Água
IHab035. CORDELL KLIER performs ERIC LA CASA recordings
Água da paz
Eric La Casa is one of the most important
sound artists of the past fifteen years in
his line of work. Cordell Klier who highly
values La Casa's work used recordings
made by him to compose "Água da paz" an incredible work with an organic formal
structure and with deep emotional
content and strong narrative textures. |
Delusion
IHab034. BRUNO DUPLANT
Last night I dreamed I was lost in a strange city
The piece was made from different sound
sources, whether urban or rural.
These sources were then assembled and
processed to form a sort of maelstrom
evoking the idea of a dream, delusion.
The field recording itself does not attract me,
I prefer the concept of phonography, in
order to create new realities, new spaces
between fiction and reality.
-Bruno Duplant |
Fragments
IHab033. CHRISTOPHER McFALL
The alpha is strong and amplifying beta
...pieces were composed primarily from field
recordings rendered into digital formats and
then subsequently transferred to hydrolyzed
tape fragments. The tape fragments were
then reassembled into loops and overlayed...
-Christopher McFall |
Conurbation
IHab032. MICHAEL TROMMER - Outskirts
Outskirts is the sound of the outer boundary
of the conurbation and the lines that lead to
that edge.
-Michael Trommer |
Joists
IHab031. COLLIN THOMAS - Between the joists
"Between the Joists" explores the sonorities of the
hard-wood creaky floors of a one-hundred year old house
and their musical possibilities. |
Silent aspects
IHab030. JAMES WYNESS - The tree
The Tree gives the impression of a massive installation in which microphones have been left open for long durations in various outdoor spaces, attached to built structures such as fences and mountain huts, then all sources fed into the same listening space.
-James Wyness |
Coil
IHab029. DARIUS CIUTA - L-C (loop coil)
A coil is a series of loops. A coiled coil is a structure where the
coil itself is in turn also looping, these objects are used
commonly and are very important.
-Darius Ciuta quoting Wikipedia |
The narrative of movement
IHab028. PHONIC PSYCHOMIMESIS - Trainishness
A moving train connects points through a line, connects images along the timeline. The later description can be also applied to the sound piece where the listener experiences a series of images that appear as he follows the timeline. Trainishness explores to the fullest the possibilities of movement as a form of narrative as a way to depict a story by using the train as the central formal and objectual element of this piece. Trainishness takes the listener through a journey where movement and change are constant and where images suggest stories that we abstractly develop in our imagination with the help of the visual and physical sonorities proposed by the artists. |
Disused cinema
IHab027. JAMES ALASKA, TRISTAN SHORR - Abisalle glick
A crafty exploration of space in its interaction with improvising,
‘Abisalle glick’ emerges as a shifting continuum of dialoguing
elements. In a constant flux, a gramophone, some cassette
players, turntables and field recordings push near the core
and then work outwards to rejoin again. |
Magnified reality
IHab026. JAMES McDOUGALL - Inskip
James McDougall creates sound universes with textures
and detail and on Inskip he elevates this elements to
an almost tactile level. Inskip gives to his work an
evident twist where the sounds of nature acquire an
intensity and power only capable to achieve through
processing. His aesthetic choices work like
a magnifying glass on reality pushing the limits
between natural and artificial and establishing
a "more real than reality" dynamic that the
listener could inhabit and be acquaint of
through his sensible experience. |
Ghost-like
IHab025. CHRISTOPHER McFALL, DAVID VELEZ - Credence
Second collaborative effort by Christopher McFall and David Vélez,
this time taking a new direction into the resonances and emotional
qualities of a certain amount of materials; conjuring up images of
old and decrepitude, they created a ghost-like journey into the
mundane where a broken record player or a wooden box might
sound like a chamber trio or viceversa. |
Loud sounds from a loud India
IHab024. CLAUDIO CURCIOTTI - Indica: Sounds from India
Claudio Curciotti travels the world recording sounds
that explore the loudness of contemporary world
and its relation to the many cultural aspects of
different societies. On "Indica: Sounds from India" (his second release with IH) he explores the loudness
produced by human activity, machines and
environments on cities such as New Delhi,
Mumbay and Varanasi. |
Centric
IHab023. ALEXANDER BAKER - concentric_eccentric
‘concentric_eccentric’ is created entirely from field recordings,
both untreated and processed: layered, transformed etc.
It runs continuously for 51 minutes, but falls into four
distinct sections. |
Processing
IHab022. CORDELL KLIER - I believe (draft 2)
"Certainly it is in the arrangement, or possibly the dialogue
between the glitchy transitions into the rich stoicism of the
clandestine field recordings, and variant drones, yet because
there is this feeling of transition inherent throughout the
whole thing, its hard not to view the sound of
I Believe (draft 2) as reminiscent of a passing"
- Cordell Klier
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West coast
IHab021. CHRIS WHITEHEAD - Estuary
Arnside stands where the estuary of the River Kent opens out into the vast, featureless expanse of sand that is Morcambe Bay. Classified as an area of outstanding natural beauty, this desolate landscape of mudflats and tidal channels is sliced through by the Arnside Viaduct, a 477m long railway bridge over the estuary built in 1857.
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El país de la naranja
IHab020. EDU COMELLES - Orange Country
Orange Country is the result of recordings captured between october of 2009 and august of 2010. This project combines soundscape compositions and unedited field recordings captured in Valencia and Tarragona, Spain.
Orange country is the second IH publication that features a book complementing the sound release. In the book for each sound piece there is a photo that works as a very explicit and graphic visual cue.
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The seaport
IHab019. FRANÇOIS-EMMANUEL FODÉRÉ - Cochin
Cochin is a release by François-Emmanuel Fodéré from France who put together recordings that he
captured during a trip he made through
the South West of India on 2009.
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Returning to silence again
IHab018. DARREN McCLURE - Semi
Darren McClure lives in Matsumoto, Japan and in
the summertime he decided to record his garden
where he found himself amazed by the sound
produced by the cicadas. The result of this
phonographic work is a 23 minute piece titled "Semi" where we can immerse in the textures,
tones and pitches of the powerful and dazzling
sounds made by the intriguing cicada.
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Machines
IHab017. DAVID VELEZ - Funza
Funza was composed using sounds captured
in an industrial production plant. This work deals
with the sound phenomena occurring on the
interaction between industrial production
machines and the operators.
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Lists of works selected by some label staffers and collaborators as their favorites from 2010
Part of our staff and some randomly selected collaborators and friends were asked to make a list of their favorite works from the year that is just ending. We now publish this lists so we all have a broader perspective on some of the noteworthy works published throughout 2010.
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