Rawlings have performed as a duo since 2005. Employing highly modified cello, percussion, amplified everyday objects, naked speakers, and raw electronics, their music is unpredictable and unstable. Austere textures, gritty drones, and malevolent silences unfold slowly over a long period of time. The duo’s first CD, In Six Parts, was published on the Sedimental label in Fall 2007. Their latest release, Ithaca Recordings, is available as a free download fromhttp://thewatchfulear.com/Listen/ListenSeries03.html

Feeney is a professor of music at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Rawlings teaches guitar, banjo, ukulele, composition, and improvisation.

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Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Karel’s audio work also includes electroacoustic improvisation and composition; fieldwork-based academic research in the anthropology of sound; recording, mixing, and sound design for public radio and for nonfiction film and video; solo and collaborative sound installations; etc. His most recent recording is the highly acclaimed Swiss Mountain Transport Systems, a recording of the trams that carry people up mountains in Switzerland, published by Gruenrekorder (Germany). Swiss Mountain… was praised by NPR’s “All Songs Considered” as one of the best records of 2011!

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Jason Lescalleet‘s sound world occupies a space between noise, contemporary composition, and minimal electronics. Using decidedly primitive tactics and equipment (e.g. antiquated reel-to-reel recorders, damaged tape, etc.), his work focuses on extreme frequencies and microscopic audio detail.

Jason has been a member of Due Process, performed and recorded with Keith Rowe, Joe Colley, Jason Kahn, John Hudak, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley (both separately and as Nmperign), and most recently Graham Lambkin in their Breadwinner project which has yielded unprecedented and glorious results in the electroacoustic music of today. Lescalleet lives and works in the state of Maine.

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Intransitive Recordings is a publisher of experimental electronic music, based in Boston since 1998.