Posts Tagged ‘acousmatic’

After some really harsh months here, so glad to be able to present these new enrapturing couple of titles (the 2nd only for 2023)

pls check details + audio-samples by clicking on the images here below
streaming in full on Bandcamp also from October 6…

U80 Gil Sansón | con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas) CD (special & regular edition)/Digital

Venezulean, Caracas based sound artist & composer Gil Sansón has been active for more than 20 years in a relative anonymity, both solo and in long distance collaborations with Bruno Duplant, or Lance Austin Olsen, for instance. Despite this discreet status, his work has received many accolades…actually, maybe the core or main goal of it, is to question and override frontiers…whatever, he has a way of his own, and meticulously crafts his sonic creations, giving them the time to blossom… After a long pending invitation to compose something specific for the Unfathomless series, he has finally delivered a cathartic audio-journey, blending astutely past vivid NY memories, archival material, and recent recordings made in his urban vicinity… With “con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas)“, we have some sort of vast, reverberating, almost nocturnal opera urbainremote stray dogs, roaring cars, buzz of the city, elongated or elliptical electric pulses and hissesa flux of resonances, and subdued motorik rhythmsIt sounds all hollow, and paradoxically so all-encompassing…Districts breathe at night…in the background, small looped patterns, cuts and modulations…An always circling, changing, wave after wave continuum… “con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas)sucks us irremediably in, making us become a full part of this withdrawn environment… As much as our remembrances crumble, our world steadily disintegrates along a concrete symphony of aural scraps…for sure, a poignant metaphor for decay, but all sublimated in a chorus of veiled hopea sound design of maximal amplitude, and definitely a revealer

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 175 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 25 copies only packaged in thick pure white cardboard digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 square photos on glossy Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme. Inner sleeve features a a strip of paper mentioning edition number + artist’s name and title (more details forthcoming)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

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U81  Jeph Jerman | registro de piedra CD (special and regular edition)/Digital

Sometimes, even in small niches, introduction is needless, especially with sound artists whose career can only inspire respect…This is beyond doubt the case with Jeph Jerman who has experimented and sharpened his listening along years and years of practice, and wandering…Always auscultating his environment, and probably even deeper since he’s living in Arizona and close to the desert, he records his surroundings, creating and composing with what lies at hand, and the found objects along his expeditions, but also, with damaged tape, discarded bits from past works, sometimes re-playing, and re-recording the sounds themselves in situ…His high skilled and extremely focused improvisational technique has led him to collaborate with lots of like minded artists…He has assiduously self-released tons of material, and has a presence on many independent labels…After the striking “imbrication“, so delighted to welcome him again on the Unfathomless series, with another gripping new work. In “registro de piedra“, Jeph literally captures air and heat, touching the very heart of old stones, squeezing out from those perhaps long preserved memories, paths to unravel…Out in the distance, motors seem to purr…An array of rubbings activate gravel, dust, dried vegetation, signs on the trail…We seem to hear dismembered voices on the altar of this wilderness and the scars of the landscapeGhost chants of oblivion surge, suspended echoes of the past…”registro de piedra renders absences present, awakens what lies asleepa confluence of elements, a dance of micro-frictions opening plains of possibilities…”registro de piedrareads its setting, the bumps and cavities, the edges and disfigurements, proposing a global approach of full consciousnessthe bedrock of an enlightening experience

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 145 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 55 copies only packaged in black-mass tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ a set of 2 photos on matte Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (more details forthcoming)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till October 31 only ! 
U81 (regular edition) + U50 Jeph Jerman “imbrication”

(Belgium) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
(Europe) : 25 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)
(World) : 27 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)

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In Vital Weekly 1385, ever honouring his commitments, Frans de Waard gives a big thumb up to “desillusions“, representing it as a slow dark churning mass of sound in constant motion verging on excellence

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Nausika/Jennifer Hor graces The Sound Projector with a lengthy report of her dive within “Les pierres sèches“, insisting on the constant dialogue between exterior and interior sounds imbued with traces of the past, and difficult to pin down manifestations

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Frans de Waard drops a few polaroïd words around “Les pierres sèches”, sensing the scope and picturing the scenery of this work seeing it as some intense, lively transposition of a disused factory and its spectral traces

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Just a reminder to let you know that the second pair of Unfathomless titles for 2020 is actually available since Wednesday, August 19…
Don’t dawdle too much, especially for the discounted Ludovic Medery bundle offer which will expire on August 31, or for U65 in its ultra ltd edition
version (only 8 copies remaining as I write this)…

 

pls check details by clicking on the images here below

U64 nicola di croce | 47AD CD/Digital

 

 

With a particular sensitivity towards urban vistas probed through the sonic prism, and its faculty to boost our level of general awareness, nicola di croce, both architect and sound artist, and with a serious academic pedigree, certainly knows how to make us go underneath the veneer…
In the wake of his quite impressive collaboration with Enrico Coniglio, “Mergariam” on Flaming Pines, he had the excellent initiative of submitting “47AD” to me. Definitely more rural in a way, although still concerned with the intricate interactions between outside and inside, being it the examination of the sound spectrum generated by the fermentation broth within metal tanks of an old vineyard in the region of Treviso.

