Furthernoise issue November 2008.
Welcome to the November issue of Furthernoise. In what has been a truly momentous year for all sorts of reasons, we are proud to finish it off with a brand new issue stacked to the gunwales with new releases and an audio player restocked with new tunes to take you through into the new year. Furthernoise is the sister site of www.furtherfield.org
Furthernoise issue November 2008
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=71
"The Birth of Primary Cinema from the Spirit of Sound - Feature Article by Frank Rothkamm" (feature) Primary Cinema remains cinema, it is not painting or staged photography. It is comprehended as a sequence of images with sound which ultimately constructs its meaning. It de-emphasizes change and reduces bright-ness and distributes events on a galactic scale, but despite its apparent emptiness it remains true cinema as the marriage of projected images and sound in space and time.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=273
feature by Frank Rothkamm
"The Gyres, Between Nowhere and Goodbye, The End of Everything" (feature)
Cathal Rodgers moonlights from his grubby guitarings with Irish doom-mongers Wreck Of The Hesperus as Wereju. Moonlight is apposite in application to Wereju, less evil more eerie twin, drawing out long rays of wild half-lit nightshade shimmer over grey evacuated fields, a sound described by the artist as "ageless drifting melancholia of an abandoned planet".
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=261
feature by Alan Lockett
"A Ritual Which is Incomprehensible (to the smile of Pauline Oliveros) - Claudio Parodi" (review) The second in an ongoing series of conceptual works by Claudio Parodi sourcing and manipulating music from Tiziano Milano's Suoni CD (2005), not so much to remix but as staple material for processing in the studio. This time as with the last, the album is dedicated to a well known sound artist, and Pauline Oliveros is the chosen one on this occasion.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=272
review by Roger Mills
"Bedside Stories - Taub" (review)
Bedside Stories is the new release by Taub, aka Me Raabenstein and Harold Nono. It is a work of haunting sonic landscapes and fragmented realities, glued together with precision and beauty. It will lull you into worlds of spacious minimal sounsdcapes and sonic cinematic journeys, which constantly resolve back to a single sound event or just quiet.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=271
review by Roger Mills
"Document 2 - Sevenhourgerm" (review)
Document 2 by Sevenhourgerm aka Matthew Atkins is a CDR including nine experimental tracks released on the Minimal Resource Manipulation label. Found sounds and noise are crafted into varying degrees of coherency, with rhythm and melody flirting at the edge of perception.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=276
review by Alex Young
"Electronic Drifting: The Music of Richard Lainhart" (review)
Many contemporary musicians take their inspiration from natural processes. Richard Lainhart's musical models come from clouds, flames and waves, whose nebulous and ever shifting formations are the catalyst for his beautiful electronic works.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=262
review by Caleb Deupree
"Imperfect Silence - Various" (review)
Imperfect Silence is a radical collaboration between artists working together purely online. Global boundaries and cultural differences make way for free jazz and diverse sonic improvisation, as Phil Hargreaves edits together the material to provide a personal narrative of Cadavre Esquis.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=275
review by Alex Young
"Italian Noise Label Dokura Serves up 3 Mini Cdrs" (review)
Dokura is an Italian noise label that releases limited edition tapes, 3 inch CDRs and the occasional vinyl lp from a variety of international artists. With 10 releases to date, the little label seems to be aiming at noise of the instrumental variety swinging closer to the lo-fi dark ambient drone.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=269
review by Derek Morton
"Lost Hilde - Stray Ghost" (review)
The releases on Highpoint Lowlife switch genres like someone channel surfing through alternative music TV. Lost Hilde adds yet another station to the programming, and an engrossing one at that. Everything begins as a smooth midnight cruise through glitched and looped synthetic sounds.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=270
review by Max Schaefer
"Sympathetic Vibration - Marcus Jones" (review)
Often, recordings exist as complete works in themselves, or as documents or mementos of a live performance. Sympathetic Vibration is one of a rapidly expanding body of works that do not fit easily into either category, blurring the boundaries between recorded materials and live event. Stacey Sewell chats to its creator, phonographer and sound designer Markus Jones.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=274
review by Stacey Sewell
Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise
