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Active Crossover
IHab012. SIMON WHETHAM - Active Crossover
On May of 2009 Simon Whetham participated in a residency
at the Polymer Factory Culturehouse in Tallinn, Estonia to compose
new work, collaborate with other artists using sound and run deep
listening, field recording and composition workshops.
This release is result of an exchange that brought
together artists such as Jez Riley French, Iris Garrelfs,
John Grzinich and Piibe Piirma to mention a few.
The sound installation and resulting release
from this collaborative work is described by Simon Whetham here:
"... a large scale sound installation in two sonically treated chambers,
creating three separate listening experiences. In one you hear my composition
in the other work by all the artists I worked and performed with. When outside the
enclosed spaces, the listener will hear both, combining my work with that of the
guest artists. The track released by Impulsive Habitat is a composed approximation
of being in the exhibition space and moving around the three chambers.
You will hear my work in isolation, and that of the guest artists, but also
a combination of the two."
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The sounds of Nepal
IHab011. CLAUDIO CURCIOTTI - Nepalese: Sounds from Nepal
"Field abuse" is a project of Italian sound artist Claudio Curciotti and photographer Eleonora Trani where they document visually and sonically the loudness of the contemporary world in relation with religion, ethnic music and
traditional cultures. Nepalese: Sounds from Nepal is a selection from the many many recordings Claudio captured during his trip to Nepal that greatly display the beautiful sonorities of this young country with an ancient cultural legacy and spiritual and religious tradition. |
Spaceman
IHab010. LUÍS ANTERO - Radio Yuri
April 12th of 1961 is an important date in history: the Vostok I capsule was rocket propelled into Earth's orbit as its Captain Yuri Gagarin was officially the first man on space. While leaving earth Gagarin whistled the russian tune "The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows"* as recorded on the mission's verbatim. The first lines of the song are: "The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows / Where her son flies in the sky" displaying the Soviet patriotism and pride put into their quest to conquer space.
Almost 50 years later sound artists Luís Antero pays tribute to Yuri's amazing journey with a beautify release that IH is quite proud to publish. Radio Yuri takes us into an splendid experience where recognizable and unrecognizable sounds greatly blend while evoking Yuri's feat of being the fist man to leave earth crossing the limits of what was thought possible, and reaching into a place that only the imagination dared to go.
* "Родина слышит, Родина знает": written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 (opus 86), with words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky. |
Comfort
IHab009. JAN KEES HELMS - Comfort
Jan Kees Helms is an artist from The Nederlands who has been working with music and sound since the 1980's. For our fifth release of 2010 IH presents 'Comfort', a piece composed by Jan as he captured sounds from a psychiatric hospital, where he works once every two weeks, and put them together in their original raw format creating a beautiful release very crude and vivid that we are quite happy to publish. |
Seldom found
IHab008. CHRISTOPHER McFALL
Lost at sea and seldom found
Christopher McFall's discography is quite remarkable: he has published on labels such as Test tube, Entr'acte, Sourdine, and/OAR, Alg-a, Con-V, Taâlem, Unfathomless and Mystery Sea. His 2008 release "The city of almost" was arguably one of the best releases of its genre during the past decade as he managed to use field recordings barely processed shaping them into melodic and rhythmic patterns without losing their crude nature.
In a moment when Chris' career is taking a drastic turn in pursue of more musical ways, "Lost at sea and seldom found" emerges as a turning point between the artist's old raw approach and his more musical ventures of today as this release was made by putting together old and new elements making it a work of rare, unique and high value.
Since we started Impulsive Habitat we always looked forward to publish a Christopher McFall release and today we feel greatly proud and humbled to have the chance to release this particular work that we highly treasure as we know many of you will do as well.
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Frame, Fault, Fold
IHab007. ANDY GRAYDON, KENNETH KIRSCHNER
Frame, Fault, Fold
For our fourth release of 2010, we have the good fortune to publish Andy Graydon and Kenneth Kirschner's "Frame, Fault, Fold", a release largely put together by using both raw and processed field recordings through a very interesting method.
On August 10 of 2008, Andy Graydon captured sounds from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City at the exhibition "Framing a Century", a historical retrospective of early photography.
On November 15 of 2009, Kenneth Kirschner captured sounds at Marian Spore, a contemporary art collection and exhibition space in Brooklyn, New York. The first work in Marian Spore’s collection is the sound installation “Untitled (Fault)”, which features an acetate phonograph record of the “Framing a Century” field recording.