…”47AD” depicts an enclosed muffled world of its own,
an amniotic drift acting like an access key to the levels of our Unconscious,
along a clearly perspective changing, transforming process

Drips, bubbling, spinning mash evoking some sort of circular ritual,
interacting with the gibberish external half echoed words of passing workers or visitors…
On this substrate, a cluster of sedating, calming tones slowly envelop the listener,
not numbing him, rather exacerbating his acuity…

Like witnessing the emergence of a brand new microbiotaa strong affecting experience


order your copy via Paypal at usual price
: chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

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U65 Ludovic Medery | Les pierres sèches CD/Digital

 

 

After his previous acclaimed “eMERgences”, a unusual seaside excursion with many tangents, the versatile Belgian sound artist, Ludovic Medery is back with a gripping “fiction sonore” permeated with the invisible presences oozing from an abandoned factory…As a constant traveling, explorer of sounds, lato sensu, Ludovic is still situated at the boundaries of musique concrète, field recordings, improvisation, and electronic manipulation, paying great attention to the objects and immediate surroundings…

“Les pierres sèches” let the walls speak unique tones, capturing the reflections of past lives…
Everything is contained within the Now…
A train passes like wind, a bell resounds like an alertness signal…

Small gestures build their own stories…short jolting percussive sequences activate metal, assembling seemingly disparate fragments…
The flowing ruptures free unheard of layouts under which things are allowed to breath more, whipping the air, embroidering within the gaps…
Birds sing undisturbed, sticks & child games draw memories, delineating a new living space…

“Les pierres sèches” is an inclusive ceremony that won’t leave you intact…totally inviting…


order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 180 copies
: chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

Special ultra ltd edition of 20 copies only 10 packaged in black mass–tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame + 10 packaged in thick pure white cardboard digisleeve with frame (pls precise if you want the black or the white edition)
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ a set of 3 photos (details tbc)
Inner sleeve features a glued fragment of torn paper bearing the catalog reference. (none the same as well)
Digisleeve comes in a resealable cello.


order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition
: chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

BUNDLE OFFER at a discounted price August 31 only ! : 2 CDs : U65 + previous U45 “eMERgences” :

(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 3 €)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 4 €)
(World) : 25 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 5 €)

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New pair of Unfathomless titles is around the corner :

pls check initial details by clicking on the images here below
audio-samples to follow very soon…

 

U44 Fergus Kelly | Local Knowledge CD

 

 

 

“Local Knowledge” is a potent sound travelogue settling in along Dublin’s Royal Canal …
far from being purely documentary, it has been assembled with a cinematic touch, relentlessly unfolding to invigorate imagination and sharpen our listening…
close your eyes and listen !

 

 

pre-order your copy via Paypal at usual price : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

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U45  Ludovic Medery | eMERgences CD

 

 

 

…”eMERgences” is what comes through when you simply doesn’t try to impose yourself but blend into the landscape, and be one with it…
In situ objects speak, while listening to the sound of the lapping waves, the wind, the birds, and to a lot of other almost imperceptible ocurrences…a transformatory experience…

 

 

pre-order your copy via Paypal at usual price : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

 

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Release of second couple of Unfathomless releases for 2017 is set for May 26  :

pls check initial details and audio-samples by clicking on the images here below

 

U42 Jared Sagar | Holme CD

 

 

 

“Holme” is clearly at the threshold and extrasensory…
a triggering and revelatory experience – an undulating windy seascape on the edge of perception…

 

 

pre-order your copy via Paypal at usual price : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

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U43  João Castro Pinto | Suntria – imaginal sonotopes CD

 

“Suntria – imaginal sonotopes” is an ontological descent into the very soul of a portion of a specific territory…a full minutiae sonorous excursion interrogating our relationship to the world and ultimately to ourselves…

 

 

pre-order your copy via Paypal at usual price : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

 

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