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[richard chartier / LINE]

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> BLOCKS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNBROKEN CONTINUUM
>
> Book + DVD
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> Editors: Brian Marley and Mark Wastell
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> Published by Sound 323
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> 341 printed pages - full colour
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> Hardback
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> ISBN 978-0-9551541-0-2
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> Publishing date - 1st January 2006
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> **Exclusive Limited Edition
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> Price £50
>
> PRE-ORDER NOW to secure your copy and qualify for free shipping 
> anywhere in the world. Shipping rates will apply after 1st January 
> 2006
>
>  
>
>
> What is the most significant development that has occurred in 
> adventurous music during the last decade? It’s arguably neither a 
> technique-driven development nor a technological one. Rather, it’s how 
> we, musicians and audience alike, have opened our ears to the world 
> and embraced its sounds as both a musical resource and as music 
> itself.
>
>
> Blocks of Consciousness and The Unbroken Continuum explores the work 
> and aesthetic of various cutting edge musicians, environmental/sound 
> artists and noise-makers. As well as profiles of Richard Chartier, The 
> Necks, John Wall and Sachiko M, the book contains explorations of the 
> history and changing nature of free improvisation, of Cage’s 
> iconoclastic 4’33", and of where to draw the line (somewhat 
> tentatively, to be sure) between improvisation and composition. There 
> is, in addition, a series of personal statements by almost two dozen 
> musicians, composers and sound artists, collected by Rhodri Davies; 
> and in Out in the Field Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet 
> interview improvisers about their music and group the anonymised 
> answers thematically. The authors of the principal chapters – David 
> Toop, Clive Bell, Brian Marley, Dan Warburton, Andy Hamilton and Will 
> Montgomery – are well-known and respected writers on music/sound.
>
>
>
> Machines, noise and improvisation are factors common to all of the 
> chapters in the book. David Reid’s DVD selection of video performances 
> also carries this theme. The performances, all filmed during the last 
> five years and part of his growing archive, represent a diverse range 
> of musicians and their musics. Note, however, that the DVD content is 
> neither illustrative of nor subordinate to the written material in the 
> book; it comprises a chapter in its own right.
>
> A feature of Blocks of Consciousness and The Unbroken Continuum that 
> will be much remarked upon is Damien Beaton’s lavish design, which 
> makes the book so much more than a mere receptacle for words.
>
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>
> CONTENTS
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> Introduction by the editors
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> Brian Marley - John Cage: Qualities of Silence
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> Rhodri Davies - What are you doing with your music? Answers to this 
> question supplied by 
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> Otomo Yoshihide / Phil Durrant / Annette Krebs / Graham Halliwell / 
> Xavier Charles / Bernhard Günter /
>
> Andrea Neumann / Lee Patterson / Sean Meehan / Matt Davis / Mattin / 
> Ruth Barberán / Burkhard Beins /
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> Isabelle Duthoit / Jérôme Noetinger / Angharad Davies / Takehiro 
> Nishide / Nikos Veliotis / James
>
> Saunders / Johan Berthling / Taku Unami / Steve Roden / Margarida 
> Garcia
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> Clive Bell - Sachiko M: Ah, the Sweet Torture
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> Dan Warburton - Les Instants Composés
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> Andy Hamilton - The Necks
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> David Reid - Performances - video chapter (see below)
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> Brian Marley - John Wall: The Rocky Road to cphon
>
> Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet - Out in the Field (anonymous 
> quotes collected from Thomas Charmetant, Pascal Battus, Patrick 
> McGinley, Phil Durrant, Matt Davis, Seymour Wright, Ross Lambert, Mark 
> Wastell, Rhodri Davies, Eddie Prévost, Taku Unami, Kazushige 
> Kinoshita, Mattin, Tim Goldie, Angharad Davies, members of 
> Morphogenesis, Frédérick Galiay and Quentin Dubost).
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> Will Montgomery - On the Surface of Silence: Reticence in the Music of 
> Richard Chartier
>
> David Toop - The Feeling of Rooms
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> DVD features live concert performances from;
>
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> Keith Rowe: Derby Dance Centre, Derby, 23 November 2003
>
>
> Evan Parker: St Michael and All Angels, Chiswick, London, 11 October 
> 2001
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> Birdyak (Bob Cobbing, Lol Coxhill, Hugh Metcalfe, Jennifer Pike): 
> Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, London, 4 May 2002
>
> John Tilbury: Ongaku, St Cyprians, London, 25 November 2003
>
> Anton Lukoszevieze & Eddie Prévost: Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, 
> London, 6 May 2002
>
> Broken Consort (Matt Davis, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell): Whitworth 
> Gallery, Manchester, 20 July 2003
>
> Jérôme Noetinger: The Termite Club, Adelphi Public House, Leeds, 26 
> March 2004
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> John Butcher: St Michael and All Angels, Chiswick, London, 22 November 
> 2001
>
> Tetuzi Akiyama: Ongaku, 291 Gallery, London, 15 June 2003
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> Nmperign (Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey): Sound 323, Highgate, London, 5 
> June 2004
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>
> Sound 323
> 323 Archway Road
> Highgate
> London
> N6 5AA
>
> tel/fax 0044 (0)20 8348 9595
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