Those recordings were left without editing or major processing and were named “Framing a Century -Metropolitan Museum of Art-” and “Untitled (fault) -Marian Spore-”, respectively.
For piece number three, Kenneth Kirschner used his field recording based piece “Untitled (fault) -Marian Spore-” to compose “February 1, 2010”.
For piece number four, Andy Graydon used the previous three works to compose “Untitled (fold)”.
The concept and method of work behind "Frame, Fault, Fold" makes it a truly remarkable project in terms of concept and sound.
We thank Andy Graydon and Kenneth Kirschner for having Impulsive Habitat publish this beautiful and very successful work. |
Sounds from the Mount Fuji lakes
IHab006. HIROKI SASAJIMA - Into the nothings
Hiroki Sasajima has released a series of highly recommended works on many notable labels such as SRA, Q-Tone and Mandorla to mention a few; now for our sixth release Impulsive Habitat is glad and privileged to publish Hiroki's latest release "Into the nothings" a work that was produced with sounds captured on the lakes that surround the Mount Fuji in Japan. This is a very fine and delicate work full of rich details and beautiful sounds that embrace the listener into an amazing experience. |
A state of palpable imminence
IHab005. JAMES McDOUGALL
Mountain upon a phosphorescent sky
James McDougall was one of the most prolific and acclaimed sound artists of 2009 in the subject of field recordings. For our IH fifth release we have the fortune and privilege to publish “Mountain upon a phosphorescent sky” a release James made over the last months of 2009 as he went up to the mountains in his native Brisbane and did several recordings in different spots of this area. |
Two new additions to the IH catalogue
On the first day of 2010 we launch two releases: a brand new publication and a reissue of a work that involved several Impulsive habitat collaborators.
IHab004. JUAN ANTONIO NIETO - Indoor
The first release of 2010 is 'Indoor' by spanish sound artist Juan Antonio Nieto. 'Indoor' is a delicately crafted work full of detail, subtle and ever-changing. 'Indoor' follows up Juan Antonio's previous release 'Divisions of space' - published by the great Ohio based label Experimedia - a work that has earned big props among the sound art community.
IHabR001. VA & DAVID VÉLEZ - Data transfer 2
The second release is 'Data transfer 2', a reissue of a collaborative project lead by Impulsive Habitat staffer David Vélez that features - among other artists - label collaborators such as Juan José Calarco (staffer), Andy Graydon, Juan Antonio Nieto and Christopher McFall (publishing artists). The release - that was originally published by defunct label EKO in 2007 - involves 15 artists from around the world and was selected as the best release of 2007 by Jos Smolders senior editor in the established online magazine EARlabs. |
Sounds of central London
IHab003. SON CLAIR - London soundmap
For our third release, and last of 2009, we present "London soundmap", a very special work from british artist Son Clair (Thom Carter) who recorded sounds from various sites on central London and assembled them in layers exposing a very personal and unique interpretation of the city. |
The sonic potentialities of bridges
IHab002. DALLAS SIMPSON
The alarming blend of three arches
«This is one of an occasional series of works exploring the sonic potentialities of bridges.
Bridges have many connotations. As physical structures they span spaces and may support movement over or under. The 'bridge' of a musical instrument facilitates the transmission of sound to the body of the instrument. While conceptually, 'bridging' occurs metaphorically and in many abstract ways through time and space, and both linguistically and musically.»
Keep reading. |
Impulsive habitat finally launched!
IHab001. JOAQUÍN GUTIÉRREZ HADID - Vending machine
After several months of hard work we are proud and enthusiast to officially unwrap Impulsive Habitat - a division of test tube netlabel - a publishing project label conceived with the purpose of publishing field recording-based sound works. We also encourage multidisciplinary projects that link sound projects with visuals and video work.
Impulsive label is a project originated by David Vélez and Juan José Calarco both sound artists who joined forces with test tube netlabel manager Pedro Leitâo to finally come up with Impulsive Habitat.
For our first release we have the fortune to publish 'Vending machine', the first official release of Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid, a promising young artist from Argentina whose sound and visual work is noteworthy. 'Vending machine' is a very powerful piece of work that very likely will mark the beginning of an extensive series of releases by Joaquín around the world.
For our second release (available pretty soon) we will have the honor to publish 'The alarming blend of three arches' by Dallas Simpson, an emblematic figure on the world of sound art and field recordings who has been working with binaural sounds for more than a decade.
Make yourself part of our project in any way you want. |
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Active Crossover
SIMON WHETHAM & V/A
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Watermarks
SON CLAIR
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Nepalese:
Sounds from Nepal
CLAUDIO CURCIOTTI
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