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Blank tape positive RICHARD GARET (Contour Editions 2013) Review by David Vélez I from the liner notes: ‘Blank Tape Positive focuses on the modification of magnetic tape and playback machines as a substantial material for sonic sources. This exploration has been…
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Vaccabons et malfactours FRÉDÉRIC NOGRAY -working with recordings by Cédric Peyronnet- (Kaon 2013) Review by David Vélez I There is a strong level of intention in the action of recording environmental sounds. This intention is expressed in aspects like the subject…
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Strata. TARAB -Eamon Sprod- (Unfathomless 2013) Review by Caity Kerr ‘Strata’ is described as having been created from recordings made in a series of vacant lots and their immediate surrounds in the north-west of Melbourne. The first thing that strikes the…
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Solace. BILL THOMPSON (self release 2012) Review by Caity Kerr Bill Thompson’s work is wide-ranging and largely experimental. He should be described as a statement artist, which means that he’s capable of appropriating an idiom or genre, or elements from…
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2013: The year in retrospective. Part I -TESSA ELIEFF- Text, images and sound by Tessa Elieff Download ‘Caris Clocks’ by TESSA EILEFF Download ‘Craster Blowhole’ by TESSA EILEFF Recording excursion snapshot: Sound gathering on England’s North East coastline. In early…
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Offset. PALI MEURSAULT (Doubtful Sounds 2013) Review by David Vélez From the liner notes This work is the result of a research about the mechanical sounds of printing machines. I was invited in two different printing workshops in Grenoble and…